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it is Ao or Hsiao where Chung-ting moved, or whether these may be only two different names for the same locality; whether it is Hsing or Pi that Chu-i founded his new capital, or whether according to the forged edition of Chu-shu-chi-nien that Chu-i first move to Hsing then to Pi--- all such questions obviously can not be settled merely on the basis of documentary evidences. The most important differences between these two lists, however, are those concerning the locations of the capitals where Nan-keng, P'an-keng and Wu-i stayed. According to Shih-chi, Wu-i moved, but Nan-keng did not; the record kept by Chu-shu-chi-nien is just the reverse. The case of P'an-keng concerns us at present the most seriously and the two records are also diametrically contradicting with each other: in Shih-chi, P'an-keng is recorded to have crossed Hê (河, namely the Yellow River) southward and returned to the old capital of Ch'êng-t'ang, which, according to the identification of Huang-fu Mi(皇甫謐) is in Yen-shih Hsien (偃師縣); but in Chu-shu-chi-nien is found the following passage:

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P'ang-keng, (or)Hsun, moved from Yen to Pei-meng(北蒙), knwon as Yin. Yin is situated thirty li south of Yeh(鄴). From the time of P'an-keng's removal to Yin to the final collapse of this dynasty at Chou's(紂) time, there elapsed 773 years without again changing the capital.(p. 5 Wang Kuo-wei edition)[[superscript]]7[[/superscript]]
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In the course of the excavation works in An-yang, it has been made increasingly clear that this passage from the early edition of Chu-shu-chi-nien is more of a correct record than what is given by Szu-ma Ch'ien. In other words P'an-keng moved to Pei-meng, 30 [[underline]]li[[/underline]] south of Yeh, exactly the place where the buried remains of the oracle bones have been discovered. Nor is the misstatement ^[[in Shih-chi]] necessarily an error due to Szu-ma Ch'ien. Wang Kuo-wei thought that it 

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[[footnote]] 7. In the Chu-edition, instead of 773 the figure is 273; this figure(273) fits into the known facts much better. [[/footnote]]