The Comparative Research Of The Main Zhenren Materials Of The Bin Group Inscriptions In The Collection Of Oracle Bone Inscriptions

During the Shang dynasties,“Zhenren”(divination people)was a priest who presided over the affairs of royal divination.Zhenren ’s name is mostly placed after the former word "ganzhibu" and before the word “zhen” in the oracle bone inscriptions.Others are mostly found in the signatures or records of non-divination memorial inscriptions,and some are in the content of the divination.According to statistics,there are more than 70 divination people with oracle bone inscriptions in the waste of Yin.Among them,the Bin group is the group with the largest number of oracle bone descriptions.The era of the oracle bones in this group is roughly in the middle and late Wuding period(the lower limit can be extended to the early Zugeng period).There are more zhenren in this group,which can be seen in “Collection”There are mainly 28 in the four works of Collection of Research on Oracle Inscriptions,A Complement to the Collection of Research on Oracle Inscriptions Oracle Bone Collection in Peking University and Oracle Bone Collection in Great Britain.The common ones are: Qiao,Bin,Zheng,Gu,Huan,Nei,Yong,and so on.Except Rao Zongyi’s General Research on Zhenbu Characters of Yin Dynasty,there is still a lack of systematic discussions on the issue of oracle bone inscriptions on the zhenren,especially the sorting and research on the main zhenren and related issues seen by the Bin group.Therefore,on the basis of sorting out the materials,combined with the method of genealogy,summarizing and comparing the main responsibilities and division of labor during the service of the Shang dynasty by the Zhenren,so as to have a deeper understanding of the source of the Zhenren and other related issues.This article is divided into four parts: The first part is the introduction,which mainly explains the concept of the zhenren,and briefly elaborates the basis of the main zhenren and the choice of rhetoric.At the same time,it reviews the related research on the zhenren in the academic circle.In addition,on the basis of introducing the object group inscriptions and related information in Collection of Research on Oracle Inscriptions and A Complement to the Collection of Research on Oracle Inscriptions,discuss the necessity and value of using the classification results of object group inscriptions;The first chapter first introduces the specific situations of the important 7 zhenren: such as Qiao、Bin、Zheng、Gu、Huan、Nei、Yong.Second,it sorts out and analyzes the main categories of the zhenren;The second chapter studies the related content of the inscriptions of the main zhenren seen by the Bin group,including the compilation of the same version of the zhenren(two people in the same version,three people in the same version,four people in the same version,and six people in the same version)And research,also explored the interrelationship between the zhenren and the zhenren.In addition,the material of the divination by the Zhenren was organized and a systematic comparative study was conducted on several issues of the divination by “Bin”and“Qiao”.The concluding part focused on summarizing the issues discussed above.And summary.