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辛未卜：伯戓爯(稱)册。唯丁自正(征)卲。
辛未卜：丁弗其比伯戓伐卲。
辛未卜白(伯) 爯(稱)册隹(唯)丁自正(征)卲 一
辛未卜丁弗其比白(伯) 伐卲 一
貞子 (畫)爵且(祖)庚亡 (艱) 一
癸酉卜貞子 (剖)爵且(祖)辛亡 (艱) 一
癸酉卜且(祖)甲衍(侃)子 一
甲戌歲且(祖)甲 鬯 二
乙亥弜(勿)巳 (肆) (鱉)龜于室用 一
乙亥歲且(祖)乙[雨] (禦) (刮)彡(肜)牢牝一 一
Divined on Xinwei: Bo Ge has raised a document.550 It will be His Highness himself who rectifies Shao. 1 550 Yu Xingwu ([1941], cited in Jishi 4.1406-07) reads 爯in “爯册” as the protoform of cheng 稱 “proclaim, state” and defines the phrase as “to state an affair by means of a document.” HYZ 449 | 359
Divined on Xinwei: His Highness is not likely to ally with Bo Ge to attack Shao.551 1
Tested: Lord Hua will offer Ancestor Geng a cup of ale; there will not be any affliction (for him to do so). 1
Divined on Guiyou, tested: Lord Pou will offer Ancestor Xin a cup of ale; there will not be any affliction (for him to do so).552 1
Divined on Guiyou: Ancestor Jia will be happy with our lord. 1
On Jiaxu, sacrifice (to) Ancestor Jia some ewes (and) offer aromatic ale. 2
On Yihai, do not stop from arranging553 the soft-shelled turtles554 in the room. Used. 1 Takashima (2010: 1.42) adds, “to refer to a ceremonial ritual of swearing in before going on to a military campaign”; Schuessler (1987: 70) gives “to swear an oath”. The verb 爯regularly occurs in the HYZ lexicon taking various types of jades as its direct object (29.5, 34, 480.1) and only ever means “to lift/hold up”. A comparison between 爯 + direct object (types of jade) and 爯 + 册confirms 爯 means to raise and 册 means a document. In instances like these the raising of documents by people from territorial regions to the Shang kings presumably were reports of enemy incursions and loss of land and people. See HJ 6405 and 6162. 551 The use of the verb zheng 正(征) in the previous divination and fa 伐expresses a lexical disparity between the two. 正(征) has a strong moral sense of “correct, rectify” and is a kingly action. Keightley (2012: 360) concludes, “With a few exceptions, the word (=征) was reserved for campaigns in which the king was the protagonist. He and his dependents, for example might fa “attack”…but only the king could zheng them. To convey the sense of moral and polit- ical rectification that was reserved for the king’s military expeditions, I translate zheng as ‘march to regulate’.” 552 Since Hua and Pou are not recorded elsewhere as participating in the protagonist’s ances- tor worship, these two divinations appear to suggest that Hua was Ancestor Geng’s grandson and Pou was Ancestor Xin’s grandson. Ancestor Geng was the 24th Shang king Pan Geng 盤庚 and Ancestor Xin was the 25th Shang king Xiao Xin 小辛; see Han Jiangsu and Jiang Linchang 2010: 342-343. This interpretation further suggests that Hua, Pou, and the HYZ prince were cousins. 360 | HYZ 450
On Yihai, sacrifice (to) Ancestor Yi, make an exorcism rite (to ward off) the rain, and carve Rong-rite offerings—pen-raised cattle and one cow. 1