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Who was the earliest Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the nettle or the bronze inscription?

hard to say

Now it is found that the earliest Oracle Bone Inscriptions and bronze inscriptions are from Shang Dynasty.

The mainstream view is that bronze inscriptions reflect the regular characters of Shang Dynasty, which is relatively standard. Oracle Bone Inscriptions's reaction to the common characters used by practitioners related to divination in Shang Dynasty was somewhat random. However, folk characters will also affect orthography. In the late Shang Dynasty, many inscriptions on bronze also adopted the shape of Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

Therefore, in Shang Dynasty, Oracle Bone Inscriptions and bronze inscriptions should be regarded as different fonts of the same writing.

Incidentally, bronze inscriptions left by the Shang Dynasty are generally short, mostly just names, with few descriptions and few words. However, Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty is relatively rich in information, which can be called an encyclopedia of social history in Shang Dynasty. At present, the study of Shang Dynasty characters mainly focuses on Oracle Bone Inscriptions materials and inscriptions on bronze.