It's been nearly 100 years since the rediscovery of oracle bone writing, and there has always been one mystery. The characters on the oracle bones, which are of the six orthodox varieties of "ideographic, pictographic, compound ideographic, attered phonetic, combined meaning / phonetic, and phonetic loan" characters, must have already been at an early stage of standardization, and could not have been the earliest Chinese writing.
甲骨文發現至今已近百年，多年來，中國人心中一直有一道謎題待解：像甲骨文這樣已具備「象形、指事、會意、形聲、轉注、假借」六書的文字，應該代表漢字定型的初期，而不是最古老的文字。