The Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscription is not the earliest written language in China.
The earliest Chinese script was used by the Yu clan in the Shangshan culture in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River 11,000 years ago, and it was already a highly mature systematic script at the latest 11,000 years ago.
However, these characters were originally written on bamboo slips with a brush, and in the humid climate of the south, they all rotted away within 3,000 years. Only a small number of sporadic carvings on pottery have survived to this day.
The habit of carving a large number of characters on oracle bones only began in the Shang Dynasty. It is precisely this habit that has allowed Yu's writings to be preserved in large quantities.
This habit was started by the Shang king Wu Ding, or more precisely, by Wu Ding's queen wife.
At present, the oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty emerged in large numbers during the Wuding period, and it can be determined that the oracle bone inscriptions earlier than Wuding can be said to be rare, or even none. However, in the Wuding period, tens of thousands of carved oracle bones were suddenly discovered, and the characters engraved on these oracle bones were already super mature and perfect writing systems.
Obviously, this writing system could not have been invented suddenly by Wu Ding, and the only possibility was that it was foreign.
The person who brought this writing system is a woman.
The source clues of a large number of oracle bone inscriptions in the Wuding period are buried in the tomb of the queen wife of Wuding.
Extremely lucky, although all the tombs of the Shang Dynasty were stolen, the tomb of the woman escaped the tomb robbers.
The Tomb of Nuhao, which is second only to the tomb of the Shang king, has unearthed a large number of cultural relics that explain where this famous figure came from.
This is the jade phoenix found in the tomb of the woman.
Compare the following jade phoenix, the style is highly similar.
This jade phoenix was unearthed in 1955 at the site of Luojiabailing, Shijiahe Town, Tianmen City, Hubei Province.
Archaeologists also found a lot of jade artifacts in Shijiahe that are highly similar to those in the tomb of Nuhao.
For example, jade cicadas.
For example, the Jade Dragon.
For example, the Jade Tiger.
For example, Jade Eagle.
Such a highly similar jade can only illustrate one fact:
The jade in the tomb of the Yinxu woman comes from Shijiahe, Hubei.
So, how did these jade artifacts come to the tomb of the woman?
There is only one answer:
The woman herself is from Shijiahe!
Important things to say three times:
The woman herself is from Shijiahe!
The woman herself is from Shijiahe!
The woman herself is from Shijiahe!
Shijiahe culture is a culture created by the Yu family.
All the jade artifacts found in the Shijiahe culture are 100% from urn coffins without exception.
The urn coffin burial is 100% of the unique burial customs of the Yu family.
Wherever there is a coffin of the Yu family's urn, there must be a text.
This is the most important and accurate judgment of Baoxuezhai on the inheritance of Chinese civilization.
Therefore, the queen wife of Shang King Wuding is from the Yu clan of Shijiahe, Hubei!
It is a good woman, who brought a complete set of writing system of the Yu clan to the Shang King Wuding!
This is the greatest dowry of all time.
The Shang king Wu Ding undoubtedly embraced this writing system in its entirety, and pioneered the tradition of inscribed large quantities of characters on oracle bones.
At first, these characters were engraved on turtle shells, and these turtle shells were all flower turtles native to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and tribute was needed to meet the large demand for Wu Ding to engrave words on turtle shells when he had nothing to do.
According to incomplete statistics, tens of thousands of oracle bones in the Wuding period are at least more than 200 pieces related to women's health.
For example, the following are just a few of them.
The people who carved these words on the oracle bones were, of course, the Yu people from the good woman's family.
It is estimated that these people were also broken when they carved words on the turtle shell, and the hand that was used to writing the brush suddenly picked up the carving knife, and it is estimated that they were also scolding in their hearts while carving:
Wu Ding, you old boy, can you show affection and be low-key? It's really tiring to carve so many words every day!
Since then, Chinese civilization has entered an era where writing can be preserved for a long time.
We can also see her origin from the name "good woman".
The picture below shows the name of the woman on the bronze vessel in the tomb of the woman.
The real name actually writes: "Broom good".
It means a woman with a "good" surname from the place "broom".
Similarly, there is a bronze made by Uncle Yi for his wife "Bi Ji", who is a woman surnamed Ji from Bi Kingdom.
Jackie
When Wu Ding, was there a place called "broom"?
Of course.
Sun Yirang once said that "broom" is used as "return" (return) in divination, and Wang Xiang, Ye Yusen, Wu Qichang and others also hold this view, believing that "broom" may be a fake borrowed word for "return".
Gui (筸), that is, the "return" of Zigui, is the place of return.
"Hanshu Geographical Chronicles" contains: "Zi returns, returns to his hometown, and returns to his homeland." "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty and the Chronicles of the County" also contains: "Zi returns, this return to the country." ”
Returning to the country is also known as Kui Guo, "Zuo Biography" has "Autumn, Chu people destroy Kui, return to Kuizi", Du pre-note cloud: "Kui, Chu has the same surname as the country, and now Jianping Zigui County". Song Zhen also said: "Return is the same." Return to your hometown and build your hometown. ”
Hubei Zigui is the place where the woman's maiden home is located, and the Hubei Shijiahe is located in the Yangtze River basin, not too far away, and naturally belongs to the same cultural area, so it is easy to understand that the jade found in the woman's tomb is similar to the jade of Shijiahe.
That's the dowry that the woman brought from her mother's family!
The country of Kui, from which the woman came, should still be a country with a good surname in the Shang Dynasty, and it belonged to a branch of the Yu clan. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was occupied by the Chu people with the surname Mi.
"Chinese Zheng Yu" says:
"Rong Zhixing, is his surname in Mi? The surname is Kui Yue, and it is not enough to die. ”
Wei Zhao's note: "Kui Yue, another country with the surname Mi, Chu Xiong Yi the sixth grandson said Xiong Zhi, there was a bad disease, the Chu people abolished it, and set up his brother Xiong Yan." He abandoned himself to Kui, and his descendants were meritorious, and the king ordered him to be his son. ”
After the Chu people were Zhuan, they all took Zhuan as their ancestors like Youyu, which shows that the Kui Kingdom was the activity range of Youyu from the Wuding period to the Western Zhou Dynasty.
It is not surprising that words appear in these places.
It's no wonder that there isn't.
Bao Xuezhai can also further clearly point out that judging from the radioactive lead detected in the bronzes in the tomb of the woman, these bronzes are also from her mother's dowry, which is produced in Panlong City, Wuhan!
Through his marriage with a good woman, Shang King Wuding not only obtained the text of Youyu, but also firmly controlled the bronze of Panlong City!