Oracle Bone Inscriptions wrote it on tortoise shells and animal bones.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is a hieroglyphic, named after it was carved on tortoise shells and animal bones.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions appeared in the late Shang Dynasty with a history of more than 3,000 years. This is the oldest writing in China. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is a hieroglyphic, named after it was carved on tortoise shells and animal bones. Oracle Bone Inscriptions can also be called "Wen Qi", "Oracle Bone Inscriptions", "Yin Ruins" or "tortoise shell and animal bones". Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the archaeological data that can be confirmed at present. It was discovered at the end of 19.

At that time, farmers in Xiaotun Village, northwest of Anyang, Henan Province, sold the tortoise shells and animal bones they occasionally picked up as Chinese herbal medicines. Some scholars recognized that there were ancient characters on it, so they began to look for them. Not long after, the ancient philologists determined that it was written by Shang Dynasty, and then judged and analyzed the area, and came to the conclusion that Xiaotun Village was the ruins of Yin Shang capital mentioned in ancient books.

The origin of Oracle Bone Inscriptions

Oracle Bone Inscriptions was written on tortoise shell bones by the rulers in the late Shang Dynasty for divination. As far as Oracle Bone Inscriptions materials have been discovered, Oracle Bone Inscriptions can be said to be a very developed and mature writing. The system is relatively complete and mature, and there are many words found. Now the number of Oracle characters has reached more than 5000, so it is inferred that the number of Oracle characters actually used in Shang Dynasty should far exceed this number.

As far as its glyph structure is concerned, it is quite complicated. The six methods of Chinese characters summarized by later generations-pictographic, pointing, knowing, borrowing, pictophonetic and phonetic characters, and transliteration-can all be found in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Oracle Bone Inscriptions covers a wide range of contents, including sacrifice, conquest, hunting, farming, animal husbandry, social life, ideology and culture in the late Shang Dynasty.