Tsinghua University Releases the Series of Oracle Inscriptions

2022-12-20

After ten years of sharpening the sword, a comprehensive work of oracle bone inscriptions was published. The Center for Research and Protection of Unearthed Documents of Tsinghua University recently released a new book, "The Great Series of Oracle Bone Inscriptions" (hereinafter referred to as "the Great Series"). This book contains 70659 pieces of oracle bones, which is the largest large-scale oracle bone description book at present. It will bring great convenience for researchers to do a better job in the classification and staging research of oracle words, text interpretation and research on the history of oracle bone business. "Da Series" is the first comprehensive compilation of oracle bone inscriptions in the form of a copy according to new theories and methods. It has compiled more than 70000 pieces of oracle bone inscriptions with characters that were originally "jumbled and disordered" into orderly scientific materials. The book has 43 volumes in total, consisting of three parts, namely, "Plate", "Interpretation" and "Index". It is published in the eighth edition. It is reported that from 2012 to 2022, Professor Huang Tianshu of the Center for Research and Protection of Unearthed Documents of Tsinghua University led his oracle bone team to compile the Department, which took ten years to complete through the selection of Liangtuo, elimination of fake films, deletion of duplicate films, conjugated fragments, classification and dating, making copies, writing explanations, and indexing. Compared with the collection of oracle bone inscriptions and other bibliographic books, Daji adopts the new theory of "two series" instead of the old theory of "five periods", and arranges more than 70000 pieces of oracle bone materials, creating a new paradigm for the compilation of oracle bone bibliographic books. "Dong Zuobin said that it is of far-reaching significance to break through the Hongmeng Dynasty when he founded the Five Periods. However, its disadvantage is that the classification of oracle bone fonts and the presumption of royal age are mixed together. Today, oracle bone scholars have realized that the classification of oracle bone fonts and dating are two different steps. We should first classify oracle words into several categories according to font characteristics, and then determine the age of each category. This is a major breakthrough in the theory and research methods of oracle bone dating." Introduction to Huang Tianshu. The Great Series also meticulously made copies of each version of oracle bones. As precious cultural relics, oracle bones are difficult for scholars to access real objects. Therefore, the study of oracle bone inscriptions is mainly based on rubbings, photos and copies published in oracle bone description books. These three types of plates have their own advantages and disadvantages, and can learn from each other. High quality copy of oracle bone can display various oracle bone information stereoscopically, providing reference for beginners of oracle bone. In addition, Das Serie also marked the font category of each edition of Jiagu with characters. According to Huang Tianshu, the oracle bone inscriptions in Yin Ruins are the earliest ancient Chinese materials. However, the prerequisite for oracle bone inscriptions to be used as language materials is to determine their age. Otherwise, more than 100000 pieces of oracle bones are still a pile of "ragged newspapers", lacking scientific value. "The determination of the typeface category means that the age of this version of oracle bones has been presumed, which greatly increases the research value as historical materials." Over the past 20 years, there has been an endless stream of synthetic fruits of oracle bones, with more than 3000 groups of newly assembled oracle bones. Some of them were extremely important, and restored new materials that had never been seen before, which greatly enriched the academic circles' understanding of the Yin Shang society. However, the team members found that these achievements were scattered in various monographs, publications and academic websites of bone and nail conjugation, which was not convenient for application. "The Department of Sciences includes all the achievements made before December 2020, saving the pain of scholars' review. We also write explanations and compile indexes. If the readers

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