What are the numbers in Oracle Bone Inscriptions?

The figures in Oracle Bone Inscriptions are as follows:

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an ancient script in China, which is also called "Wen Qi", "Oracle Bone Inscriptions", "Yin Ruins" or "tortoise shell and animal bones". As an early form of Chinese characters, it is a mature script of Shang Dynasty in China, which was first unearthed in Yinxu, Anyang City.

Extended data:

There are four main records:

1. Processed and scraped tortoise shells and animal bones are kept by special fortune tellers. The fortune teller carved notes on their edges to explain the origin and storage of these Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which is called "note inscription";

2. During divination, the diviner cauterized and drilled the fossa with the burning bauhinia wood pillar, so that the front end of the bone was split into a "Bu" shape. This kind of cracking is called "divination", which is the basis for inferring good or bad fortune in divination. In the early days of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, there were numbers engraved with divination order, also called "trillion order";

3. The main part of Oracle bone inscriptions is Oracle Bone Inscriptions, that is, the text that records the progress and results of divination activities after the end of divination activities. Most of them are engraved on the front of Oracle bones, and some are engraved on the back;

4. Sixty names of stems and branches composed of heavenly stems (A, B, C, D, E, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren and Gui) and earthly branches (Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai).

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