If drilling wood for fire marks that human beings bid farewell to the barbaric era of eating animals and drinking blood, then the appearance of words means that human beings have stepped out of the era of tying ropes and keeping records. Oracle Bone Inscriptions's discovery is a beacon to illuminate Chinese civilization. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is not only a symbol of civilization and culture, but also confirms the authenticity of a series of documents including Historical Records, which has pushed forward the recorded history of Chinese civilization for nearly five centuries.
Among the four ancient writing systems in the world, only the ancient writing system of China, represented by Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins, has written a profound history of Chinese civilization after thousands of years. At present, there are 4500 pieces of Oracle bones 150000 unearthed from Yin Ruins in Anyang, of which about 1500 words have been released.
Over the past 3000 years, although Oracle Bone Inscriptions has undergone changes in different writing forms, such as inscriptions on bronze, seal script, official script and regular script, the characters and basic grammar with the characteristics of form, sound and meaning have been preserved to this day, becoming the square characters still used by one fifth of the world's population today, which has had an important impact on the way of thinking and aesthetics of China people and laid the foundation for the emergence and development of China's calligraphy art.
Oracle Bone Inscriptions has the dual nature of application and art, which has laid a solid foundation for China's calligraphy. Because Oracle Bone Inscriptions used Liu Chengying's hard face, his face was small and blunt, his bones were thin and thick, and his bones were hard and soft, so his strokes were different in thickness, and some were even as thin as hair, peeling off at joints, thick and heavy. Structurally, the length and size are not necessarily the same, or the dispersion is uneven; Or the dense layers are stacked, which is very neat and solemn, so it can show the infinite interest of simplicity and variety.