Where was Oracle Bone Inscriptions unearthed?

Oracle Bone Inscriptions was unearthed near Xiaotun Village, Yindu District, Anyang City, Henan Province.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions:

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an ancient script in China, which mainly refers to the script carved on tortoise shells or animal bones by the royal family in the late Shang Dynasty in China. It is the earliest mature Chinese character that we can see, and it is also the earliest known systematic carrier of Shang Dynasty characters in China and East Asia. It was first discovered by Wang.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions has a history of over 3000 years. It is not only the earliest and most systematic data for studying the origin of Chinese characters, but also an important wealth for studying oracle calligraphy. From the perspective of calligraphy, Oracle Bone Inscriptions already has three basic elements of calligraphy, namely, using a pen, creating characters and composing a composition. That is, pen, knot and composition were successfully selected into the Memory of the World on 2065438+2007165438+124 October.

On June, 2022165438+1October 10, National Cultural Heritage Administration held a working conference on the important progress of the major project of "Archaeological China" in Beijing, and made a special report on the important achievements and new progress in the archaeology of Yin Ruins in Anyang, Henan.

The contents recorded by Oracle Bone Inscriptions:

There are four main projects:

(1) The processed and scraped tortoise shells and animal bones should be kept by special diviners. On the edge of them, the fortune teller carved a note explaining the origin and storage of these Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which is called "note inscription".

(2) During divination, the diviner cauterizes and drills the socket with the burning bauhinia wood pillar, so that the front end of the bone splits a "Bu"-shaped crack. This kind of crack is called "divination", which is the basis for inferring good or bad fortune in divination. In the earlier era of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, numbers engraved with divination sequences were also called "trillion sequences".

(3) The main part of Oracle Bone Inscriptions is Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which is the inscription that records the progress and results of divination after the divination. Most of them are engraved on the front of Oracle bones, and some are engraved on the back.

(4) Sixty branches are named after Tiangan (A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Man and Ghost) and Dizhi (Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai).