The exhibition aims to enhance cultural ties between the two neighbors, and will continue until Tuesday in the Chinese National Museum, and then be moved to Henan Province.

Also on display are pictures taken at the site of an archeological excavation and calligraphic works from Taiwan.

The same exhibition was held in Japan last year.

The inscriptions on tortoise shells or animal bones were used in China's Shang Dynasty (16th-11th centuries, BC).

The earliest tortoise shells with inscriptions were found in central China's Henan Province in 1899, when the locals were looking for "dragon's bones" for medicinal purposes.

Such inscriptions are regarded as the origination of modern Chinese characters, which are also used in the Japanese language.

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