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Divined on Dingwei: Our lord should smoke (and) use (the killed ewe),364 (for it) will be favorable. 1234 363 The context of this divination concerns the preparations for one of the major cyclical or “seasonal” rites to Ancestor Yi. I base this assumption on the fact that 刮 is the main cutting activity performed for both Rong and Yi day rites; see 274. While I take “carved” as a nominal- ized verb and as the object of sha 殺, it is also possible to read them as coordinate verbs. 364 This compound graph is composed of “female” 女 (determinative) + jiang 丬 “table” (pho- no-semantic) and spells zhuang 妝, which the Shuowen jiezi defines as to decorate. An allograph is written + “fire” on HJ 22483, and this implies that 妝 is the phonetic spelling of a word associat- ed with burning; see Qiu Xigui 2012: 194-205. I read it zhuang 焋 “smoke”. “Use” means to con- HYZ 242 | 243