Historians generally think that the emergence of real Chinese characters in Shang Dynasty is marked by what.

The written materials of Shang Dynasty mainly include Wen Tao, jade, Oracle Bone Inscriptions and inscriptions on bronze.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions, is the most in the late Shang Dynasty. The characters left on various materials belong to the same system as Oracle Bone Inscriptions, so the characters of Shang Dynasty can be represented by Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is a script in the history of Chinese characters, a divination script in the late Shang Dynasty, and a script actually used at that time. At first, some people called it Tortoise Edition, Tortoise Shell Inscription, Tortoise Shell Bone Inscription and Tortoise Shell Animal Bone Inscription. Later, some people called it Zhen Oracle Inscription, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Yin Deficiency Syndrome Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and others called it Yin Ruins Calligraphy and Yin Deficiency Syndrome Characters.