It is at present generally believed that there was only 疾 but not 病 in the disease-related oracle bone inscriptions. This implies that there was no distinction between the two characters in the late Shang Dynasty, and that their concepts were not thoroughly understood in the Yin and Shang dynasties either. It was not until the middle of the Warring States period that the word 病 began to gradually replace the word 疾. In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the word 病 had a slight advantage. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the meanings of 疾病 (disease) and 生病 (to catch a disease) have been basically used instead of 疾. However, from the oracle bone inscriptions, there are about two kinds of characters: 、 and . These different types of hieroglyphs indicate different situations. The word 疾 in oracle bone inscriptions has not merely different glyphs but different concepts of human diseases as well. Therefore, this paper intends to trace back to the concept and usage of 疾 and 病 in the late Shang Dynasty from the shape of the word 疾 in oracle bone inscriptions, and to the evolution of the meanings of 疾 and 病 in ancient literature.

四柱命理學은 시간의 吉凶을 해석하는 학문이다. 그렇다면 처음 四柱의 年月日時라는 시간 의 기록은 언제부터 시작되었으며, 여기에 吉凶의 의미가 부여된 것은 어느 때부터일까. 고대 인들은 天文을 통해 일 년과 四時라는 시간의 기점을 만들었다. 특히 해와 달의 변화를 관측 하여 만든 시간의 의미는 신화를 통해 10개의 태양으로 표현되었는데, 이는 태양숭배 사회인 商나라에서 통치 전반에 영향을 미치는 중요한 가치체계가 되었다. 그들은 10일을 旬의 단위 로 사용하였고, 10개의 태양과 12달을 의미하는 글자를 혼합하여 60干支로 조합된 달력을 만 들었으며, 天干의 명칭으로 조상의 묘호를 삼아 제사를 지내었다. 甲骨文에서 時는 해의 밝기 나 생활관습에 따라 이름 지어졌으며, 달과 윤달은 朔望의 순서에 따라 숫자로 매겨지고, 年 은 거의 기록되지 않았다. 干支는 날의 표기부호로만 사용되었는데, 甲骨文 卜辭의 신탁과 그 것의 실현 여부를 대조하여 庚, 乙, 辛, 丁, 甲의 날이 점차 길한 날로 인식되었다. 길한 날은 조상들의 묘호와 제사의 이름이 되었으므로, 점차 미리 점을 치지 않아도 天干을 통해 길한 날을 알 수 있게 되었다. 商代의 날짜 표기 부호인 干支는 고대를 거쳐 축적된 天文學的 지 식과 商代의 甲骨文化 속에서 시간에 吉凶의 의미를 부여하는 단초가 되었다.

This thesis is on the initial evaluation of the Oracle Bone Inscriptions concerning divination as historical corpus, which is based on the data from word classification by meaning in the Oracle Bones from Xiaotun Locus South. The contents of the Oracle Bone Inscriptions concerning divination, such as “sacrifices”, “social appellations”, “wars” and “administration” , though not a degree, all have high frequency and concentration on words, and are relatively complex. The contents of the Oracle Bone Inscriptions concerning divination, such as “the divination”, “climate phenomenons”, “dates”, “natures and states” and “abstract actions”, though not a degree, all have high frequency and concentration on words, and are relatively simple. The contents of the Oracle Bone Inscriptions concerning divination, such as “livestock”, “climate phenomenons”, “wars”, “buildings” and “beasts”, though not in high frequency of words due to universality, are all relatively hot topics when horizontally compared with other Xianqin unearthed literatures. The various kinds of the Oracle Bone Inscriptions concerning divination above,though not a degree, all can truely reflect the language in Yin Dynasty to some extent, and therefore be as the corpus for certain research that is effective enough. However, various kinds of the Oracle Bone Inscriptions concerning divination lack the effectiveness in different degree.