The story of Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

1, the Oracle bone inscriptions are the kings of the late Qing Dynasty.

He is a celebrity. He was not only an academician in the late Qing Dynasty, a traveler in the southern study room, and a wine offering ceremony in imperial academy, but also a famous scholar in ancient Chinese philology and epigraphy. He has an in-depth study of the inscriptions on ancient Yi vessels. Therefore, when he saw that there was no "keel" on the ground in the Chinese medicine bought for him from Darentang drugstore, he felt sensitively that this was by no means an ordinary Chinese medicine.

He not only invested in the acquisition of all the keels of Darentang Pharmacy, but also sent people to look for them everywhere, and soon collected 1500 pieces of Oracle bones engraved with ancient Chinese characters. Thanks to Wang's generosity, he accepted Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which suddenly doubled the value of this Chinese herbal medicine and turned it into a very important cultural relic. Many people also think that the acquisition of "keel" is a huge business opportunity to get rich.

2. In the autumn of the 25th year of Guangxu (A.D. 1899), he was appointed as the king of imperial academy's wine offering ceremony (1845- 1900) and got malaria. I sent someone to Darentang, a food market outside Xuanwu Gate, to buy a dose of Chinese medicine. Some symbols that Wang accidentally saw were carved on the keel called in Chinese medicine. Keels are the bones of ancient vertebrates. How can there be carved symbols hundreds of thousands of years ago on this bone? This aroused his curiosity. Wang, who is famous for studying ancient stone carvings, carefully studied and found that this is not an ordinary notch, but it looks like ancient Chinese characters, but the shape is not seal (big seal) or seal (small seal).

In order to find more keels for in-depth study, he sent someone to Darentang to buy all the carved keels in the drugstore at a high price of two taels of silver each. Later, it was searched by antique dealer Fan and others, and accumulated more than 500 pieces of/kloc-0.

Extended data

Oracle Bone Inscriptions was discovered and valued in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty (1875- 1908). At present, it has been concluded that Wang was the first person who China discovered Oracle Bone Inscriptions and realized the academic value of Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

Wang (1845- 1900) is a famous epigraphist, collector, connoisseur and calligrapher in modern times. Wang was a scholar in Guangxu period and an official who toasted imperial academy. After Eight-Nation Alliance went to Beijing, Wang, then a minister, threw his wife and daughter-in-law into the well to show his ambition.

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