The appearance of the characters of ancient Dong Yi underwent the long historical development from the beginning of carved marks in Beixin culture to glyph in Dawenkou culture,characters in Longshan and oracle bone inscription in Yueshi culture.

• 古东夷族文字的出现经历了一个漫长的历史发展过程 :从北辛文化的刻划符号开始 ,经过大汶口文化的图像文字、龙山文化文字 ,到岳石文化的甲骨文字。