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To end Xiao Jia’s day (of worship service),186 our lord will call to hunt. 1 182 The reading of this graph as chong 舂follows Huang Tianshu 2006: 403. Axel Schuessler (2007: 189) defines it as “to hull grain”, but its meaning here is uncertain; perhaps it should be read chong 摏 “smash”. Yan 姸depicts a female with hairpins and is the ancestral form of zan 簪 “hairpin”; the Shuowen jiezi defines it as ji 技 “skilled”. See HYZ 458. 183 Combined by Sun Yabing 2011a: 230, note 4. 184 Sun Yabing 2011a: 230, note 4. : Yao Xuan (2006: 96-97) reads this as a ligature combining the toponym (=沁) “Qin” and (= tai 薹) “tower”. Reconstructing the dative preposition yu 于is based on 502: 臺于南 “Tower in the south”‖于北 “In the north”. 146 | HYZ 87