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Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins is a writing carved (or written) by the royal family on tortoise shells and animal bones in the late Shang Dynasty (14-1century) in China. It is the earliest and most complete ancient Chinese character discovered by China. "Book of Rites" says: "Yin people respect God, lead civil gods, ghosts first, then rituals."

The king is still a ghost, who can predict everything. Divination materials are mostly tortoise shells, shoulder blades and ribs of cattle. In order to make the marks on bones easy to appear, drills and chisels are applied to the surface of Oracle bones. In divination, the back of Oracle bone is baked with fire first, and the surface of Oracle bone is easy to crack into special requirements after high temperature baking.

Through the direction and distribution of these cracks, the diviner can judge the divination. After divination, write inscriptions and divination on the Oracle Bone Inscriptions. A complete Oracle Bone Inscriptions has its own research value, which mainly includes four parts: preface, life words, professional words and textual research words. The preface mainly records the time of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and the name of the fortune teller.

The inscription records the questions put to the tortoise, the inscription records the omen of the cracks after burning, and checks whether the results are fulfilled. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is not all the product of divination, and some of it is based on Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which is specially used to record and preserve some events at that time.

Therefore, Oracle Bone Inscriptions can be roughly divided into Oracle Bone Inscriptions and notes. In addition to tortoise shells, there are inscriptions on human heads, ox heads and tiger bones. Oracle Bone Inscriptions can reveal the extensive social production in Shang Dynasty, including natural ecology, astronomical phenomena, climate disasters, political system, royal structure, patriarchal clan system and ancestral temple system, and the relationship between kingship and theocracy.

Cultural etiquette, establishing a city as an official, occupying an official and occupying an official system, land ownership, social and economic production, transportation, diplomatic conquest, and the daily life of the elite in business, such as food, clothing, housing, illness, marriage, pension, emotional awareness, religious belief, worship of gods and ancestors, and so on.

It is of great value for us to understand the history of the middle and late Shang Dynasty and study ancient Chinese characters. Since Wang Yu 1899 discovered Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins, more than 4,000 characters in Oracle bones have been found, of which about 1/3 has been deciphered. After generations of scholars' research, the interpreted Oracle Bone Inscriptions is very rich in content, which fully shows the rich history and culture of Shang Dynasty.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions has already possessed the basic forms of Chinese character configuration in later generations, and has the "four styles" in the traditional "Six Books", that is, pictographic characters, ideographic characters, knowing characters and pictophonetic characters, which indicates that in the late Shang Dynasty, the Chinese characters represented by Oracle Bone Inscriptions have basically established the configuration mode and the configuration system has gradually matured. Oracle Bone Inscriptions's style is in the same strain as the grammatical structure of modern Chinese.

Nouns, pronouns, verbs and prepositions in modern Chinese grammar are basically found in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. There is a relatively unified phonetic system in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which constitutes an important source of Sino-Tibetan language system in China after Qin and Han Dynasties. Because of the discovery of Oracle bone inscriptions, the embryonic form of China linguistics and the early features of Chinese grammar have changed from being difficult to explain clearly to being able to make detailed analysis.