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Divined on Ren: In three days rain will arrive. 12 384 I have moved (5) ahead of (3)-(4) in this sequence because it contains a date and the other two do not. It is clear that (3)-(6) were chained divinations part of a single sequence, and that they were all made on the same day, Yihai 乙亥 (day 12/60). Placing the undated divinations (3)-(4) after (2) and before (5)-(6) implies they were made on Jiayin 甲寅 (day 51/60), 22 days earlier; this is highly unlikely. 385 Zhou Long (written 舟龍) occurs in Wu Ding’s divination records (HJ 4928-29 [Bin 1]). On the Warring States bamboo manuscript Rongcheng shi 容成氏 (ShangBo 2, strips 45-46), Zhou (spelled ) was one of the nine kingdoms appeased by the future King Wen on behalf of the reigning Shang king, Di Xin. Eastern Zhou pottery marked with this name was discovered in Wenxian, Henan 河南溫縣 (Qiu Xigui 2012: 3.425-427). 288.8 mentions “large jade tablets from Zhou and 舟were graphic variants. “You ” is the object of the verb gao 告“report”. It is shorthand for jades delivered or sent in by/from You; divination accounts on 37 and 490 pro- vide a description of the goods from this delivery. 386 This divination forms a set with 55.3-4↔247.15↔352.1. Only this divination record in- cludes the name Xing 興 at the end. It means the exorcism was made for him. 254 | HYZ 257