Which dynasty did Oracle Bone Inscriptions belong to?

Oracle Bone Inscriptions was in the Shang Dynasty.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions was discovered in the Yin Ruins in Anyang City, Henan Province, China. It is the cultural product of the Shang Dynasty (about17th century BC1century BC), about 3600 years ago.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the writing of divination in the late Shang Dynasty, and it was also the writing actually used at that time. At first, some people called it Tortoise Edition, Tortoise Shell Inscription, Tortoise Shell Bone Inscription and Tortoise Shell Animal Bone Inscription. Later, some people called it Zhen Oracle Inscription, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Yin Deficiency Syndrome Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and others called it Yin Ruins Calligraphy and Yin Deficiency Syndrome Characters.

Characteristics of oracle calligraphy

Oracle Bone Inscriptions's pictographic characters and images are still relatively strong, and there is no conclusion yet. A word is often complex and simple, with many heterogeneity and many combinations (that is, two phrases are combined into one word). The writing and position of radicals are often not fixed, and the length and size of words are slightly irregular anyway. But on the whole, it is quite mature.

From the perspective of calligraphy, Oracle Bone Inscriptions is simple and natural, with its own characteristics. Oracle Bone Inscriptions's structure is more free and lively, with greater randomness. Different from some later fonts, he is not so strict in statutes, but he also pays attention to the symmetry, balance and density of stroke distribution and emphasizes the beauty of character style.

Especially those hieroglyphics that still retain the meaning of painting, we not only pay attention to the arrangement of strokes as words, but also lose their rough freehand brushwork.