What is Oracle?

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an ancient script in China, which is also called "Wen Qi", "Oracle Bone Inscriptions", "Yin Ruins" or "tortoise shell and animal bones". Oracle Bone Inscriptions was discovered in Yin Ruins in Anyang City, Henan Province, China, and it is a cultural product of Shang Dynasty with a history of more than 3,600 years.

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Oracle Bone Inscriptions, named after being engraved on tortoise shell bones, has a symmetrical and stable pattern. Most people in Shang Dynasty were superstitious about ghosts and gods, and the contents of Oracle bone inscriptions were mostly the divination records of the royal family in Yin and Shang Dynasties, which could give us a little understanding of the life of Shang people. The three elements of calligraphy, namely, pen, writing and composition, can be regarded as more rigorous and systematic writing in Oracle Bone Inscriptions from the perspective of the number and structure of fonts.