What is Oracle Bone Inscriptions's name?

Jaber and Oracle Bone Inscriptions are collectively called Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

Tortoise shell and animal bones used for divination in ancient China. Among them, tortoise shell, also known as Jabu, mostly uses tortoise's abdominal shell; Animal bones, also known as Oracle Bone Inscriptions, mostly use the shoulder blades of cattle, but also sheep, pigs, tiger bones and human bones.

Divination with Oracle bones requires taking materials, sawing and scraping, and then drilling a round nest on Oracle bones with metal tools and a diamond-shaped groove next to the round nest. This process is called drilling and drilling. Then burn the Oracle bones with fire, and judge the bad luck according to the sign of the opposite crack of the Oracle bones.

Oracle inscriptions appeared in the late Neolithic period in China, prevailed in Shang Dynasty, and still existed in the early Zhou Dynasty or later. During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Oracle bones were also engraved with oracles-Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

About 6.5438+0.5 million pieces of Oracle bones were unearthed in Yin Ruins. The research on Oracle bones includes interpretation, French case analysis, dating by stages and social history research. The general steps of research are sorting, conjugation, extension, classification, staging, description, explanation and comprehensive research.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is a relatively complete style in ancient China. The excavation of Oracle Bone Inscriptions advanced Chinese characters and even the world-recognized Chinese civilization to the Shang Dynasty about 4,000 years ago.