Qualla: Yinxu https://qualla.com/yinxu en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:38 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Yinxu https://qualla.com/yinxu Yinxu: Introduction https://qualla.com/yinxu/ In 1899, a scholar named Wang Yirong was sick with malaria. His doctor prescribed dragon bones -- fragments of ancient animal bone sold at traditional pharmacies. Wang noticed strange markings scratched into the surface. They were not random. They were writing, and they were more than three thousand years old. The bones had been coming from fields near a small village called Xiaotun, just outside Anyang in northern Henan. What lay beneath those fields was Yinxu: the lost capital of the Shang dynasty, the place where Chinese writing began.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/3/m/yinxu-wp/ww3m-yinxu-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Yinxu: The Great Settlement Shang https://qualla.com/yinxu/ The Shang people called their capital Dayi Shang -- the Great Settlement. The name Yin came later, applied by the succeeding Zhou dynasty. By the time of King Wu Ding, sometime around 1250 BCE, Yin had become a formidable center of power. Wu Ding launched military campaigns again...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/3/m/yinxu-wp/ww3m-yinxu-the-great-settlement-shang.mp3 0:06 2 full Yinxu: Bones That Speak https://qualla.com/yinxu/ The oracle bones are Yinxu's signature discovery: 150,000 fragments of turtle shell and animal scapula inscribed with questions posed to ancestors and deities. Will it rain? Should the king go to war? Will the queen's pregnancy go well? The questions were carved, the bones heated...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/3/m/yinxu-wp/ww3m-yinxu-bones-that-speak.mp3 0:06 3 full Yinxu: A Queen's Undisturbed Rest https://qualla.com/yinxu/ Most of the royal tombs at Yinxu were looted centuries ago. One escaped. In 1976, archaeologist Zheng Zhenxiang uncovered the tomb of Fu Hao, wife of King Wu Ding and a military leader in her own right -- one of the few women known to have commanded armies in the ancient world. T...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/3/m/yinxu-wp/ww3m-yinxu-a-queens-undisturbed-rest.mp3 0:06 4 full Yinxu: From Ruin to Renaissance https://qualla.com/yinxu/ After the Shang fell to the Zhou around 1046 BCE, Yin was abandoned. The city decayed into farmland, its palaces dissolving into soil. For three millennia the site lay forgotten, its oracle bones occasionally surfacing as folk medicine. Today, Yinxu is a UNESCO World Heritage Sit...

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