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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 195.4
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Schwartz, A. C. (2019). The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501505294-001
Divined on Xinhai: It should be Ru men.315 Used. 1 313 Had audience presumably meant with the king. An alternative is to read jian as xian present, i.e., Our lord presented (the jades), with the sense being that in addition to holding up jades for the king to see, the prince also personally presented them (and did not have someone else do it on his behalf). See 237.12. 314 Huang Tianshu (2006: 452-453) reads mian as an adverb, in person (dangmian ), and Yao Xuan (2005: 132-133) reads as as phonetic loan for xian to present. Following these interpretations, the phrase () means to present in person. See 113.15 and commen- tary. 315 It is possible that ru should be read nei , and that the noun phrase nei ren refers to members of the princes household and perhaps also including his entourage. Wei was not part of the organization called Our lords servitors, and he appears to have been ordered 210 | HYZ 196