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He walked forward quickly, because this was the only way to get away from the scene just now.

After walking for a while, his eyes suddenly opened up, and he had reached a cliff. The width of this cliff is about 20 meters, and there are seven ropes hanging from the edge of the cliff, and the ropes extend all the way down the cliff.

Lin Xuan leaned out to look, and the rope stretched out in the direction of forty-five angles, entering a white mist that was so thick that it could not be dissolved.

Each buckle of the rope is made of gold wire and hemp rope, about a foot long, one ring is linked to another, like a 'fine' art.

Lin Xuan stretched out his hand to touch and 'touch', only to know that what looked like a "hemp rope" was actually the tendons of some kind of animal, full of toughness and 'sex', and extremely strong.

What's even more peculiar is that there are also calligraphy strokes engraved on the tendons.

Lin Xuan carefully identified that only one of the seven ropes was engraved with Chinese characters in the Middle Ages, and its stroke characteristics were similar to oracle bones. On the other six ropes, all of them were close to "Heavenly Books", and with Lin Xuan's knowledge, he couldn't even recognize a word.

He walked back and forth beside the seven ropes twice, and suddenly came over: "The seven ropes are exactly the same, and although the words engraved on them are in different forms, they should tell the same thing in seven languages." Read it all () I just need to recognize it, and there's nothing else to see. ”

So, he went back to studying the rope with the Chinese characters engraved on it.

The oracle bone, also known as the tortoise shell or tortoiseshell animal bone, is a very important ancient Chinese character material. In oracle bones, the word "Hua" has a very high status.

Lin Xuan saw the word "Hua" appear in many places in the words, and it was precisely because of this word that he understood that the whole text was inscribed on oracle bones.

So far, China has more than 100,000 pieces of oracle bones with characters, containing more than 4,000 different character figures, of which about 2,500 characters have been recognized.

The phonetic characters in the oracle bones account for about 27%, which shows that the oracle bones are quite mature character systems. According to the oracle bones of Yin Shang, Chinese characters at that time had developed into a character system that could completely record the Chinese language, and the number of single words that appeared had reached about 4,000, including a large number of signifiers, pictographs, and ideographs, as well as many morphophonetic characters. There is a huge difference in appearance between these characters and those used today, but in terms of word formation, the two are basically the same.

Lin Xuan saw that the word "Qiang" was frequently mentioned in this oracle bone, and the word usually means "slave" in oracle bones.

Judging from the number of fonts and the way they are structured, oracle bones have developed to a more rigorous system. The principle of "six books" of Chinese characters is reflected in the oracle bones, but the traces of the original pictorial characters are still relatively obvious.

The main characteristics of oracle bones are: in terms of the structure of characters, some pictographs only focus on highlighting the characteristics of the real thing, and the number of strokes is not uniform; Some words have the same meaning of "mouth"; Some Huiyi words only require the partial meeting to have a clear meaning, but do not require fixation, so there are many variant words; The shape of the oracle bone is often determined by the complexity and simplicity of the physical object represented, and some words can occupy the position of several words; The characters are carved on the harder animal bones with a knife, so the strokes are thinner, and the square strokes are the majority.

In the oracle bones found by archaeologists, the characters are carved with knives, and the knives are sharp and blunt, and the bones are thin and thick, hard and soft, so the thickness of the carved strokes is different. Some are as slender as hair, and the joints of the strokes are peeling, thick and heavy. In terms of character structure, the length and size are not certain, or sparse and sparse, and intricate; Or the dense layers are very strict and solemn, so they can show the infinite interest of simplicity and colorfulness.

The oracle bone has a symmetrical and stable pattern, so some people believe that Chinese calligraphy, strictly speaking, starts from the oracle bone, because the oracle bone has prepared an element of calligraphy, that is, the use of pen to knot the character chapter.

Lin Xuan had a deep knowledge of ancient Chinese characters, so it only took half an hour to roughly understand the meaning of the characters. However, all he could read was within five meters of the cliff, the maximum range that the eye could see. Further down, the words are blurred.

He tried to shake the rope, to test its sturdiness, wondering if he could follow it into the fog.

As the name suggests, the oracle bones are supposed to be carved on tortoise shells, but these words are engraved on animal tendons, which has never been done in the 'holes' of ancient tombs that have been excavated.

Divination with tortoise shell is a major event in ancient times, the royal family and nobles from the national affairs, down to the 'private' life, such as sacrificial climate, harvest, expedition, field hunting, sick and giving birth to the 'door', etc., all ask God to ask for divination, in order to know the good fortune and bad fortune to decide the action. As a result, divination became a major event in the country's political life, and the imperial court set up special 'door' institutions and diviners. The oracle bones with inscriptions are preserved as national archives and piled up in the cellar 'hole'. As a result, the inscriptions on the oracle bones became the primary source for the study of the history of the Shang dynasty, reflecting various aspects of social life from 1300 BC to 1000 BC.

The Book of Rites? The table contains: Yin people respect God, lead the people to serve God, first ghosts and then rituals.

It can be seen from this that during the Yin Shang period, before dealing with large and small affairs, the king had to use oracle bones for divination, pray to ghosts and gods, and engrave the things asked on the oracle bones afterwards. After the death of Shang, divination gradually became extinct in the Zhou Dynasty, and its characters gradually became unknown.

The rulers of the Shang Dynasty were very 'superstitious', such as whether there would be disasters within ten days, whether it would rain in the sky, whether there would be a good harvest in the crops, whether the war could be won, which ghosts and gods should be sacrificed and which should be sacrificed, so that fertility, diseases, dreams, and other things should be divined to understand the will of the ghosts and gods and the good luck of things. The materials used for divination are mainly the ventral carapace and dorsal carapace of a turtle and the shoulder blades of a cow. Usually small pits are dug or drilled into the back of the oracle bones to be used for divination, which oracle bones call "drilling". During divination, heat is applied to these small pits, causing cracks on the surface of the oracle bones. This rift is called a "mega". The word "divination" in the oracle bone is like a sign, and those who are engaged in divination judge the good luck and evil according to the various shapes of the divination.

"If the tortoise shell can be used for divination, then can every buckle of this rope be used for divination? Where did the predecessors who carved so many oracle bones on the rope go? Could it be in that thick fog? Now, should I follow in the footsteps of those who came before me, hanging down the cliff and climbing the rope until I pass through the fog? ”

At this moment, Lin Xuan did not hesitate at all, only a heart that never died.