This is a popular book on Chinese characters. The content is to list some examples of several main fonts of Chinese characters, draw charts and explain the etymology of these examples, so as to reflect the historical process of the development and evolution of Chinese characters concisely and vividly. Generally speaking, there are many different ways to write various fonts of Chinese characters. This book only selects one typical or common example. The explanation of etymology in this book is mostly based on the recognized conclusions of linguists; Some also adopted or referred to the words of a certain family; And the author's own opinion. Due to the nature and limited space of this book, Zhang Shi did not show it, nor did he show the source of his views.

At the end of this book, the great changes of Chinese characters are introduced and the evolution of Chinese characters is summarized.