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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 241.7
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Schwartz, A. C. (2019). The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501505294-001
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 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 , it is also possible to read them as coordinate verbs. 364 This compound graph is composed of female (determinative) + jiang table (pho- no-semantic) and spells zhuang , which the Shuowen jiezi defines as to decorate. An allograph is written + fire on HJ 22483, and this implies that is the phonetic spelling of a word associat- ed with burning; see Qiu Xigui 2012: 194-205. I read it zhuang smoke. Use means to con- HYZ 242 | 243