Economy and Culture in Shang Dynasty

The social economy of Shang Dynasty was dominated by agriculture, which was the decisive production department at that time, and the handicraft industry developed rapidly. Bronze casting industry is the most important handicraft sector in Shang dynasty, which represents the development level of handicraft production at that time, and it also had a preliminary development in Shang dynasty last night. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an important symbol of the cultural development of Shang Dynasty. The characters of Shang Dynasty were mainly preserved on tortoise shells and cattle shoulder blades, so it became Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Most of the content is recorded divination, so it is also called "Oracle Bone Inscriptions". There are also some documents about bronzes and other objects, but there are few. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is actually the archives of Shang Dynasty. For example, the nobles of Shang dynasty used divination to ask ghosts and gods about conquest, hunting, disease, and good agricultural years. These divination records are about 3,500 words in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which was discovered in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Yinxu, Chengdu in the late Shang Dynasty. At present, about 2,000 words are known, which is of great value to the study of Shang Dynasty history and culture. The Shang Dynasty had a considerable level of astronomical knowledge and relatively perfect legislation, and the progress of astronomy and legislation was closely related to the development of agricultural production.