Since the discovery of the oracle bone in Xiaotun Village, Anyang, Henan, most experts and scholars believe that the Yin Xu oracle bone is a Shang Dynasty oracle bone, but this is actually a misunderstanding!
Why? According to general logic, what is found in Yin Ruins should belong to the yin ruins era, but in fact, we ignore the changes in historical development, especially the in-depth study of the history of the Shang Dynasty, and we gradually find that the origin of the Yin ruins oracle bone is not so simple.
First, the Yin Ruins Oracle bone is a sudden appearance, from the perspective of writing form, it is already very close to the level of Chinese characters, that is to say, it belongs to the mature script that belongs to the six books, and his middle and early writing forms have not been found in the Yin Ruins, so this situation may prove that perhaps the Oracle is imported from the outside world, that is to say, the origin of the Oracle is not in the Yin Ruins.
The second point, judging from the content and form of the oracle bone, is very similar to the Zhouyuan oracle bone, and from the perspective of the women's good buci, it is possible that it is the oracle bone of the Zhou Dynasty, because the same women's good symbol appears on the bronze ding, and this bronze ding, from the formal point of view, is a round three-legged, not the style of the Shang Dynasty bronze ding, square four-legged, but the Zhou Dynasty style. Therefore, the bronze ding and the oracle bone with the inscription of the woman should be the product of the Zhou Dynasty.
Of course, some netizens said that the Shang Dynasty also had a round three-legged bronze ding, but it was the early Shang Dynasty ding, the sole of the foot is pointed, and the bronze ding of the late Xia Dynasty has a relationship with the undertaker, and the toe of the woman Haoding is flat bottom, in line with the style of the Zhou Dynasty.
In addition, according to the analysis of the historical events of the Wu King's cutting, the Oracle of the Yin Ruins may have been entered by the King of Zhou Wu to change the attributes of the Shang Ancestral Hall of the Good Tomb of the Women of yin, and brought in, which is also the Chengzhou and Zongzhou incidents, and the content of the Oracle Bones of the Good Women is a record made by the Zhou people in order to record the history of the Shang Dynasty, especially in the Tomb of the Shang King, the oracle bones are not found, which further proves that the oracle bones are not sacrifices of the Shang Dynasty.
The oracle bone pit is mainly concentrated around the tomb of the woman, which is not very common in other tombs, and fragments of oracle bones have been found in Zhengzhou Shangcheng, which belong to the early oracle bone from the analysis of text type.
Therefore, according to the analysis of the above signs, the Yin Ruins Oracle is likely to be a water control symbol used by Dayu and Shang Qi to convey information during the Erligang Water Control Period, and after the Shang Tang destroyed Xia, it was abandoned by Shang Qi's widow Hou Ji Zhou, brought into Qishan Zhou Yuan, and finally brought into the Yin Ruins by King Wu of Zhou and buried in the Zhou Dynasty. The evolutionary time is nearly 500 years from 1600 to 1046 BC.