Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an ancient script in China, which is also called "Wen Qi", "Oracle Bone Inscriptions", "Yin Ruins" or "tortoise shell and animal bones". As an early form of Chinese characters, it is a mature script of Shang Dynasty in China, which was first unearthed in Yinxu, Anyang City. It belongs to ancient Chinese, not the ancient or primitive language of other languages.
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 has a symmetrical and stable pattern. Prepare three elements of calligraphy, namely, using a pen, finishing words and composing music. 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.
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Judging from the characters on Oracle bones, they already have the three elements of China's calligraphy, namely, writing, writing and composition. His brushwork lines are neat and thin, straight and thick, and his strokes are multi-folded, which has an influence on the pen and knife of seal cutting in later generations.
From the perspective of structural fonts, the characters not only have changes, although they vary in size, they are relatively balanced and symmetrical, and also present a stable pattern. Therefore, from the perspective of composition, although influenced by the size and shape of bone chips, it still shows the carving skills and artistic characteristics of words. The popularity of "oracle calligraphy" among some calligraphers and calligraphy lovers proves its charm.
Judging from the pen, Oracle Bone Inscriptions used a knife to carve on the hard tortoise shell or animal bone, so he used a straight line when carving, and the curve was also carved with a short straight line. The stroke thickness is also uniform; Because the knife is straight up and down, most lines are slightly thick in the middle and slightly thin at both ends, thin and strong, straight and smooth, and full of three-dimensional sense.
As far as structure writing is concerned, Oracle Bone Inscriptions's appearance is mostly rectangular or several squares, which has the beauty of symmetry or change. Moreover, Oracle Bone Inscriptions also has the structural form of combining Fiona Fang and Kai Zi Ji, and some characters have more or less pictographic traces, which are naive and vivid in the initial development stage of characters.