Augury source is what

Tracing the source of China's ancient augury, will trace the origin of Chinese characters, oracle.Oracle is China has discovered the earliest era of ancient texts, the system is more complete text.The end of the 19th century in henan anyang xiaotun today found (capital city Yin dynasty ruins), is the inscription on the tortoise shell animal bones shells era.Found in the Yin ruins oracle, we find in the record of the oracle bone can be divided into nine categories: sacrifices, told the people, banquets, travel, fishing, hunting,The war, divination, divination weather, crop errands divination, according to different content of imago, the use of oracle is also different.Must first put the bones, smooth before divination, then drilling, burn out of the holes, oracle bone after cracking, according to the crack to judge good or ill luck.Divinatory methods; also is very simple, is the yarrow stalks slit in the middle, and concluded the shapes of the separate good or ill luck.

Augury is the origin of Chinese art number, so to speak.Although along with the development of human society, people use a lot of new divination methods, plus ca change, however, they are the basic principle of roughly the same.