Yin Ruins South Of The Village Family Oracle Bone Inscriptions Of The Collation And Research

The two series theory of the soothsaying test in Yin Dynasty Oracle Bones believe that the Oracle Bones in Yin Dynasty includes two pairs which resulted from two oracle departments set up in Shang Dynasty. All divinations inscribed in oracle bones by oracle department of Village South is called Series Oracle Bones from Xiaotun Locus South. This Series Oracle Bones composes of two parts. One is Oracle Bones discovered scientifically in Xiaotun Locus South of AnYang, HeNan Province in 1973. Another is Oracle Bones discovered unscientifically at the same place before. The former is charactered in Oracle Bones from Xiaotun Locus South, the latter is separated in General Compile of Oracle Bones, Addendum of General Collection of Oracle Bones, Compile of Oracle Bones Collected by Briton and Compile of Oracle Bones Collected by White.Firstly, the author reviews the relative research on this Series of Oracle Bones in recent years and then brings up the author's research fields and research goals. Generally, this article focuses on two aspects as follows. First, the article arranges special introduction of all Oracle Bones Gather from Xiaotun Locus South based on the research of the forerunners. Second, the author analyzes the sacrificing, the hunting, the war, the soothsaying, the seaming, the ordinary soothsaying text and the font's style of the soothsaying text in Oracle Bones from Xiaotun Locus South.Part I focuses on the first aspect and it contains nine components which explain the titles, the front's style, the trait of the text, the type of the writing, the names of the characters and places, and so on. Based on the classified research of the pioneers, the author rearranges some new categories, such as nontypical unpaired soothsaying text, Wuhuang-A, Wuhang-B, Wuhuang-C, etc.Part II is emphasized from chapter 3 to chapter 9, concluding seven sections, such as the sacrificing, the hunting, the war, the soothsaying, the seaming, the ordinary soothsaying text and the font's style of the soothsaying text, etc. What we should point out is that the author researches the contents of the war, the hunting, the soothsaying, the soothsaying text using same word by two steps. To begin with, the author classifies the relative soothsaying text into different categories according to the present classification. And then, the embodiers of same thesis in all categories are reviewed and the different traits revealing in all categories are compared. For example, chapter 3 is about the power of duities and details of sacrificing. Chapter 4 not only reviews the wars described in Li Category and Unknown Category, but also compares the soothsaying in both categories. Chapter 5 reviews the duration of hunting, the place of hunting, the relation between hunting and sacrificing, the relation between hunting and military affairs. At the same time, this chapter compares the problems that are homologic in all categories. Chapter 6 reviews the contents and the types of writing in the Category One of Li, the Category Two of Li and the Unknown Category. Chapter 7 reviews the whole aspect of Li Category and Unknown Category as well as compares with both. The author arranges thirteen examples of Oracle Bones which is seamed by the author and compiles the research of the relative seaming in Oracle Bones Gather from Xiaotun Locus South in chapter 9. Lastly, much as the review about usage of ordinary soothsaying text and the verbs used in sacrificing, chapter 10 and 11 reviews the aspect of word-using and fonts style.