Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the product of which dynasty?

Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which originated in Shang Dynasty, is a form of ancient calligraphy in China. Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty was originally carved on tortoise shells or animal bones, and its main function was to record the contents of divination. Later, the characters on tortoise shells or animal bones gradually formed the Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

The Shang and Zhou Dynasties, in which bronzes were the main materials, changed from Oracle bone inscriptions at the beginning to inscriptions on bronzes, which were particularly popular in the Zhou Dynasty and lasted for a long time.

After Qin Shihuang unified China, in order to consolidate the rule and strengthen the central power, the Qin Dynasty implemented the policy of "thousands of books is the same, and all cars are on the same track", and many measures such as unified measurement, car and track were originally sui generis. Inspired by Qin Shihuang and managed by Prime Minister Li Si, the script of the big seal script used by Qin State was gradually simplified to the small seal script, and at the same time, the fonts of other countries were cancelled, creating a unified writing form, which had a far-reaching impact on later generations.

By the Han Dynasty, Chinese characters had evolved into a new way of writing, namely official script. Lishu, also known as Han Li, has a flat, long and horizontally curved font. When writing, pay attention to "the silkworm head and goose tail are tortuous, and want to go left first and then right", and the overall font is a cuboid.

Since the Tang, Song, Wei and Jin Dynasties, Chinese characters have evolved into regular script, running script and cursive script. According to legend, running script was created by Liu Desheng in Han Dynasty, which was between regular script and cursive script. Writing is fluent and pen is flexible. Many calligraphers are good at this font.

During this period, many famous calligraphers emerged in ancient China, and they had their own writing styles, which had a far-reaching impact on the people who studied calligraphy in later generations and became valuable wealth in the history of writing evolution.

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From state affairs to private life, such as sacrifice, climate, harvest, conquest, hunting, sick people, childbirth, going out, etc. The royal family and nobles all asked God for advice until they decided to stop. As a result, divination became a major event in the political life of the country, and the court set up special institutions and divination officials. Oracle Bone Inscriptions with inscriptions is preserved as a national archive and piled in caves. Therefore, Oracle Bone Inscriptions became the first-hand material to study the history of Shang Dynasty, reflecting all aspects of social life from BC 1300 to BC 1000.

"Book of Rites" says: "Yin people respect God, lead civil gods, ghosts first, then rituals." It is known that in the Yin and Shang Dynasties, before dealing with big and small affairs, kings used Oracle bones to make divination, pray for ghosts and gods, and then carved their wishes on Oracle bones.