On this day, 122 years ago, on December 11, 1903 (October 23, 1903 in the lunar calendar), Yin Ruins oracle bones began to be lost abroad. Ox bones engraved with sacrificial and hunting texts In December 1903, American missionaries in Weixian County, Shandong Province purchased oracle bones from Ku Shou Ling, a British missionary in Shandong Province. 400 of them were sold to the English-run Asian Cultural Society Museum in Shanghai. Oracle bones were discovered in Yin Ruins. Yin Ruins is located in Xiaotun Village, Anyang City, Henan Province. The capital was established here in the Yin Dynasty. A large number of oracle bones were unearthed here and were used as medicinal materials by people. In 1899, the first person to discover inscriptions engraved on oracle bones and began to study them was the epigrapher Wang Yirong. From then on, the name of "oracle bone inscriptions" began to spread, and the number of researchers on it increased. People from Britain and the United States came to hear the news and bought it at low prices. Since then, oracle bone fragments have been lost abroad in large quantities and entered the Carnegie Museum in the United States, the Royal Museum of Scotland, the British Museum in the United Kingdom and Princeton University in the United States.