If drilling wood for fire marks that human beings bid farewell to the barbaric era of eating animals and drinking blood, then the appearance of words means that human beings have stepped out of the era of knotting ropes and remembering things. Oracle Bone Inscriptions's discovery is a beacon to illuminate Chinese civilization. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is not only a symbol of civilization and culture, but also confirms the authenticity of a series of documents including Historical Records, which has pushed forward the recorded history of Chinese civilization for nearly five centuries. Among the four ancient writing systems in the world, only the ancient writing system of China, represented by Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins, has written a profound history of Chinese civilization after thousands of years of evolution. At present, there are 4500 pieces of Oracle bones1.5000 words unearthed from Yin Ruins in Anyang, of which about1.5000 words have been released. For more than 3,000 years, Oracle Bone Inscriptions has experienced inscriptions and inscriptions, but the characters and basic grammar characterized by form, sound and meaning have been preserved to this day, becoming the square characters still used by one-fifth of the world's population today, which has had an important impact on the way of thinking and aesthetics of China people and laid the foundation for the emergence and development of China's calligraphy art. 。

Therefore, for the excavation of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and its related research, we can summarize the four meanings of Oracle Bone Inscriptions:

1 confirmed the existence of the early state merchant kingdom in China. Before the discovery of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins, people could only know that there was a Shang Dynasty in history from limited literature records, and these documents were not written by Shang Dynasty. The discovery of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins shows scholars a large number of words written and engraved by businessmen. Especially in 19 17, Wang Guowei wrote "Examination of the First Duke and the First King as Seen from the Oracle Inscriptions in Yin Ruins" and "Continued Examination", which proved that almost all the Yin lineages contained in Shiji Yinbenji and Shiben can be confirmed by Oracle Inscriptions and are basically reliable. Records of Historical Records were recorded in the order of D, C, and later copied by later generations. This famous paper irrefutably proves that the Shang Dynasty recorded in Yin Benji did exist. In view of the important position of Yin Shang civilization in the history of world civilization, this is not only a great event in the study of China history, but also a great event in the study of world history.

2. Wang Guowei used Oracle Bone Inscriptions to prove the historical value of Yin Benji, which enhanced the credibility of Historical Records and other historical documents about the ancient history of China, and its significance was not limited to Shang History, because this discovery prompted historians to think that since the Shang family in Yin Benji was basically credible, Sima Qian's Historical Records was indeed what Liu Xianghe said. Then the Xia Dynasty and the Xia Wangshi family recorded by Sima Qian in Xia Benji may not be fictional. Especially in the period when the ideological trend of doubting the ancient times prevailed in the 1920s, the data of Oracle Bone Inscriptions confirmed the reliability of the Yin and Shi Dynasties, and also freed historians from their confusion and restored their confidence in the reliability of the classic documents.

3. It triggered the excavation of Yin Ruins that shocked Chinese and foreign academic circles. The May 4th Movement brought about two major changes in China's historiography circle. First, the scientific attitude of seeking truth from facts is advocated, and ancient historians mercilessly criticize all old historiography that cannot stand the test of history. "It makes people feel that the scientific archaeological materials of ancient history in China are extremely poor". Secondly, historical materialism has had a great influence in the field of historiography. From 2008 to 0925, Wang Guowei taught the new evidence of ancient history at the Tsinghua Institute of Chinese Studies, and advocated the "double evidence law", which also made China historians pay attention to the new materials unearthed underground. These historical factors have played a catalytic role in the rise of modern archaeology in China 1000000605 The Institute of History and Language of the former Academia Sinica began to excavate the Yin Ruins, with the initial purpose of continuing to look for Oracle bones here. When Li Ji presided over the second excavation, he began to change from mainly looking for Oracle bones to scientifically excavating all the remains of the whole site, and realized that "all the materials buried artificially in the ground, whether it has words or not, can be used as materials for studying human history", and thus made great gains in the subsequent 14 excavation. Therefore, it can be said that,

4. It greatly promoted the reform of traditional philology in China. Oracle Bone Inscriptions's discovery provided the early form of Chinese characters, which was far from that of Xiao Zhuan. There were many pictographs and easy-to-understand characters, which opened the eyes of many scholars in modern times. Corrected the theoretical error of explaining the origin of Chinese characters according to Xiao Zhuan in Shuo Wen Jie Zi, and made people realize the true origin of Chinese characters.

5. It has greatly promoted the cultural exchange between China and foreign countries and the spread of China culture in the world. Since its discovery, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, with the efforts and pursuits of many scholars at home and abroad, has not only contributed to the development of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, but also greatly promoted the understanding of China's ancient civilization by people all over the world and promoted the spread of Chinese culture in the world.