The Research On Divination Records Of Oracle Bones

The text setting is one important side of research for Oracle Bones, and cosely related to interpretation of Oracle Bones. Compared with the other researchs of Oracle Bones, such as the special writing ponomenons, etc, the research of Oracle’s paragraph structure is in. the initial stage, needing more research. Generally speaking, a piece of Oracle Bones is divided into background words, asking words, divination words, verification words, using words, ordinal number and so on. The main content of this paper is about divining words.This paper is divided into the following sections. The first chapter reviews the results of the predecessors. The second chapter discusses some special phenomenons in the judgment process of divination words. The third chapter classified the divination words into several kinds. The fourth chapter is monographic study, witch is the main part of this paper, researching the relationship between divining words and asking words, and the category characteristics of different categories. The fifth chapter researchs the relationship between divining words and verification words. The sixth chapter Elaborates the Significance of divining words in research of Oracle Bones.