What does the oracle bone text interpret? What does it mean to discover Oracle?

The discovery of the oracle bone inscription and the resulting excavation of Yin Ruins are of epoch-making significance to Chinese archaeology.

Prior to this, scholars only studied inscriptions and bronze inscriptions in their studies, and never went to the fields to investigate and excavate. Field archaeology in China began in 1921 with the excavation of the site of Yangshao Village in Mianchi County, Henan Province, and then began in 1927 with the early excavation of the Zhoukoudian ape-man site in Beijing. However, the excavation of these two places at that time was not undertaken by China's academic department alone, but was presided over by foreign scholars hired by the first foreign scholars at that time, or carried out by Chinese and foreign academic units in cooperation.

The field archaeology carried out independently by Chinese academic institutions began with the first excavation of Yin Ruins in 1928 by the archaeological team of the Institute of History and Philology of the ** Research Institute. It has played a fundamental role in the emergence and development of field archaeology in China. The vast majority of the older generation of archaeologists in China grew up on the archaeological site in Yinxu, and the new generation of archaeologists after the founding of the People's Republic of China was basically trained by them.

Therefore, it is well deserved to be called the birthplace of Chinese field archaeology.

Discovering Oracle can lead to a better understanding of history, reforms, and the realization of the dream of a prosperous country and a strong people. In addition, the study of oracle bone science is called oracle bone science, which began in the Yin Shang period. Since the oracle bone inscription records a lot of historical materials, it also increases the speed of our understanding of the duration of various dynasties and generations.

In general, oracle bones are carved into the bones of turtle shells (cruel but practical).

It is interpreted that people in ancient times already knew how to use pictographs, which means that so far China's writing first appeared with the Shang Dynasty.

It reads as follows

1. The improvement of Chinese cultural history is of great significance to the study of the formation and evolution of Chinese characters.

2. It is the best evidence of the history of Chinese business culture. The discovery of the Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscription shows the existence of the Shang Dynasty in the form of real characteristics, before the discovery of the oracle bone inscription, Westerners only recognized the Zhou Dynasty as the earliest dynasty in China, and the previous historical right should be a myth.

3. The information on the oracle bone inscription provides the most primitive and authentic current affairs and life of the Shang Dynasty for future generations.

4. The emergence of writing is one of the important symbols of the birth of civilization (the other two symbols are cities and countries), and the history of a nation can only be called the history of civilization after the appearance of writing, and it was called prehistoric society before. The oracle bone inscription is the oldest script in China, and its discovery has greatly advanced the beginning of the history of Chinese civilization.

Oracle bone inscription has an extremely important position in the long history of the development of Chinese characters, and it is well-deserved as the originator of modern Chinese characters. The germination of Chinese characters in China appeared in the carved symbols on pottery shards in the late Neolithic period.

The oracle bone inscription is a valuable resource for the study of paleographies. Chinese writing sprouted earlier, in the Neolithic Age Yangshao culture pottery, a variety of carved symbols were found, became the prototype of Chinese writing, after two or three thousand years of gestation, development, to the Shang Dynasty, Chinese writing reached the basic maturity stage.

The oracle bone inscription has a certain system and relatively strict rules, exquisite carving, rich content, and plays an important role in the study of ancient Chinese characters. In the past, paleographic research was mainly based on inscriptions on Shang and Zhou bronzes, such as Xu Shen's Shuowen Jie Zi in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The oracle bone inscription is 1500 years earlier than the "Shuowen Jiezi", and it is the first unearthed cultural relics excavated directly, with a higher degree of credibility, which is of great value for studying the origin and development of Chinese characters, correcting the negligence of "Shuowen Jiezi", and solving the unresolved problems in the bronze inscriptions.

1.Written records of history are pushed forward by thousands of years The oracle bone inscription is the earliest known systematic writing in China, and most of them are divination records of the Yin Shang royal family, which are rich.

2.Oracle bone inscriptions are valuable materials for the study of ancient characters Chinese writing sprouted earlier, and various kinds were found on the pottery of the Yangshao culture in the Neolithic Age.

The significance of the discovery of the oracle bone inscription is that it reflects the great importance that China attaches to the construction of a cultural power, and highlights the new situation of cultural prosperity and development in the new era.

The oracle bone inscription is one of the four ancient scripts in the world and has made great contributions to the process of civilization. The oracle bones of Yinxu discovered in 1899 are one of the "four major discoveries" of modern Chinese historical materials. In October 2018, the oracle bone inscription was included in the "List of Memories of the World Infiltration Section".

In recent years, the national social science major commissioned project "Research on the Interpretation of Oracle Bone Characters with the Support of Big Data and Cloud Platform" has been officially implemented, and the special work on the research and application of oracle bone inscriptions and other ancient characters led by the Ministry of Education and the State Language Commission has been launched.

In addition, the excavation of the oracle bone inscription proves that the Shang Dynasty did exist, and confirms the Chinese civilization for more than 3,000 years, which has an important archaeological role in the study of the history of the Shang Dynasty.

Who is the discovery of the oracle related to:

The discovery of the oracle bone inscription is related to the keel of traditional Chinese medicine. In the twenty-fifth year of Guangxu at the end of the Qing Dynasty (1899), Wang Yirong, a scholar of wine and gold and stone, went to the pharmacy to find a doctor to grab medicine because of illness, and the flavored medicine was called "keel". He stumbled upon some special symbols on the keel, and after some research, he recognized some ancient characters from the symbols engraved on the keel.

The keel thus became an important opportunity for the discovery of oracle bones, and oracle bones began to be valued by the world.

1. The oracle bone inscription was discovered in the 25th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, that is, the oracle bone inscription was first discovered in 1899.

2. After the discovery of the oracle bone inscription, goldsmiths, antique dealers, and people from other countries began to search for a large number of them. These non-scientific excavations often only take oracle bones, but ignore the burial of oracle bones, which greatly loses the value of the oracle bones. According to statistics, from 1889 to 1928, more than 100,000 oracle bones were unearthed by private excavations.

3. From the autumn of 1928 to the summer of 1937, due to the location of the oracle bones unearthed, when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, the archaeological group of the Institute of History and Philology of the ** Research Institute, under the auspices of the famous archaeologists Dong Zuobin, Li Ji, Liang Siyong and others, carried out 15 archaeological excavations in the area of Xiaotun Village for 10 years, and not only found a total of more than 24,900 oracle bones.

4. Moreover, the late Shang Dynasty Yunqiao Liang Palace, Zongmiao ruins and royal tomb area were discovered, and a large number of precious bronze, jade and pottery were unearthed, which provided evidence that Yinxu was the royal capital of the Shang Dynasty from the material culture. Yinxu has become a world-famous ancient cultural site, which once again shook the Chinese and foreign academic circles.

<> oracle, also known as"Deeds"、"Oracle Bone Divination", Yinxu text or"Tortoiseshell bones"。The oracle bone inscriptions recorded and reflected the political and economic conditions of the Shang Dynasty, mainly referring to the inscriptions on tortoise shells or animal bones used by the royal family in the late Shang Dynasty (14th and 11th centuries BC) in China for divination. After the fall of the Yin Shang dynasty and the rise of the Zhou Dynasty, the oracle bone inscription was also used for a period of time, which is an important material for studying the social history of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.