Chapter 63: Words
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Matthew is very much looking forward to whether he can replicate a race with a traditional Chinese cultural background in this distant alien space!
In this strange world where great power has manifested, what kind of future will a nation with the core of Chinese culture have?
Matthew intercepted a fragment from the history of the Chinese nation in his previous life, and he will guide the transformation of the fish-man society, and finally get closer to the fragment he intercepted in terms of social style, cultural customs, and life rhythm!
Matthew took out the Northern Song Dynasty period, which he personally liked very much and missed very much, as the target period.
Taoism is a traditional Chinese religion founded by the patriarchs of the Three Qing Dynasties, and its history can be traced back to ancient times, and it was gradually formed in the Zhou, Qin, and Han dynasties. Taoism is not a religion created by one person at a time and one place, but a combination of different cultures and ideas in various parts of China in the past dynasties.
The origins of Taoist thought are complex and diverse, and they are closely related to many areas of traditional Chinese culture.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, the development of Taoism reached a peak! The rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty inherited the Tang Dynasty's policy of advocating Taoism, and Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, and Zhao Guangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, were the founders of this policy.
When seizing the power of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin used Huashan Gaodao Chen Tuan and others to win the masses for him, and after becoming emperor, he also went to the door to ask Taoist priests Liu Ruozhuo and Su Chengyin for advice on "the art of governing the world and maintaining health".
Zhao Guangyi also advocated the quiet and inactive Huang Lao politics, and was very interested in Huang Bai Zong and health preservation techniques, and constantly built palaces and gave economic preferential treatment.
During the reign of Song Zhenzong, social and economic development flourished, and the alliance of the Yuanyuan stimulated him to attach importance to the local religion.
Song Zhenzong spent a lot of energy to support Taoism: preaching the advent of the gods and the descent of the heavenly book, respecting the god Zhao Xuanlang as the "holy ancestor" and enshrined Mount Tai; building a large number of palaces and temples, setting up palaces and temples to lift; formulating festivals and godly movements, compiling "Treasures of the Heavenly Palace" and "Seven Notes of the Cloud Pipe"; obsessed with fairy prescriptions, outer pills and yellow and white, and health preservation techniques.
After that, Song Renzong, Song Yingzong, Song Shenzong, and Song Zhezong inherited Song Zhenzong's Chongdao policy.
Zhao Ji of Huizong of the Song Dynasty set off the second upsurge of Taoism in the Northern Song Dynasty and implemented a series of measures to worship Taoism: propagating the myth of "the descent of the gods" and proclaiming himself "the Taoist Emperor of the Sect"; building Taoist temples and building Shenxiao Palaces in various places; he was keen to give titles to immortal figures, such as sealing the Jade Emperor as "the god of the Jade Emperor of the Taishang Kaitian Zhifu Imperial Calendar with the True Body of Dao Haotian Jade Emperor", sealing Guan Gong as the "King of Righteousness and Courage and Wu'an", and sealing Mazu as the "Goddess of the South China Sea"; imitating the management rank of the imperial court, setting up Taoist ranks and Taoist positions, and greatly promoting the Taoist Method, and Zhang Jixian, Lin Lingsu, Wang Wenqing and other Taoist priests made good friends; he advocated the study of Taoist scriptures, established a Taoist system and a doctor of Taoism, listed "Neijing", "Laozi", and "Zhuangzi" as classics for study, recompiled the history of Taoism, and edited "Zhenghe Wanshou Daozang".
It can be said that if Matthew hopes to reproduce the peak period of Taoist culture, then grafting the historical background of the Song Dynasty is undoubtedly the most direct way!
Matthew extracted from the database the most classic set of enlightenment textbooks of the Northern Song Dynasty, which was the most commonly used in Mongolian learning to teach reading and writing at that time!
The whole set of textbooks contains 5,000 commonly used Chinese characters to read and write, as well as basic knowledge of writing and writing, which is specially designed for the enlightenment of children from scholarly families.
Matthew chose this set of textbooks, removed the chaff, and added ethics, morality, mythology, common sense, loyalty, faith and so on under traditional Chinese culture!
It can be said that after the baptism of such a set of teaching materials, a topic that has not yet formed a mature world view itself can easily construct a spiritual core with a Chinese cultural background!
And in this ocean world, the fish-people, a nascent race, have no way to resist such a powerful cultural output as Matthew!
In the foreseeable future, the Fish-People will become believers in Taoist culture, and Matthew will do his best to guide them to achieve extraordinary power, and see what kind of resonance can be formed between power and culture!
In Matthew's heart, there is always a feeling that his crossing is not so simple, and there must be a deep meaning in the ancient Chinese culture!
At the latest, from the early Tang Dynasty, the Taoist scripture "Dong Xuan Lingbao Three Caves Feng Daoke Precept Camp Beginning, Writing Scriptures" said:
"Where there are 12 phases, in order to make the true scriptures: one is a gold inscription, two are silver seals, three are flat stone engravings, four are written on wood, five are plain books, six are lacquer books, seven are gold characters, eight are silver characters, nine are bamboo slips, ten are wall books, eleven are paper books, and twelve are leaf books. Or ancient or modern, or seal or subordinate, or take the jade character of the heavenly book, or like the cloud gas gold medal, eight bodies and six books, from the heart".
The twelve phases of the Taoist scriptures, that is, the twelve types in the figurative sense of Taoist scriptures, are mainly said from the composition materials of the manuscript and the glyphs.
There are two main types of Taoist scripture fonts mentioned in the scriptures. One is the general font, that is, the seal script and the official script. More broadly, it is "Eight Bodies and Six Books", which is the general name of the Qin Dynasty's general font Eight Bodies and the six books of the general font of the Xinmang Period, and there is also a record in "Yun Ji Qi Jian":
"One is a big seal, two is a small seal, three is an engraved character, four is an insect book, five is a copy of the seal, six is a signed book, seven is a book, and eight is a book. During Wang Mang's time, Situ Zhenfeng corrected the text, and there were six books: one is the ancient text, the book of Confucius, the second is the strange character, the ancient text is different, the third is the seal book, the fourth is the Zuoshu, that is, the official book, the fifth is the Miao seal, so the copy is sealed, and the sixth is the bird seal, which translates the words.
And within Matthew's plan, in the initial stage of the experiment, he will teach the fish people the "small seal" as a font for writing. Small seal, also known as Qin seal, is a kind of popular book style after the unification of Qin by Prime Minister Li Si, its glyph is still graceful and passable, both pictographic meaning and writing of the gradual neatness, is an extremely important style!
Matthew stood in the middle of the small fish-man walled city, to the fish-people, he was a giant who felt a little overshadowed by the sky! He mobilized his spiritual power and cast a simple magic: "Ice Mirror Technique", which condensed the sea water into a huge ice mirror, which was blessed by magical power and could keep it from melting all day!
Matthew's behavior aroused the strong curiosity of the fish people, and everyone stopped what they were doing and looked up at Matthew!
Matthew stretched out his right hand, moved his fingers like an iron pen, and buckled out a huge small seal on the ice mirror with the word "Dao", only to see that the whole font was strong and powerful, revealing a hearty taste!
Matthew's eyes swept over the small fishmen all over the city, opened his mouth, and said in the most classic Chinese pronunciation: "Dao!" His voice was blessed by magic, and it seemed deafening, and the voice traveled far away!
In this distant dimension, for the first time, a strange and familiar Chinese language echoed in the air, and Matthew's mood also rippled, and countless memories flooded up!
Matthew pronounced the pronunciation of "Dao" again and again, and his encouraging eyes swept over the crowd below!
Gradually, some of the fishmen came to their senses and began to follow Matthew's voice. This very different pronunciation makes the fish people revise their vocalizations over and over again. Until more and more people began to shout the standard "Tao"
The voices of tens of thousands of people in the sea world gathered together, and the word "Dao" resounded throughout the space, and gradually, Matthew stopped leading, but saw that the fish people were still immersed in this shout.
And Matthew suddenly found that the will of the entire ocean world was actually triggered, and the entire enchantment began to tremble with this shout, as if the world had breathed!