# Luo Zhenyu · Person

> Collector and palaeographer who traced the bones to Anyang, published large sets of rubbings, and in Yinxu shuqi kaoshi (1914) read several hundred…

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# Luo Zhenyu

Collector and palaeographer who traced the bones to Anyang, published large sets of rubbings, and in Yinxu shuqi kaoshi (1914) read several hundred graphs and identified the Shang royal names. **1866–1940.**

[The unread oracle bone characters](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered)[1 event][1 source]

Luo Zhenyu is palaeographer whose 1914 Yinxu shuqi kaoshi was the first large systematic reading of oracle-bone graphs. (1866–1940), and appears in the record of unread oracle bone characters as collector and palaeographer who traced the bones to Anyang, published large sets of rubbings, and in Yinxu shuqi kaoshi (1914) read several hundred graphs and identified the Shang royal names.

One event on the site involves Zhenyu: Luo Zhenyu publishes Yinxu shuqi kaoshi, reading several hundred graphs through bronze and seal forms (1914).

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## In the mysteries

**The unread oracle bone characters**

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[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered)

## What Luo Zhenyu did 1

1914[Luo Zhenyu publishes Yinxu shuqi kaoshi, reading several hundred graphs through bronze and seal forms](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/events/EVT0DEDMTED0RZA/luo-zhenyu-publishes-yinxu-shuqi-kaoshi-reading-several)

## Sources 1

[Yinxu shuqi kaoshi (Explanations of the Yin Ruins Inscriptions)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFYKS8DWF/yinxu-shuqi-kaoshi-explanations-of-the-yin-ruins)

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Born

1866-08-08

Died

1940-05-14

Occupation

palaeographer, collector

Identity

Palaeographer whose 1914 Yinxu shuqi kaoshi was the first large systematic reading of oracle-bone graphs.

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