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What is recorded in the Oracle Bone Inscriptions?

The words on a piece of Oracle bones range from a few to dozens to hundreds. The contents of these oracles are very extensive, involving conquest, hunting, animal husbandry, farming, sacrifices and disasters, diseases, meteorology, geography and so on. It fully reflects the socio-economic history, political history, ideological history and scientific history of the Shang Dynasty. According to the field excavation, the Yin people kept some Oracle bones in an orderly way, some in a cellar, and there was a dynasty Oracle Bone Inscriptions in it, indicating that Cheng and Shi, who were engaged in note-taking at that time, kept Oracle Bone Inscriptions as a file for future reference after recording divination. These accumulated Oracle Bone Inscriptions can provide a series of archival materials.