On this day 60 years ago, on January 31, 1965 (December 29, 1964 lunar calendar), Wang Xiang, a modern Chinese epigrapher and oracle osteologist, passed away. Wang Xiang (1876~ 1965), a modern Chinese epigrapher and oracle osteologist. Zilun Pavilion, number room. Tianjin native. Born on November 16, 1876 (December 31, 1876) in the second year of Qing Guangxu, died on January 31, 1965. In 1910, he graduated from the Mining Department of the Higher Industrial School of the Ministry of Agriculture and Industry in Beijing, and in 1913, he graduated from the Political Economy Department of the Tianjin Law and Politics Institute of the Republic of China. He worked for many years in the Salt Audit Institute of Tianjin, Fujian, Guangdong, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Hubei and other provinces. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the curator of Tianjin Literature and History Research Institute in 1953. Wang Xiang is one of the earliest scholars to collect and study oracle bones in his spare time. The book "Compilation of Yinji Classes in Yushi", written in the early edition of 1920, had 873 characters, and when it was updated and reprinted in 1929, it had 957 characters, making it the earliest oracle bone dictionary. According to the book "Yanchi Classics in Yanchi Classics" (1925) written by the Tibetan oracle bones, it contains 1125 pieces of oracle bones, accompanied by interpretations. In his later years, he wrote "Ancient Classics" (1964), which examined 69 characters of oracle bones and 75 characters of golden texts, and put forward some unique insights.