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壬寅卜子 (金)子其屰(逆) (璋)于 (王婦)若用 一
Divined on Renyin, lord Jin: If our lord welcomes Zhang at the Majestic Lady’s (location), (it) will be favorable. Used. 1 is a pictograph of a blind old man and writes the word gu 瞽 “blind” (Qiu Xigui 2012: 1.510- 515). Lin Yun (2007) says it refers to a music master (e.g., the Shijing’s “There are blind musicians” 有 瞽 (Mao 280)), and suggests that 妾were female performers. For 妾 related to music, see 265.1-4. 592 Jia is Dancer Jia; see 226.1. 593 This divination can be synchronized with 474.4-7; reading the sequence together recom- mends that the date of this divination was Jisi, the day before Gengwu. Gengwu in this divination account is part of the divination statement and it is the day that sacrificial rites are planned for Ancestress Geng; it is not the date that the divination was made. 474.6 states that the protagonist was on a hunt and not in Rong on day Jisi, but planned to be there the following day. 384 | HYZ 493