The development of writing has its own temporal characteristics, and the things referred to by writing are also changing or disappearing. To crack oracle bone inscriptions, the first step is to understand the original meaning of the characters, which should correspond to later texts and also conform to historical reality. This requires scholars to have long-term training in ancient writing skills, as well as to be familiar with ancient books, in order to mutually verify the interpretation and transmission of historical documents. In addition, researchers also need to understand characters such as Jin script, Jian Du from the Warring States period, and even later characters such as Xiaozhuan and Lishu. These are all descendants of oracle bone script forms. Due to the lack of comprehensive and systematic oracle bone inscriptions, there are still significant difficulties in the overall research work.
Oracle bone script is the earliest mature writing system discovered in China to date, and it is the source of Chinese characters and the root of excellent traditional Chinese culture. It has been over 120 years since the first oracle bone inscription was discovered, and its discovery has epoch-making significance in the development history of Chinese civilization and even human civilization.
In the study of oracle bone inscriptions, interpretation and conjugation are recognized as key and difficult issues. With the development of the times, traditional research methods for oracle bone inscriptions have gradually encountered bottlenecks. In recent years, the development of big data and cloud computing has provided new paths and methods for Oracle research.
The promotion and application of new technologies such as big data, cloud platforms, and artificial intelligence in the field of Oracle research have further expanded the research space of Oracle.
