An Overview of the Origin of Oracle Bone Inscriptions

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an ancient script created by our ancestors. Oracle Bone Inscriptions, with a long history, was buried in the sand with the demise of Shang Dynasty. 1899, by chance, I found it in a Chinese medicine shop. This kind of writing engraved on Oracle Bone Inscriptions and animal bones is called Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

Yinxu, a small village unearthed in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Anyang, Henan Province, is a relic of the second half of Shang Dynasty. It is an "Oracle" used by the Shang royal family to predict divination. This worship of gods by Yin people has left us a lot of first-hand information on the development of ancient Chinese characters. Up to now, more than150,000 pieces of Oracle Bone Inscriptions have been excavated.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions was carved with a sharp tool. According to the research results, we can see that Oracle Bone Inscriptions is a mature language. Besides primitive hieroglyphics, it also has the characteristics of referring to things, recognizing things, pictophonetic characters and transferring notes. And in the combination of up, down, left and right, it has shown quite mature skills.

Perhaps it is limited by tortoise bones or animal bones, and the size of words is very different when carving. The position of militants is also not fixed. In many hieroglyphs, simple lines often simulate the shape of objective things and highlight their characteristics.

It is said that Oracle Bone Inscriptions was unearthed in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but it did not attract people's attention at that time and soon disappeared. After Oracle Bone Inscriptions saw the light of day again, China academic circles began to collect, sort out and study it. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is famous for its unique cultural and archaeological value and artistic charm. It has attracted the attention of the whole world.