甲骨文的发现（Discovery of Oracle Bones）.doc

甲骨文的发现（Discovery of Oracle Bones） From the turtle The underground city, like many other relics unearthed in Anyang, was rediscovered by the power of written records. Since twentieth Century, Anyang has become the most detailed and thorough excavation area in China, and all unearthed cultural relics can be traced back to Oracles times. Many generations of Chinese, archaeologists with maps and peasants with Luoyang shovels, all came here to look for the oldest text known in East asia. The search begins with a disaster: a weak man, a weak country. In 1899, a relative in Beijing, Wang Yirong, contracted malaria, and the doctor prescribed a prescription for Chinese medicine, one of which was a decayed turtle shell. He bought an old turtles shell from the local prescription. Before grinding it to make medicine, someone noticed that there were some symbols on the turtle shell, which looked like ancient Chinese characters. People took the turtle shell and showed it to Wang Yirong. Wang Yirong is the Qing government officials, college Jijiu (Note: the highest institution of the principal), experts also study on ancient bronzes inscription. He began to study the turtle shell, and then went to the drugstore and bought the other turtle shells. Many historians now believe that the malaria story is not credible and that they are arguing over the exact date of Oracle discovery. However, Wang Yirong is the first serious collection of lettering tortoise shell, there is no dispute. He is also in the Beijing Chinese pharmacy buy the tortoise shell was also called the keel. Scholars at this time began to call them oracle bones, meaning carved in the shell and bones above the text.. The timing of Oracles discovery was unfortunate. They appear at the end of nineteenth Century, when the Opium War has ended, China Qing Empire was at the edge of a step by step to fall apart, the collapse of northern Burma and Kowloon East was ceded to Britain, and Enron (Note: are located in the territory o