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= **Orace bone script** = **Back to Teaching Technology** China is the only country in the world with a literature written in one language for more than 3,000 years. We can say that Chinese literature is one of the oldest in the world.

The oldest __Chinese characters__ [1]were found on __oracle bones__[2], which were animal bones or turtle used in divination in Bronze Age China. Those characters we called **Orace bone script ** or literally “shell bone writing”. Actually, those characters are more like symbols and hard to understand.

Look, these Oracle bone scripts are more like symbols !!! [] []

The animals in Orace bone script writing style. Can you imange what are they means? The first row: mouse, cow, tiger, rabbet The second row: dragon, snake, horse, sheep The third row: monkey, chicken, dog, pic []

Those old Chinese characters were carved on the bones with knife (made with bronze) and only a few characters can be showed on each shell bone.





Very few oracle bone writings date to the beginning of the subsequent __Zhou Dynasty__ [3], because pyromancy fell from favor and divining with milfoil became more common. media type="youtube" key="Mq_xkAorcHc" width="425" height="350" align="center"

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