A drunken chicken that triped over an ink pot. 

the same as all writing why would you think chinese was any difrent

or do you mean the part of china it came from because i would say it goes back to the han

A bit of a mystery. It's generally assumed that it formed gradually around what is today's Henan province, but the problem is that the oldest surviving examples of Chinese writing, the turtle shells (which date back no farther than 1500 BC), show an already well-developed system with thousands of characters. We have no examples of it in its nascent form, as we do with Mayan and Mesopotamian writing.

There's a theory that it might have maybe come from the middle east via trade, but that's not much of a theory either: by that time the middle east was using syllabaries (with a few semantic determinants), which bear no similarity to Chinese writing, and writing systems didn't appear anywhere in between for a while after. I don't give much creedence to that theory.

It's likely that the Chinese independently invented writing but that's about all we know.

There once was a race of super intelligent turtles that lived where the Middle Kingdom is located  today.  They taught the people many great skills including growing rice and making pictures to repesent words so records of this great time between turtle and human could to remembered forever.  

However, the Chinese soon learned that they had the ability to each just about anything and discovered that turtles were delicious.  Most of the smart turtles were eaten and the records of this time were destroyed because the Chinese didn't want to share the glory of the achievements with anything that could be dinner.  To add insult to injury they started using the turtles own shell to store they new writtings.  And to this day, mean still walk the street with normal turtles on a string to warn any smart turtles out there, that they are still not welcomed.

Writing seems to have been independently developed in China.  If you look bak at the oldest writing in China, it's based on pictograms.  The symbol for fish was a pict of a fish, etc.

As the need arose to write down conceptual images, like "happy" or "idea", new symbols were developed to represent these concepts.

After a while, when people realized that not everyone can draw or paint well with a brush, the characters changed into a system of strokes (a line is the simplest and easiest thing to draw).

Many characters still show their pictogram origins.  The character for woman does still resemble a woman sitting with her legs crossed, the character for man clearly shows a field with a person under it (person that works the fields = man), the character for tree looks like a tree and forest is 3 trees.

I still don't understand however, how a civilization can make 30,000+ pictograms and ideograms but only can come up with 400 sounds for all of them.  With tones, it rounds out to 1600 or so, but imagine if every word in English was like "present":
present/present (English doesn't have tones, but it does have stressed sylables)

Every sound in Chinese is represented by multiple characters - type "shi" into a pinyin input and see how many choices there are.  This is why Chinese is a difficult language to learn.

If you want to go all the way back, Africa.  Look at the symbols of some African pottery and compare them to the earliest Chinese characters.

    Wow..., guys are so studious!!!

Please, don't let me get embarrassed in this topic.

However it is,  thanks! I learned a lot from all of you.