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Hello, everyone. Yin Ruins is an important stop in our 6-day journey to explore the origin of Chinese characters. What can we find here? Let's go and find out!
在为期6天的探寻汉字起源之旅中，殷墟无疑是重要的一站。在这里，我们将会有哪些收获？一起去看看吧！
Distributed on both banks of the Huanhe River in the northwest suburbs of Anyang city, Central China's Henan province, the 3,300-year-old Yin Ruins has been confirmed by historic documents and archaeological excavations as the capital site of late Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC), the first such ruins so confirmed in Chinese history.
殷墟位于河南省安阳市西北的小屯村一带，地跨洹河两岸，是中国历史上第一个有文献可考、并为甲骨文和考古发掘所证实的商代晚期都城遗址，距今已有3300多年的历史。
A large number of cultural relics, including stone tools, pottery wares, bronze wares, jade articles and oracle bones on which the earliest Chinese characters are carved, are collected and exhibited at the Yin Ruins Museum. With a history of over 3,000 years, oracle-bone inscriptions have advanced Chinese history by about 1,000 years.
在殷墟博物馆中，藏有大量的石器、陶器、青铜器、玉器、甲骨文等出土文物。其中，殷墟出土的甲骨文为我们保存3000年前的文字，把中国信史向上推进了约1000年。
Oracle-bone inscriptions are the oldest fully developed characters in China. So far, nearly 160 thousand pieces of oracle bones have been discovered with over 4,700 individual characters related to politics, military affairs, culture, social customs, astronomy, calendar and medicine found on them.
甲骨文是目前已知中国最早的成熟的文字。目前发现有近16万片甲骨，4700多个单字。这些甲骨文所记载的内容极为丰富，涉及到商代社会生活的诸多方面，不仅包括政治、军事、文化、社会习俗等内容，而且涉及天文、历法、医药等科学技术。
出镜：杨佳欣
拍摄：董蕾
剪辑：何蒙贺