卜辞所见商代晚期封国分布考

The Research on the Distribution of the Fudal States in the Later Period of the Shang Dynasty

我们支持商代晚期出现分封制度的观点。本文所考的 36个国家分别被封为侯、伯、亚、子等爵称 ,在相当长一段时间内 ,与商王朝保持着密切的关系 ,或进贡或来朝 ,有的还与商族保持着婚姻关系 ,成为商王十分倚重的力量 ;这些封国主要分布在今河南省中北部、山西省中南部和商王畿的东南部 ;封国外侧多方国分布 ,其藩屏王室的目的显而易见 ;全文充分依据卜辞中丰富的历史地理材料 ,对

We are in favor of the viewpoint that the system of enfeoffment came into being in the later period of shang Dynasty. The 36 states studied in this paper were granted the titles as marquis, earl, ya, viscount and so on, which kept a close relation with the shang dynasty to which they paid tribute or respects and some of them kept marital relationship with the Shang families and they finally became the strength heavily relied on by the Shang emperor. These states were mainly distributed over today's centre-north part of Henan and centre-south part of Shanxi and the south-east part of the nearby area of the capital of the Shang Dynasty. With Fang States around the fudal states, the royal family's purpose was obvious. With abundant history and geography in formation from the oracle-bone inscriptions, this paper makes research one by one on the landforms and distribution of the 36 fudal states.