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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 475.1
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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 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 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 , in this instance modifying cattle, is a place/lineage name and the cattles point of origin. Later sources write both as both and . 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 Bojuns Zuozhuan commentary locates it just northeast of Xinjiang, Shanxi 西.) Western Zhou bronzes of the Jia and lineages were found together during a 1970s excavation in Wenxi, Shanxi 西; see the commentary to the delivery receipt notation 26.1. 374 | HYZ 475