Section VII Expert Seminars
Chen Liang's sudden arrival completely ruined the good things between us, which made Wang Jiali very annoyed! She hurriedly got dressed, then slammed the door and left, without saying a word.
Chen Liang was stunned and asked me, "Brother Xiao, what's wrong with Wang Jiali? Why are you so angry? Have you offended her?"
For this sluggish stunned light, sometimes I really can't do anything about him, but I can't say it directly, so I have to casually say to him: "Women are like that, don't pay attention to her!"
Chen Liang is an upright and honest person, thinking that things have always been in a straight line, and he doesn't think about other things at all.
He naturally believed me without hesitation, and really ignored Wang Jiali, turned around and sat on the chair and asked enthusiastically: "Tell me quickly, Brother Xiao, how is the priestess in the back and him, have you found the ancient spirit grass and made the elixir to prolong life?"
I will only tell every detail when I tell Wang Jiali a story, but I don't have such a good patience for the stunned head, I said casually: "Of course it was made, otherwise how could the Yellow Emperor live for more than a hundred years! Then the two of them got along, and then the relationship developed very well, and when they wanted to elope, they were caught by the tribesmen, and the priestess was poured poisoned soup! He took the poisoned priestess and ran back to the ghost pond frantically, hoping to find the spirit grass there to save her! But the poison had already invaded the internal organs, and it was too late!"
Chen Liang was very disappointed and said, "Isn't it? Poisoned? But is this related, just to describe his love with the priestess?"
"Yes!" I sat down and took a sip of water and continued: "When the priestess was about to die, she suddenly remembered her previous life in front of the spirit tree, and it turned out that she was the wolf wife of the wolf king! And the author herself in her previous life happened to be the wolf king! So the priestess said a word before she died, she said that she knew that they were husband and wife, and she should have left the territory of the Xuanyuan clan directly with him and ginseng, and then found a secluded place to live together!"
Chen Liang frowned after hearing this, and muttered while pondering: "So they met again after being reincarnated, and their memories are all left in the Black Swamp!
After listening to this, I sneered: "Most of the things described by the ancients have been mythical, do you really believe it?"
Chen Liang seemed to disagree with my point of view, and he said with a serious expression: "But you must know that there is a lot of practical basis for the theory of reincarnation! My grandfather had an aunt, and she remembered the events of her previous life, and she could clearly depict the scene of the capital, which all happened during the Qing Dynasty!"
I said disapprerovingly: "That's your grandfather's aunt is very infatuated with the capital, and she deliberately made it up to fool you, you believe it!"
Seeing that I was dismissive of this, Chen Liang didn't bother to explain, he got up and pulled me as he walked out of the dormitory and said, "Okay, tonight my mother will go home to cook and eat, let's go, go to my house for dinner! Let's go to the Internet café to play a few 3Cs first, hehe!"
Playing games, I'm naturally quite interested, recently and Chen Liang and the game Warcraft 3 RPG map 3C, we played a few times and felt quite enjoyable!
However, Wang Jiali left unhappily, so that I didn't have any intention to be happy, and I went back to school immediately after dinner at Liang's house!
Later, Dr. Zhang came to the dormitory to inform me that he would organize a seminar on the "Western Zhou Parchment Scroll" in the city in a few days, saying that I had participated in the translation of the Western Zhou Jinwen above, and that I would also accompany him to listen to it at that time, and by the way, I would have a better understanding!
I couldn't see Wang Jiali's figure for the next few days, probably really angry, deliberately avoiding me! Hey, sometimes women are very troublesome, no matter how strange they are, they shouldn't blame me, I don't know what I can do if I'm stunned and have no fun at all!
Emotional things are always tormenting, which makes my next sleep very bad, and the weather is relatively hot, which makes me lose sleep for several nights in a row.
I always had a premonition that something troublesome came back, but I didn't expect that I had overslept on the day of the seminar, and when I woke up, it was eight o'clock!
I immediately got up to rinse my mouth and hurried out of the dormitory on my bicycle. As soon as I turned the corner, I met Wang Jiali, who stopped me and said she wanted to talk to me, but I rushed to the seminar and continued to ride despite her emotions.
Wang Jiali was about to explode in anger, and yelled at my back: "Xiao Feng, you have gone too far!"
I turned my head and replied, "I'm sorry Carrie, I'm really going to be late, I'll come back to you later!"
With that, I went straight to the main road, and by the time I walked into the City Council building, the seminar had already begun!
When I walked into the conference room, all the leaders and experts looked at me with strange eyes, which made me so ashamed that I really wanted to find a hole to drill into.
Dr. Zhang glared at me and immediately beckoned me to sit next to him! I glanced around the hall and saw that there were many learned teachers sitting here, and it seemed that this seminar was really heavy!
Before my ass was hot, the expert who was giving the lecture asked me by name: "Xiao Feng, right? We have been waiting for you for a long time, and we have all checked your translation against the text on the sheepskin, we have a lot of questions, please answer them!"
I immediately stood up and nodded my salute, and replied tremblingly, "Oh!
The expert immediately got up, pointed to several translations on the projection wall with a laser pointer and asked, "This Lieshan Clan and Xuanyuan Clan are the names of our descendants in order to study the ancients, and this Wanling Grass is also the name used by our ancients! How can you translate it so directly?"
I replied without any subtlety: "Oh, I actually translated it into an easy-to-understand translation for tourists according to the request of my tutor, so I replaced it with a name that everyone is familiar with and easy to understand! Including the structure of the language, it is also expressed in the form of a novel, so that tourists feel that this is a story that happened in ancient times, which will be more interesting! But my translation is not a very sophisticated translation of ancient literature, why did I take it out for comparison in the seminar?"
The expert was stunned for a moment, sneered, and then said sarcastically: "Is this your top student majoring in archaeology at Fudan? Why don't you have any professional standards at all, and if such a translation is published in the world, won't people make fun of the low level of archaeology in our country? It's a good thing for young people to be creative, but have you thought about the consequences and impacts of doing this?"
I shook my head and replied, "I didn't think much about it at the time, I just wanted to make it easier for tourists to read!"
The expert uncle sneered again, and continued to sarcastically: "Okay, sit down! No wonder your archaeology major in Fudan can only be ranked tenth in the country, and students of your level have also come to translate translations for the museum, which is really a big tooth!"
As soon as I heard it, I was upset, and I was upset about my girlfriend's affairs, and I thought that this expert was almost taking the opportunity to find fault with our school and embarrass us!
I immediately retorted: "This leader, I don't agree with what you just said! Tourists are tourists, they are not scholars of literature, and if you tell them what is surnamed Ji and Jiang, how can they understand it! If the translated things are all things that tourists can't understand, even if your literary attainments are high, but you can't give appropriate words according to local conditions, doesn't this mean that your level is not good? I don't think there's anything wrong with my translation, on the contrary, I think that the translations of many attractions in China have to be changed according to this model, so that they will be more popular with tourists!"
The expert was stunned for a moment, looked at me in surprise, and couldn't say a word.
At this time, Dr. Zhang rebuked me and said, "Xiao Feng, you are so rude! This is Dr. Liu from Northwest University, who specializes in archaeological research, and is a well-known senior in the field of archaeology and literature in China, so why don't you apologize to him quickly!"
Northwestern University ...... , well, the archaeology major can be regarded as the top four in China, and it is normal to see that our archaeology major in Fudan is normal!
I bowed my head and admitted my mistake, and then sat down silently!
Later, several other experts began to speak one after another, and many of them even supported my translation, saying that there was indeed a need to make some improvements in the translation of the vernacular!
The seminar was very boring, and it was all about some unwarranted things, and they followed the contents recorded in the parchment inscription, starting with Pangu Kaitian and talking about the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and then the Xia Shang and Zhou Dynasty! They brought out the history one by one to discuss it, and many people accused the author of the parchment inscription of having radical rebellious ideas and completely confusing the origin of the ancient Chinese civilization! They said this because it has always been believed in China that the Jiuli people should also belong to the descendants of the Suiren clan, and by no means they came from the southwest mountains, and the distant ancestors of the Suiren clan did not come from the West! If we talk about the West, it is Kunlun Mountain, because Kunlun Mountain is indeed the birthplace of Chinese civilization.
I didn't express any opinions, because many people had different opinions, and a parchment seminar ended up being a dispute over the origin of our Chinese civilization.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the seminar finally ended, and the conference on the origin of Chinese civilization did not reach a unified view at all! But it is very strange that when the author went to marry Lingcao for the Yellow Emperor in the Black Swamp, and the priestess made the elixir for the Yellow Emperor to prolong his life, they all chose to believe the author's description, because it is recorded in history that the Yellow Emperor did live for more than 100 years!
I laughed when I thought of this, the ancients usually recorded history with myths, and they actually believed that the Yellow Emperor really lived for more than a hundred years!
I didn't speak to refute it, because I was the least senior here, and no one would listen to me.
After leaving the conference building, Dr. Zhang took me to meet his old classmate, Dr. Xie!
Dr. Xie's name is Xie Xinwen, 47 years old this year, and he was a classmate of my supervisor Zhang Wenyuan when he was a doctoral student at Peking University! Dr. Xie is a professor at Peking University and a well-known authoritative expert in the field of archaeology.
In the VIP room of a café, the three of us sat down for coffee together, and soon the two of them chatted happily!
Tutor Zhang Wenyuan smiled and asked, "How about Dr. Xie, my student is doing well, right?"
Dr. Xie put down the coffee cup in his hand, looked at me and nodded, then smiled and said, "Well, the young man dares to do and speak, he has potential!
I immediately pouted and said, "Forget it, I don't know how many people will be told by the time, you better find someone else to translate for you!"
After hearing this, Dr. Zhang laughed and said: "What's this, archaeology is like this, it's all thousands of years old, and there is no literature that can be used for reference, controversy is inevitable!"
Dr. Xie sipped his coffee with a smile and said: "Yes, the origin of our Chinese civilization is still a secret, and recently there has been a trend in the West and the United States to use genes to determine the origin of human beings, saying that all human beings came out of Africa! The technology of foreigners is very advanced, and in my opinion, the author of the parchment inscription is very likely to be correct, and it is not possible that the Shennong clan and the Jiuli clan are from different branches!".
I was stunned for a moment and hurriedly asked, "Really? So Dr. Xie thinks so too!"
Dr. Xie looked at me seriously and said, "What?
I nodded and replied, "Yes! I saw a piece of information some time ago that said that human beings came to Southeast Asia for the first time after fleeing from Africa, and one of them traveled westward around the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau into the great northwest of China, and the other group went through the jungle from the northeast to the Yangtze River Valley, and finally the two tribes met again in the Yellow River Valley! This seems to be exactly what the author of the parchment inscription guessed to be, so I think this is very likely!"
Dr. Xie nodded and said, "Well, I've heard about related things, but the foreigner's genetic analysis is just a guess, and it can't fully prove that this is the case!"
I continued to ask curiously, "Oh yes, Dr. Xie, that author deliberately wrote a mythical story about the origin of all spirits at the beginning! But judging from the things he recorded and his own thoughts, he didn't believe in the existence of dragons, but he put the things of Pangu and Nuwa first, so did he believe in the existence of gods, or did he just put it in front as an allusion?"
Dr. Xie frowned and thought for a while, and replied seriously: "This is difficult to say! The ancients, there are not many things that they know, at that time, mythology was very popular, and many ancestors would be mythologized, I think he should also be because of the previous things that cannot be exquisite, so he can only choose to believe in legends! However, this does not mean that he himself believes in the existence of gods!"
I continued, "But what is the mystery of the witchcraft that he learned from the priestess when he was a witch in the ninth life?"
Dr. Xie was stunned for a moment after hearing this, frowned and thought for a long time, but still shook his head and said: "I don't know about this, I still have to go back to collect information to investigate, I can't figure out that his witchcraft may be half-true and half-true!"
"Okay, okay!" At this time, Dr. Zhang said, "It's coffee break, don't talk about this anymore!" Okay Xiao Feng, you go back to school, I'll sit with Dr. Xie for a while!"
Seeing what the instructor said, I had to get up and say goodbye, turn around and leave the café.
After returning to school, I couldn't find Wang Jiali again, and I guess she might really ignore me because of anger this time, so I could only be in a daze in the dorm room in an irritable mood.
In the following time, because the Shanghai Museum added an antiquity of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the magical stories related to it, it attracted the attention of countless tourists and archaeologists, so that the parchment scroll of the Western Zhou Dynasty caused a big sensation in the entire archaeological and human research circles!
Every day in the museum, there are people who take a long line to visit and read the translation, I didn't expect my translation to be so popular with everyone, the director of the museum because of my good translation, and specially awarded our school a bonus of 5,000 yuan!
The museum is rich, it gave so much money, and in the end I got a thousand yuan, which made me happy for hours!
A few days later, Dr. Zhang came to persuade me again, hoping that I could join the national archaeological team, so that I could better play my expertise in paleographies!
But at the same time, the director of the museum also came to the school to have a meal with me, saying that he hoped that I would work in the museum in the future, specializing in the annotation and translation of cultural relics!
Of course, I want to choose to work in the museum, so that I can stay in Shanghai stably, and then marry Wang Jiali and live in Shanghai settlingly!
But one day, a man in a suit came to our school, and he came to me by name, saying that their boss had something important to discuss with me!
When I heard it, I was terrified, could it be that because I had translated a parchment scroll, I was still being targeted by the bad guys?