Chapter 216: Tattoo (Yet)
It only took half an hour for the three of us to drive back to the hotel, and on the way back, Team Cao told me that Huansheng was in a hurry on the phone, and it seemed that he had not completely deciphered the strange words and symbols on the stele, but there should have been an important discovery related to the four techniques of Buyeo. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info This makes me look forward to it very much, this little corner of history that has not been noticed by people may bring us the biggest surprise.
When I entered the room of Huansheng and Feng Bu in the hotel, I thought I had gone to the wrong room. All the places that could be used to put things, piled up with books. I suspect he moved half of the library's books here. And all the walls, as long as they can be used to paste things, are covered with white rice paper tablets. There are still many that can't be pasted, so they are simply spread on the bed, on the ground, and on the coffee table. People who don't know the inside story come in, and suddenly think that when they arrive at the funeral home, there are elegiac couplets everywhere.
The hotel room is not small, but at this time it seems extremely congested, there is no place to even put your feet, plus the thick curtains are drawn in the daytime, and the room is full of smoke, which makes people have to sigh how Huansheng and Feng have survived in the past two days.
At this moment, Feng was curled up in the sofa, his hair was unkempt, his face was gray, as if he had just climbed up from the mine, sleeping in his clothes, snoring like thunder, and our arrival did not affect his sleepiness in the slightest. Huansheng, who came to open the door, was pale, his eyes were red, his hair stood on end, his lips were chapped, and he looked like he hadn't slept much in the past two days.
"Feng is not this kid, I said a long time ago that he can't be troubled, Huansheng has been boiled like this, can he still sleep?" Team Cao entered the room and scolded.
Huansheng smiled at us, "Lao Cao, you really wronged him, Feng is just complaining and complaining, but he is not ambiguous in his work." In the past two days, he went to the library and archives to check the materials, let alone four or five times a day, and served me to eat, drink tea, and smoke. Huan Sheng walked over, picked up the blanket in the corner, and put it on Feng Wei's body.
As we spoke, Xiao Yang made a cup of coffee for each of us, handed it to us, and then sat quietly on the edge of the bed, looking at the monuments on the wall.
"Huansheng, tell me about the progress?" Team Cao looked around, but couldn't find a place to sit, so he simply sat on the ground. Seeing that the room was too dark, I went to the window and prepared to open the curtains. "Chang, don't move, it's because of the light that I made a discovery. Huansheng hurriedly stopped me. He pressed me down on a small square stool and spoke slowly.
"Lao Chang, Team Cao, I have done a systematic sorting out of the rubbings of the stone tablet left by Tang Binwen in the past two days. These hanging on the wall should have been carved down by Tang Binwen from the underground warehouse of the Japanese army, and the bed, table, and ground are estimated to have been collected by him from other places around him later. Jiang Chengzhi once said that after the mining disaster, Tang Binwen collected steles everywhere and persisted for many years, but you see, what is the difference between the wall and the ground?
I took a quick glance and the difference was obvious. "The ones on the wall are very blurry, most of the characters are not Chinese characters, more like a kind of symbol, and the ones on the ground are very clear, all of them are Chinese characters, but the font is different. Xiao Yang, who was sitting next to him, blurted out.
Huansheng nodded. "Xiao Yang is right, this is an obvious difference, this has proved that the stele in the Japanese warehouse and the stele collected later are not the same thing, they are two completely different scripts, but what I don't understand is that Tang Binwen studied the stele in the warehouse back then, it must be because he felt that these materials were very important, and even related to the later mining disaster, and he was also ordered by the organization to carry out the work at the beginning. But after the mining disaster, why did he spend so much effort to study these inscriptions on the ground? These have nothing to do with the Japanese warehouse?"
Indeed, Huansheng's questioning is undoubtedly to the point, but Tang Binwen's behavior is by no means meaningless. But what's the secret?" Maybe Tang Binwen wanted to translate the stele in the warehouse and compare it with other steles? No, this stele is full of Chinese characters, unless he knows that the stele corresponds to the stele in the warehouse, so he can decipher the meaning of those symbols through Chinese characters. Team Cao muttered on the side, quickly refuting his own inference.
"Mr. Tang was looking for something on the later steles to prove what the steles in the warehouse were? Maybe he wasn't deciphering the symbols on them. Xiao Yang whispered on the side.
"Xiao Yang is worthy of being Tang Binwen's student, and he knows the teacher's thoughts best, so the two of us thought of going together, but I think Tang Binwen should be doing the elimination method, and he must already have an answer in his heart that needs to be verified. Otherwise, I wouldn't have collected so many monuments. Huansheng talked about this, like a different person, full of energy and energy.
"Either way, the answer must be in these monuments. I began to look at them one by one, and it wasn't until last night that I made a discovery. Huansheng took a sip of coffee and smiled at Xiao Yang: "The coffee made by the lesbians is just different, refreshing, unlike Feng Dan, who is sleepy." ”
For the next hour, Liao Huansheng kept answering a question about what was going on with Goguryeo's language and writing. In Huansheng's view, the Goguryeo language is still very different from Chinese, and it should come from the earlier Buyeo country, for example, our mountain, the pronunciation of Goguryeo is "da", our water, they pronounce "buy", and even the word order and rhetoric are very different. But the aristocracy of Goguryeo should all know Chinese. Because it is recorded in the Book of Han that the members of the Goguryeo mission and the officials of the Han Dynasty could communicate freely in Chinese. Moreover, the education of the Goguryeo aristocracy from childhood was no different from that of the Central Plains, and they also had to learn the Four Books and Five Classics and Confucian classics.
However, there is a lot of controversy about whether Goguryeo has its own writing language. The prevailing view is that there are none, and they continue to use Chinese characters as a written language, because from the inscriptions in all Goguryeo tombs, the inscriptions on the artifacts are all Chinese characters. The evidence for this view is conclusive, but what Huansheng can't understand is why the stone tablets in the Japanese army's warehouses are a kind of writing that has never been seen before? Could it be that these stone tablets are not from the Goguryeo period?
Judging from Tang Binwen's description of the year, these steles are very huge, and there are more than a dozen pieces, with exquisite carvings and complex decorations, which are obviously not ordinary tombstones. Ji'an was built as the capital after the founding of Goguryeo, and the previous Buyeo country, which may not be a wilderness, but it is not a prosperous place, and it is hard to imagine that there will be so many stone monuments with extraordinary magnanimity here. Of course, it is even more unlikely that the Japanese found the stele in other places and transported it here to hide it for research, because at that time, Shenyang and Changchun were the base camps of the Kwantung Army, and it was impossible for them to place their research institutes in this remote town.
Then there is only one explanation, Goguryeo has its own script, that is, the inscription is on these, but this kind of writing is not known to the public. And Tang Binwen must have discovered this secret, and the subsequent rubbing of the stele is to determine the difference between the dozen or so steles.
Along this line of thought, Liao Huansheng began a huge project, the study of one stele after another. A person, when you know what you are looking for, will mobilize all your potential and energy to move towards this goal, but you don't know what you are looking for, so much information and materials, boring and repeated reading, will only become a burden on the body and mind. To be able to find a small boat in this sea of words, what is needed is an extraordinary sense of smell, a tenacious personality and magical luck. Of course, these three appeared on Liao Huansheng at the same time, I will not be surprised at all, since the Tao Zhen incident, I have stopped looking at him as an ordinary person.
In the middle of the night that Huansheng mentioned, he had a flash of inspiration, and everything seemed to be clearly displayed in front of him. Liao Huansheng found that Tang Binwen later collected a variety of steles. There are tombstones of various princes and nobles, chronicles of various important events of the royal family, monuments built by palace buildings, and monuments of war achievements, but there is a kind of monument, or a kind of thing recorded on the monument is not there, that is, there is no monument to the royal sacrifice of the ancestors of the gods, not a single one.
In Liao Huansheng's memory, the sacrificial activities of the Central Plains Dynasty are the top priority, and the sacrifices are continuous every year, and most of the sacrifices each time are recorded by a stele, which belongs to the merit of the community, and this kind of stele carving accounts for a very large proportion. Could it be that Goguryeo did not respect ghosts and gods and did not worship its ancestors? Liao Huansheng looked through a large number of historical records, and it was obvious that this view was not valid. Moreover, Goguryeo is a country that worships ghosts and gods very much, but it is different from the Central Plains, in addition to the gods of the sun and moon, mountains and rivers, there are also gods of the stars and witch gods. In particular, the witch god not only occupies a very important position among the gods, but also has a secular spokesperson, called the great witch, this great witch is not only in charge of the royal sacrifice and funeral, but also responsible for divination, all national affairs need to be decided through divination, in a sense to affect the country's major policies.
With such an important witch god worship and such a powerful witch, it is very likely that the state religion of Goguryeo is witchcraft, so it is impossible that there is no inscription record. At that moment, the thoughts in Liao Huansheng's brain quickly became clear, and the dozen or so tablets in the underground warehouse in Japan were stone tablets that recorded Goguryeo witchcraft, which they used to worship the gods and the undead. Moreover, Goguryeo had a very special script that was only used by very few people, a special script that was only used between the great witches, the royal family, and the gods. It is a mysterious symbol hanging on the wall in front of us at this moment, and we are puzzled. In addition to the events of state sacrifices, it is likely that there are also shamanic spells used by the great witches, which are written records of the communication between the great witches and the gods and passed down from generation to generation.
(Ruofu three saints, but Fuxi.) Begin to paint eight seals, imitating heaven and earth. Emperor Wen's sect, the end of the speech. The master is the Mahatma, and the ten wings are supplemented by it. The three monarchs are upright, and they are more prosperous. There are steps between the advantages and disadvantages, and the merits are not different. The production has a heel, and the degree of judgment is divided. It is tangible and easy to measure, and it is difficult to plan without omen. The order of doing things can be lawful, and this book is set for the world.
There is no previous knowledge, because the teacher is enlightened. If you are like a curtain, you can climb the platform. There are 600 fire notes, and the interests are not different. The text solemnly says that the world does not think about it. Seek its source, and live together in the dark. Stealing is a sage to talk about, and he dares to be a book. If you stammer, you will be punished. Writing about the bamboo rate, but also afraid of leaking the heavenly talisman. Hesitation and sighing, looking up to Si Yu. There is a law for cultivation, and an ability to know Chen Fu. Briefly describe its outline and discipline, and see the branches to help sparse. --"The Three Sacred Chapters of the Ancestors")