In their article “pu 匍”-inscrihed Duck-shaped Bronze He Tripod and the “Fupin 聘JRite”, Mr. Wang Longzheng and others made a decipherment of the inscription on the vessel, and sol.red anumber of problems in it. But the character “柬” was not successfully deciphered, which made the textincoherent and difficut to understand. In my opinion, the “柬” should be read as “管”, which is identicalwith “管” and means house. The inscription shows that during the Western Zhou period, feudatoryprincedoms built special houses as hotels for envoys sent to them.
Yelu Yuzhi was regarded as a dominant figure when Dongdari’s people moved to Liaodong by Liao dy11asty rulers. This view has prevailed for a long time. In the epitaph of Yelu Yuzhi,We learned that the everit was sponsored by Yelu Bei at first. ln order to improve the zituation of himself. Yelu Bei made a planfor that and got the help of Yelu Yuzhi. Then Yuzhi gave the emperor(Liao Taizong some advice. By this migration. Yelu Bei can flee to Tang from Dongdan kindom . This event looks complicated,but its’ really not difficult to understand.
