Since the discovery of the Qinghua bamboo manuscripts in 2008,scholars have paid considerable attention to one of these manuscripts,Stalk Divination,and especially to the divinatory method that it describes.However,the logic behind the interpretation of the results has not yet been studied.This article examines the divinatory results in Stalk Divination in the context of meta-language.Specifically,it applies the concept of markedness to understand the characteristics of interpretation strategies in Stalk Divination,and thereby reveals an otherwise neglected commonality between the manuscript and other traditional Chinese divinatory traditions,such as astrology.Using Stalk Divination as a case study,this article demonstrates how semiotics can be a productive methodology for understanding traditional Chinese divination.
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