Oracle bone inscriptions are a font style in ancient my country. Our country’s fonts are all developed from oracle bone inscriptions. It has made an important contribution to the development of Chinese characters. Nowadays, Oracle's calligraphy works have very high artistic characteristics and charm. Below are high-definition pictures of classic oracle bone calligraphy works that I compiled. Unique pictures of oracle bone calligraphy
Oracle bone inscriptions are also called "deed inscriptions", "oracle bone inscriptions", Yinxu inscriptions or "tortoise shell and animal bone inscriptions". It is an ancient Chinese script, an early form of Chinese characters, and is sometimes considered one of the calligraphy styles of Chinese characters. It is also the oldest mature script from the Chinese dynasty period. Oracle bone inscriptions record and reflect the political and economic conditions of the Shang Dynasty. They mainly refer to the words engraved on tortoise shells or animal bones used by the royal family in the late Shang Dynasty (14th to 11th centuries BC) for divination and good or bad events. The content is generally about divination. The thing asked or the result obtained. The physical structure of oracle bone inscriptions has become independent and tends to be integrated, and a large number of pictophonetic characters have appeared. It is already a quite mature writing form and is the earliest known systematic writing form in China. It inherits the original carved symbols at the top and bronze inscriptions at the bottom. It is a key form in the development of Chinese characters and is called the "earliest Chinese character". Modern Chinese characters evolved from oracle bone inscriptions.
Appreciation of excellent oracle bone calligraphy works
Oracle bone inscriptions are an ancient Chinese writing. It is considered an early form of modern Chinese characters and is sometimes considered one of the calligraphy styles of Chinese characters. It is also the oldest mature script in China. Oracle bone inscriptions are also called deed inscriptions, tortoise shell inscriptions or tortoise shell and animal bone inscriptions. Oracle bone inscriptions are a very important ancient Chinese character material. Most of the oracle bone inscriptions were found in the Yin Ruins. Yin Ruins is a famous site from the Yin and Shang Dynasties, covering Xiaotun Village, Huayuanzhuang, Houjiazhuang and other places in the northwest of Anyang City, Henan Province. This place was once the location of the capital of the Central Dynasty in the late Yin and Shang Dynasties, so it is called Yin Ruins. These oracle bones are basically divination records of the rulers of the Shang Dynasty.
Existing discoveries of oracle bones
As of 2012, approximately 150,000 pieces have been found Oracle bones, more than 4,500 words. The contents recorded in these oracle bone inscriptions are extremely rich and involve many aspects of social life in the Shang Dynasty, including not only politics, military, culture, social customs, etc., but also science and technology such as astronomy, calendar, medicine, etc. Judging from the approximately 2,500 single characters that have been identified in oracle bone inscriptions, it already possesses the character creation methods of "pictogram, meaning, pictophonetic, referring to things, transfer, and pretense", showing the unique charm of Chinese characters. Documents based on tortoise shells and animal bones from China's Shang Dynasty and early Western Zhou Dynasty (approximately 16th century BC to 10th century BC). It is the earliest known form of Chinese literature. The characters engraved on oracle bones were previously called deeds, oracle bone inscriptions, oracle inscriptions, tortoise edition inscriptions, Yinxu inscriptions, etc., and are now commonly known as oracle bone inscriptions.
Due to superstition, the emperors of the Shang and Zhou dynasties used tortoise shells (the most common ones were tortoise shells) or animal bones (the most common ones were ox shoulder blades) for divination. The fortune teller, the content of the divination, the results of the omens, the verification situation, etc.) were engraved on the oracle bones and kept as archival materials by the royal historian (see the oracle bone archives). In addition to the inscriptions on divination, there are also a few inscriptions on oracle bones to record events. The contents of the oracle bone documents include astronomy, calendar, meteorology, geography, country, lineage, family, characters, officials, conquests, prisons, agriculture, animal husbandry, hunting, transportation, religion, sacrifices, diseases, fertility, humanities, and disasters. ...It is extremely precious first-hand information for studying the social history, culture, language and characters of ancient China, especially the Shang Dynasty.