The Shang dynasty moved its capital six times, as stated by the Records of the Grand Historian; the final, and most important, move being to Yin (modern Anyang) in 1350 BCE, which leads to what is to be the golden age of the dynasty.

It is to be the longest dynasty in Chinese history, featuring thirty-one kings in fraternal succession from Tang of Shang to King Zhou of Shang.

The Shang domain, now at its height, extends from the Wei River tributary area to the west of the central valley, eastward to the seacoast above the northern edge of the Yangtze River basin, and northward to the steppe country occupied by nomads.

Chinese priests are using the Oracle bone script by 1400 (although its origins probably lie in an earlier time).

Found on oracle bones, which are animal bones or turtle shells used in divination in Bronze Age China.

The vast majority record the pyromantic divinations of the royal house of the late Shang dynasty at the capital of Yin (modern Anyáng, Hénán Province); dating of the Anyáng examples of oracle bone script varies from about the fourteenth to the mid-eleventh centuries BCE.