What is a stone rubbings?

Written or engraved on the abdomen, carapace and scapula of tortoise shell.

The time was between Pan Geng and Di Xin (BC 140 1 BC 1 122), and the contents were mostly notes of the Yin king's sacrifice, hunting, begging for rain and fortune telling. Yin people advocate ghosts and gods, and always use Oracle Bone Inscriptions for divination. They wrote Oracle Bone Inscriptions in tortoise shell bones, deified related events, and then carved notes.

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Writing is the carrier of a national civilization. China's Oracle Bone Inscriptions has the same status as ancient Egyptian papyrus script, Babylonian clay script and American Indian Maya script, and is called the four ancient Chinese characters in the world. But the development of the other three languages has been interrupted. Only Oracle Bone Inscriptions has developed.

Among the nearly 5000 Oracle inscriptions found, about 1500 words can be explained; There are many local names, names and surnames in the remaining 3,000-odd words, whose meanings are recognizable but whose sounds are unreadable; There are still many words that are no longer used in later generations, which brings great difficulties to correct interpretation and research. Some experts believe that because the application scope of Oracle bone inscriptions for the people is not equal to the amount of words used in society, there may be more words actually existing in the Shang Dynasty.

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