Section 2: Pre-Qin Classics
After Qin Shi Huang unified China, the small seal implemented the policy of "the same book and the same track," unified weights and measures, and was responsible for the prime minister Li Si, on the basis of the original use of the Great Seal script of the Qin State, it was simplified, and the variant characters of the other six countries were abolished, and the Chinese character writing form of the unified script was created.
It was popular in China until the end of the Western Han Dynasty, when it was gradually replaced by Lishu.
The small seal is slender, pay attention to symmetry, the strokes are evenly stopped, and the pen is not exposed, and the posture is dignified and beautiful.
Since the Qin Dynasty, most of the calligraphers of the past dynasties have regarded the Qin seal as the guide, and took the slender vertical as the appearance.
The text on the stele is exactly what this is true.
Chen Rui can confirm that the font of these three characters is a small seal.
Chen Rui simply listened to the old professor's introduction to this kind of writing and its characteristics, and saw this kind of writing on the old professor's collection of seals, and felt that the posture of the small seal was dignified and beautiful, the strokes were complex and tortuous, and the form was strange.
But Chen Rui didn't systematically learn this kind of script, so Chen Rui didn't know what these three words were called.
Chen Rui pushed the hut open.
The hut is very simple, with a table, a chair, a bed and a futon.
What caught Chen Rui's attention in the thatched hut was a pile of bamboo slips on the table.
It is made of long and narrow bamboo pieces made of cutting, each piece of bamboo is cut, cut and baked, the size is uniform, the thickness is the same, after writing on it, drilling, and weaving, the bamboo slips make people look very neat and beautiful.
Chen Rui picked up a roll of bamboo slips and flipped through them.
This is an article, each piece of bamboo is written one line, written in a small seal with brush and ink.
The font is very beautiful and very charming, which makes Chen Rui pleasing to the eye.
It can be said to be a very beautiful work of art.
Bamboo slips, small seals.
Through these two points, Chen Rui can basically determine that these bamboo slips were written in the Qin and Han dynasties.
To understand the meaning of the words on these Qin and Han scripts, it may be very difficult for the ancients.
However, for modern people, it's a breeze.
Now that Zixun is so developed, you can find the correct and very detailed answer to everything online.
Chen Rui picked up a roll of bamboo slips and walked out of the space.
I opened my laptop and downloaded a small seal font on the Internet, and then, compared with the small seal characters on the bamboo slips, I translated them one by one.
It was already a week after all the bamboo slips on the table in the hut had been translated.
All of these gave Chen Rui a great shock.
According to the text translated by the small seal on the bamboo slip, the beads are called pregnant sea pearls, and their origin is unknown.
The age of its appearance can be deduced to an earlier era than the Three Emperors and Five Emperors.
The previous owner of the pregnant sea pearl was an East China Sea cultivator of the Qin and Han dynasties, named Chen Yuan, who inadvertently got this bead.
It's a pity that the fortune is insufficient, and Chen Yuan's longevity is not much left.
Even if you get the treasure of the sky, if you don't break through, Shouyuan will eventually turn to ashes when you arrive.
Scattered cultivator Chen Yuan sat in the cave at the bottom of the East China Sea. The beads are left in the cave under the sea.
Due to various coincidences, it is now obtained by Chen Rui.
Among these bamboo slips, most of them are books collected or transcribed by Chen Yuan during his travels, and a large part of them are pre-Qin classics.
The classics of the pre-Qin Dynasty have successively experienced Qin Shi Huang's book burning, Red Mei entering the customs, Dong Zhuo moving the capital, Liu Shi Chaohua, Wei Shi entering Ying, and Xiao Yi burning books. What has been passed down to modern times has almost disappeared.
Later generations studied the history and culture of the pre-Qin period, and laid a very important foundation for the formation of the Chinese nation.
This made many literati who studied the history and culture of the pre-Qin period very regrettable.
With these classics, the history, culture, military, agriculture, and people of the pre-Qin period can be clearly displayed in front of everyone, which is of great significance for the study of the formation of Chinese civilization.
Therefore, these classics are very precious and cannot be measured by value.
Chen Rui counted it, there were hundreds of copies in total.
The content is all-encompassing, and it is of great significance for the study of the culture, history and military of the pre-Qin period.
For example, Sima Qian's "Historical Records" records a passage in which Li Sijian yƬ, 'The history books only keep the history books of the Qin state, and the history books of other countries are burned; The Book of Songs, the Book of Books, and the books of the Hundred Schools of Thought can only be kept by doctors, and the folk ones are handed over and burned within a time limit; Books on medicine, divination, and agriculture can be kept by the people; Those who want to study law take officials as their teachers. ā
The history books of the Six Kingdoms, which were burned in the book-burning pit, have been preserved intact in the beads.
In addition, there are poems, prose, Chu Ci and so on that occupy a very important place in the pre-Qin culture.
Some of these documents have survived to the present day, and some have disappeared in the long river of history.
Chen Rui believes that any of these hundreds of volumes can cause shock in China's cultural, historical, and cultural relics circles.
If all the hundreds of volumes were taken out, the sensation caused by Chen Rui would hardly be unimaginable.
For these pre-Qin classics, Chen Rui cherished them.
But for the remaining few bamboo slips, it can no longer be described as cherished.
It's actually a few immortal cultivation methods.
For cultivating immortals, there are many records in ancient wild history, such as, "Wang Qiao meets immortals and watches chess," "Peng Zu is eight hundred years old, and he lives forever", "Not the end of life, not the death of Mingzhi." "Qin Shi Huang sent Xu Fu to lead thousands of boys and girls, as well as three years of food, clothing, medicine and farming tools that had been prepared, to ride into the sea in a mirage to seek immortals. "Wait."
Especially in the pre-Qin and Qin and Han dynasties, there are too many legends of this kind of immortal cultivation, and even in the pre-Qin, Qin and Han dynasties, as well as the official histories of all dynasties, there is a kind of person who is 'Fangshi'.
A monk is a magician. In ancient times, people who claimed to be able to visit immortals and alchemy in order to seek immortality.
For example, "Historical Records: Qin Shi Huang Benji": "Fang Shi Shi wanted to refine in order to seek miraculous medicine." ā
"Su Wen: The Five Organs": "Yu Wen Fangshi either takes the brain and marrow as the viscera, or the stomach as the viscera, or the intestines as the viscera. ā
Hu Tianxiong's "Su Wen Supplement Knowledge": "The man of magic, so that he can use the art of immortality to say that he is a man, and he covers the likes of ancient immortals, Xu Fu of Qin, Xin Yuanping and Li Shaojun of Han. ā
Chen Rui thought that these were just legends, and as an interesting story, just listen to it and laugh.
However, the qiÄ, beads, space, pre-Qin classics, and bamboo slips that recorded the method of cultivating immortals that happened today made Chen Rui change his previous thoughts.
There are really immortal cultivators in the world, although it is not said that they live as long as the legend says, and shine with the sun and the moon.
But it is also not to be underestimated, there is a record in the bamboo slips, once you enter the immortal gate, there is no disease and no disaster, it is easy to live to be more than 100 years old, and it is not impossible to practice to the highest level, like Peng Zu, 'longevity of 800 and eternal life'.