# Heji 1: Bin-group scapula of King Wu Ding's reign, National Museum of China

> The ox scapula fragment that opens the Jiaguwen heji. Its inscription, read in full, records the king's order to the zhongren (the dependent labour…

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# Heji 1: Bin-group scapula of King Wu Ding's reign, National Museum of China

DocumentCC0 1.0Period I, reign of Wu Ding, c. 1250 to 1200 BC

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**Not kept here.** This copy isn't ours to show. [See it where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Late_Shang_Ox_Bone_with_Writing_(9830196753).jpg).

The ox scapula fragment that opens the Jiaguwen heji. Its inscription, read in full, records the king's order to the zhongren (the dependent labour force) to work the fields together in expectation of a harvest, in the eleventh month. Another piece of the same bone is Hebu 657. It stands for the legible majority of the corpus against which the unread graphs are measured.

Gary Lee Todd, 1250. CC0 1.0

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**Photograph (national museum of china display)** Gary Lee Todd · commons.wikimedia.org · 2011-09-01 · CC0 1.01 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Late_Shang_Ox_Bone_with_Writing_(9830196753).jpg)

**Transcription and english reading** Kuang Yu Chen, Zhenhao Song, Yuan Liu, Matthew Anderson · doi.org · 2020 · publisherPrimary source: [Reading of Shang Inscriptions](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHP4CSQ3R/reading-of-shang-inscriptions)2 steps from the original

[Where it's published](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6214-3)

## Sources 2

- [Jiaguwen heji (Collected Oracle-Bone Inscriptions), 13 volumes](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFYD5ZFHF/jiaguwen-heji-collected-oracle-bone-inscriptions-13-volumes)_SRC_
- [Reading of Shang Inscriptions](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHP4CSQ3R/reading-of-shang-inscriptions)_SRC_

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