In ancient times, there were other characters besides Oracle Bone Inscriptions, such as pictographs.

There was Oracle Bone Inscriptions in ancient times, and then there was Shi Guwen.

, Qin stone figures, named for their drum shape. Found in the early Tang Dynasty, there are ten * * * pieces, about three feet high and two feet in diameter, each engraved with a four-character poem of Dazhuan, with ten * * * pieces, accounting for 718 words. The content was originally considered as the narrative of Zhou Xuanwang's hunting scene, so it was also called "hunting". After the Song Dynasty, Zheng Qiao's preface to the sound of a stone drum became popular. In the late Qing Dynasty, the Qin Wengong earthquake, Ma Heng in Qin Mugong, Guo Moruo in Qin Xianggong, and the stone drums were all broken. Today, Liu Xing and Liu Mu have confirmed that the stone drum is a work of the Qin Shihuang era. Stone drums leave a lot of words. Ouyang Xiu recorded 465 words in the Northern Song Dynasty. Fan's "Tianyi Pavilion" in the Ming Dynasty has only 462 words, but now there are no words left in the drum of "Majian". The original stone is now hidden in the Shigu Hall of the Palace Museum.

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. After the demise of the Shang Dynasty and the rise of the Zhou Dynasty, Oracle Bone Inscriptions still used it for a period of time, which is an important material for studying the social history of the 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. (garden village Primitive Social Site in Doumen Township, Western Suburb of Xi City)