What is the main purpose of Oracle Bone Inscriptions? What are the reasons why people in Shang Dynasty performed divination?

1 confirmed and restored the history. Wang Guowei once confirmed Sima Qian's record of Shang Dynasty in Historical Records of Yin Benji with Oracle Bone Inscriptions's material data.

2. Understand the development of Chinese characters. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the earliest known systematic writing form in China, and modern Chinese characters evolved from Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions's discovery promoted scholars from all over the world to study China's ancient history and ancient philology deeply, and created a brand-new discipline-Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

Because social productivity was low at that time, many phenomena could not be explained, so we advocated some supernatural beings and so on, and the earliest totem came into being. So we worshipped ancestors and gods in order to find new solutions, so we carried out divination.