Guide to visiting the Chinese Character Museum
It is said that a word is worth a thousand gold, the Chinese Character Museum has issued a decree, saying that whoever deciphers a word from oracle bone script will be rewarded with 100,000. If you have the patience, you can also get it.
According to the research, sorting, and archiving of more than 100,000 oracle bones by Professor Li Zongkui, a humanities lecturer at Peking University, a book called 'Oracle Bone Character Compilation' was published, with a total of 4378 oracle bone characters. At present, only over a thousand have been deciphered without dispute, less than one third.
The undeciphered characters are not just so-called proper nouns such as names and place names, a large number of sentences are of unknown meaning, most of them are combination characters with known radicals, because there is no corresponding structure in later generations, it is even more difficult to discern their meaning.
The Chinese Character Museum, from the name, has a kind of magic that you have to come once, the only one in the country, from oracle bone script to modern simplified characters, up and down five thousand years, characters have achieved the length, width, thickness, height and temperature of Chinese civilization. In 2001, the Civilization Exploration Project was organized, the elements of civilization are recognized as cities, characters, and metallurgy; civilization continues because of characters, ancient and modern communication cannot be separated from characters, of course you have to come once. Originally wanted to deeply understand Yin Ruins, but didn't expect the Chinese Character Museum in Anyang to be even more eye-catching.
Guide to the Chinese Character Museum:
1. About oracle bone script and Yin Ruins, it is recommended to make a guide in advance, it will be more interesting.
2. If you are interested in calligraphy and write well, this is really a good place to come, because you can know the evolution of Chinese characters from the source of the word, very intuitive, to be honest this museum is very good, better than many provincial museums, the free main museum and Hu Wen Museum are enough for you to visit, if you are not bringing children, you can skip the paid Bo Wen Museum.
3. You can make an appointment in advance or on the spot on weekdays, the tickets are free, very suitable for taking pictures. It is more reliable to make an appointment in advance on Saturdays and Sundays.
4. It's still quite hot now, you can bring some drinking water, you don't need to bring food, Anyang is not big, and it's convenient to eat.
5. Still the same sentence, you must take advantage of the explanation when visiting the museum, just listen to the team, if you have knowledge reserves you can interact with the explainer or if you are curious you can ask questions, it is easier to gain something, the explainer is happy to answer.
6. Finally, oracle bone script is very interesting, oracle bone script, bronze script, seal script, official script, cursive script, running script, regular script are all in the same line.