Oracle Bone Inscriptions's value includes
1. Historical value
Oracle Bone Inscriptions recorded and reflected the political and economic situation of Shang Dynasty, mainly referring to the characters carved on tortoise shells or animal bones by the royal family in the late Shang Dynasty (14th to 11th centuries before) in China.
Second, the value of philology
After the demise of the Shang Dynasty and the rise of the Zhou Dynasty, Oracle Bone Inscriptions also used it for a period of time, which was the earliest systematic writing form known in China. It inherited the original carved symbols and inspired the bronze inscriptions, which was the key form of the development of Chinese characters and was called "the earliest Chinese characters". Modern Chinese characters evolved from Oracle Bone Inscriptions.
Oracle Bone Inscriptions plays an extremely important role in the long development history of Chinese characters, and is well-deserved as the originator of modern Chinese characters. The germination of Chinese characters appeared in the carved symbols on pottery pieces in the late Neolithic period. However, although these carved characters have the embryonic form of characters, they are all simple symbols and words, and there is no complete system and law. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the earliest written language with a certain system and strict laws. According to the research, there are about 4,5 non-repetitive words and 1,7 recognized words in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and these words are not all the words used at that time. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is a valuable resource for studying ancient Chinese characters.
Third, economic value
First, "oracle calligraphy" is Oracle Bone Inscriptions's calligraphy art
The so-called "oracle calligraphy" generally has two meanings.
First, it refers to the calligraphy works that are neatly copied based on the font structure and calligraphy characteristics of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. This kind of works can collect ancient characters and combine them into new sentences as needed. The content is new, but the characters are as rich and elegant as those written by Yin people three thousand years ago.
Another meaning refers to the modern calligraphy works created by oneself with reference to Oracle Bone Inscriptions's characteristics. They regard Oracle Bone Inscriptions as a kind of inspiration, just a little inspiration in artistic creation, and not in the pursuit of "similarity". Therefore, they don't write strictly according to the characteristics of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's calligraphy, but they may create by combining the characteristics of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and Warring States scripts. Although such calligraphy art is related to ancient philology, it is not the same.
Second, the collection value of Oracle Bone Inscriptions
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