What is China's earliest article?

Can't be verified. Oracle Bone Inscriptions first appeared, but it can't be proved that it first appeared.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions was identified by antique dealers and epigraphers in 1898. After that, a large-scale excavation was carried out in Yin Ruins (Xiaotun Village, Anyang, Henan Province), and a large number of tortoise shells and animal bones were unearthed. Coupled with sporadic collection in other places, more than 100,000 articles have been collected so far, of which a single article is the longest100 words, which shows the embryonic form of practical writing.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an ancient script in China, an early form of Chinese characters, sometimes regarded as a kind of Chinese characters, and also the oldest mature script in Chinese dynasties.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions, also known as "Wen Qi", "Oracle Bone Inscriptions", Yin Ruins or "tortoise shell and animal bones". Oracle Bone Inscriptions recorded and reflected the political and economic situation of Shang Dynasty, which mainly refers to the words carved on tortoise shells or animal bones by the royal family in China in the late Shang Dynasty (14 ~ 1 1 century), and their contents are generally the things asked or the results obtained by divination. Extinction of Yin Shang Dynasty

After the rise of the Zhou Dynasty, Oracle Bone Inscriptions also used it for a period of time, which is an important material for studying the social history of Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Oracle Bone Inscriptions's form and structure have tended to be combined independently, and a large number of pictophonetic characters have appeared, which is already a quite mature writing form and the earliest systematic writing form known in China. It inherits the original carving symbols, enlightens the bronze inscriptions, and is the key form of the development of Chinese characters, which is called "the earliest Chinese characters". Modern Chinese characters evolved from Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

According to the existing archaeological data, Oracle Bone Inscriptions was not unique to the Shang Dynasty, but existed before the Shang Dynasty. Archaeological studies have found that Oracle bone inscriptions in Shang Dynasty probably originated from the inscriptions on Oracle bones in Peiligang cultural site in Henan province 8500 years ago, and it has transitional characters-Oracle bone inscriptions in garden village, Doumen Town.