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Work
花园庄东地甲骨
Nation
商殷朝
Categories
商殷朝,甲骨文
Catalog
HYZ 237.2
Source
Schwartz, A. C. (2019). The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501505294-001
Divined on Yimao: It should be [white] pigs. Not used. 12 dron. Wu Qichang ([1938] 2008: 261) explains how these elements were combined to mean scooping meat from a caldron and placing it on a table/tray. Chen Jian (2007) reads it as the ancestral form of si arrange, display, as in to set out meat for a special type of sacrificial rite called by this name. The phrase xiang si occurs in the OBI and Chen explains it as having a ritual feast for a si-sacrifice; see also the comments of Jao Tsung-I 1959: 670. The phrases xiang si /si xiang also occurs in Western Zhou bronze inscriptions, for instance, Lu Hou Yi li (JC 648) Lu Hou Yi makes (this) vessel herewith to feast his accomplished deceased father Lu Gong; and Li fangding (JC 2614): () Making (this) treasured ritual vessel, would that it be used morning and evening to feast (or: to set out a feast). 359 See the commentary to 3.17 for definitions of shi . OBI record a xue shi house/room of blood (HJ 13562). 360 Preposed object + verb yi take is a passive construction; it can be compared with with lu yi () salt will be taken (202.8). 238 | HYZ 237