There was no electric energy utilization technology in ancient China, so only lightning was related to electricity, and the electric characters in ancient Oracle Bone Inscriptions were caused by lightning. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is designed according to the shape of materials. People saw lightning falling from the sky and extending around, so they first regarded God as the carrier of electricity. Later, after the Western Zhou Dynasty, Oracle Bone Inscriptions gradually stopped. The Zhou Dynasty used bronze inscriptions as characters. Later generations successively developed fonts such as Xiao Zhuan, Da Zhuan and Li Shu, which changed the writing style of Chinese characters. In this way, electronic characters in our modern life have also appeared.

In feudal society, people were superstitious about astronomical phenomena, so the study of lightning never stopped. Due to the lack of modern lightning protection equipment in ancient times, there are many records about houses being burned by lightning. Even the rulers' palaces caught fire because of lightning strikes, such as Sun Quan's palace and Ming Dynasty's palace. In the ancient consciousness, lightning was put in the sky by the mother of lightning. Because lightning comes and goes in a hurry, it just flashes by, so people also call mother lightning a living lightning woman.

People have formed effective astronomical statistics to predict the weather. According to the number, frequency and location of lightning in a season, the rainfall probability in a certain place is comprehensively judged. Electricity has been recorded in writing in the ancient history of China, and people's understanding of electricity is deepening day by day. The spirit of the ancients exploring nature is undoubtedly admirable. There are essential differences between ancient electricity and modern electricity. Electricity refers to lightning in ancient times. In modern people's consciousness, electricity mainly represents electricity. The two cannot be confused. The problem of electricity in ancient times has been well explained.

Lightning has brought great disasters to the country and people. It is conceivable that the ancients were afraid of lightning. Although there was no electricity in ancient times today, the ancients made unremitting exploration and understanding of the natural phenomenon of lightning through tiny electric characters. Since modern times, with the rapid development of natural science, people finally have a deeper understanding of the real cause of lightning phenomenon.