Selected readings of Oracle Bone Inscriptions hunting Oracle Bone Inscriptions

During the slack season, the ancients had the habit of hunting and practicing martial arts for battle. This habit is reflected in the Book of Songs, that is, the next day, they shared martial arts. It is in the twelfth lunar month that everyone gets together to go hunting. In this lesson, we will read two paragraphs of Oracle Bone Inscriptions related to hunting.

This piece of Oracle Bone Inscriptions is incomplete. So the bird we saw was Jane asking if she could catch wild animals.

Yin Ruins, 764 edition

Bird? I don't allow wild animals. There are only six birds, six jackals in seventy and nine jackals in ninety.

The bird is like a net, with the handle below and the net above. Take this net to net things. Later, I added the word "today" and read Qí n. At the back, a horizontal bar was added below.

A decorative stroke was added to the left of the horizontal line. In Xiao Zhuan, it bends this horizontally and writes our present bird.

In fact, there is something wrong with the explanation of this word in Shuo Wen Jie Zi.

Names of birds and animals. From wind, hieroglyphics, to today's sounds. Birds, birds and birds have similar heads.

It is problematic to interpret the following as a word from the beginning. But it says the total name of birds and animals in front. No problem.

Because of what? Look at the health gymnastics created by Hua Tuo again. There are animals in the Wuqinxi.

The Oracle asked: Birds, are there any birds? On Ren Shen's day, Ren Shen allowed wild animals to kill many animals.

Animal character, on its left is a long-tailed dog and on its right is a hunting tool.

This glyph changes step by step in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Scripture, Xiao Zhuan and Sleeping Tiger Bamboo Slips.

At first, there was no circle on it. Later, it drew two more circles and added something like a wheel in the middle of the tool. Later, the vertical axis below was bent into a circle, which became the animal character of Xiao Zhuan.

Another change in the animal character of Xiao Zhuan is the animal character we are writing now. The word hunting next to the word dog we are writing now is a later word. Why do you want to make this hunting next to the word dog? Because the word beast already means that the beast is gone. This means that the animals have already left. So the hunting activity is devoted to recreating a hunting beside the word dog.

There are only six birds. Look at the word "only".

Birds above, hands below. Catch the bird with one hand. Just, read it.

Shuowen said: Only one bird is not bad. Take a good one and say only, and two say double.

This word means bird. What if it's two birds? Shuowen extended "two beauties say double". Kill two birds with one stone.

Birds get six. What is it?

Shuowen said: green as bison, pictographic. This word is hieroglyphics. It depicts a cow. This cow looks like a bison. Its color is blue, but it is actually a big rhinoceros.

This is a rhinoceros, and six rhinoceroses have been captured.

I also caught tapirs. How many tapirs are there? There are seventy tapirs. This tapir describes the shape of a pig. Pigs have a big belly and a short tail.

Seventy is six. Seven, a horizontal, there is a vertical, this vertical is particularly long, 70, which is actually a combination of the two. If it is ten, it is a vertical; If it is seven, it is one horizontal and one vertical, which is basically equal.

The shaft above has been extended, that is, there are six out of seventy, that is, 76 pigs have been caught.

Song, out of 99.

A roe is an animal like a deer. It caught 199, and these nine are also very special. Nine was originally placed diagonally on it, but if it was put straight, it would not be nine, but ninety. China's ancient writing is amazing. If you lengthen a word, or change the inclination slightly, it is two words. Nine tenths. If you add a word to represent numbers, the ancients also put nouns first. The ancients hunted and really caught many wild animals.

Let's take a look at another adventure Oracle.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions, 6409 edition.

Battle was a particularly important activity in ancient times.

"Zuo Zhuan in the Spring and Autumn Period" said: "The great event of a country lies in respecting peace and glory." Are the two most important things in a country. One is sacrifice and the other is war. So, before you fight, you should ask your ancestors and God, that is, can you win this battle?

The 6409 edition of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's Collection Theory

Ding You, Bukou Town: "Today, Wang Ren is 5,000 square meters. What did you get? March. "

Ding You held a divination activity that day. Who asked Zhen? A man named Xuan asked.

What did Zhen ask? Today, Wang * * *' s people are carrying out five thousand frontal earthwork. Suffer. Suffer?

Now our king has collected 5000000 to conquer the earth, will he be blessed? The time of divination is recorded in March.

Today the king * * * people five thousand.

* * *, pronounce gǒng, one left and one right. As far as Xiao Zhuan is concerned, it seems that two hands are pinched together, so the arch is to put two hands together. There are also two hands together and then pushed out of the body. This is an ancient bow ceremony.

When both hands are stretched out, they are stretched out, indicating gathering, gathering and convening.

* * * people just bring people together.

People are also very vivid, like the shape of people standing on one side. Later, the writing changed and became a slap in the face.

5 thousand, this thousand is also very special. Just add a horizontal line under people, which is 1000 words.

If I ask you, I want you to pay two thousand, three thousand and four thousand, what do you say? We ancient people were very clever. He drew two horizontal lines under the man, that is, two thousand, three horizontal lines are three thousand and four horizontal lines are four thousand.

Orthography is orthography. Read zhēng with a box on it. This frame can be painted black or not. There is a foot here, which means this foot is going in this direction. What is this direction? It is a city, and it is positive, so it means conquest and travel.

Later, we added a double next to this word, which is the symbol of our long March now. Some people think that this word is not a knowing word, but a pictophonetic word. The box above is Ding, and Ding stands for pronunciation, which makes sense.

Bitter and bitter. It was amazing for us, so he used his right hand to express his blessing. How to express blessings with your right hand? We know that the two important auxiliary organs of the human body are the left hand and the right hand. Can help us do many things. So this means assistance, and yes, it means blessing. Then the auxiliary blessing is unfolded from the left hand and the right hand.

The Oracle said that the king wanted to clean up the earth and summoned 5000 people. So, was this war successful? You can't see it in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, because it doesn't have awkward words. Why don't you quit? It is related to the characteristics of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's divination activities. This kind of Oracle divination sometimes takes a long time to write a witness. He won't carve it until he gets it. Sometimes there may be no response, so he stops carving.

Therefore, from this Oracle, we have no way to know whether the military action to recover land has won or not.

However, this situation rarely appears in inscriptions on bronze. Because the annual bronzes and cast characters are generally to commemorate a major event, the results are known, so they should be expressed in the classics. We know the result of the war and everything.

Next class, I'm going to learn the bronze inscriptions that record the exploits, and the white plate of scorpions.