"Send this wooden slip to the Tibetan Institute."

Kong Jianwen rubbed his eyebrows and handed the blackened piece of wood in his hand to Professor Ke.

Jin Wen, Seal Script, Lishu and other ancient characters of the Central Plains, Kong Jianwen dared to say that he understood a little, and Professor Li could be regarded as proficient.

And now the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has Chen Han, a new blood, to join.

Chen Han's Jin Wen (Zhong Dingwen) and Seal Wen are also deeply studied.

It's just that the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is really helpless when it comes to the Tibetan language.

Although the gap between ancient Tibetan and modern Tibetan is not large, the difficulty of distinguishing between traditional and simplified Chinese characters is about the same.

However, they don't understand modern Tibetan either!

Tibetan, according to legend, was created during the Tibetan period, when Songtsen Gampo ordered Tunmi Sambuza to go to India to study and come back.

According to several important Tibetan historical records, the Tibetans originally had no written language, and Songtsen Gampo sent Tunmi Sambuzha to Tianzhu to study Sanskrit and Buddhism.

After completing his studies, he returned to Tibet and, in accordance with the decree of His Holiness the Dharma, founded the Tibetan language based on Sanskrit.

From the 34 consonant letters of Sanskrit, Tunmi Sambuza eliminated 11 that were not in Tibetan phonetics, and added 7 according to the actual situation of Tibetan phonetic pronunciation, and formulated 30 consonant letters.

From the 16 vowel letters of Sanskrit, 4 were selected to match the Tibetan language, and 4 vowel symbols were formulated.

He created the Tibetan block script based on the Sanskrit Lankancha alphabet and the cursive script based on the Urdu alphabet.

He also wrote 8 kinds of grammar books in Tibetan, and translated more than 20 Sanskrit Buddhist classics such as the "Baoyun Sutra".

This was the birth of the Tibetan language.

However, according to modern archaeological evidence, it does not seem that the Tibetan language was born in this way.

Before the Tibetan Kingdom, there was an ancient kingdom on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, called the Zhangzhung Kingdom, which was a tribal state dominated by the XZ Plateau.

In Chinese history, this country is known as Qiangtong and Yangtong, and it is recorded in the Tibetan literature of Dunhuang that this country was conquered by Tubo under the leadership of Songtsen Gampo, and Zhangzhung was established locally.

Its address is almost the modern ALD area.

Don't look at the modern ALD area, it is a poor land with few people and a very difficult life.

However, in the sixth and seventh centuries AD, the ALD area had a pleasant climate and was very suitable for living, and it was the most prosperous area in the entire Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

A tribal culture was formed here at least 4,000 years ago, reaching its peak by the 7th century!

At that time, the population of the Zhangzhung Kingdom that occupied this place should not be less than 10 million people!

According to the Tibetan texts of Dunhuang, early scholars believe that it was destroyed in 644, that is, it was conquered by Songtsen Gampo.

However, recently, with the publication of documents such as "Turquoise Stone, History of the Inheritance of King Yuchi of Qiong", "Treasure String of Aphorisms of the History of the Lineage of Zha Qiong Garbo", and "The Chronicle of the King of the Sun Clan", the scholars found that the hero finally perished in the hands of the Tibetan prince Jidni Magon in 955.

In other words, the so-called "unification of Tibet" by Songtsen Gampo was actually not a fact.

Songtsen Gampo only subdued Zhangzhung and nominally conquered the ALD region, but in fact it was still highly autonomous, or a subjugation to Tibet similar to the Nagong system.

The Zhangzhung script used in the Zhangzhung Kingdom is very similar to the modern Tibetan script, but it is different from the modern Tibetan language, and it was born earlier than the Tibetan script.

The excavation of these archaeological documents almost confirms that before Songtsen Gampo created the Tibetan language, the claim that there was no written language in Tibet is also nonsense.

The Tibetan script is supposed to have undergone the development of Zhangxiong-Tubo Tibetan-modern Tibetan.

And the Zhangzhung script is really the script that borrowed the Sanskrit alphabet and was created according to the Tibetan language.

Compared with the northern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Tibetans are closer to Qinghai and the Western Regions.

On the southern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, the kingdom of Zhangzhung, which lives in the ALD district bordering Tianzhu, also seems to have easier access to Sanskrit.

You must know that the Tubo people moved their capital to LS after Songtsen Gampo.

The kingdom of Zhangxiong in the ALD area has been living in the ALD area since 4,000 years ago.

The relationship between the Xiangxiong script and the Tibetan script is like the relationship between Chinese characters and Tangut script, and the relationship between Chinese characters in Japanese and Chinese characters.

The two look very similar, but the meaning of the words is completely different.

In other words, the Tibetan script is actually a copy of the Zhangxiong script in terms of glyphs, and the text is improved and modified on the basis of the Zhangxiong script.

It is estimated that it is the "glorious image" of Songtsen Gampo and the important influence on the growth of Tibet, so later generations will push all these things to Songtsen Gampo.

The Tibetan language, which was originally learned and evolved from the Zhangzhung script, became the script created by the people of Songtsen Gampo.

This kind of thing is common in countries all over the world.

In the appearance of a great man, there will always be all kinds of honors and good deeds that he did not do, which are imposed on him.

There is a big difference between the regular script and the cursive script in Tibetan.

The reason for this is that the cursive script is derived from the Zhangxiong script, while the regular script is derived from Sanskrit.

In fact, it was the Zhangzhung script that Sambuza was an important reference for creating a complete Tibetan system.

In the more than 800 years between the creation of the Tibetan language and the beginning of the 15th century, according to historical records, there were three major revisions, and after the three revisions, the Tibetan language is almost exactly the same as the modern Tibetan language.

And even if the Tibetan Tibetan language was not revised before, because there are a large number of Buddhist scriptures written in Tibetan scripts written in the Tibetan script of the Tang Dynasty in Dunhuang, Tibetan historical materials and other collections.

Dunhuang fell to the Tibetan state for a long time, so there are a large number of books written in ancient Tibetan characters in the Dunhuang grottoes.

Thanks to this, the modern study of ancient Tibetan is also very mature.

At least it's a little more mature than the Golden Essay Study.

After all, these Buddhist scriptures written in ancient Tibetan have modern Chinese character versions, and it is not too easy to learn ancient Tibetan against them.

Kong Jianwen and Chen Han couldn't understand the Tibetan script on this wooden slab, so it was not a problem at all.

Take a picture and show it to the Tibetan research institute, and they will be able to understand it.

Perhaps, what is recorded on this piece of wood is the life of this Tuyuhun royal family!

It's quite impressive.

Tuyuhun, which once had its own culture, writing, and language, was completely Tuyuhun after being conquered by the Tibetans for one or two hundred years.

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

In modern times, even the writing and language of Tuyuhun have been completely lost, and this nation has disappeared in the long river of time.

"it!"

Suddenly, a scream broke Chen Han and Kong Jianwen's contemplation.

A researcher from the Qinghai Research Institute, who was cleaning up near the disturbance of the No. 1 robbery hole in the main tomb, shouted in surprise:

"Professor Ke!"

"I found a silver-gold alloy seal!"

"There's lettering on it! But it seems to be in Tibetan! ”

"On the printing surface, there is also an image of a Bactrian camel!"