HISTORY
ANCIENT CHINA
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Papyrus
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Clay Tablet
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Bamboo Sticks
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Ox Bone
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. Oracle bone script was used in the late 2nd millennium BC, and is the earliest known form of Chinese writing.
Detailed explanation-2: -Archaeologists soon realized that these texts were records of divinations from the late Shang dynasty (circa 1250–1046 BCE), about 3, 000 years ago: Prayers would be written on a piece of bone, usually from a turtle or cow, and then burned to see how the bone cracked.
Detailed explanation-3: -Chinese ancient scripts include oracle bone inscriptions or Jiagu wenzi, large-seal script, known as dazhuan, small-seal script, and clerical script or lishu. There are two main characters in ancient Chinese writing: unit characters and compound characters. Shang’s writing system was logographic.