Summary of “It All Started with Dragon Bones”
In the beginning, it’s talking about the background of Chinese history when
people felt self-doubt. Chinese historians studied their culture if it was existed or not.
What a coincidence, the farmers in Hsiao T’un found something mysterious that could
make them earn extra money. In Chinese folklore, dragon is a powerful creature in the
world, and the traditional healers believed its bones could cure women’s diseases.
After that, Chinese scholars sorted out the mystery of the dragon bones and they
found out that the previous thoughts of dragon bones were actually the bones of
turtles’ and cattle’s. Shang king got the news and started to learn the features of
dragon bones. He even exploited the amazing power that the bones had to forecast the
future. Fascinated by the predictions came out from the oracle bones, Shang king lost
himself in it.