The words for the moon phase in the inscriptions on bronze wares in the Zhou dynasty are open to different interpretations, and the calculation of the moon phase dates clarifies the ambiguities of the bronze moon phase words. Calculation of the time interval between the calendar solunar dates in two bronze ware inscriptions can be made, because the calendar solunar dates (gan-zhi 干支) were in a constant cycle of 60 days. Calculation of the date interval between the two moon phases on the same two bronze ware inscriptions also can be made , because the moon phase is also in cycles. The narrative tradition in the inscriptions of the Shang and Zhou dynasties includes a date series: the day in the solunar cycle, the month and the year of a king’s reign, and the day in the moon phase cycle. By comparing whether the two intervals meet or not, one can verify whether the bronze moon-phase idioms are meaningful, and it can also be confirmed whether the chronology of the kings of Zhou compiled by the previous scholars is resonable and create a new chronology through iterative calculation. The time intervals calculated in this paper chronicle every imperial event from the Zhou dynasty to the Shang dynasty, which rebuild a new chronology for the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties. All modern attempts are hindered by a basic assumption, that the bone calendar of the Shang Dynasty is the same as the bronze calendar of the Zhou Dynasty, but it is completely different from the bronze calendar of Zhou, when reading the Bronze Annals (this paper) alongside the Bone Annals (last paper) and as seen in Table 24. In addition, although the inscriptions related to the lunar phases are extremely difficult to understand, through computation, the records of three lunar eclipses on bronze vessels in the Zhou and Shang dynasties are newly recognized, which helps to reconstruct a new chronological list of the kings of Zhou.

周代金文記事承接商代卜辭行文傳統，記事的時間用干支和月相互訓。有些 甲骨上刻寫的大事的記時包括時王的年、月和干支日外加月相，有時包括日月食天 象，這可以叫王事記日，承繼商制的周金文更多習見王事記日。計算兩件銅器所記的 循環記日的干支天數的間隔和所記的循環運行的月相天數的間隔，對比兩個方法算出 兩個循環的天數間隔相等，表明間隔可信，可以確立兩件銅器金文記事的天數間隔， 進而用不同王年的銅器校驗王年表。此紀年算法已經在上篇關於商代骨曆紀年一文 （本雜誌上期）中討論，其中卜辭月相“翼”、“肜”和“震”及其對應的金文月相“既死 霸”、“既望”和“既生霸”的正確釋讀，是計算兩件事的天數間隔的基礎。假設甲骨文是 表意文字，金文開始形變音化，也是理解辭意和月相用字進而計算兩個事件間隔的基 礎。假設夏商骨曆和兩周銅曆不同，重新擬構兩代曆法如下，也是計算所載兩件事的 天數間隔的基礎。用前賢擬定的周王的年表為基礎，進行如上方法的反復迭代計算來 修正王年表，也可繼續用新材料修正。關鍵是此法的結果是收斂。本文計算出了各個 西周王時的銅器的天數間隔來組成一個系列，進而，建立新周王年表和旁證一些著名 青銅器的斷代可信，例如出土清華簡《攝命》的主人是鄭武公（掘）在接受平王的誥 命、《六祀𠨘其卣》的月相為滿月卻寫作翼日（陰日）意謂月食、《晉侯蘇鐘》的月 相在相鄰兩日為既死霸和既望實為上半夜既死（月食）下半夜既望；再例，共找出了 一件商金文所記文字晦澀實為月食之意和二件周金文所錄也為月食之意。所計算出的 兩個週期相合的間隔天數，有的計算例子的間隔天數跨越夏商周三代，譬如計算的時 間點包括《竹書紀年》夏代仲康時的日食、《戍嗣子鼎》商湯元年胐日、《利簋》帝 辛二十九年新年滿月。以上假設和計算，也旁證商之骨曆的新年在夏至、月初在滿 月、日始於黎明；而周之銅曆改為歲首在冬至、月初在朔日，以示變天，所謂先天八 卦改為後天八卦當是。周銅曆和西亞曆的思想一致，此和周人居西相符。

Abstract
1. Introduction
2. The Bronze Characters for Moon phases
3. Classic Book Moon Phase Days
4. Special Jargon Moon Phase Days
5. Conclusion
References
中文摘要

• Dalu Da WEIH(Ideography and History Institute of Toronto, Canada) | 大路大魏 (表意和歷史研究所)