What does Oracle Bone Inscriptions mainly record?

There are many names of cities, rivers and settlements in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, as well as hunting areas and ethnic residential areas.

There are also war marching routes and itineraries. Using pictographs and graphics to represent the human and natural phenomena in a certain area will make the accumulation of geographical knowledge leap forward.

There are abundant meteorological and climatic records in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, such as sunny, haze, cloudy, haze, fog, Mao Mao rain, light rain, heavy rain, thunder, electricity, frost, snow, halo and rainbow.

Also found a ten-day meteorological record (Mao Shujian's Wild Animals in Oracle Bone Inscriptions). This reflects the richness of people's climate and climate knowledge at that time. Oracle Bone Inscriptions also recorded more than 70 animal names he saw at that time, representing more than 30 kinds of animals.

Characteristics of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's Calligraphy;

Oracle Bone Inscriptions recorded and reflected the political and economic situation of Shang Dynasty, which mainly refers to the words carved on tortoise shells or animal bones by the royal family in China in the late Shang Dynasty (14 ~ 1 1 century), and their contents are generally the things asked or the results obtained by divination. After the demise of the Shang Dynasty and the rise of the Zhou Dynasty, Oracle Bone Inscriptions still used it for a period of time, which is an important material for studying the social history of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions's physical structure has been independent and tends to fit, and a large number of pictophonetic characters have appeared. It inherits the original carving symbols, enlightens the bronze inscriptions, and is the key form of the development of Chinese characters, which is called "the earliest Chinese characters".

Modern Chinese characters evolved from Oracle Bone Inscriptions. In a total of * * * 65,438+million Oracle bones, there are more than 4,000 different characters and figures, of which about 2,800 characters have been recognized.