Archaeologists have discovered a large number of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Xiaotun Village, Anyang, which shows that the characters in Yin and Shang Dynasties were fully and widely used and developed more maturely. The structure of Chinese characters has basically taken shape in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Through the study of Oracle bone inscriptions, later generations have a more detailed and reliable understanding of the Shang Dynasty. In Shang Dynasty, there were many word-formation methods in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, such as pictographic characters, knowing characters, pictophonetic characters, metonymic characters, and signifier characters. And it is already a mature writing. Among the unearthed Oracle Bone Inscriptions, 4,672 words have been found, and scholars have known 1072 words.
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Oracle Bone Inscriptions, named after being engraved on tortoise shell bones, is a book trace circulated in Shang Dynasty. The content is an Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which records the 270-year migration from Pan Geng to Zhou Wang, and is the earliest book trace. Yin merchants have three characteristics, namely, believing in history, drinking alcohol and worshiping ghosts and gods; Because of this, these tortoise shells, which decided many things such as fishing, conquest and agriculture, can be rediscovered in later generations and become important materials for studying China characters. In Shang dynasty, the pen and ink were excellent, and the calligraphy was thin and sharp because of engraving, which had the interest of a blade. Influenced by the rise and fall of writing style, it can be divided into five periods, which are introduced below. In the late Shang Dynasty, he moved from Pan Geng to Shang Zhouwang, which lasted about 273 years and experienced the eighth generation 12 kings.
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