Up to now, the earliest source of Chinese characters found in China archaeology is

The earliest Chinese character in China is Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the earliest known systematic writing form in China, and it is one of the four ancient Chinese characters in the world.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions, also known as "Wen Qi", "Oracle bones", "Yin ruins" or "tortoise shell and beast bones", is the earliest mature writing system discovered in China so far, the source of Chinese characters and the root vein of Chinese excellent traditional culture. The remains of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the early Shang Dynasty were mainly found in Zhengzhou Mall, and the Yin Ruins in Anyang were the representative in the late Shang Dynasty.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the most important writing in the late Shang Dynasty. Archaeological findings show that there are a large number of Oracle bones here, with more than100000 pieces. The content is mainly the divination records of the Shang royal family, and it can also be seen that the clan emblems of many national tribes are named. Oracle Bone Inscriptions has about 4,000 words, which reflects the basic composition of the writing symbol system.

Compared with the stereotyped symbol system of ancient Chinese characters established in Shuo Wen Jie Zi, Oracle Bone Inscriptions has many types of Chinese character configurations, including pictographic, signifier, knowing, pictophonetic and phonological forms in the traditional six books, which indicates that in the late Shang Dynasty, the Chinese character represented by Oracle Bone Inscriptions has basically established its configuration mode, and the configuration system has gradually matured.

It can be seen from the aspects of font composition, symbolic degree, writing form and function. Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the late Shang Dynasty is a character symbol system with long development time, mature structure and complete functions, and it is a systematic and complete character sample that can determine the maturity of Chinese characters.

Birth background:

From state affairs to private life, sacrifices, climate, harvest, conquest, wild hunting, sick people, childbirth, going out, etc., all require God's advice to know that good or bad luck has decided to stop. As a result, divination became a major event in the political life of the country, and the court set up special institutions and divination officials.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions with inscriptions is preserved as a national archive and piled in caves. Therefore, Oracle Bone Inscriptions became the first-hand material to study the history of Shang Dynasty, reflecting all aspects of social life from BC 1300 to BC 1000.

Shang rulers are very superstitious about whether there will be disaster, rain, harvest and win the war in ten days.

Which ghosts and gods should be sacrificed, so that things such as fertility, disease and dreaming can be divined to understand the will of ghosts and gods and the quality of things. The materials used for divination are mainly tortoise's bellybutton, carapace and cattle's scapula.