金文所见“菽麦”考

On the ‘Shumai' in Bronze Inscriptions

本文对仲父盘上一个旧认为是从辶、舟、禾的字提出新的释读意见,通过字形分析,认为此字应分析为从辶、■,其中的"■"为声符,在铭文中可读为"菽"。相关铭文可组成"菽麦"这样一个词语,可与文献用语相互印证。"菽"为五谷之一,此字的释读在农业史研究方面也是一种进步。

The author offers a new interpretation for an important character in inscriptions of the Zhongzhafu pan basin. Through palaeographic analysis, the author suggests the character that used to be considered composing of 辶, 舟, and 禾 should be transcribed differently. This character should only consists of 辶 and , in which the part is the phonetic component. For this reason, this character should be read as shu（菽）, and the related character should compose the compound shumai（菽麦）together, which can be identifi ed in other transmitted texts. As one of the fi ve major crops, the identifi cation of shu（菽） shed new light on the history of agriculture.