English: Oracle bone recording divinations by Zhēng 爭, one of the Bīn 賓 group of diviners from period I, corresponding to the reign of King Wu Ding (late Shang dynasty).
☐☐卜,☐,貞[旬]亡𡆥。 [... divined: in the next ten days there will be no disasters.]
left:
癸卯卜,爭,貞旬亡𡆥。甲辰☐大掫風,之曰皿,乙巳[疛]𰙫(⿱止幸)☐五人。五月在[𦎧]。 [guǐmǎo (day 40) Zheng divined: in the next ten days there will be no disasters. jiǎchén (day 41) ... strong gale, evening cleaved to yǐsì (day 42), captured ... five people. Fifth month, in Dun.]
middle:
癸丑卜,爭,貞旬亡𡆥。王𰉏(⿴囗占)曰:有祟,有夢。甲寅,允有來艱。左告曰:有往芻自𰤹(⿱汄皿),十人又二。 [guǐchǒu (day 50) Zheng divined: in the next ten days there will be no disasters. ...]
right:
癸丑卜,爭,貞旬亡𡆥。三日乙卯[有]𰌌(⿰壴女)艱,單邑豊[尿]于彔……丁已貍子豊尿……鬼亦得疾。 [guǐchǒu (day 50) Zheng divined: in the next ten days there will be no disasters. Third day, yǐmǎo (day 52) ... dīngsì (day 54) ... The Gui will also have sickness.]
References
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978-7-5004-8462-2.
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978-7-81118-651-2.
大型牛骨刻辞(in Chinese). National Museum of China. Retrieved on 11 March 2015.
Liu, Xueshun (2005) The first known Chinese calendar: A reconstruction by the synchronic evidential approach (PhD thesis)[1], University of British Columbia, page 123
Chen, Kuang Yu; Zhenhao Song; Yuan Liu; Matthew Anderson (2020) Reading of Shāng Inscriptions, Springer, Shanghai People's Publishing House, pp. 41–43 ISBN:
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