A Collation And Study On Buxun Oracle Bone Inscriptions Of Yinxu

Bu-xun was an important divination activity during the Shang Dynasty.The Prognosticator asked whether there was a disaster in the next ten days on Kui day,and then engraved this on the oracle bone to form the soothsaying sentences for the next ten days we saw.It has a long time span and runs through the Shang dynasty.Bu-xun is a kind of Oracle bone inscriptions which has a large number.It is an important material for studying the language and divination system of the Shang Dynasty.The sentence patterns of this kind of Oracle bone inscriptions have gone through a process from complex to simple,and have gradually been shaped in richness and change.The article starts from the category structure of the sentence patterns,and uses the Xu Speech,Ming Speech,Zhan Speech,and Yan Speech,etc.to constitute the lexical format for examining Bu Xun's dictions,supplemented by other components and additional notes.From the collation of lexical examples,it is found that Bu Xun speech seems to be the same,and in fact each group has its own characteristics.It developed into the Bin group.The basic lexical format of "Gui Moubu,Mou Zhen: Xun Wu Huo?" was fixed and continued in later generations.However,the common elements of Zhan Speech,Yan Speech,and Zhao Speech in the Bu-xun speech of the Bin group gradually disappeared in other groups,and the sentence patterns of the divination tended to be simple.Part of the Huang group's Bu-xun speech is beyond the basic example,and there are some supplementary contents of the narrative,such as the major events at that time,the arrangement of the weekly festival of Jiari,and the place of divination.According to the different divination materials used in Bu-xun,it can be divided into bull scapula and tortoise shell,the former is much larger than the latter.By examining the area where Bu-xun speech is on the scapula,the trend of lines arrangement,and the coherence of the time.It can be seen that Bu-xun speech has experienced a process from chaos to regularity.The upper end of the bone and bone surface gradually degenerate into non-engraved areas,and most of the divination on the scapula travels along the edge of the bone.The regularity of Bu-xun at the edge of the bone gradually increased,from the messy inscription to the coherence of divination time.It was engraved from the bottom to the top,with the writing facing the opposite side.Bin group the upper end of the bone and bone surface Later,they gradually gave up these two areas.Chu group and the Wuming group even make the two parts cut off.The Bin group usedthe bone face to re-engrave a certain day on the edge of the bone,because an important event occurred during this period,forming a phenomenon corresponding to the side,but with the simplification of Bu Xun's remarks,After it left Chu group we rarely see the phenomenon just like this.The same version of Bu-xun speech often shows that the order of the Zhao speech is the same,and the highest order is "three",which is a manifestation of the Prognosticator 's multiple things.An example of Bu Xun's complete set of oracle bones is given from the category of different editions of poems,aiming to discuss the characteristics of the Bu-xun system from the Shang Dynasty.There is little difference between the content and the writing of each version from the complete set of Bu-xun and there is a high consistency.The Huang group 's Bu-xun speech has more locations and comparisons,so it can be seen that there are many sets of oracle bones,and the relationship between the prognosticator and divination materials can be summarized.The third version of the left scapula is a prognosticator,and the third version of the turtle's plastron is another one.This phenomenon should be a long-standing practice in Oracle.The list of related sets of oracle bones is beneficial for us to learn this system.