Was Wang the first person to discover and study Oracle Bone Inscriptions?

Wang was the first person to discover and study Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which is correct.

In the 25th year of Guangxu (1899), I bought a kind of medicinal material called keel when I was collecting medicine in Heniantang, studied the graphics and characters on it, and bought it in large quantities through Shandong antique dealer Fan. Wang first discovered Oracle Bone Inscriptions and dated it to Shang Dynasty. This discovery caused a sensation in Chinese and foreign academic circles, pushing the history of Chinese characters to the Shang Dynasty, which was more than 700 years BC/kloc-0, and became the originator of Oracle Bone Inscriptions studies.

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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 physical structure has been independent and tends to fit, and a large number of pictophonetic characters have appeared.

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. In a total of * * * 65,438+million Oracle bones, there are more than 4,000 different characters and figures, of which about 2,800 characters have been recognized.

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