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Here's an article from the Smithsonian about National Museum of Chinese Writing in Anyang: they want to ask the public help decode thousands of oracle bone characters. Actually offering payment!
 
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It raises the question -- at least for me -- if less than half of the oracle bone inscriptions are understood, how did we ever arrive at any accurate translations of the Yi Jing?
 

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Yi (from Zhou dynasty) is from later than oracle bones (Shang). Different divination traditions, though there may be remnants of Shang ideas or practices still around in Zhou, who conquered them.
What they need help with are obscure characters. This is almost 1000 years before script was standardized, so there were many variations on characters.
 

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