English: Shang (1600 - 1046 BC) was a period in Chinese history. The unearthed script from this period includes bronze and oracle bone script. Shang script was an very early stage of Chinese characters. In this stage, pictograph still remained many pictographic details, and phonogram only took a small part. Because the scripts was still Immature, a character can have abundant variants in Shang script, and a flipped or rotated character normally would have the some meaning as unchanged one. This category holds -oracle.svg and -bronze-shang.svg files and is automatically filled by the template:ACClicense.