WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A fortune-teller would carve (later, paint) symbols on the bones of the ox or the turtle shell, apply a hot poker or fire until the bone or shell cracked, and then interpret the direction of the crack through their drawing to predict the future.

Detailed explanation-2: -Oracle Bones are animal bones that were used for divination (predicting the future) by people from the Shang Dynasty. People carved these bones with questions about the future and the cracks that formed on the bones after they had been heated would give them an answer, called a “prophesy”.

Detailed explanation-3: -Oracle bones were used in a process of divination. Diviners engraved questions on the bones, drilled holes in a particular sequence, then subjected the bones to heat until cracks appeared. They interpreted the cracks to determine the oracle’s answer to the question.

Detailed explanation-4: -Oracle bone script (Chinese: ; pinyin: jiǎgǔwén) is an ancient form of Chinese characters that were engraved on oracle bones-animal bones or turtle plastrons used in pyromantic divination.