Types of Oracle Bone Script

1. Oracle Bone Script is an ancient Chinese script, also known as Qiwen, Oracle Bone Divination Rhetoric, Yinxu Script, or Tortoise Shell and Animal Bone Script, and is the earliest matured Chinese character that we can see. It mainly refers to the royal family of the late Shang Dynasty of China used for divination and record-keeping, and in the tortoise shell or animal bones carved on the deed, is the earliest known system in China and East Asia, a carrier of the Shang Dynasty script.

2. Oracle bone script is an ancient Chinese script, an early form of the Chinese character, sometimes considered one of the calligraphic styles of the Chinese character, and the oldest surviving mature script from the dynastic period of China. It is also known as "oracle bone writing", "oracle bone divination", or "tortoise shell and animal bone writing".

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The oracle bone inscriptions recorded and reflected the political and economic situation of the Shang Dynasty, and mainly referred to the inscriptions on tortoise shells or animal bones that were used by the royal family of the late Shang Dynasty (14th to 11th centuries before the Shang Dynasty) in China for the purpose of divination.

After the fall of the Shang and the rise of the Zhou Dynasty, oracle bone inscriptions were still in use for a period of time, and they are the earliest known form of systematic writing in China, which inherited the primitive inscribed symbols from the original, and initiated the bronze inscriptions from the next, which is a key form of development of Chinese characters, and is known as the "earliest Chinese characters". Modern Chinese characters evolved from oracle bone inscriptions.