HONG KONG.- Co-organised by YuZhen and Mention PR, “Decoding Oracle Bone Script” Exhibition will be held from 5th January to 3rd February 2017 at Citywalk 2. The exhibits include important publications in the oracle bone studies, calligraphic works and replicas of oracle bones. Let’s travel back in time to the Shang dynasty 3400 years ago, and explore the origin of Chinese writing!

Primarily used as the record of divination, oracle bone script is the earliest form of Chinese writing and a cultural heritage nowadays, which provides a source for us to know more about the culture in the ancient times. The exhibition will introduce the distinguished scholars in the oracle bone studies and showcase important publications, replicas of a turtle plastron and a pair of ox scapulae, and the calligraphic works by Hong Kong and Taiwanese scholars. Audience will be given the chance to collect the stamps of oracle bone writing in multiple validated characters. This activity provides an exceptional way to a better knowledge of the origin and evolution of Chinese writing.

YuZhen Oracle Bone & Ancient Culture Research Association is named after the parents of Professor Wong King Sun, the Director of the Association. Yuzhen was founded intended to continue in reverence after the ancient, hence is dedicated to conducting research in oracle bone script and the ecology and environment of the earth, and promoting oracle bone studies.

The beginning of YuZhen was in 2012 when its precedent “Chinese Oracle Bone Research Center” applied to the authorities in Hong Kong and Taiwan as a non-profit making academic entity. The Hong Kong division was established on 7th February 2014 by 11 scholars, including Professor Chang Chung Nan and Professor Sin Chow Yiu. In the same year on 9th February, the registration of Taiwan Division was completed by Rev. Chow Lien-hwa and Professor Liu Koung-ying among the total of 36 scholars.

With the support from scholars around the world, YuZhen carries out interdisciplinary research on oracle bone culture and modern technology, and focuses on the primary five fields: human science, social science, natural science, life and environmental science, and applied science. Yuzhen also attempts to encourage synthesizing the researches on the civilization of human written history and future environment, believed to attain “data links” from the process of technological integration of Chinese history.