The oracle bone script “Big house府 (fu)” is a picture (, on the left is the upper) composed of “two houses piled up”, which means a courtyard dwelling enclosed by buildings, like the Erlitou palace complex around 1680 BEC or the Beijing Forbidden City we can see today. The lower house is a front gatehouse, like a walled city entry gate; the upper house is a backside house for living and storage in the courtyard. In the bone script system, “two” means plural, so “two houses piled up” could be “many houses piled up”, which means a three-courtyard dwelling or a multi-courtyard dwelling. The bone script “Minus 減 (jian)” is a picture () composed of “men” and “dagger-axe”, meaning “to axe some of the men”. The bone script “Supervise 督 (du)” is a picture () of “a man wrapped with a strip”, means “the costume is a belt”, the depiction shows that an indian man wore a long cloth wrapped around the whole body and draped over the shoulder as a typical Vedic period (c. 1750-500 BC) garment. Because there was a Rice Road leading the forein priest into Southwest China. Therefore, “god-man seen from the high” means “supervise” in the west, “god-man seen from the outside” means supervise” in the east. The Rice Road was a neighber trade rout between the Assam in northeastern India, Suothern Tibet (or Northern Burma) and the Yunnan - Sichuang in southwestern China. Because Japonica rice, iriginated in the Yangtze River about 8500 years ago, and spreaded into India about 4500 years ago, and became Indica rice, and then speaded back into China, so the rice now formed a monophyletic group, the domestication alleles of most selected genes (~80%) stemmed from wild rice in China, but the domestication alleles of a substantial minority of selected genes (~20%) originated from wild rice in India, like Assam. A key point for the Rice Road is Haimenkou site in Yunan (c. 1600-1450 BC), where bronze wares, japonica and indica rices, millets and wheats and domestic water buffalos have been unearthed today. And the domestic water buffalo was first present by 2500 BC in India and introduced to China by 1000 BC according to its biography of the gene, which means that the Rice Road has played a role. The bone script “Govern 治 (zhi)” is a picture () of a hand and thread warps, meaning “weaving” and borrowing it as “govern”. The bone script “Open 開 (kai)” is a picture () of “a bowl upside down and a hand”, meaning “unveil”.

目 錄
1. 引言
    1.1 貈字獻疑
    1.2 紳字獻疑
    1.3 紳字通陳
    1.4 紳字前賢釋成疆、緟
    1.5 申固獻疑
    1.6 紳字繁化
2. 說府
    2.1 宋公其名其人其臣
    2.2 府裘官服
    2.3 府夙夕
3. 說減
4. 說督
    4.1 甲骨文辭例弔
    4.2 金文辭例弔
    4.3 楚簡辭例弔
    4.4 水稻之路
5. 說治
    5.1 𤔔、𤳞、𤕌和紳辨析
    5.2 卜辭 治（𤔔）
    5.3 金文 治（𤳞）
    5.4 金文 治（𤕌）
6. 說開
    6.1 前賢說眉壽
    6.2 開壽
    6.3 開蓋之象
    6.4 開蓋同源
    6.5 商蓋國
7. 結語

• 大路大魏(大路大魏，多倫多歷史文孳研究所研究員) | Dalu Da WEIH