Selected works of oracle calligraphy

? Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the name of the ancient script in China. The words carved on Oracle Bone Inscriptions were once called Wen Qi, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Oracle bone inscriptions and Yin Ruins. Now they are usually called Oracle Bone Inscriptions. During the Yin Dynasty (Shang Dynasty), people used tortoise shells and animal bones (mainly the shoulder blades of cattle) for divination. The following is a selection of oracle calligraphy's works that I have compiled for you. I hope it works for you!

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Oracle Bone Inscriptions unearthed in Yin Ruins.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty is the earliest documentary record discovered by China. Now, Oracle Bone Inscriptions has become a remarkable world discipline, with more than 500 Chinese and foreign scholars engaged in research and published more than 3,000 monographs and papers. It is of great significance to history, philology and archaeology.

Sima Qian recorded the lineage and history of Shang Dynasty in detail in an article Yin Benji in Historical Records. In the past, many historians were skeptical about these records, because there were no written records and no physical materials to prove them. At the beginning of this century, Luo Zhenyu found the names of the first man and the first king of Shang Dynasty in his Oracle bones, which confirmed that these Oracle bones were unearthed in the small village recorded in the history books? South of Huanshui, above Yin Ruins? Yin ruins.

After that, Wang Guowei, a scholar, made a detailed textual research on the ancient princes of Shang Dynasty seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and compared them with the records in Historical Records, which confirmed the credibility of Yin Benji in Historical Records. Yin Ruins was the first 10 king of Shang Dynasty. In BC 13 18, Pan Geng moved his capital from Yan (near Qufu, Shandong) to Yin (around Xiaotun Village). After the 8th generation 12 king, it was established here for 273 years. These research results have advanced the reliable history of China by one thousand years.

From the discovery and identification of a piece of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the Shang Dynasty to the affirmation of a dynasty more than 3000 years ago and 600 years ago. What an amazing discovery! So some scholars believe that the credible history of China began in the Western Zhou Dynasty in the 1920s? Doubt about ancient times? Ideological trends should be completely denied.

A large number of Oracle bones unearthed in Yin Ruins reflect the prosperity of divination in Shang Dynasty. From state affairs to private life, such as sacrifice, climate, harvest, conquest, hunting, sick people, childbirth, going out, etc. The royal family and nobles all asked God for advice until they decided to stop. As a result, divination became a major event in the political life of the country, and the court set up special institutions and divination officials. Oracle Bone Inscriptions with inscriptions is preserved as a national archive and piled in caves. Therefore, Oracle Bone Inscriptions became the first-hand material to study the history of Shang Dynasty, reflecting all aspects of social life from BC 1300 to BC 1000.

Since/kloc-0 was first discovered in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in 899, according to the statistics of Hu Houxuan, a scholar, * * has unearthed more than 54,600 pieces of Oracle bones, including 97,600 pieces in Chinese mainland, 30,200 pieces in Taiwan Province, 89 pieces in Hongkong and more than 27,900 pieces in China * * collection. In addition, so far, about 4500 words have been engraved on these Oracle bones, and about 2000 words have been read so far.

China's writing sprouted earlier. In the Neolithic pottery of Yangshao culture, various carving symbols were found, which became the embryonic form of China characters. After two or three thousand years of gestation and development, Chinese characters reached the stage of basic maturity in Shang Dynasty. Oracle Bone Inscriptions has a certain system, strict laws, exquisite descriptions and rich contents, which plays an important role in the study of ancient Chinese characters in China. In the past, the study of ancient Chinese characters was mainly based on inscriptions on Shang and Zhou bronzes, such as Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is 1500 years earlier than it, and it comes from the unearthed cultural relics directly excavated, so it has higher credibility. This is of great value for studying the origin and development of Chinese characters, correcting the mistakes in Shuo Wen Jie Zi and solving the outstanding problems in inscriptions on bronze.

Judging from the characters on Oracle bones, they already have the three elements of China's calligraphy, namely, writing, writing and composition. His brushwork lines are neat and thin, straight and thick, and his strokes are multi-folded, which has an influence on the pen and knife of seal cutting in later generations. Judging from the knot, the characters have changed. Although they are different in size, they are relatively balanced and symmetrical, showing a stable pattern. Judging from the composition, although influenced by the size and shape of bone chips, it still shows the carving skills and artistic characteristics of words. ? Oracle calligraphy? Now it has become popular among some calligraphers and calligraphy lovers, which proves its charm.

Since the location of Oracle bones was found out, from the autumn of 1928 to the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in the summer of 1937, the archaeological team of the Institute of History and Language of Academia Sinica, under the auspices of famous archaeologists Dong Zuobin, Li Ji and Liang Siyong, carried out archaeological excavations in Xiaotun Village for 15 years, which not only found more than 24,900 pieces in total, but also found the late Shang Dynasty. Yin Ruins became a world-famous site of ancient culture, which once again shocked Chinese and foreign academic circles.

After the founding of New China, archaeologists conducted many investigations and excavations, and generally found out the scope and layout of Yin Ruins. Yin Ruins is located in the northwest suburb of Anyang City, with Xiaotun Village as the center. It is about 6 kilometers long from east to west and 5 kilometers long from north to south, with a total area of about 30 square kilometers. Xiaotun Village on the south bank of Huan River is the palace area where Wang Yin lives. Dozens of palaces have been excavated, the largest of which covers an area of 5000 square meters. North of Huan River is the mausoleum area of Yin King. More than a dozen large tombs, more than a thousand small tombs and a large number of sacrificial pits have been excavated. Near the palace, two Oracle Bone Inscriptions archives and handicraft workshop sites such as copper casting, jade making, bone making and pottery burning were discovered. The excavation of Yin Ruins has a long duration, large scale and abundant harvest, which is really rare in the archaeological history of China.

In order to commemorate the great archaeological discovery of Yin Ruins, in the autumn of 1987, Anyang City built the Yin Ruins Museum on the northeast side of the palace ruins area, which restored and reproduced the features of the Yin Ruins Palace and some buildings 3,000 years ago.

1in the spring of 976, the first female General Cemetery in the history of China was excavated near the palace area, which is 0/00 meters northwest of Xiaotun Village. Oracle Bone Inscriptions records that Fuxi was the queen of Wu Ding, king of Shang Dynasty. One summer, there was a war on the northern border, and the two sides were at daggers drawn. Fu Hao volunteered to send troops. Wu Ding hesitated, decided to send Fu Hao to arise after divination, and the result was a great victory. From then on, Wu Ding made her commander in chief. Since then, she has conquered more than 20 neighboring countries (independent small countries) by expeditions to the East and the West. Oracle Bone Inscriptions once said that when Fuxi was fighting in Qiang, he commanded a huge team of 6,543,800+3,000 people, which was the largest number of foreign soldiers known so far in Shang Dynasty. Regal Tomb is the only well-preserved royal tomb of Yin Dynasty unearthed from Yin Ruins, and many unearthed objects are engraved with inscriptions. It is the only royal tomb of Shang Dynasty that can be confirmed by Oracle Bone Inscriptions and historical documents, so as to determine the identity and age of the tomb owner.

In the 70-year archaeology of Yin Ruins, it is particularly worth mentioning three important textual research and discoveries of Oracle Bone Inscriptions:

The first time was1June, 936 12. A Oracle Bone Inscriptions pit was excavated in Bei Gong area of Xiaotun Village, and 17096 Oracle Bone Inscriptions with words was preserved, which recorded many activities in Wuding period of Shang Dynasty. It seems that this is the Oracle Bone Inscriptions file of Wuding royal family. The excavation of these Oracle bones is of great value to the study of social politics, culture and life in Wuding period. During the excavation, a body curled up on its side was found in the pit, and most of the body was pressed on the Oracle bone. Experts think it may be the custodian of the file.

The second time, in the south of Xiaotun Village 1973, 7 150 pieces of Oracle bones were excavated, of which 504 1 piece was carved. At the same time, the unearthed pottery products also have these Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which provides valuable information for the staging of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Yin Ruins.

The third time, in the autumn of 199 1, a Oracle Bone Inscriptions pit with an area of only 2 square meters was excavated in the east of Huayuanzhuang, but its overlapping thickness reached 0.8 meters, and 579 pieces of Oracle bones 1583 were unearthed, including Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which was rich in records. The fortune tellers were all members of the royal family and senior nobles in Wuding period. It shows that the divination activities in this period were not limited to the king, the supreme ruler, but all the royal nobles could use divination to predict good or bad luck.

The discovery of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and the excavation of Yin Ruins caused by it are of epoch-making significance to China archaeology.

Prior to this, scholars only studied inscriptions and inscriptions in the study, and never went to the fields to investigate and dig. China's field archaeology began with the excavation of Yangshao Village site in Mianchi County, Henan Province in 192 1, and then with the early excavation of Peking Zhoukoudian ape-man site in 1927. However, at that time, the excavation of these two places was not undertaken by the academic departments in China alone, but by foreign scholars hired by the government at that time, or by Chinese and foreign academic units. The real field archaeology independently conducted by academic institutions in China began with the first excavation of Yin Ruins by the Archaeological Group of the Institute of History and Linguistics of Academia Sinica in 1928. It laid the foundation for the emergence and development of field archaeology in China. Most of the older generation of archaeologists in China grew up on the archaeological sites of Yin Ruins, and the new generation of archaeologists after the founding of New China were basically trained by them. Therefore, it is well-deserved to call Yin Ruins the birthplace of field archaeology in China.

The name of the script. The words carved on Oracle Bone Inscriptions were once called Wen Qi, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Oracle bone inscriptions and Yin Ruins. Now they are usually called Oracle Bone Inscriptions. During the Yin Dynasty (Shang Dynasty), people used tortoise shells and animal bones (mainly the shoulder blades of cattle) for divination. After divination, the date of divination, the name of the diviner, and the things of divination are all engraved with a knife next to divination, and some even engraved with good or bad luck that has been fulfilled for several days. The most detailed word is nearly 100. Scholars call this kind of record Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and this kind of writing is Oracle Bone Inscriptions. It was carved (or written) by the royal family on tortoise shells and animal bones in China in the late Shang Dynasty (14 ~1century) for divination. It is the earliest and most complete ancient Chinese character discovered by China. Oracle Bone Inscriptions was discovered in Xiaotun Village, Anyang County, Henan Province. It is a relic of Pan Geng, the Shang King, who moved to Yin (from the middle of the 4th century BC 1 1 century BC). It has been more than 3000 years.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions unearthed in Yin Ruins.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty is the earliest documentary record discovered by China. Now, Oracle Bone Inscriptions has become a remarkable world discipline, with more than 500 Chinese and foreign scholars engaged in research and published more than 3,000 monographs and papers. It is of great significance to history, philology and archaeology.

Sima Qian recorded the lineage and history of Shang Dynasty in detail in an article Yin Benji in Historical Records. In the past, many historians were skeptical about these records, because there were no written records and no physical materials to prove them. At the beginning of this century, Luo Zhenyu found the names of the first man and the first king of Shang Dynasty in his Oracle bones, which confirmed that these Oracle bones were unearthed in the small village recorded in the history books? South of Huanshui, above Yin Ruins? Yin ruins.

After that, Wang Guowei, a scholar, made a detailed textual research on the ancient princes of Shang Dynasty seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and compared them with the records in Historical Records, which confirmed the credibility of Yin Benji in Historical Records. Yin Ruins was the first 10 king of Shang Dynasty. In BC 13 18, Pan Geng moved his capital from Yan (near Qufu, Shandong) to Yin (around Xiaotun Village). After the 8th generation 12 king, it was established here for 273 years. These research results have advanced the reliable history of China by one thousand years.

From the discovery and identification of a piece of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the Shang Dynasty to the affirmation of a dynasty more than 3000 years ago and 600 years ago. What an amazing discovery! So some scholars believe that the credible history of China began in the Western Zhou Dynasty in the 1920s? Doubt about ancient times? Ideological trends should be completely denied.

A large number of Oracle bones unearthed in Yin Ruins reflect the prosperity of divination in Shang Dynasty. From state affairs to private life, such as sacrifice, climate, harvest, conquest, hunting, sick people, childbirth, going out, etc. The royal family and nobles all asked God for advice until they decided to stop. As a result, divination became a major event in the political life of the country, and the court set up special institutions and divination officials. Oracle Bone Inscriptions with inscriptions is preserved as a national archive and piled in caves. Therefore, Oracle Bone Inscriptions became the first-hand material to study the history of Shang Dynasty, reflecting all aspects of social life from BC 1300 to BC 1000.

Since/kloc-0 was first discovered in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in 899, according to the statistics of Hu Houxuan, a scholar, * * has unearthed more than 54,600 pieces of Oracle bones, including 97,600 pieces in Chinese mainland, 30,200 pieces in Taiwan Province, 89 pieces in Hongkong and more than 27,900 pieces in China * * collection. In addition, so far, about 4500 words have been engraved on these Oracle bones, and about 2000 words have been read so far.

China's writing sprouted earlier. In the Neolithic pottery of Yangshao culture, various carving symbols were found, which became the embryonic form of China characters. After two or three thousand years of gestation and development, Chinese characters reached the stage of basic maturity in Shang Dynasty. Oracle Bone Inscriptions has a certain system, strict laws, exquisite descriptions and rich contents, which plays an important role in the study of ancient Chinese characters in China. In the past, the study of ancient Chinese characters was mainly based on inscriptions on Shang and Zhou bronzes, such as Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is 1500 years earlier than it, and it comes from the unearthed cultural relics directly excavated, so it has higher credibility. This is of great value for studying the origin and development of Chinese characters, correcting the mistakes in Shuo Wen Jie Zi and solving the outstanding problems in inscriptions on bronze.

Judging from the characters on Oracle bones, they already have the three elements of China's calligraphy, namely, writing, writing and composition. His brushwork lines are neat and thin, straight and thick, and his strokes are multi-folded, which has an influence on the pen and knife of seal cutting in later generations. Judging from the knot, the characters have changed. Although they are different in size, they are relatively balanced and symmetrical, showing a stable pattern. Judging from the composition, although influenced by the size and shape of bone chips, it still shows the carving skills and artistic characteristics of words. ? Oracle calligraphy? Now it has become popular among some calligraphers and calligraphy lovers, which proves its charm.

Since the location of Oracle bones was found out, from the autumn of 1928 to the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in the summer of 1937, the archaeological team of the Institute of History and Language of Academia Sinica, under the auspices of famous archaeologists Dong Zuobin, Li Ji and Liang Siyong, carried out archaeological excavations in Xiaotun Village for 15 years, which not only found more than 24,900 pieces in total, but also found the late Shang Dynasty. Yin Ruins became a world-famous site of ancient culture, which once again shocked Chinese and foreign academic circles.

After the founding of New China, archaeologists conducted many investigations and excavations, and generally found out the scope and layout of Yin Ruins. Yin Ruins is located in the northwest suburb of Anyang City, with Xiaotun Village as the center. It is about 6 kilometers long from east to west and 5 kilometers long from north to south, with a total area of about 30 square kilometers. Xiaotun Village on the south bank of Huan River is the palace area where Wang Yin lives. Dozens of palaces have been excavated, the largest of which covers an area of 5000 square meters. North of Huan River is the mausoleum area of Yin King. More than a dozen large tombs, more than a thousand small tombs and a large number of sacrificial pits have been excavated. Near the palace, two Oracle Bone Inscriptions archives and handicraft workshop sites such as copper casting, jade making, bone making and pottery burning were discovered. The excavation of Yin Ruins has a long duration, large scale and abundant harvest, which is really rare in the archaeological history of China.

In order to commemorate the great archaeological discovery of Yin Ruins, in the autumn of 1987, Anyang City built the Yin Ruins Museum on the northeast side of the palace ruins area, which restored and reproduced the features of the Yin Ruins Palace and some buildings 3,000 years ago.

1in the spring of 976, the first female General Cemetery in the history of China was excavated near the palace area, which is 0/00 meters northwest of Xiaotun Village. Oracle Bone Inscriptions records that Fuxi was the queen of Wu Ding, king of Shang Dynasty. One summer, there was a war on the northern border, and the two sides were at daggers drawn. Fu Hao volunteered to send troops. Wu Ding hesitated, decided to send Fu Hao to arise after divination, and the result was a great victory. From then on, Wu Ding made her commander in chief. Since then, she has conquered more than 20 neighboring countries (independent small countries) by expeditions to the East and the West. Oracle Bone Inscriptions once said that when Fuxi was fighting in Qiang, he commanded a huge team of 6,543,800+3,000 people, which was the largest number of foreign soldiers known so far in Shang Dynasty. Regal Tomb is the only well-preserved royal tomb of Yin Dynasty unearthed from Yin Ruins, and many unearthed objects are engraved with inscriptions. It is the only royal tomb of Shang Dynasty that can be confirmed by Oracle Bone Inscriptions and historical documents, so as to determine the identity and age of the tomb owner.

In the 70-year archaeology of Yin Ruins, it is particularly worth mentioning three important textual research and discoveries of Oracle Bone Inscriptions:

The first time was1June, 936 12. A Oracle Bone Inscriptions pit was excavated in Bei Gong area of Xiaotun Village, and 17096 Oracle Bone Inscriptions with words was preserved, which recorded many activities in Wuding period of Shang Dynasty. It seems that this is the Oracle Bone Inscriptions file of Wuding royal family. The excavation of these Oracle bones is of great value to the study of social politics, culture and life in Wuding period. During the excavation, a body was found curled up on its side in the pit, and most of the body was pressed on the Oracle bone. Experts think it may be the custodian of the file.

The second time, in the south of Xiaotun Village 1973, 7 150 pieces of Oracle bones were excavated, of which 504 1 piece was carved. At the same time, the unearthed pottery products also have these Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which provides valuable information for the staging of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Yin Ruins.

The third time, in the autumn of 199 1, a Oracle Bone Inscriptions pit with an area of only 2 square meters was excavated in the east of Huayuanzhuang, but its overlapping thickness reached 0.8 meters, and 579 pieces of Oracle bones 1583 were unearthed, including Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which was rich in records. The fortune tellers were all members of the royal family and senior nobles in Wuding period. It shows that the divination activities in this period were not limited to the king, the supreme ruler, but all the royal nobles could use divination to predict good or bad luck.

The discovery of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and the excavation of Yin Ruins caused by it are of epoch-making significance to China archaeology.

Prior to this, scholars only studied inscriptions and inscriptions in the study, and never went to the fields to investigate and dig. China's field archaeology began with the excavation of Yangshao Village site in Mianchi County, Henan Province in 192 1, and then with the early excavation of Peking Zhoukoudian ape-man site in 1927. However, at that time, the excavation of these two places was not undertaken by the academic departments in China alone, but by foreign scholars hired by the government at that time, or by Chinese and foreign academic units. The real field archaeology independently conducted by academic institutions in China began with the first excavation of Yin Ruins by the Archaeological Group of the Institute of History and Linguistics of Academia Sinica in 1928. It laid the foundation for the emergence and development of field archaeology in China. Most of the older generation of archaeologists in China grew up on the archaeological sites of Yin Ruins, and the new generation of archaeologists after the founding of New China were basically trained by them. Therefore, it is well-deserved to call Yin Ruins the birthplace of field archaeology in China.