李鏡池認為《易經》是卜筮之書，與殷墟卜辭同類。其根據在於二者體例上的相同處。本文認為，《易經》的體例更接近周原的甲骨文。比如，二者都有1.純粹定吉凶的占辭；2.單敘事而不示吉凶者；3.先敘述而後吉凶；4.先吉凶後敘述；5.敘事、吉凶混雜在一起的多次記錄。其中第二類是周原甲骨文和《易經》共有的一大特徵，即僅記錄所占事件的大概，而不記錄占筮時命辭的原話。命辭原話是殷墟卜辭的突出特徵。在內容方面，周原甲文與《易經》也多有一致。除祭祀、戰爭、疾病、建造宮室等以外，還有不少的象占內容。在用詞上，二者常用的休咎詞是「亡(無)咎」，這在殷墟卜辭中不見使用。本文結論，像周原甲骨文這類的卜筮記錄是《易經》材料的來源之一。

Li Ching-ch'ih claimed that the Book of Changes was, like the Shang oracle texts, records of divination, for both share some similarities in style and subject. The Chou oracle inscriptions discovered at Chou-yuan afford a new perspective to observe the sources of the Book of Changes. In the present paper it is stated, on the basis of a comparison, that the Chou-yuan oracle texts have a closer relation with the Book of Changes than do the Shang oracle texts. In style, both have five similar patterns: 1)a prognostication only, 2) an event only, 3) an event followed by a prognostication, 4) a prognostication followed by a event, and 5) a mixture of several events and prognostications in different sequence. Among the five patterns, the second is the most significant. It characterizes both the Book of Changes and the Chou-yuan oracle texts in that it records the topic, sometimes detailed topic, of an event taken for divination rather than the exact statement or "charge" announced by the diviner during a divination. In regard to the subject of divination, there is also a strong resemblance between the Book of Changes and the Chou- yuan texts, such as sacrifice, warfare, health, construction, and of moreimportance, omens. Another similarity between the two is the divinatory term wang-chiu which cannot be seen in the Shang oracle texts. The conclusion of this article is that Chou divination records such as those found in Chou-yuan constitute one portion of the sources for the compilation of the Book of Changes.

命辭; 吉凶之占辭; 占事記錄; 象占(徵兆)

divination charges; divinatory terms; topics of divination omens