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China is a country with a long history of 5,000 years. In this ancient and magical land, the intelligent, hardworking and intelligent Chinese nation has created splendid civilization and splendid culture, among which Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the treasure of Chinese civilization and traditional culture. Oracle Bone Inscriptions refers to the characters carved on tortoise shells and animal bones in ancient Shang Dynasty in China, which are mostly related to divination. So it is also called "Oracle Bone Inscriptions" or "Tortoise Shell". Oracle Bone Inscriptions was first discovered in Xiaotun Village, Anyang, Henan Province. This is a relic of Shang King Pan Geng, who moved to Yin and went to Zhou Wang. It has been more than 3000 years since then, and the number of Oracle bones unearthed so far has reached 654.38+0.5 million. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the earliest readable writing found in China so far. At present, * * * has found about 4500 words. The knower is nearly 2000 words. The contents recorded by Oracle Bone Inscriptions are extremely rich, including not only politics, economy, military affairs and culture, but also astronomy, calendar, medicine and other science and technology. Known as the earliest "archives" in ancient China. Judging from the writing structure, Oracle Bone Inscriptions not only has the characteristics of modern Chinese characters, but also conforms to the theory of "Six Books" of Chinese characters. Moreover, from the inscriptions on bronze in Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Zhou Dynasty, to the big seal script and small seal script in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, to the official script in Han and Wei Dynasties, and later the running script and regular script, its evolution track is clearly visible. As the originator of Chinese characters in China, Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the root of traditional culture in China, a treasure of human culture and occupies a very important position in the world cultural treasure house. In order to promote the cultural exchange between China and Japan, the "Origin of Japanese Ancient Characters-Oracle Bone Inscriptions Calligraphy Exhibition" jointly sponsored by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, China Yin Shang Culture Society and Japan Beizhi Seal Carving Association was recently held at the China National Museum in Beijing. The theme of this exhibition is Oracle Bone Inscriptions, a treasure in Chinese character culture. More than 2 10 pictures of oracle calligraphy, seal cutting and archaeological excavations created by experts, scholars and calligraphers in ancient Chinese and Japanese. Ancient scholars in China, Taiwan Province Province, also expressed great interest in this and created some calligraphy works to participate in the exhibition. Among them, Mr. Kitamura Nanyuan, president of the Japanese calligraphy and seal cutting artist Kitamura Seal Cutting Association, has 85 pieces of calligraphy and seal cutting works, 85 pieces of oracle calligraphy seal cutting works, and about 100 pieces of works by Oracle Bone Inscriptions scholars and calligraphers in China (including Taiwan Province Province). The purpose of the exhibition is to let more people know about the ancient and splendid cultures of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and China, so as to win more people's love and concern for Japanese art, further strengthen cultural exchanges between China and Japan, and promote friendship between the two peoples for generations.