the chinese used oracle bones for pyromancy.
the chinese used oracle bones for pyromancy.
what did the chinese use oracle bones for?
pyromancy
the uninscribed divination is thought to have been brush-written with ink or cinnabar on the oracle bones or accompanying documents, as a few of the oracle bones found still bear their brush-written divinations without carving, while some have been found partially carved. after use, shells and bones used ritually were buried in separate pits (some for shells only; others for scapulae only), in groups of up to hundreds or even thousands (one pit unearthed in 1936 contained over 17,000 pieces along with a human skeleton).









































section::::archaeological evidence of pre-anyang pyromancy.
oracle bone
at tsinghua, li's main hobby was studying the oracle bones in the library, putting together pieces of oracle bones like puzzles. at the same time, scholar guo ruoyu (郭若愚) was writing a book on the oracle bones. chen mengjia, the oracle bones expert, thought the book needed more work, and recommended li to assist guo in his work. li was thus "borrowed" by the institute of archaeology of the chinese academy of sciences to become a research assistant to guo and chen.
li xueqin