What does Oracle Bone Inscriptions know about Oracle Bone Inscriptions in one sentence?

1, Oracle Bone Inscriptions was discovered by Wang Yu 1899, an epigraphist who was drinking in imperial academy, the capital at that time, and was named "Oracle Bone Inscriptions" because the characters were engraved on the bones of tortoise shells and beasts.

2. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the earliest and complete script known in ancient China, which was mainly used in the Yin and Shang Dynasties.

At that time, people were very superstitious. Rulers use divination when everything happens. The materials used for divination are mainly tortoise's abdominal shell, carapace and cattle's scapula. Usually, some small pits are dug or drilled on the back of Oracle bones, and then cracks are generated on the surface of Oracle bones by heating, and good or bad luck is detected according to the appearance of these cracks.

4. Oracle Bone Inscriptions mostly recorded this kind of divination, and there are a few other things.

5. After the discovery of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, through large-scale excavation in Yin Ruins (Xiaotun Village, Anyang, Henan Province) and sporadic collection in other places, more than 10,000 pieces of Oracle bone inscriptions10000 have been unearthed so far, including more than 4,500 words, of which more than 2,500 words have been identified.