Preliminary Study Of The Yin Ruins Garden The Guanzhuang To Oracle Bone Inscriptions

In the fall of 1991, the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, excavated at Huayuanzhuang Locus East within the Yin Ruins and discovered in Ash-pit H3 1583 pieces of oracle bones and tortoise shells, of which 689 bear inscriptions and are mostly intact and so especially valuable. The most important feature of H3 inscriptions is that the main body of divination was not the king but Zi(子). Great in amount and rich in content,H3 inscriptions which were hailed as "the third important discovery of Oracle Bones after the discovery of Ash-pit YH127 in Xiaotun Locus North within the Yin Ruins in 1936 and the Oracle Bones in Xiaotun Locus South within the Yin Ruins in 1973". This article is initial findings in the study of these inscriptions.Unconcerned with the study from a historical or linguistical standpoint, this article aims at and centres about the reliable, exhaustive and accurate text trimness.The original trimmers have many insufficiencies in the comments or explanations to the Huadong oracle inscriptions, By careful collating, we amend some errors and complement some omissions in their exegeses and make a more reliable and accurate exegeses. By searching the relations of the oracle inscriptions on the same bone or the inscriptions on different bones which divine the same thing, we also link a legion of correlative inscriptions to make the connections of the divining events more precise.In H3 inscriptions, a person named Ding (丁) appears many times.The trimmers consider that "Two Ding (丁) exist at the same time in H3 inscriptions". That is to say, there were two Ding (丁) , one was alive, and the other was dead. Researchers have already made a judgment that the Ding (丁) alive is the king of Shang. This article further proves that every Ding (丁) in H3 inscriptions is the living one, viz. WuDing ( 武丁), the king of Shang, and no Ding (丁) can be affirmed to be the...