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A Discussion of Personages Mentioned in the Huadong and Wang Groups of Oracle Bone Inscriptions

jiz i". This has a definite r eference val ue for resear ch on the pr oblem of"Qin Zi" in bronze inscriptions and investigations of the early history of the Qin state. Key words: Spring and Autumn History; Qin Zi; Qin ziji; Qin Chuzi Bronzes;Epigraphy. A Discussion of Personages mentioned in the Huadong and Wang Groups of Oracle Bone Inscriptions Wei Cide T he art icl e Chines e appears Abstract: The author discusses a number of names that appear in both the Huadong and frompage 33 t041 Wang Groups of oracle bone inscriptions, including MM, Ao, Wei, MM, Shu and Zi Xing, and points out that the names Zang Wei, MM Yi and the officiant Zi Xing's details from the Huadong group can be used to date the periods to which these inscriptions belong. The article also demonstrates that the Huadong Group of divinations has orthographic similarities with the Li Group. Key words: Huadong Group of oracle bone inscriptions; periodisation; the zhenren Wei Zi Xing. A Preliminary Discussion on the Identification of " Zi" in the Huadong Group of Oracle Bone Inscription as Wu Ding's Son Y a o X n a n Abstract: Most of the Fei Wang group of inscribed oracle bones and scapulae found at the Eastern Locus at Huayuanzhuang in Yinxu name the main ancestor as "Zu Yi" or "Zu Jia". The cataloguers identify this "Zu Yi" as the same person named in the contemporary Wang Group of inscriptions, namely the son of Zhong Ding and the father of Zu Xin, while "Zu Jia" is identified as Zu Yi's son Wo Jia (or Qiang Jia). Thus the character "Zi" in the Huadong group of inscribed oracle bones is identified as the descendant of the oracular "protagonist" (zhuren) Wo Jia. Yet a number of researchers have already demonstrated that this deduction introduces an inconsistency between the sacrificial procedures adhered to for Zu Jia and Zu Yi in the Huadong Zi Group of divinations, 156 Palace Museum Journal N042005.

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