What is the significance of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's discovery?

1. Perfecting the cultural history of China is of great significance for studying the formation and evolution of Chinese characters.

This is the best evidence of China's commercial and cultural history. The discovery of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty shows the existence of Shang Dynasty in concrete form. Before the discovery of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, westerners only recognized the Zhou Dynasty as the earliest dynasty in China, and all previous historical rights were regarded as myths.

3. The information in Oracle Bone Inscriptions provided the most primitive and authentic current affairs and life of Shang Dynasty for later generations. ?

4. The appearance of characters is one of the important symbols of the birth of civilization (the other two symbols are cities and countries). The history of a nation can only be called the history of civilization after the appearance of words, which was previously called prehistoric society. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the oldest writing in China, and its discovery greatly advanced the beginning of the history of China civilization.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions plays an extremely important role in the long development history of Chinese characters, and is a well-deserved originator of modern Chinese characters. The germination of Chinese characters appeared in the carved symbols on pottery in the late Neolithic period.

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Oracle Bone Inscriptions is a valuable resource for studying ancient Chinese characters. China's writing sprouted earlier. In the Neolithic pottery of Yangshao culture, various carving symbols were found, which became the embryonic form of China characters. After two or three thousand years of gestation and development, China's writing reached a basic mature stage in Shang Dynasty.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions has a certain system, strict laws, exquisite descriptions and rich contents, which plays an important role in the study of ancient Chinese characters in China. In the past, the study of ancient Chinese characters was mainly based on inscriptions on Shang and Zhou bronzes, such as Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is 1500 years earlier than Shuo Wen Jie Zi, and it comes from the unearthed cultural relics directly excavated, so it has high credibility, which is of great value for studying the origin and development of Chinese characters, correcting the mistakes in Shuo Wen Jie Zi and solving the outstanding problems in bronze inscriptions.

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