The calendar of Shang dynasty has been divided into big and small months, with a period of 366 days, and the length of new moon and tropic year is adjusted by the end of the year. There were many eclipses and new stars in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. [2 1] [28] [38]

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Numbers in Shang Dynasty and the origin of China's evolution of 100,000 characters.

There are about 30,000 numbers in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. The concepts of decimal, odd, even and multiple are clear, and it has a preliminary calculation ability. Optical knowledge has been applied for a long time, and the micro-convex mirror unearthed in Shang Dynasty can reflect the whole face on a smaller mirror.

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Shang Dynasty Characters-Oracle Bone Inscriptions

In Shang Dynasty, there were many word-formation methods in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, such as pictographic characters, knowing characters, pictophonetic characters, metonymic characters, reference characters and so on. And it is already a mature writing. In the unearthed Oracle bone inscriptions, 4672 words have been found, and scholars know the word 1072. Oracle Bone Inscriptions's writing materials are hard, so the font is square. At the same time, bronze inscriptions, because they are cast, have a round font. [2 1] [28] [38]