When was the tortoise shell Oracle?

Oracle Bone Inscriptions was in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions refers to the characters carved on tortoise shell bones to record divination in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Since the end of 19, more than 1 00000 pieces of written divination Oracle bones have been unearthed from the ruins of Yin Ruins in Anyang, Henan Province, most of which are relics of the royal family in the late Shang Dynasty (about 14 BC to1century BC).

After the founding of New China, several batches of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the Western Zhou Dynasty were discovered in Shaanxi and other places, but the number was far less than that in Yin Ruins.

Social significance:

Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty is the earliest documentary record discovered by China. Now, Oracle Bone Inscriptions has become a remarkable world discipline, with more than 500 Chinese and foreign scholars engaged in research and published more than 3,000 monographs and papers. It is of great significance to history, philology and archaeology.

Sima Qian has an article "Yin Benji" in Historical Records, which records the lineage and history of Shang Dynasty in detail. In the past, many historians were skeptical about these records, because there were no written records and no physical materials to prove them. At the beginning of this century, Luo Zhenyu collected Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

It is found that the names of ancestors and kings of Shang Dynasty are engraved on it, and it is confirmed that these small villages with Oracle Bone Inscriptions are the location of Yin Ruins, which is called "Huanshui South, Yin Ruins" in the history books.

After that, Wang Guowei, a scholar, made a detailed textual research on the ancient princes of Shang Dynasty seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and compared them with the records in Historical Records, which confirmed the credibility of Yin Benji in Historical Records. Yin Ruins was the first 10 king of Shang Dynasty. In BC 13 18, Pan Geng moved the capital from Yan (near Qufu, Shandong Province) to Yin (around Xiaotun Village), and since then, he has experienced the 8th generation 12 King.

It has been established here for 273 years. These research results have advanced the reliable history of China by one thousand years. From the discovery and identification of a piece of Oracle bone inscriptions in Yin and Shang dynasties, it has developed into a dynasty that affirmed more than 3000 years ago and more than 600 years ago. What an amazing discovery.

In this way, some scholars in the 1920s believed that China's credible history began in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the trend of "suspecting the past" was completely denied.