A Study On The Treatment Of Oracle Bones After Being Used In Shang Dynasty

The oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty after divination are called the oracle bones,which refer to the oracle bones after rectification,burning on the back side and showing signs on the front side,and then performing divination and inscribing.The oracle bones include the oracle bones without characters and the oracle bones with characters.The oracle bones without characters refers to the oracle bones without inscriptions,but the oracle bones have signs of burning.In the Shang Dynasty,the oracle bones after divination needed to be treated,which was called the oracle bones after divination.Since the treatment of oracle bone divination represented the end of the whole process of oracle bone divination,the Shang Dynasty attached great importance to the treatment of oracle bone divination.First of all,the oracle divination in the Shang Dynasty was an orderly process.Under each step of divination,there were divination organizations with many officials in charge of different affairs to ensure the smooth progress of divination.By shang dynasty oracle bone divination process selection,tapping,drilling,burning and books related to bligh official records,analysis is put forward in the shang dynasty oracle bligh post-processing on the one hand,also have set up special processing after the Yin dynasty,the official name its official named "officer",and according to the different processing tasks,the main responsibility as the following three aspects: one,archives,the collection;Drilling and compilation;Three,transport,bury.Secondly,according to the analysis of archaeology and related materials,it is concluded that there are four ways of disposing of the oracle bones and the oracle bones in the Shang Dynasty: direct discarding,archiving and collecting,centralized burial,and special treatment.In the early and middle Period of the Shang Dynasty,it was directly discarded as the treatment method for the unearthed bones and bones,while archiving,centralized burial and special treatment were the treatment methods for the unearthed bones and bones in the late Shang Dynasty.The treatment in the late Shang Dynasty was divided into preliminary treatment and final treatment.Preliminary treatment refers to the process of oracle bone divination in the Shang Dynasty,and the process of writing deeds,in which the oracle bones need to be reengraved and examined.This treatment is also archived and collected.Centralized burial was the final treatment afteroracle divination in the Shang Dynasty.Most of the excavated oracles in the late Shang Dynasty were unearthed in whole pits.Due to some special reasons,the excavated oracles were dug and buried in a concentrated way.In addition,in the shang dynasty unearthed some bones,some drilling production,some bligh was bone saw,some bones,scraping and processing,so that there are other useful,there are no words on processing and so on,more than oracle is different from the processing of the oracle bone processing way,more special,we think this is a very special way.Finally,according to the analysis of relevant archaeological data,the processing of the oracle bones after the merchant divination is based on the following two reasons: first,religious belief.After the oracle divination in the Shang Dynasty,the disposal of some unletted oracle bones and the final disposal of inscribed oracle bones was to dig pits and bury them centrally because of the influence of the religious belief of the Shang Dynasty.After the oracle-bone inscriptions,the merchants should bury the oracle-bones that have communicated with the spirits and spirits.The reasons are as follows: First,in order to avoid blasphemy against the oracle-bones;Secondly,the veneration of merchants for ghosts and gods;Finally,there is the worship of the mysterious land.The second is for political purposes.In the early and middle period of the Shang Dynasty,the oracle bones were unmarked,which had no great influence on politics.The late shang dynasty,the king of shang as a divine power,collection of kingship and theocratic at a suit,at the time of divination activities,with the result of the divination has certain operability,in order to guarantee the divination activities of the divine,and royalty and divine authority,in the wake of divination oracle to archive collection,centralized buried,special processing(production of drilling,bone saws cutting,Yin scraping).The above is the reason why the oracle bones should be treated after divination,in order to ensure the sacredness of the king and the divine right of the Shang Dynasty,as well as the stability of the Shang dynasty’s political power.