Shanxi historical tabloid 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.

It belongs to the ancient, not the ancient or primitive language of other languages.

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 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 2,500 characters have been recognized.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions has a symmetrical and stable pattern.

Some people think that China's calligraphy started in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, because Oracle Bone Inscriptions has prepared three elements of calligraphy, namely, writing with a pen, writing with a knot, and composition.

Most Oracle Bone Inscriptions were found in Yin Ruins in Anyang, China.

However, Oracle Bone Inscriptions was not unique to the Shang Dynasty, and existed long before the Shang Dynasty.

Archaeological studies have found that Oracle bone inscriptions in Shang Dynasty probably originated from the inscriptions on Oracle bones in Peiligang cultural site in Henan province 8500 years ago, and it has transitional characters-Oracle bone inscriptions in garden village, Doumen Town.

Judging from the number and structure of fonts, Oracle Bone Inscriptions has developed into a more rigorous and systematic writing.

The "six-character" principle of Chinese characters is reflected in Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

But the traces of the original picture and the original words are still obvious.