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癸卯卜 祼于昃用 一
乙巳卜叀(惠)璧用 一
乙巳卜叀(惠)良(琅) 一
乙巳卜又(有) (圭)叀(惠)之畀丁 五用 二
庚戌卜子叀(惠)發乎(呼)見丁眔大亦 (燕>宴)用昃 一
庚戌卜丁各用夕 一
庚戌卜丁各用夕 二三
辛亥卜丁曰余不其 (往)母(毋) (速) 一
辛亥卜子曰余丙 (速)丁令(命)子曰 (往)眔帚(婦)好于 ( )麥子 (速) (孚) 一
壬子卜子弜(勿) (速)乎(呼)酓(飲)用 一
Divined on Guimao: Tomorrow, libate ale in the afternoon. 1 578 The divination sequence, dated Jisi, is preparing to make offerings in Rong for Ancestress Geng on the following day, Gengwu. The preposition 于 “in” reveals that the prince was not yet in Rong but expected to be there by the following day. “The fields of Rong” had to have then been considered outside of “Rong”. 474 can be synchronized with 491 and the latter, in a postface, states that rites were performed for Ancestress Geng at Rong on day Gengwu having returned from a hunt. 579 Xun 旬, in this instance modifying “cattle”, is a place/lineage name and the cattle’s point of origin. Later sources write 旬both as both 荀and 郇. Records in the Zuozhuan (Duke Xi, year 24; Duke Huan, year 9) indicate that during the Spring and Autumn period it was located in south- west Shanxi. (Yang Bojun’s Zuozhuan commentary locates it just northeast of Xinjiang, Shanxi 山 西新絳.) Western Zhou bronzes of the Jia 賈and 郇lineages were found together during a 1970’s excavation in Wenxi, Shanxi 山西聞喜; see the commentary to the delivery receipt notation 26.1. 374 | HYZ 475
Divined on Yisi: It should be jade circlets. Used. 1
Divined on Yisi: It should be jade beads. 1
Divined on Yisi: (As for) the pointed jade tablets (or: Having pointed jade tablets), it should be those that are given to His Highness, (along with) five ear ornaments. Used. 2
Divined on Gengxu: It should be Fa who our lord calls upon to have audi- ence about/with His Highness, (and) to join Da to also banquet. Used. Af- ternoon. 1
Divined on Gengxu: His Highness will arrive. Used. Evening. 1
Divined on Gengxu: His Highness will arrive. Used. Evening. 23
Divined on Xinhai: His Highness said, “I shall not go”. Must not invite (him). 1
Divined on Xinhai: Our lord said, “I, on a Bing day, will invite His High- ness.” His Highness commanded our lord, saying, “Go together with Lady Hao to plant wheat in Man.” Our lord will invite (him). Trusted.580 1 580 What the diviner wants an answer to in this pair of divination statements (8-9) is whether or not his lord should invite the king to drink ale some time before day Bing of the following week (perhaps day Renzi). The diviner uses an antithetical pair, first posing the proposition a negative mode and then following it with a proposition in the positive mode. The direct speech utterances preceding the focus of the charge statements provide a context. Originally the pro- tagonist planned to invite the king to drink on day Bingchen (53/60). The king however had said that he would not be going to plant wheat in Man, and commanded him to accompany HYZ 477A-477B | 375
Divined on Renzi: Our lord should not invite (others) and call to drink. Used. 1