Mr. Ma Heng’s Contribution to Oracle Bone Studies at Its Initial Stage

Wang Su

Abstract: Ever since the late epigraphers have studied the inscriptions on oracle bones as The article Chinese appears much as on ancient bronzes and stone tablets, such as Mr. Ma Heng who himself purchased and gathered from page 004 to 010. oracle bone inscriptions, donated the rubbed and bound volumes to related academies and individuals for research, but also wrote handouts on oracle inscriptions for his lectures in Peking University and other institutions, which much promoted the publicity and popularization of oracle bone studies at its initial stage. Moreover, Mr. Ma Heng has cultivated a group of talented men of oracle studies to develop a new style of oracle seal script.

Keywords: Mr. Ma Heng ; purchase and collection of oracle bone inscription; handout on oracle inscriptions; publicity and popularization

Collating Notes on Oracle Inscription Rubbings of Mr. Ma Heng

Yang Yang

Abstract: In The Compilation of The Palace Museum Collected Oracle Inscriptions of Yinxu Ruins · Ma Heng The article Chinese appears Collection (Gùgōngbówùyuàn Cáng Yīnxū Jiǎgǔwén · Mǎ Héng Juàn) is included both his oracle bone from page 011 to 014. gatherings and his publication of Oracle Inscription Rubbings which works as the basis for the research panel to collate the account of the oracle bones donated by Huo Baolu to Peking University. The research ended in the solution to some long-time disputes in the academic circle.

Keywords: The Palace Museum; Ma Heng; Guoxue Men (The Institute of Sinology Studies); oracle bones; rubbings

A Piece of Oracle Inscription Collected by The Palace Museum from Xie Boshu

Han Yujiao

Abstract: The analysis based on high-definition images finds that the oracle inscription collected by the The article Chinese appears Palace Museum from the hand of Xie Boshu and included in The Compilation of Oracle Inscriptions (Hé Jí from page 015 to 019. (19769)) and other volumes actually bears three pieces of messages on divination altogether rather than two pieces as it used to be considered. Specifically, the characters of ‘ 老 ’ read ‘ 肇老 ’(zhào lǎo). ‘ 肇 (zhào)’ means ‘beget or cause’ and ‘ 老 ’(lǎo) means ‘dying’. The characters of ‘ 壬寅羌甘 ’ are text (Yàncí in Chinese ) to confirm the case that 羌甘(qiānggān) died on the day of 壬寅(rényín). It is deduced by the divinations that 羌甘 (qiānggān) people residing in 甘 region but conquered in the middle of King Wu Ding ( 武丁 ) period is a branch originated from Qiang ( 羌 ) tribe,.

Keywords: The Palace museum; Xie Boshu; oracle bone inscription; 羌甘 (qiānggān); ‘ 老 ’(lǎo); E( )

A Set of Assembled Oracle Inscriptions of The Palace Museum

Li Yanyan

Abstract: In this paper is presented a set of assembled oracle bone inscriptions of the Palace Museum. The The article Chinese appears bone is in the shape of left-front hyoplastron. The text concerns agriculture and sacrifice. The assemblage from page 020 to 025. offers basically complete information as for the locust disaster in the Shang dynasty.

Keywords: The Palace Museum; oracle bone inscriptions; assemblage; locust disaster

English abstract of the articles 109 A Contrast between Old and New Copies of Oracle Rubbings in The Compilation of Palace Museum Collected Oracle Inscriptions from Yinxu Ruins · Ma Heng Collection

Chen Pengyu

The article Chinese appears Abstract: The contrast between the old oracle rubbings in The Compilation of Oracle Inscriptions (Hé Jí from page 026 to 030. (49867)) and the new ones in The Compilation of The Palace Museum Collected Oracle Inscriptions of Yinxu Ruins· Ma Heng Collection (Gùgōngbówùyuàn Cáng Yīnxū Jiǎgǔwén · Mǎ Héng Juàn) for the first time makes sense of ‘ ( 孽 )’(‘niè in Chinese pinyin). The combination of ‘ 余孽 ’ and “ 余孽朕老工延我艰 ” in The Oracle Inscriptions Collection (Hé Jí (20613)) suggests that ‘ 朕老工 ’ refers to the former official ministers of royal family, whereas ‘延我艰’ means ‘the bad fortune from the Shang people continues’. The 诞 out of ‘惟 大艰人诞邻胥伐于厥室 ’ in Dagao of Shangshu (Shàngshū Dàgào) reads yán( 延 ) in grammar and sense.

Keywords: The Compilation of The Palace Museum Collected Oracle Inscriptions of Yinxu Ruins · Ma Heng Collection (Gùgōngbówùyuàn Cáng Yīnxū Jiǎgǔwén · Mǎ Héng Juàn); The Compilation of Oracle Inscriptions (Hé Jí); niè ( 孽 ); Dàgào ( 大诰 )

A Study of Early Faked Oracle Bone Inscription from The Palace Museum Collection

Jian Hua

The article Chinese appears Abstract: The Palace Museum has complicated sources of oracle bone inscriptions including few faked ones from page 031 to 035. of the total. The examination finds that some of the faked oracle inscriptions make no logical senses but a patchy number of characters together. Some imitations are done more skillfully than before. The thesis sums up the features of the early faked oracle inscriptions and the time when they were born.

Keywords: The Palace Museum; oracle bone inscriptions; true-and-false identification

The Model Evolution of Column Corbel-Brackets and Intermediate Corbel- Brackets in The Ming-Qing Official Architecture in and The Construction Time of Xianruoguan Hall in Cining’gong Garden of The Forbidden City

Wang Cangbo Xu Yitao

The article Chinese appears Abstract: With architectural archaeology method and archives this thesis focuses on two sets of from page 036 to 051. architectural components ---- column corbel-brackets and intermediate corbel-brackets in the Ming-Qing official timber buildings in Beijing selecting 4 groups of column corbel-brackets consisting of 14 models and 4 groups of intermediate corbel-brackets including 13 models to demonstrates their connections and six stages of development. The analysis above works with relevant historical documents to calculate the construction time of Xianruoguan Hall in Cining’gong Garden of the Forbidden City.

Keywords: Ming and Qing dynasties; Beijing; official buildings; periodization; Xianruoguan Hall

A Survey of The Ming-dynasty Bracket Set under The Timber Architecture Techniques Program of Dagaoxuandian Palace Complex

He Lejun Wu Wei

The article Chinese appears Abstract: The construction of Dagaoxuandian palace complex located northwest outside the Forbidden from page 052 to 069. City started in the 21st year of Emperor Jiajing’s ( 嘉靖 ) period as the imperial Daoist shrine for the Ming and Qing Courts. Based on the data gathered from surveying and mapping the bracket-set (Dougong) of the main and back palaces, which is a subproject under the protection and restoration program starting in April, 2015, this thesis calculates the measurement (Yingzao chi) and the number of Doukou by the forms of joint bracket-set

110 Palace Museum Journal No.8,2019 vol.208 and the types of components. The types of and the marks in the bracket-set support the judgement that the components be in style and design typically used in the traditional official wood structure and dated back to Emperor Jiajing’s ( 嘉靖 ) period of the when the palace complex was under early construction.

Keywords: Dagaoxuan Dian (Palace); brackets of Ming Dynasty; shape and type; scale; architectural marks

The Northern Dynasties’ Enclosed Palmette Pattern and Its Western Origin

Li Qiuhong

Abstract: The enclosed palmette patterns of the Northern Dynasties taking C-shaped vine for framework The article Chinese appears with the fanlike design have two forms ---- general and special. The former in general prevailed across from page 070 to 082. Pingcheng (Datong) area around the middle Northern-Wei dynasty with a few remaining to the Northern Qi dynasty occasionally found in Luoyang, Yan’an, Dunhuang and other places. The latter based on the former appeared only around Pingcheng (Datong) area for a short while in the middle and late Northern Wei dynasty. The pattern design derived from the similar in Mediterranean region, where it developed mature by the 5th to 4th century BC in the south Europe, then followed the eastern expedition of Alexander and Hellenization movement eastward to West Asia and Northwest India, and then reached where it got Sinicized to be a part of enclosed palmette pattern series with its unique style in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Keywords: palmette design; enclosed palmette design; Northern Dynasties; Pingcheng; ancient Greece and Rome

A More Discussion about The Age and Use of The Silk Tapestry TitledHealth and Longivity Based on The Patterns

Xiong Ying

Abstract: A Qing court collected k’o-ssu (Kèsī in Chinese pinyin) depicting a birthday celebration, titled The article Chinese appears Health and Longivity (Wànshòu Tú in Chinese pinyin), now housed in the Palace Museum in Taibei, is judged from page 083 to 096. by the time it bears as a product of the Song dynasty in The Third Edition of Shi Qu Collection of Paintings and Calligraphy (Shíqú Bǎojí Sānbiān in Chinese pinyin). However, judging by its style far away from that of the Song products featured by elegance and grace but much close to that of the silk embroidery unearthed in Dingling , it is therefore considered to be a decorative badge (Bǔzǐ in Chinese pinyin, a patch of pattern marking the rank) sewed on the back of a court gown usually dressed on the special occasions in the late Ming dynasty.

Keywords: k’o-ssu; a silk tapestry; Wànshòu Tú (Health and Longivity, a silk tapestry with birthday celebration design); Ming Dynasty; royal court; of special occasion

The Kapala Bowl with Gold Cover and Pedestal of The Palace Museum

Lin Huan

Abstract: In the thesis is a discussion about the Kapala bowl in its origin, artistic aesthetics and value, The article Chinese appears design, decoration, processing and so on based on the seven gold-decorated bowls in the collection of the from page 097 to 108. Palace Museum and the documents of the imperial workshop under Emperor Qianlong’s ( 乾隆 ) administration. Kapala works as a kind of Sarira worship in Buddhism. That Emperor Qianlong ( 乾隆) worshipped Kapala bowl reflected his belief in the ‘Nature Void’ idea that all phenomena have no essence of their own and are empty of a permanent self. On the other hand, he tried to enhance the policies to consolidate and unify the multi-ethnic groups by virtue of religions.

Keywords: Kapala Bow l; Emperor Qianlong ( 乾隆 ) ; religious ritual implements; Tibetan Buddhism

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