Chapter 60: The Birth of the Seal
Xie Bin listened to Yu Xinyan's words and shook his head sullenly: "What do you want me to do?" Messing around like this with you? Continue to deceive yourself? Wait until you've had enough, then kick it out of the way so you're happy? ”
He sighed and said, "I really don't know how you found me?" ”
Yu Xinyan looked at Xie Bin, and suddenly smiled in the middle of the sound, "Xie Bin, I have identified you, I will defeat Sister Jingjing by legitimate means, and then snatch you over, hum," said happily pushing the car door and getting out of the car.
Watching Yu Xinyan drive away, Xie Bin secretly smiled bitterly, a little girl is a little girl, I really thought it was just a game, and what else did I say to defeat Li Jingjing, this... The complexity of life is far beyond the imagination of children, and those who have not experienced it cannot understand it, and always think that things are too simple. According to the logic of ordinary people, Xie Bin should eat both ends in the face of the beauties sent to the door, anyway, now that he has the ability, he can't afford it.
It's too normal for people with the ability to raise a few women these days, and with Xie Bin's net worth and ability, it's understandable to have two more women.
But how many people can hug three wives and four concubines without any psychological burden?
No matter what others do, Xie Bin can't do it. As for Yu Xinyan, Xie Bin only hopes that this girl can come to her senses and find a good man to marry.
It's just that thinking that Yu Xinyan will marry other men in the future, Xie Bin is also a little unhappy in his heart. Ban Xiang shook his head secretly, thinking that he was similar to other men, and he was also greedy and lustful, but he was a little timid. If you change to a more courageous man, where do you care about anything else, let's play first.
The next day, Xie Bin went to Country Garden, where his master of miniature carving lived. When Xie Bin entered, the old man was still playing games. Seeing Xie Bin, he generally shot and asked, "Xie Bin, is there any online banking?" Hurry up and give the master me some cards, it's really unpleasant to play this game without a good gun, and I'm bullied. ”
Xie Bin smiled dumbly, opened the online banking and taught the old man how to use it, and this is the end. In fact, the old man is not short of money, Xie Bin sends money to the old man every month, when it is small, it is thousands, when it is more, it is 10,000, and the old man himself does not spend much money, that is, he eats and drinks, and occasionally goes to a market or something. However, Xie Bin still adheres to the principle that it is better to have what is left than to be missing, for the old man's expenses.
But to put it mildly, Xie Bin's supply is really nothing, and the old man's old house that was transferred to Xie Bin alone is worth a lot of money. In order to avoid trouble, after settling here, the old man transferred several old houses in Boli to Xie Bin.
Xie Bin didn't refuse, he didn't figure out the old man's house, so naturally he wouldn't pretend anymore, the old man had no descendants, so he wouldn't give Xie Bin to anyone. Since there is only one result, if Xie Bin says no or refusal, it will be even more hypocritical.
The old man is so old, and he is not a fool, can he still see whether Xie Bin is sincere or has a plan? Besides, with Xie Bin's family property, would he take such pains to do these things? In Xie Bin's eyes, such an old house is not as valuable as a stone with good performance.
That is, these two, one gave indifferently, and the other received calmly, as if it was not a set of property worth millions, but a bag of apples.
If it was Xie Bin's seal carver who gave him such a house, Xie Bin would have to think about it, after all, the old man still has children and grandchildren.
bought a full set of equipment for the old man, and watched the old man have a lot of fun, Xie Bin also left, watching the old man happy, this is enough.
Then Xie Bin went to another master's house. This time it's not just a look, but a treasure for the old man to see.
Qiao'er was not there, the old man was playing with seals alone in the house, and when he saw Xie Bin coming, the old man smiled and said, "Come, sit down, wait to play chess with me." ”
Xie Bin smiled, his chess skills were so stinky, it was better not to play if he could, he took out a manuscript book from his bag and said, "Teacher, I brought you a good thing," said Yang Yang with the book in his hand.
"What's good?" The old man looked a little unimpressed.
Xie Bin handed over the not too thick manuscript, "You take a look." ”
The old man took it suspiciously, frowned and flipped over, and hesitated: "This is ...... Dongbawen? Saying that, he looked at Xie Bin in surprise, "Where did you get the baby?" ”
Dongba script is a primitive and ancient hieroglyph, which is earlier than the oracle bone inscription, the most primitive form of Chinese script, the only pure hieroglyph that still exists until now, and is the "living fossil" of the origin and development of writing.
And Dongba Wen is in the hands of the old Dongba of the Naxi Dongba religion. Dongba means "wise man" in Dongba religion, which is equivalent to the spiritual leader of the primitive tribe. Dongba is the highest level of intellectuals of the Naxi people, most of them are a combination of songs, dances, scriptures, books, history, paintings, and medicine, and they were very respected in the past.
The spiritual light of the old Dongba is a little lighter, and the religious meaning is also much lighter, but they still have this ancient and primitive writing and other traditional knowledge.
This manuscript of the Dongba character dictionary was given to Xie Bin by an old Dongba that Xie Bin met when he was playing with Yu Xinyan in the Dongba Temple.
Of course, Lao Dongba will not give Xie Bin such a dictionary for no reason, although such a dictionary is not valuable, and there are printed editions in some places, but what was sent from Lao Dongba is very different. To be able to get the works of Lao Dongba, many people feel that it is a supreme honor, not only the people of the Naxi nationality, but also other people feel that it is very collectible, after all, there are fewer and fewer Lao Dongba in the world, and there are fewer and fewer people who can write Dongba Chinese.
And it is precisely because of this that when Xie Bin showed a very strong interest in Dongba Wen, he was favored by the old Dongba. Although Xie Bin's research on ancient characters is not very deep, at least he has dabbled in it, and it is the foundation laid by the master in front of him.
After talking with the old Dongba for a long time, the thin old Dongba gave Xie Bin the dictionary of this manuscript. In this way, even if no one teaches him, Xie Bin will be able to master these Dongba languages.
The Dongba script is almost entirely hieroglyphic, and at first glance, it doesn't even look like a text, but like a small but delicate painting. Because the pictographic nature of those words is so strong, it is simply vivid.
It is precisely because of this that it is more difficult to distinguish between these words, because some words look similar, and it is almost impossible to see the difference unless you look carefully.
However, Xie Bin found one of the benefits of Dongba script, that is, Dongba script is a natural seal carving text, almost no need to make any changes, engrave these words, that is a very wonderful picture, especially after engraved on the seal, like the image of the word or like a painting, full of fun, if it can be matched with Chinese characters or other ancient characters, I believe that this combination will only be better.
The Dongba script was originally engraved on the rock wood chips, and then gradually moved to the paper, but now there are still many Dongba stone carvings, murals, etc., and the original Dongba script is still used. Therefore, these Dongba scripts are used in seal carving, which is very suitable.
The old man held this manuscript of the Dongba dictionary, put on reading glasses, and studied it word by word, but he forgot Xie Bin.
This Dongba dictionary contains more than 1,700 characters, which is really not much compared to Chinese characters. But this is the original hieroglyphs that have been passed down for I don't know how many years, and more than a thousand are enough to make people dizzy to watch.
The old man's ancient writing skills are naturally much stronger than Xie Bin's, and he studied word by word, and he quickly went through it. If you want to study this ancient script, there is no trick, just be proficient and familiar, one by one from understanding and understanding, until you can write it down skillfully without using a dictionary, of course, it is better to be able to read it.
After the old man flipped this Dongba dictionary aside, he said to Xie Bin with a smile: "Give you a homework, copy a copy of this big dictionary for me, and you can keep the original for yourself." ”
Xie Bin nodded and said with a smile: "Guarantee to complete the task," This task seems to be difficult, but it is actually the old man's good intentions. The easiest way to familiarize yourself with a language is to copy it, and the effect of copying one side is equivalent to reading it several times.
Do you remember when you were in school, your teacher asked you to copy texts and words? Is it better than just reciting?
After Xie Bin put away the dictionary of this manuscript, the old man said to Xie Bin with a slight sigh: "In fact, there are still a lot of characters like Dongba in China, Miao Tibetan palindrome and so on, although these characters are in a better situation than Dongba script, but the opportunity to use them is becoming less and less, and some other minority languages, some have simply been lost, some people can read and sing, but no one can write." ”
Xie Bin listened to the old man's emotion, nodded and said, "Teacher, don't worry, I have the opportunity to collect more such words, and I can't let them be lost like this." Xie Bin naturally heard the old man's voice-over, so he made such a guarantee.
The old man was a little embarrassed when he heard this, and waved his hand and said: "Just do your best, hey, I don't know if it's useful or not, the unification of words is an inevitable trend, just like the unification of the six countries by the Qin State, some things will be discarded after all." ”
Xie Bin shook his head, "In the past, it was for the needs of governance, but now it is different, it is difficult to say in other aspects, but it is relatively enlightened in terms of culture, and the state has done a lot of things in the protection of these traditional cultures." ”
The old man nodded, "I have indeed seen some achievements in the past two years, but I ...... before."
Speaking of the previous years, it is an eternal pain in the hearts of that generation, and it is also an irreparable huge loss for the entire Chinese nation. From Xie Bin's grandfather to his miniature carving master, as well as the seal carving master in front of him, they all came from that era and felt the deepest.
And Xie Bin knew more about the situation at that time, and it was precisely because of this that he was even more heartbroken.
It's just the merits and demerits of his predecessors, Xie Bin has no intention of commenting, and now he can do his part, and he will be satisfied. As the old man said, what should be discarded will be discarded sooner or later, and no one can stop the general trend of the times.
(To be continued)