Inscription refers to the ancient people who cast inscriptions on bronze ritual vessels to remember the reasons for the casting vessels, the figures to commemorate or sacrifice, etc. Later, it refers to the words specially left on various utensils to record the time, place, craftsman's name, workshop name, etc. As a business skill, inscriptions appear in the online game World of Warcraft.

Refers to the words carved on things such as stones. It has the nature of praise and warning, and uses rhyme.

The performance of Feng Shiwen's Poems in the Tang Dynasty is: "If there is a virtue, it is an inscription. According to this, Shi Zhi has existed since Song Qi. " Ye Qingting Yi's "Blowing the Net Record and Ode to the Ming Dynasty": "There are fifteen lines of inscriptions and 152 words of ancient seals." Hua Yao's later catalogue: "The inscription is the oldest, as the old history says, it started with the Yellow Emperor.

The emergence and development of inscriptions are closely related not only to the emergence and development of characters, but also to the progress of bronze casting technology. China characters were produced in the late Xia Dynasty, but there were no inscriptions at this time. Many bronzes without inscriptions have also been unearthed in the ruins and tombs of Erligang site and Panlongcheng tomb at the same time. This may be the reason why China characters are still in the early stage and the bronze casting technology is still primitive.

The inscription was carved in ink and then turned over and cast. Because of the exquisite casting technology of bronze wares in Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the inscription handwriting can generally reflect the brushwork of ink calligraphy to a certain extent, so the calligraphy style evolution and calligraphy art of bronze inscriptions we are talking about is actually the calligraphy style evolution and calligraphy art of ink calligraphy in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Generally speaking, the development of Chinese bronze inscriptions has experienced three periods: simple inscriptions, long inscriptions and decline.

The content of inscriptions on Shang bronzes is also relatively simple, and generally does not contain important significance. The purpose of casting inscriptions is mainly to mark the owner's surname. The name, purpose and place of use of utensils are generally cast in inconspicuous places. For example, "Ge", "Tian" and "Yu Zi" are the clans or casters who mark the casters; "Father B" and "Mother C" are symbols made to sacrifice father B or mother C; The "bedroom bowl" is used to identify the storage place and the use place.