Abstract
In the winter of 1965 at Jiangling in Hubei Province more than 270 bamboo strips, including fragmentary ones, of the late Warring States period were discovered at the tomb of Wangshan. The content of the Bamboo inscriptions in tomb 1 falls under the category ‘Augural Records’, which record divination and sacrificial activities.
Owing to the difficulties lying within the verifications of ancient Chinese characters, some of the cases are worth studying. Basing himself on the past publications such as, ‘The Research on Chu Bamboo Slips of Warring States period’, ‘The Chu Bamboo Slips from Wangshan’ and ‘The Collections of Chu Bamboo Slips of Warring States Period’ and etc., the author finds that there are still different voices on four such cases.
1. The character ‘ ’, formerly as ‘ ’, should be transcribed as ‘相’. 2. The character ‘ ’, formerly as ‘見’, should be transcribed as ‘得’. 3. The character ‘ ’, formerly as ‘ ’, should be transcribed as ‘ ’. 4. The character ‘ ’ should be transcribed as ‘乇’, which is an erratum of ‘卜’.
Keywords
Chu Bamboo Slips from Wangshan, augural records, 相 , 不得福, verifications of ancient Chinese characters
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