摘要
殷周金文中有*字,曩不识。根据甲骨文和金文的"鶆"字可知此字当是"莱"的象形初文,乃蔓华之象形,也被假借为"鶆"。殷周金文中均用为国族名,即莱国,不过这个"莱"和东夷的莱国无关,当是与殷商同姓的子姓莱(来)国,本是为商王负责捕鹰养鹰以辅助田猎的部族,其地当在今天的安阳附近。东夷的莱国当是鷞鸠氏,乃是以鶆为图腾的东夷部族,为少皞族之一支,它很可能也是嬴姓或偃姓。
There is an unknown character * inscribed on the bronze ware in Yin and Zhou Dynasties.It maybe the oldest pictograph of Lai(莱) according to the oracle and bronze inscription of 鶆,a kind of grass.In the inscription on the bronze ware in Yin and Zhou Dynasties,this character was used as names of state or family,i.e.Lai State.This Lai should not be the Lai(莱) State in the East,but the same like Shang State whose duty was to catch and cultivate eagles to help the Shang king’s hunting and lived near the present Anyang.The Lai State in the east maybe the Shuangjiu(鷞鸠) ethnic group whose totem was lai(鶆),it maybe a branch of the Shaohao(少昊) ethnic group whose first name would be Ying(赢) or Yan(偃).
出处
《洛阳师范学院学报》
2013年第7期46-49,共4页
Journal of Luoyang Normal University
关键词
鶆
莱
殷周
金文
Lai(鶆)
Lai(莱)
Yin and Zhou Dynasty
bronze objects
