| Di controlled victory in battle, the harvest, the fate of the capital, and the weather, but, on the evidence of the oracle bone inscriptions, he received no cult. |
| Oracle bone script was a writing system used in Ancient china based on inscriptions in bones. |
| Written evidence of royal interest in stars and winds clearly dates back to the Shang oracle bone inscriptions. |
| Based on the dating of oracle bone inscriptions, the Shang king Pangeng moved his capital to a site near Anyang about1300 bce. |
| The name Zhou appears often in the oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang kingdom, sometimes as a friendly tributary neighbour and at other times as a hostile one. |
| Since the literal content of most jiaguwen is related to ancient religious, mythical prognostication or to rituals, jiaguwen is also known as oracle bone script. |
