Chapter 659 Pictographic Xia Seal
"We're going to dig now? In broad daylight, others still think we are robbing tombs! ”
Tang Baobao looked around, there are still some people farming around this wasteland, and their blatant digging of the cemetery will definitely attract attention. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Who knows what's going on down there? If it's just some dead man's bones, what's so noticeable? Yu Shan said with a smile.
"What if there's a baby down there?" Tang Baobao said.
Being reminded by Tang Baobao like this, Yu Shan came to his senses, and he immediately said: "By the way, we came here to help, what kind of reward did these little ghosts provide?" I don't waste my time without pay. ”
"They said there was a treasure down there." Tang Baobao pointed to Qiu Furong and said.
Qiu Furong immediately nodded, indicating that it was true, but she didn't know what the treasure was.
"Hurry up, it's not good to stay in this place for a long time." At this time, Yu Shan had already felt that the yin qi here was getting stronger and stronger.
"I feel a little chilly." Tang Baobao said.
"No wonder the people in the surrounding villages can't come, it's uncomfortable to stay in this place." Yu Shan glanced at Tang Baobao, took out a pill and threw it to him.
"What?" Tang Baobao looked at the pill curiously.
"Sanyang Dan, add some yang energy to you, and save the yin qi from invading the body." Yu Shandao.
"It doesn't look like a stronghold of the Earth Evil Gate!" Yu Shan walked around here, if it was the stronghold of the Earth Demon Gate, shouldn't he start attacking them at this time?
Yu Shan found that he was thinking too much, but this place was really wrong, and he didn't know what was going on below.
If you can trap the little ghost, it shouldn't be a good place below, but how Yu Shan looks at it at this time, this is just a yin land.
This is not a place to gather yin, just a place where yin qi is easy to accumulate, there is not much harm, and naturally it can't trap the little ghost.
This can be seen from the fact that the three imps can run around.
"Since you're here, let's look around, maybe there's something to gain." Yu Shan said helplessly.
Tang Baobao and Qiu Furong didn't want to give up, so Yu Shan naturally had to suffer.
Walking into the pile of rocks, Yu Shan released his divine thoughts and carefully perceived the surrounding situation, but there was nothing here except for the scattered yin qi and rocks.
"Yu Shan, come and see this stone." Just when Yu Shan was disappointed, Tang Baobao began to scream.
Yu Shan walked over and saw where Tang Baobao and Qiu Furong were, this place was where the three little ghosts disappeared.
At this time, Tang Baobao and Qiu Furong were studying a stone, and when they saw Yu Shan coming, Tang Baobao said, "Do you see if it is a text on it?" ”
"Words? Words carved into stone? According to the villager just now, the history of this cemetery is very early, but the text on it won't make the two of you know each other, right? Yu Shan smiled as he leaned over to take a closer look.
Yu Shan frowned at a glance, he was too familiar with such a text, this was simply a pictograph, or an oracle bone inscription, but he didn't expect it to be carved on the stone.
Since learning talismans, Yu Shan has not dealt with pictographs, and he knows a lot, but he doesn't know any of the characters on this stone that are very symmetrical.
Look at this font is very mature, very standardized, rounded, pay attention to symmetry, is a very progressive text.
"Where did you find it?" Yu Shan asked strangely.
Just now, Yu Shan released his divine thoughts to perceive the surrounding situation, if there was a stone carved with words, it was impossible for him not to find it.
"Buried in the earth, a little guy just guided me to find it." Tang Baobao's eyes shone brightly.
"Underground?" Yu Shan understood that there was a Yin Qi obstruction underground, so Yu Shan's divine thoughts could not be seen through.
With this discovery, with the help of the three little ghosts, Yu Shan and they found a lot of stones with words, and at this time, Yu Shan had realized that maybe they had made a great discovery.
Regardless of whether there are any treasures here, the pictographs on these rubbles alone are of great value.
Every stone Yu Shan finds, he has to study it carefully, but it is rare to find a stone that can retain the words.
After more than an hour of rummaging, the stones buried in the surface of the ground were all found by them, and finally Yu Shan counted them, and there were actually forty or fifty pieces of broken stones.
By the time the three imps stopped helping, it was already difficult for Yu Shan and them to find stones with words, and at this time Yu Shan realized that maybe there were only these stones with words here.
Yu Shan looked at the three little ghosts a little puzzled, he really couldn't figure out what the purpose of these three little ghosts was bringing them here.
If they just want to be reincarnated, then there is no need to come here, if they are manipulated, there is no one to hide the situation here.
"Is the secret hidden in these words?" Yu Shan doesn't believe that the little ghosts also know about archaeological excavations, and they know what words are for, which is already very good.
So, these three imps are definitely not paying for helping them find the stones with the words here, but they want them to know what the situation is like through the words.
Thinking of this, Yu Shan had a headache, such a thing, it is better to encounter the enemy and kill it!
You must know that Yu Shan not only has a defensive jade talisman on his body, but also wears two layers of inner armor, plus a group of fierce beasts in the Void God Domain, if there is an enemy besieging him, his Smurfs are not vegetarians.
After preparing so many back-ups, the enemy he is facing now is actually some broken stones, which makes Yu Shan have a headache!
"Why don't we take these rocks and go back and find someone to translate them?" No matter how Yu Shan looked at it, he didn't see what these words meant, so he retreated.
"You don't want to run away just because you get the benefits, do you?" Tang Baobao looked at Yu Shandao with disdain.
Yu Shan smiled and said, "What are you running?" Looking at these words, it is better than the oracle bone script, but I have never seen this kind of hieroglyphs, isn't it strange? ”
Qiu Furong approached Yu Shan and sent a divine thought: "It's very strange, it is actually engraved on stone, compared to this kind of writing, the oracle bone inscription is very primitive and backward, and there are many variant characters, which is very strange." ”
"Could it be a script that evolved from oracle bones?" Tang Baobao asked.
"No, after the Yin Shang is the golden inscription, the inscription, after the small seal, the official script, the regular script, the line script, the cursive script, the development process is very clear, there is no text like this font."
"So could it be older than an oracle?" Tang Baobao asked suddenly.
Yu Shan was stunned, what does Tang Baobao mean?
However, Yu Shan thought about it carefully, the question asked by Tang Baobao was really a bit level.
If it is an ancient and beautiful script than an oracle bone inscription, then what is it?
In history, words cannot appear suddenly, especially pictographs, which must be written in life, drawing and remembering, and slowly forming.
Often formed a kind of writing, all represent a glorious dynasty, only a strong civilization, will form a unified language, especially the beautiful writing found here, absolutely impossible to make up randomly.
Since it didn't happen casually, when was the most likely era?
After the Han, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, it was definitely impossible for this kind of writing to appear, because there were other more mature writing systems, and what about the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties?
During the Yin Shang period, there were oracle bone inscriptions, but as soon as the oracle bone inscriptions appeared, they were a very mature script, but there were too many alien characters and it was difficult to identify, which made people think that the oracle bone inscription was not a mature script.
But before the oracle, were there any other scripts?
Thinking like this, Yu Shan immediately thought of another kind of legendary text, which turned out to be a legend, but in modern times, this kind of legend has been proven.
"This can't be Xia Seal, right?" Yu Shan looked carefully at a stone in his hand, and the more he looked at it, the more the words on it looked like Xia Seal.
Yu Shan thought of Xia Seal, on the one hand, because he was familiar with pictographs and knew what was going on with oracle bone inscriptions.
On the other hand, it is because of the Dawenkou culture, and the vicinity of Mount Tai is the birthplace of the Dawenkou culture.
Xia seal, that is, the writing of the Xia Dynasty, is the prototype of the original writing, from the Yangshao culture to the Dawenkou culture and other cultural relics have appeared, and in the gradual development.
The oracle bone script and the gold script found in Yinxu and other places are the earliest scripts found in China, and they are basically mature scripts.
From the Yinxu era to the beginning of the summer, but eight or nine hundred years, the Xia Dynasty has written and documentary records, which is beyond doubt.
The writing of the Shang Dynasty was mature, and the writing of the Xia Dynasty was also mature.
Is there a Xia Dynasty script in history?
Is there a summer seal?
It's been arguing.
In fact, there are historical reasons for this, whether the Xia Dynasty writing exists and whether it has not been handed down has been controversial, which is actually due to the fact that some historians and literati in modern times such as Hu Shi and Gu Jiegang denied the existence of the Xia Dynasty, and Guo! Mo Ruo echoed the voice, causing confusion in the academic world.
They believe that the Xia Dynasty does not exist, and the Xia Dynasty script does not exist, and the lagging archaeological work has not yet excavated the Xia Dynasty cultural relics, nor has the Xia Dynasty script, so in the eyes of some people, the Xia Dynasty and the Xia Dynasty text are just myths and legends.
And now, everyone knows that Xia Yushu and Yuwang Tablet are the Xia Dynasty characters, which is Xia Seal, what is a seal? Refers to the official text also.
For example, these pictographs found in Yu Shan now, if it is Xia Seal, then it can be seen from the font, because in the historical records, the Xia Seal font is very mature, very standardized, the pen is round, pay attention to symmetry, is a very progressive text.
In this way, there is a contradiction, the more ancient Xia seal is more mature and more beautiful, and the oracle bone inscription that was developed not far away from each other seems to be very primitive and backward, and there are many variant characters, which is actually the characteristic of folk characters.
Words, like people, will retreat if they do not advance, and if they are not used often, or if they are rarely used, they will become outdated and degenerate.
Although the Shang Dynasty had a kingdom for more than 600 years, in the first 300 years, the kings of the Shang Dynasty had been fighting each other and were in a state of frequent capital relocation.
The Shang people had fewer people, and they lived nomadically, had no writing, and did not attach importance to culture, so it caused the abandonment of the entire Xia Dynasty's writing.
After Pangeng moved to Yin, due to the prosperity of divination, this made the folk characters of the Xia Dynasty come in handy, and the divination process and results were engraved on the tortoise shell and animal bones with the Xia characters, which led to the oracle bone inscription.
The official script of the Xia Dynasty still retains the advantage of being more advanced than the folk script of the Shang Dynasty, and to use an inaccurate analogy, although it is a woman in the capital three hundred years ago, it is much more fashionable than the country girl three hundred years later, which is precisely why, the fundamental reason why the Xia Dynasty script is more advanced than the Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscription.
The oracle bone inscription of the Zhou Dynasty is an oracle bone inscription inherited from the Shang Dynasty by Xi He, and has not developed much.
The Zhou people were originally living in the Qishui generation of the Ji surname nation, agriculture is developed, and the surname Ji has the same root and the same origin, there are few people without writing, the Xia script is used in the summer, the oracle bone inscription is used in the Shang period, and the king of Zhou Wu is fighting the Shang Dynasty, under the banner of the emperor's order to restore the Xia.
When the Shang Dynasty was driven away and the Zhou Dynasty was established, Zhou Tianzi restored and used the official text of the Xia Dynasty, Xia Seal, which is the real reason why Zhou Seal is so close and similar to Xia Seal.
If there were still people who thought that those were speculations, then the discovery of the Xia seal post allowed us to see the original face of the official script of the real Xia Dynasty, which was not only not more primitive and backward than the Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscription, but also more advanced, mature and beautiful than the Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscription.
In 992 A.D., the king of Hanlin scholars, by the order of Zhao Kuangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, compiled and engraved ten volumes of "Chunhua Pavilion Post", of which in the fifth volume, there are 28 characters of "Cangjie Book" and 12 characters of "Xia Yu Book".
The story of the Xia Dynasty recorded in history, the most famous must be Dayu's control of the water, and what is recorded in the Xia seal here, Yu Shan is very curious.
"What do you say these stones are all about?" Yu Shan asked as he pieced together the stones.
"Who knows, these bits and pieces of stone will definitely not be of much use, you might as well dig this little hill! I suspect it's all this rubble down here. Tang Baobao said.
Yu Shan thought about it for a while, there was really such a possibility, but he couldn't dig it casually!
"Let's see!" Yu Shan thought for a while, whether he was here to dig and wanted to think about it carefully.
Although Yu Shan is completely prepared and is not afraid of being attacked, if it is not of much value, or it is useless to him, then Yu Shan is not like working hard to get these things.
"Why don't we think of something else? As long as we occupy this place, we can dig as much as we want. Tang Baobao rolled his eyes and said.
Yu Shan directly put away all the stones and said, "The ground here is flat, I think it is very suitable for growing vegetables, why don't you do vegetable planting here?" ”
"You want to contract this piece all?" Tang Baobao said with a smile.
Yu Shan said seriously: "It's very good here, there is a small river over there, it won't be the original Wenshui, right?" (To be continued.) )