Chapter 1783 Li Gui and Oracle Bone Fusion Project
Researcher Wu pointed at the Li Gui: "This Li Gui itself is not big and not heavy, with a height of 28 cm, a diameter of 22 cm, and a weight of 7.95" Kilogram. That’s close to sixteen pounds.”
“An animal head with two ear lobes. , with a hanging belly and a continuous cast square base. The body and square base are decorated with Taotie patterns, and the four corners of the square base are decorated with cicada patterns. This kind of square base was first seen in bronze in the early Western Zhou Dynasty. "No researcher. Said: "This is the reason why Xu Shen and Zheng Xuan said that Gui is different. Originally, Gui and Gui are two kinds of ritual vessels, because they are both used to hold "Li Gui was unearthed in Lingkou Town, Lintong County, Shaanxi Province in 1976. It became a national treasure of our country because it was unearthed in 1976." The thirty-three-character inscription cast on it records the important historical event of King Wu's defeat of Zhou in the early morning of Jiazi Day. Historical events. Therefore, it is also known as 'King Wu conquered Shang Gui', 'Zhou Dynasty destroyed Gui', and 'Tan Gong Gui'."
Although bronze inscriptions and oracle bone inscriptions were produced in different times, oracle bone inscriptions appeared in the Shang Dynasty. , while bronze inscriptions appeared in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and their carriers are also different, but they all come from the same system of seal scripts - Dazhuan.
However, the writing standards of merchants and Zhou people each had additions and deletions, and the difference in many characters between the two was still very large. Even Zhou Zhi, who was proficient in oracle bone inscriptions, could not recognize all the gold inscriptions on this artifact.
Fortunately, there is a piece of paper beside the utensil. In addition to the rubbing inscription, there is also a contrasting text written in regular script next to it: "King Wu conquered business, only Jiazi Dynasty, Sui Ding, Kehunsu Youshang, Xinwei, Wang In Lanshi, there is (right) Shi (History) Lijin, which is used as Tan Gong Baozun Yi. "
"Who is this Tan Gong?" Sakamoto Goro's main focus is on porcelain, bronze ware and Shang and Zhou history. Not very understanding.
"Gong Danfu, surnamed Ji, given name Dan, also known as King Tai of Zhou." Xintian once mainly collected bronzes, and knew much about these: "The grandfather of King Zhou Wen, the founder of the Zhou Dynasty. ”
“Yes, he is the queen Ji's twelfth generation grandson, historically considered to be a key figure in the great achievements of Hou Ji and Gong Liu, and the prosperous age of King Qi Wen and King Wu. He was a far-sighted politician, reformer, and military strategist. He was a historical figure. Famous wise king.”
"Mianmiangualu. The people were born in the early days of Juqi. The ancient Duke and Danfu, Tao Fu Tao Cave, did not have a family. The ancient Duke and Danfu came to the court and led the Western Water Margin to Qixia. Yuanji Jiang Nu, Yu came to Xu Yu. Zhou Yuan was juicy and sweet, and the pansy tea was sweet. "
"The song "Mian" in "The Book of Songs·Daya·Wang Wangzhi" is about sandalwood. The Duke led the Zhou people to migrate from Juqi Ershui to Qixia, multiplying and prospering. "
"The accumulation of elbows is so rich." Researcher Wu praised: "You must study bronze inscriptions. It should be a surprise to get twice the result with half the effort and constantly find corresponding historical facts in the inscriptions.”
"The reason why this artifact is important is that it mentions two times, 'Jiazi' and 'Xinwei'."
"King Wu went to business, only Jiazi Dynasty, Sui Ding, Kehun, Su During the reign of Emperor Xinwei of Shang Dynasty, the king was in charge of Lanshi and gave You (right) Shi (History) money, which was used as Tan Gong Baozun Yi." Zhou Zhi read the inscription: "The meaning of the text is not the same. It's hard to explain. King Wu went to conquer Shang in the morning of Jiazi day. When the moon came out, Shang conquered the Shang capital. The local army gathered troops and gave the deputy commander named Li good gold to make ritual vessels for worshiping his ancestor Tan Gong. "
"But how should we explain the word 'Sui Ding' here?" "This is the most controversial point." Researcher Wu said: "According to what Huang Huaixin, Tang Lan, Yu Shengwu, Zhang Zhenglang, Xu Zhongshu and others have done After research, Mr. Zhang Zhenglang advocated the "Sui Ding" and the "Sui" "Bu" has nothing to do with it. "Sui" refers to the year star, which is Jupiter. The interpretation of "ding" is "ding", which is translated as "dang", which means "the year star is in the sky";"
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"Mr. Xu Zhongshu thinks that the word "ding" should be read as 'Ze'. According to Guo Zhongshu's "Peijian" Mr. Xu Zhongshu and Mr. Zhang Zhenglang both believe that "Sui" means the year star, and Sui Ze means that the year star is directly above the army."
< br>"Mr. Tang Lan believes that these two words should be 'Yue Ding', which means seizing The person who won the tripod is most likely You Shili, who won the heavy prize."
"Mr. Chui Fengnian also thinks that these two words are not "Sui Ding". It should be '戍戍', which means that the merchant army was stationed here."
"Mr. Qi Guiyan believes that 'Sui' is the star of Sui in the sky, which means a good omen. 'Sui' is the star of Sui, and the training of 'Ding' is appropriate."
"Mr. Yu Shengwu, Zhao Cheng, Huang Shengzhang, and Wang Yuxin Others think that these two characters should be "Sui Zhen", which means "Sui Zhen" is performed during the Sui Festival."
"Mr. Zhao Cheng also thinks that it is 'Sui Zhen'. The word "zhen" is used, but the word "sui" here is not "year", but "year". This sentence means "zhen asks about the major events of this year", which seems to make sense."
"There are so many explanations..." Zhou Zhi feels that Chinese characters are very charming, but there are also problems, that is, they are too concise and the meanings of the characters are too rich, which makes it very easy to It can cause ambiguity, especially in ancient Chinese literature, which is succinct and concise. If it encounters "simple words with rich meaning", then there are really a hundred Hamlets in the eyes of a hundred people: "But no matter what, the record of the Makino Battle here is It happened on the Jiazi day, and the record of one day's defeat of Shang is the same as in "Shangshu Mu Shi", "The Jiazi day was ambiguous and refreshing. As for the king's visit to Muye in the suburbs of Shang, it is consistent with "Huainanzi·Bingluexun" that "the kingdom of Zhou was defeated in one day of fighting"..."
"If there really is an astronomical phenomenon such as the star of the year in the sky..." Zhou Zhi Suddenly I thought of a major event that happened in the world of Chinese literature and history: "Has the project of dating the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties not started yet?"
"What? Is there such a project?" Researcher Wu asked.
“I think you can give it a try.” Zhou Zhi’s heart was pounding: “Our Shu University and Yin Xu jointly launched an oracle bone splicing project, which is to scan the oracle bone fragments that have been discovered, and then have The computer uses a program to detect the shape of the edges of the oracle bones and find the oracle bones that can be put together. By joining them together, some pieces of armor with only sporadic characters can be assembled into a complete armor with complete inscriptions. This project is still in progress, and some results have been achieved. The "Collection of Oracle Bones" has been published. "Oracle Bone Fusion Sequel" and "Oracle Bone Fusion Episode Three". "
" At the same time, we also sorted out the rubbings, photos and other materials collected in various places in the past, and finally stored these materials in the database. Now we are trying to sort out an "Oracle Bone Zhenwen Chronicle" through the information recorded on the oracles. "Outline"
"Many methods are used here. , such as the characteristics of the era of carving norms, the era of the knotting principle, the process of variant characters from original characters to changed characters, etc., are all clues to this chronology. "
"And the most important of them is, of course. Records of dates in Zhenwen and inscriptions, as well as certain important celestial phenomena. ”