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Peng, Bangjiong, ed. (1999), Jiǎgǔwén héjí bǔbiān 甲骨文合集补编 [Supplement to Jiaguwen heji], Yuwen, ISBN 7-80126-496-7. The first four volumes contain 13,450 further pieces from Anyang, grouped in the same way as in Heji. There are also 316 pieces from other sites grouped by site, 309 of them from the pre-conquest Zhou and 7 ...
Hu Houxuan (Chinese: 胡厚宣, 1911–1995) was a Chinese historian, chief editor and a contributor of the Jiaguwen Heji Shiwen (甲骨文合集释文), the modern Chinese transcriptions of the most comprehensive collection of the oracle bone inscriptions. [1]
1982: 甲骨文合集 Jiaguwen Heji (Oracle Collection), Shanghai: Zhonghua shuju, 1978–1983, 13 volumes (edited with Hu Houxuan) [50] - collection of 41,956 oracle bone inscriptions from Yinxu. Other nonfiction
Oracle bone script is the oldest attested form of written Chinese, dating to the late 2nd millennium BC.Inscriptions were made by carving characters into oracle bones, usually either the shoulder bones of oxen or the plastrons of turtles.
The result, the Jiaguwen Heji (1978–1982) was edited by Houxuan and Guo Moruo and, [h] with its supplement (1999) edited by Peng Bangjiong, is the most comprehensive catalogue of the oracle bone fragments. The 20 volumes contain reproductions of over 55,000 fragments.
The earliest version of Chinese writing, Oracle bone script (甲骨文; jiaguwen), found on tortoise plastrons and ox scapulae, was unearthed at the royal tombs in Yinxu. Wu Ding was the earliest monarch at that Shang capital. The contents are divinatory questions on war, human sacrifice, and national economy.
Graves in the form of cruciform pits have been discovered in Anyang containing chariots with their yokes, numerous bronze vases and the remains of human sacrifices, as well as the first Chinese inscriptions on oracle bones (Jiaguwen) or bronze vases. [2]
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