Around the turn of the century Liu E, the author of the novel Lao-ts'an yu-chi, or The Travels of Old Ts'an, and a noted expert in ancient Chinese writing, bought some "dragon bones" in a Peking medicine store to cure an illness. He was surprised to discover that the bones were carved with an unfamiliar script that proved to be the first physical evidence of the Shang dynasty (ca.
清末，「老殘遊記」作者，也是著名金石學家劉鶚，在北京一家中藥店買「龍骨」治病，竟然發現龍骨上刻有文字，歷史上的殷商王朝才因甲骨文的出土得以「現形」。