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How to write oracle bone script from characters can be referred to as follows:

The left side is the gold text and the right side is the oracle bone script.

Oracle Bone Script is also known as "Qiwen", "Oracle Bone Rhetoric", "Yinxu Script" or "Tortoise and Animal Bone Script".

Another name for the text is "qi".

The history of oracle bone writing can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty, is the late Shang Dynasty in China, the royal family used for divination and remembering things in the tortoise shell or animal bone carved on the text, the earliest by the villagers of Xiaotun Village in Anyang, Henan Province to find, when the villagers do not know this is an ancient relics, only as a cure for all diseases of the medicinal herbs, "Dragon Bone" to use, ground into powder, a waste of many valuable cultural relics. Many extremely valuable cultural relics.

The oracle bone script is the earliest mature writing system found in China so far, and it is the source of Chinese characters and the root of China's excellent traditional culture. The oracle bone script was first discovered in 1899 by Wang Yirong, a late Qing Dynasty official and jinshi scholar, who happened to find it on an oracle bone from Anyang, Henan Province. The oracle bone inscriptions, about 4,000 single characters, reflect the basic composition of the writing symbol system, indicating that the Chinese characters represented by the oracle bones in the late Yin and Shang dynasties had basically established a way of constructing their forms, and that the system of constructing their forms had gradually developed and matured.

In October 2017, oracle bone inscriptions were selected for the Memory of the World Register, and as of November 2022, the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions in China totaled about 150,000 pieces, with more than 35,000 pieces having been scientifically and archaeologically excavated, and the number of single characters has exceeded about 4,000 characters.

Benefits of Oracle Bone Script

1. Historical value: Oracle Bone Script is one of the earliest known forms of writing in China, recording important historical and cultural information from the late Shang and early Zhou dynasties. Through the study of oracle bones, we can gain an in-depth understanding of the systems, religious beliefs, political activities and economic conditions of ancient societies, which is of great value and significance to the study of ancient history.

2. Cultural heritage: Oracle is one of the precious heritages of Chinese culture. It carries the treasures of ancient wisdom and civilization and represents the origin and development of ancient Chinese writing. Through the protection and inheritance of oracle bone inscriptions, we can better understand and appreciate the profundity of Chinese culture.

3, archaeological value: the oracle bone inscriptions of the excavated artifacts is an important object of archaeological research. From the inscriptions and contents of the oracle bones, we can infer the lifestyle, way of thinking and cultural characteristics of ancient societies, which provides important clues and evidence for archaeologists and promotes the study and understanding of ancient civilizations.