Ideas for writing a handwritten newspaper about oracle bones: The beginning should be clear. The first page should briefly introduce the concept of oracle bones; the second page should continue to introduce the history of the discovery and identification of oracle bones; the third page The layout is mainly interesting, and you can list several interesting anecdotes recorded in oracle bone inscriptions; the fourth page is mainly about small knowledge of oracle bone inscriptions, and you can list several oracle bone inscriptions for common characters such as "mountain, stone, field, soil, sun, and moon" . Let readers have a preliminary understanding of Oracle.
1. Page 1: Introduction to oracle bone inscriptions
Oracle bone inscriptions are the oldest known writing in China, also known as "Yinxu writing", "deeds", "tortoise shells and animal bones" "Wen" or "Oracle Bone Divination". Oracle bone inscriptions are the earliest and most mature Chinese characters known to our country. Its contents are mainly characters engraved on tortoise shells or animal bones used by the royal family in the late Shang Dynasty for divination and recording events. It is the earliest known systematic writing carrier in China and East Asia. Oracle bone inscriptions are one of the texts of Chinese Taoism.
2. Page 2: The history of the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions
The discovery process of oracle bone inscriptions is very complicated. Before oracle bone inscriptions were recognized, there were already ancient oracle bones used by farmers in the process of cultivating the land. It was excavated in Xiaotun Village, Anyang City, Henan Province. It is said that the first person to sell oracle bones as medicinal materials to a traditional Chinese medicine shop was a man named Li Cheng. A coincidence led him to discover that bone powder ground from oracle bones could be used to stop bleeding.
In order to make money, Li Cheng sold the oracle bones he owned to Chinese medicine shops in the name of "dragon bones". The extremely precious oracle bones have since been used as medical materials and have been ground into medicinal powder and sold. It wasn't until the autumn of the 25th year of Guangxu's reign at the end of the Qing Dynasty (AD 1899) that Wang Yirong, who was then the highest academic institution in the Qing Dynasty, the Imperial College Jijiu (equivalent to the principal), accidentally discovered some special symbols on a medicine named Dragon Bone.
The keel itself is the skeleton of an ancient vertebrate. Why are there symbols engraved on it? This couldn't help but arouse Wang Yirong's curiosity. Wang Yirong himself was an outstanding scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, a famous epigrapher and an archaeologist with excellent appreciation skills.
Wang Yirong observed the dragon bone carefully. He felt that it was not an ordinary notch, but very much like ancient writing. However, the shape of the notch was neither a large seal nor a small seal. Wang Yirong suddenly realized that this was a very precious cultural relic, so he successively purchased more than 1,500 dragon bones with characters through different channels.
After in-depth and detailed research, Wang Yirong gradually recognized the words "rain", "sun", "mountain", "water", etc., and later discovered the names of several Shang Dynasty kings. Therefore, he concluded that these carvings were ancient writings carved on tortoise shells and animal bones. As a result, these oracle bones engraved with ancient characters caused a sensation in the whole society, and triggered a rush for scholars and antique dealers to buy them.
Later, people called the process of discovering oracle bone inscriptions "a piece of oracle bone that shocked the world", and it became a legendary experience in the archaeological history of China and the world.
3. Page Three: Interesting Facts Recorded in Oracle Bone Inscriptions
The earliest record of dental caries and dental disease in history: "Women are prone to caries."
The oracles contain the earliest record of tooth decay in the world. The person with the tooth decay was none other than the well-known woman Hao. The meaning of the word "gnath" in oracle bone inscriptions is very obvious, from "teeth" to "Yu", and from "Yu" to "worm". There are different opinions on what kind of insect "Yu" refers to. Some say it is a mollusk, some say it is a tadpole. In fact, the original meaning of "worm" is snake, and later it was generalized to mean insects.
Judging from the intention of creating the word "祂", does the "Yu" in the word "祹" refer to a very small insect? We know that "caries" are caused by the massive proliferation of bacteria, which are invisible. How did the ancients know that dental caries was caused by bugs? Maybe "caries" are often accompanied by cavities after corrosion, so they are also called tooth decay. The ancients thought these were holes drilled by "worms"?
4. Page 4: List a few very simple oracle bone inscriptions
List ten to twenty oracle bone inscriptions for daily use, and compare them with small seal script, official script, regular script, etc. It is said that readers have a simple understanding of the evolution process of words.