On the afternoon of October 9, 1999, Cairo, Egypt, overnight at Les 3 Py

Amides Guesthouse

Or the pyramids.

Since there is no sufficient evidence to confirm that the largest pyramids are the tombs of the pharaohs, many modern scholars assert that this is a kind of intelligent testament of the ancients to their descendants based on the correspondence and foresight of the various construction data contained in the pyramids and the rules of the movement of celestial bodies. In my words, they are like the Book of Changes built with boulders, and future generations can read and read them, and if they can't read them, they will be alone in a corner, waiting for their descendants to be more distant.

This line of thinking is interesting, and if it is possible, then the pyramids belong to the category of "alternative civilizations". In fact, not to mention the purpose of construction, just looking at the unattainable means of construction, it has also been related to "alternative civilization". I myself am not a fan of the once-popular notion that the pyramids were made by aliens, rather that they come from a civilization that we are not aware of and that belongs to humanity itself.

When all the impossible has become a fact in front of us, then it may be said that the pyramid has a partial subversive energy for the common sense of literature and history that we have been talking about for a long time, at least pointing out that our interpretation of the mysteries of civilization should have several more grammars, and not just stop at the increase of vocabulary under one grammar.

It may have been possible to decipher part of it, but unfortunately the Europeans did two unforgivable bad things. The first is that in 47 B.C., Caesar burned 700,000 volumes of books in the library of Alexandria, including the famous History of Egypt, when he conquered Egypt; The second thing was even worse, more than 400 years later, in 390 AD, the Roman emperor banned paganism and expelled the Egyptian priestly class, the only one who could read ancient texts, and as a result, all the ancient books and ancient tablets were soon undecipherable.

If the first thing is similar to Qin Shi Huang's book burning, then the second thing is exactly the opposite of Qin Shi Huang, because Qin Shi Huang unified the Chinese script, which is equivalent to establishing a kind of "pass code" covering the land of China, and ancient history is no longer partially annihilated because no one interprets it. It is important to know that the greatest annihilation is not the death of books, but the loss of the ability to interpret their words.

Here I see at least one technical reason for the interruption of Egyptian civilization and the continuation of Chinese civilization. At first glance, writing is just a tool, but China is so big, the composition is so complex, the various dialect systems are so strong, the regional concept, the ethnic concept, and the gate valve concept are so strong, and even the agricultural tools, utensils, accents, and diets cannot be unified, and how difficult it is to unify the language! In other civilizations, the biggest trouble for modern archaeologists is the identification of ancient characters, which often take decades to guess a few, and some are still basically unreadable today, but this has not happened in China, and even the oracle bone inscriptions have been quickly interpreted. I think that the so-called remnants of civilization are not first of all the ruins of ancient cities, but a large area of swarthy ancient characters that do not know what they mean. For this reason, standing by the Nile, I miss Qin Shi Huang a little.

When the pharaohs mummified their own bodies, Egyptian history became mummified, and Qin Shi Huang kept Chinese history alive. We now read thousands of years old books like reading letters from friends that have just been sent, something that few other civilizations dare not imagine.

Standing in front of the pyramids, my greatest emotion about Egyptian culture is: I only know how it declined, but I don't know how it was constructed; I only know how it left, but I don't know how it arrived. is like a giant who came out of nowhere, silently performing a few wonderful big moves and then falling to the ground, touching his pocket, not even leaving his name, place of origin, and will, how awe-inspiring.

The pyramid is forbidden to be climbed, but there is no one to stop you from climbing the eight or nine steps below. I climbed a few steps, looked up closely, and looked up at it for a long time. After thousands of years of "oldness", it has lost any neatness of the details, all right angles have become round and blunt, and all straight lines have become trembling pens, so it is very much like a kind of natural product made in heaven, but on the whole, the craggy details are still integrated into a straight brush. Most of the other scenery in the world is composed of nature as a whole, and human beings carve the details, while the pyramids are just the opposite, it is nature that polishes the details, and it is human beings who construct the whole. The pyramid also opened two strokes in silence, and wrote a Chinese character for "people". The two strokes are so steep and neat that the top points straight to the sun, making it impossible to open one's eyes, and only the white clouds are diligently set off on the half-slope.

Hearing Xu Gehui say "forever" in front of the camera, it seems to mention that in another 5,000 years, they will still be like this. This inspired me to have an idea -

The pyramid has so far refused to say why it is so permanent, but it has accidentally revealed what permanence is.

Forever is simple, forever is rough, forever is unbent and straightforward, permanent is the occupation of the desert and the intersection of water and grass, and permanent is the acceptance and slipping of thousands of years of wind and sand.

The inability to decipher is a tragedy of Egyptian civilization, but for the pyramids themselves, it is more permanent than the relics of civilization that are easy to decipher. Popularity is the channel for others to abuse, and logic is the ladder for future generations to step on, and it simply comes to an indifferent and silent way, which also builds a barrier. Therefore, two additional sentences can be added:

Permanence is the burial of intentions, the transformation of complex logic into simplicity.