How did Oracle Bone Inscriptions come into being?

The earliest common characters in China were Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jinwen in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the earliest written language in China that can be verified so far. At that time, it was a slave society with underdeveloped science and culture. The rulers were superstitious about ghosts and gods, believing that ghosts and gods could predict the future and decide people's life and death. Therefore, whether it is sacrifice, war, access, harvest, disease, childbirth, etc. In order to protect them, we must ask ghosts and gods in advance. The method of divination is to drill two small holes in the scapula of tortoise shells or other animals with sharp tools, and then burn them with fire, so that there will be criss-crossing cracks, which is called divination. Wizards judge good or bad according to omens.

After divination, all the questions asked and whether the results will come true in the future are engraved on the Oracle bones. These words carved on tortoise shells and animal bones are called "Oracle Bone Inscriptions" by later generations. Because it is divination, Oracle Bone Inscriptions is also called Oracle Bone Inscriptions. A large number of Oracle Bone Inscriptions were unearthed in Yin Ruins, which made us understand the cultural features of that era. Oracle Bone Inscriptions was mature and beautifully depicted, and later China's calligraphy took this as the source and evolved into a system. Therefore, Oracle Bone Inscriptions is known as the ancestor of China's calligraphy, which has a far-reaching influence on later generations and is invaluable.