Shang Dynasty was the first dynasty with written records in China, and the inscriptions on Oracle bones carved on animal bones were the common characters of Shang Dynasty. The records of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jinwen are the earliest systematic written symbols in China. During the Shang Dynasty, there were also developed non-Central Plains civilizations in the Yangtze River Basin.

With meticulous observation and amazing imagination, people in Shang Dynasty transformed what they saw, did and felt in daily life into characters, which were engraved on tortoise shells and animal bones, which contained the main methods of word-making for future generations.

Shang Dynasty, the second dynasty in the history of China, is the first dynasty in China with direct written records of the same period. The Shang Dynasty experienced three major stages. The first stage is "first business"; The second stage is "early business"; The third stage is "Late Shang Dynasty", which was passed down from generation to generation17th generation 3 1 king, lasting for more than 500 years.

The Shang clan, the ancestor of Shang, is a tribe that rose in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. It is said that its ancestor Qi was at the same time as Yu. Shang Tang, the monarch of the Shang Kingdom in Xia Dynasty, led the kingdom to destroy Xia Hou in the battle of Mingtiao, and established the Shang Dynasty in Bo with "Shang" as the title. After that, the capital of Shang Dynasty moved frequently, and it was not until its descendant Pan Geng moved to Yin that the capital was established in Yin for 273 years, so Shang Dynasty was called Yin or Yin Shang by later generations.

After Pan Geng's death, his brother Xiaoxin succeeded him to the throne. After Xiao Xin's death, he passed on the emperor Xiao B. After Xiao Yi's death, his son Wu Ding succeeded him. During the fifty years of Wu Ding's rule, it was the most prosperous period of Shang Dynasty. Di Xin, the last monarch of Shang Dynasty, set himself on fire and died after being defeated by Zhou Wuwang in Makino War.

In Shang Dynasty, the system of succession to the throne, in the early stage, was brother and brother, and in the later stage, it was a typical succession of father and son. The Shang Dynasty was in the heyday of slavery, and the state power in the Tang Dynasty was initially established, and the social order of slavery was also stable. Slave owners and nobles are the ruling class, forming a huge bureaucracy and army. The records of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jinwen are the earliest systematic written symbols in China.