What language does Oracle Bone Inscriptions belong to?

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is a hieroglyph.

Hieroglyphs refer to writing with graphics, which are similar in shape to what they represent.

The hieroglyphic "Moon" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, China is like the shape of a curved moon, and the word "Turtle" (especially the traditional Chinese character [Turtle]) is like the side shape of a turtle. The word "horse" is a four-legged horse, and "fish" is a swimming fish with a head, a body and a tail.

China's original characters belong to hieroglyphics. Although Chinese characters still retain the characteristics of hieroglyphics, they have been far away from the original image after thousands of years of evolution, so they do not belong to hieroglyphics, but belong to morphemes with ideographic systems.

The rulers of Shang Dynasty were very superstitious, such as whether there would be a disaster, whether it would rain, whether there would be a good harvest of crops, whether there would be a victory in the war, what sacrifices to make for ghosts and gods, divination of everything such as fertility, illness and dreams, and understanding the will of ghosts and gods and the quality of things.

The materials used for divination are mainly tortoise's bellybutton, carapace and cattle's scapula. Small pits are usually dug or drilled on the back of Oracle bones for divination. This kind of pit is called "drilling" by experts in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. In the process of divination, heat is applied to these pits, causing cracks on the surface of Oracle bones. This kind of crack is called "omen"

The word "Bu" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions is like a symbol. People engaged in divination judge good or bad according to the various shapes of divination. According to Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the Shang Dynasty, Chinese characters at that time had developed into a writing system that could completely record Chinese.

In the discovered Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Yin Ruins, the number of words has reached about 4000. There are a lot of signifiers, pictographs, knowing characters, and many pictographs. These characters are very different in appearance from the characters we use today. But from the point of word formation, they are basically the same.

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