清华简《楚居》熊绎“卜徙”探赜

A Discussion on Xiongyi Divining the Cause of the Moving in the Chapter Chuju of Tsinghua Bamboo Strip Manuscripts

清华简《楚居》详细记载了从商末到战国初期历代楚先公先王居邑的变迁情况,其中惟有熊绎徙居书"卜",应是《楚居》作者对熊绎始封立国的称美。熊绎在迁徙之前进行占卜,意在昭示此次徙居乃神明之意,从而使民众更加信服。"夷屯"即夷水之滨的屯地,其得名或与屯卦有关。

The Chapter Chuju of Tsinghua Bamboo Strip Manuscripts detailed records that the generations of ancestors of Chu moved the capital to another place from the late Shang Dynasty to the early Warring States Period. Only in the age of Xiong Yi recorded divination and it suggests the author of Chuju said praise to Xiongyi who established the Chu. Xiongyi divined before the moving to indicate that the moving was under divine guid- ance. As a result, his people would be more convinced. Yizhun was on the bank of the Yi River and its name may relate with Zhun Gua.