What are the characteristics of Shang culture?

Shang was originally a tribe in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. In16th century BC, the legendary Shang Tang became the leader of the Central Plains countries after the conquest, and was replaced by Zhou in1/century BC. This is a slave country.

A notable feature of Shang culture is the use of characters. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, a large number of Oracle Bone Inscriptions engraved with divination characters were found in Xiaotun, Anyang, Henan Province, which proved that Chinese characters had been basically stereotyped in Shang Dynasty, and the most important features of Chinese characters, including sound, form and meaning in each single symbol, had also been formed. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is not the most primitive writing. On the pottery of Dawenkou cultural site in Shandong, there are simple writing symbols, one or two thousand years earlier. But that kind of writing symbol is still in its infancy, and it can't express coherent meaning (can't make sentences), so it is difficult to recognize it so far. Oracle Bone Inscriptions, though brief, is a complete record of divination results. The use of characters is the main symbol of human beings entering civilized society. From the literary point of view, writing not only provides the basic conditions for calligraphy and painting literature, but also determines the characteristics of literature in some aspects. For example, the phenomenon of attaching importance to parallel couples in China literature is produced from the characteristics of Chinese characters.