Chapter 55: Sand Table Sand Blindness
"Uh-huh! yes, yes!" Wu Xing responded perfunctorily, now this "half teacher" is irreplaceable. Although Wu Xing did not "invite the gods", but he didn't know how to "send the gods", while hoping that Wentian would complete the chalcedony pattern as soon as possible and leave himself, Wu Xing actually hoped to learn more from Wentian something that would be helpful in cultivation, after all, the difficulty of finding a "kind" was no less difficult than letting a fire meteor hit the head, after all, during the Heavenly Ladder Trial, from the trial students, examiners, and even the priests and star monarchs in the ruins of the Heavenly Court, none of them were "of the same kind" as Wentian.
"Then how should Chang Gengxing be lit?" Wu Xing humbly asked.
"The first awakening of Wenqu Xing, with the finger as the pen and the star power as the ink, wrote the nine-character mantra and lit up the Chang Geng star. Q Tian replied, concisely and to the point.
Wu Xinghu said suspiciously: "It seems easy to ...... to say"
Wen Tian continued: "It is indeed not difficult to do. In the process of the Heavenly Ladder Trial, the left and right hands of the students have reached the standard of being able to carry star power. Therefore, you only need to condense the star power on the fingertips of the sword finger of your left hand, and you can 'write' the nine-character mantra. Therefore, after lighting up the Chang Geng Star, he naturally mastered the technique of 'Star Interpretation'. And when the 'Star Interpretation' technique is cultivated to the Great Perfection realm, it can even write an inscription with a single stroke. ”
"The nine-character mantra inscription, I know, can be seen on almost every giant stone tablet. It is said that the single nine-character mantra inscription seems to play a role in some kind of inheritance and transformation in the entire megalithic inscription......" Wu Xing said two sentences, and seeing that Wentian had no intention of answering the words at all, he smiled bitterly and said: "I guess, Wenqu Xingjun's cultivation pays more attention to understanding, so I can only explore it myself." ”
Wen Tian smiled and said, "That's right." ”
Seeing that Wentian directly atomized and disappeared, Wu Xing was able to calm down and seriously copy Wentian's brief tips on lighting up Chang Gengxing: use fingers as pens, star power as ink, and write nine-character mantras.
"When the Mengxue Museum first taught literacy and practice, it didn't start directly with the brush. On the one hand, it is to take into account that the cost of the four treasures of the study is not affordable by ordinary families, and on the other hand, it is also to take into account the lack of arm strength and wrist strength of school children, and the heart is undecided, and they cannot understand the way to move the pen and the wonder of the characters. Wu Xing muttered to himself: "So, the Mengxue Pavilion, and even the Star Palace, have prepared something that can be called a 'holy weapon' for the schoolchildren who are getting started....... Sandbox. ”
"Because the vast majority of people are still accustomed to the right hand, the practice of Chinese characters in the Mengxue Museum has created a group of 'left-handers' in a short period of time. ”
In fact, how to define "left-handed" is also controversial among the seven countries of the Starfall Continent.
The movements that the hand can complete include pulling, throwing, lifting, twisting, holding, holding the pen, using the needle, holding the knife and many other movements. There are quite a few people who use different hands differently for different movements. For example, some people use their right hand to "throw" and their left hand to "catch"; most people who write calligraphy with their right hand are accustomed to using their right hand, but there are not many people who hold a spoon with their left hand. There are also movements that require the coordination of both hands, such as planing picks, hoeing, holding shovels, swinging, etc. If a person is accustomed to one side of the hand, the dominant hand of the two-handed movement may be the other hand. The problem is even more complicated when you take into account the movements of the legs and feet. Jumping, kicking, stepping, rubbing and other actions, some are 100% "right-handed", but the movements of the legs and feet are dominated by the left side.
Among the schoolchildren in the Mengxue Hall or the Star Hall of the Seven Kingdoms, there is about one to two years of literacy transition, and this or two years is the golden period to examine whether the schoolchildren have the potential to become Wenqu Xingjun. One of the criteria for judging is whether you can smoothly advance from writing white characters on the sand table to "writing" the inscription.
Once the transition period of one to two years is missed, whether at home or in the Mengxue Center, the children will be forcibly corrected from left-handed habits to become right-handed, such as holding chopsticks with their right hand and writing with their right hand. It is said that this is a custom of the previous dynasties of the old calendar, and it has been passed down and maintained.
From this, it can be guessed that there must be a reason why the inscription was written with the left hand. Wu Xing said to himself: "The 'writing habit' of the inscription is to write a line of words from top to bottom, and then arrange each line of words from right to left, while the 'writing habit' of Baiwen is to write a row of words from left to right, and then arrange each row of words from top to bottom." ”
"Yongzi eight methods, used to solve the word, especially the word "Yong", the most attention to the order of strokes and the structure of the font, the commonly used practice is the "rice word" grid, each "Yong" word must score eight strokes to write. Mr. Teach will not only repeatedly emphasize the importance of pen order and structure, but also once he finds that the student's pen order is wrong, he will directly withdraw his palm to show punishment, which is much more important than the structure. ”
"When I was a child, when Abba and Aunt taught me to write the nine-character mantra, I also used a sand table, not because the sand table can be written repeatedly or the cost is low, but because the sand table can write the 'structure' of the inscription. I still remember when they said that the structure of the inscription is not on paper, but "in the sandbox....... Why do the inscriptions use megaliths as carriers? Is it because of the thickness of each megalith?"
Wu Xing is now in the White Horse Stele Forest, and his doubts can naturally be found from the giant stone steles around him.
"When I used to read the inscriptions, I always habitually converted the inscriptions directly into white text for interpretation, and never thought about why each inscription needs to be carved so many times horizontally and vertically, and divided into so many strokes....... At that time, the predecessors of Wentian also said that the inscription on the megalithic tablet was not actually carved out by the craftsman with tools, but was 'star-attached' with a star pen. Therefore, the actual number of strokes in each inscription far exceeds the number of strokes in the simplified white script. ”
Wu Xing released his inductive power, through his fingertips, into the inscriptions in front of him, carefully tracing the subtlety of each "carving", and said thoughtfully: "Grandma said that the method of moving the pen with the tip of the brush is divided into three types: the pen for the center, the pen for the side, and the pen for the broken edge. The center of the pen, refers to the position of the pen tip in the center of the stroke, the side of the pen, the position of the tip is not in the center of the stroke but on the side of the stroke, the edge of the pen with the pen, do not care about the point of the tip, do not care whether the brush hair is gathered, the focus is on the process of the pen, can reflect the control of the power of the brush, better to express emotions. ”
Grandma also said that when writing an inscription on a sand table, you must first imagine your fingers as the tip of a brush. Practice the nine-character mantra inscription on the sand table, in which the switch between the three methods of the pen tip is used, the nine-character mantra with the least total number has 7749 switches, and the nine-character mantra with the largest number even reaches 9981 switching of the nib method!
"What does this mean?! It shows that the nine-character mantra has switched several times in each painting! Therefore, every painting of the nine-character mantra on the sand table is horizontal and vertical, and the depth is different!"
Thinking of this, Wu Xing had some sudden enlightenment, and muttered: "Use your fingers as your pen and star power as your ink, and write a nine-character mantra...... Now I should practice calligraphy on the sand table, anyway, I have learned the sixth character of the 'array' of the inscription of the nine-character mantra......"
The light lit up, and the starlight condensed on the fingertips of the sword fingers in his left hand, Wu Xing held his breath and began to practice calligraphy.
And yet a quarter of an hour passed, and nothing happened!
Wu Xing scratched his head and said distressedly: "Every nine-character mantra inscription has to be passed by at least hundreds of handboards, and even the always strict grandma can't find fault with it, so she enters the next nine-character mantra inscription." Abba even gloated at the time and said that the purpose of playing the handboard was to strengthen the sharpness of the fingertips and improve the memory...... Sensitivity, long memory......."
"Whether it is the Mengxue Hall or the Star Palace, the sand on the sand table used by schoolchildren is all fine sand. When the fingertips of the fingers poke into the fine sand, even if the eyes are closed, the touch feedback from the fingertips can be used to complete the 'writing' of the nine-character mantra inscription. This is also the only criterion for grandma to assess whether she has passed the nine-character mantra inscription, which is called 'sand blindness'. ”
Wuqu Xingjun will not have a left or right distinction between the refining of his identity, and the nourishment and improvement of Wuqu Xingjun's body by star power is comprehensive, and there will be no situation where the right hand has become an iron arm and the left hand has become tofu. The sea of stars lit up in Wuqu Xingjun's body was only an increase on the basis of his body, not at the cost of weakening his other hand.