How to learn from Oracle Bone Inscriptions?

First of all, read Guo Moruo's Study on Oracle Characters, and get familiar with the interpretation and reading process of some basic characters. Then, you can practice writing Oracle Bone Inscriptions with these words by reading a book "Five Hundred Cases of the Evolution of Chinese Characters". Then, history and philology will simultaneously promote the reading of Qiu Xigui's Introduction to Philology, Hu Houxuan's General History of Yin and Shang Dynasties, and so on. Learn from Oracle Bone Inscriptions step by step, focusing on interest.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an ancient script in China, an early form of Chinese characters, sometimes regarded as a kind of Chinese characters, and also the oldest mature script in Chinese dynasties.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions, also known as "Wen Qi", "Oracle Bone Inscriptions", Yin Ruins or "tortoise shell and animal bones". 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 form and structure have tended to be combined independently, and a large number of pictophonetic characters have appeared, which is already a quite mature writing form and the earliest systematic writing form known in China. 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.