Calligraphy is the treasure of China, Shaanxi is the hometown of calligraphy, and the forest of steles, like an "urban city", has long been a sacred place for literati.
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Chinese Treasure-Oracle Bone Inscriptions
BC14th century, King Pan Geng of Shang Dynasty moved the capital to Yin, which is today's Xiaotun area in Anyang, known as Yin Ruins in history. After the demise of Shang Dynasty, Yin was in ruins. Oracle Bone Inscriptions has been buried underground for more than 3,000 years. In the 1980s, it was discovered by villagers in Xiaotun, Henan Province, and Oracle bones were excavated into "keels" and sold to pharmacies. 1899, Wang accidentally discovered the characters on Oracle bones and collected them. Wang was a scholar and an academician during the six years of Guangxu. He has a profound study of China's ancient cultural relics. 1889 When he discovered Oracle bones in Beijing, he decided to buy thousands of pieces as "relics of Yin Shang Dynasty", which was the beginning of the study of Oracle bones in Yin ruins in China. Since then, Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins has changed from a "keel" to a precious research material of ancient culture, which has avoided the continuous large-scale man-made destruction of this ancient cultural relic in China.
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