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Divined on Dinghai: Prime cattle, a portion353 on the viand trays. 1 351 The word ri 日can mean both daytime (白天) and an entire day (一整天). The absence of Jiazi 甲子 (day 1/60) before 日 implies that “daytime” refers to day Guihai (60/60). “Evening of Guihai” means the time period after day Renxu (59/60) became day Guihai. See 271.2. 352 Zhu Fenghan (2002) determines that the syntax “ + animal” means to make an ale liba- tion before sacrificing an animal; the animal is not the object of 353 This graph occurs in Shang oracle bone inscriptions as the name of the western wind ( HJ 14295), and this name corresponds to the name of the wind called “wei feng 韋風” in the Shanhaijing 山海經. Variant spellings in oracle bone inscriptions (HJ 30392-93) write it adding the phonetic wei 韋. The word is functioning here as an adverb, and from the next HYZ 228 | 231