Characteristics of Oracle Bone Inscriptions

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is characterized by strong imagery, many strokes, thin lines and many strokes. Oracle Bone Inscriptions was carved with a knife. The knife was sharp and blunt, and the bone was thin and thick, hard and soft. Therefore, the strokes carved out were different in thickness, even as thin as hair, and the joints of the strokes were peeled off, thick and heavy.

There is no definite length or size in structure, or it is scattered and uneven; Or the dense layers are stacked, which is very neat and solemn, so it can show the infinite interest of simplicity and variety. Although the structure of Oracle Bone Inscriptions is different in size and complexity, it has a symmetrical and stable pattern. Therefore, some people think that China's calligraphy, strictly speaking, began in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, because Oracle Bone Inscriptions has prepared three elements of calligraphy, namely, using a pen, binding words and composing a composition.