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花园庄东地甲骨
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商殷朝
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商殷朝,甲骨文
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HYZ 183.7
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Schwartz, A. C. (2019). The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501505294-001
Going to dance will be favorable; His Highness will be happy. 302 Er bu : I read this phrase in the same way I do when it occurs on 102: () The second divination [crack] has fault; it has appeared. Song Zhenhao (2010: 635-639) thinks phrases in the formula number + bu refer to the number of shells or bones used to make the divination; Jao Tsung-I (1959: 65-70) lists examples of this formula that go up to six. Following Songs interpretation the divination utterance would read, Use two [shells] to di- vine (about) Shang diviners repeated divinations that were unsuccessful or required recerti- fication, and one of the divination formulas for doing so was xi + number + bu (Jao Tsung-I 1959: 66, Qiu Xigui 2012: I.425-426); in this formula, also meant second divina- tion, and referred to a second divination crack in an earlier divination sequence. 303 is parallel with have words with/about Pou (285). 204 | HYZ 183-HYZ 184