What is Oracle Bone Inscriptions?

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" or "tortoise shell and animal bones".

The value of Oracle Bone Inscriptions lies in

I. Historical value

Oracle Bone Inscriptions recorded and reflected the political and economic situation of Shang Dynasty, mainly referring 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).

Second, the value of philology

After the demise of Shang Dynasty and the rise of Zhou Dynasty, Oracle Bone Inscriptions was still used for a period of time, and it was the earliest known systematic writing form in China. It inherits the original carving symbols and inspires the bronze inscriptions, which is the key form of the development of Chinese characters and is called "the earliest Chinese characters". Modern Chinese characters evolved from Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions plays an extremely important role in the long development history of Chinese characters, and is a well-deserved originator of modern Chinese characters. The germination of Chinese characters appeared in the carved symbols on pottery in the late Neolithic period. However, although these lettering have the embryonic form of words, they are all simple symbols and words, and there is no complete system and law. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the earliest written language with a certain system and strict laws. According to textual research, there are about 4,500 non-repetitive words in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and there are about 1700 recognized words, which are not all the words used at that time. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is a valuable resource for studying ancient Chinese characters.

Third, economic value.

First of all, "oracle calligraphy" is Oracle Bone Inscriptions's calligraphy art.

The so-called "oracle calligraphy" generally has two meanings.

First, it refers to the calligraphy works neatly imitated according to the font structure and calligraphy characteristics of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. This kind of works can collect ancient Chinese characters and combine them into new sentences as needed. Although the content is new, the writing is as rich and elegant as that written by Yin people three thousand years ago.

On the other hand, it refers to the modern calligraphy works that I created by drawing lessons from the characteristics of Oracle Bone Inscriptions. They regard Oracle Bone Inscriptions as an inspiration, just a little inspiration in artistic creation, not pursuing "similarity". Therefore, they don't write strictly according to the characteristics of oracle calligraphy, but may combine the characteristics of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and Warring States scripts to create. Although this kind of calligraphy art is related to ancient philology, it is not the same.

Second, the collection value of Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

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