What does Oracle Bone Inscriptions's discovery have to do with?

Oracle Bone Inscriptions's discovery is related to the keel of traditional Chinese medicine. Keel is an important opportunity to discover Oracle Bone Inscriptions. In the 25th year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1899), Wang, a wine-offering epigraphist in imperial academy, went to a drugstore to buy medicine due to illness. Among them, the odorous medicine is called "keel". He inadvertently found some special symbols on the keel, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions began to be valued by the world. The written materials of Shang Dynasty mainly include Wen Tao, jade, Oracle Bone Inscriptions and inscriptions on bronze, with Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the late Shang Dynasty as the most. The characters left on various materials belong to the same system as Oracle Bone Inscriptions, so the characters of Shang Dynasty can be represented by Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is a script in the history of Chinese characters, a divination script in the late Shang Dynasty, and a script actually used at that time. At first, some people called it Tortoise Edition, Tortoise Shell Inscription, Tortoise Shell Bone Inscription and Tortoise Shell Animal Bone Inscription. Later, some people called it Zhen Oracle Inscription, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Yin Deficiency Syndrome Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and others called it Yin Ruins Calligraphy and Yin Deficiency Syndrome Characters.

In Shang Dynasty, there were many word-formation methods in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, such as pictographic characters, knowing characters, pictophonetic characters, metonymic characters, reference characters and so on. And it is already a mature writing. In the unearthed Oracle bone inscriptions, 4672 words have been found, and scholars know the word 1072. Oracle Bone Inscriptions's writing materials are hard, so the font is square. At the same time, bronze inscriptions, because they are cast, have a round font.

For decades, about150,000 pieces of Oracle Bone Inscriptions were unearthed in Yin Ruins, and nearly 5,000 words were found. According to statistics, among them, those who can understand and translate Chinese characters are *** 1723, those who can't understand and translate Chinese characters are ***2549, and some are 37 1.

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Keel, the scientific name of traditional Chinese medicine. This is the skeleton fossil of ancient large mammals, such as elephants, three-toed horses, rhinoceroses, deer and cattle. It has the effects of calming the heart, calming the nerves, calming the liver and suppressing yang, and astringing. Indications: dizziness, wet sores and itching, chronic ulcer caused by restlessness, palpitation and insomnia, epilepsy and hyperactivity of liver yang.

Keel with mother-of-pearl: Keel and mother-of-pearl are heavy in texture and belong to heart meridian and liver meridian. Mother-of-pearl tastes salty and cool, which can not only clear the heart and remove heat, but also calm the heart and soothe the nerves; Not only has the function of clearing liver and purging fire, but also has the function of subduing liver yang. The keel tastes astringent and cool, and has obvious effects of calming the nerves and suppressing floating liver yang. The combination of the two drugs can enhance the functions of calming the heart, calming the nerves, calming the liver and suppressing yang. Especially good at calming the heart and calming the nerves, suitable for evil spirits, palpitations, panic, insomnia, forgetfulness, delirium and so on. It is also suitable for dizziness, red eyes, tinnitus, upset and irritability caused by hyperactivity of liver yang.