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Divined on Guimao: Tomorrow, libate ale in the afternoon. 1 578 The divination sequence, dated Jisi, is preparing to make offerings in Rong for Ancestress Geng on the following day, Gengwu. The preposition 于 “in” reveals that the prince was not yet in Rong but expected to be there by the following day. “The fields of Rong” had to have then been considered outside of “Rong”. 474 can be synchronized with 491 and the latter, in a postface, states that rites were performed for Ancestress Geng at Rong on day Gengwu having returned from a hunt. 579 Xun 旬, in this instance modifying “cattle”, is a place/lineage name and the cattle’s point of origin. Later sources write 旬both as both 荀and 郇. Records in the Zuozhuan (Duke Xi, year 24; Duke Huan, year 9) indicate that during the Spring and Autumn period it was located in south- west Shanxi. (Yang Bojun’s Zuozhuan commentary locates it just northeast of Xinjiang, Shanxi 山 西新絳.) Western Zhou bronzes of the Jia 賈and 郇lineages were found together during a 1970’s excavation in Wenxi, Shanxi 山西聞喜; see the commentary to the delivery receipt notation 26.1. 374 | HYZ 475