Our newspaper, Beijing, April 6 (Reporter Chen Xue) The Chinese Bookstore Gulian Company recently released the "Yin Ruins Oracle Bone Inscription Database". The problem of scattered oracle bone results.
Oracle bone inscriptions are the oldest written text in my country so far.
The oracle bones are relics used by Yin people for divination, and their contents cover a wide range of meteorological, agricultural, political, military and daily life aspects at that time. They are of great archaeological value and can be called treasures of Chinese civilization.
Since the late Qing Dynasty, the excavation, sorting and research of oracle bones have gradually been carried out, and it has been spectacular so far, providing us with the most direct historical data for understanding the social history of the Shang Dynasty and the origin and development of Chinese characters.
The "Yin Ruins Oracle Bone Inscription Database" systematically compiles and publishes the previous research results of oracle bones in a digital form.
"Yin Ruins Oracle Bone Inscription Database" is a special database of oracle bone inscriptions jointly developed by Zhonghua Bookstore Gulian Company and Professor Chen Nianfu of Zhejiang Normal University.
The database is supplemented and revised on the basis of Professor Chen Nianfu's oracle bone inscriptions.
The whole database contains 59,591 oracle bones and 143,856 inscriptions, with reference to dozens of oracle bone inscriptions at home and abroad.
On this basis, the achievements of the academic community on oracle-bone conjugation over the years are sorted out, which makes the content of the library more complete and comprehensive.
The oracle bone script database specially developed by the database also allows the oracle bone script copying results to be presented to the readers in a digital form.
It is reported that the database is also accompanied by Professor Chen Nianfu's important research results - Oracle Bone Online Dictionary.
The dictionary comprehensively displays the prefixes, pronunciations, glyphs, solutions and definitions of oracle bone script, including about 3900 prefixes and 6700 prefixes.
It can not only realize the lookup of a single character, but also read the interpretation content of the oracle bone inscriptions containing the character.
On the one hand, it provides reference materials for the interpretation of oracle bone inscriptions; on the other hand, it also provides convenient service tools for relevant practitioners in the field of literature and history to use oracle bone inscriptions resources.