Chapter 12: Mistakes in the Manuscript
Lu Tian returned to the newspaper office, sat down at his desk, took out the shorthand book from his satchel, took out a few pieces of manuscript paper, and began to sort out some relevant information about Li Yun, a peasant oracle bone expert.
——At a recent symposium on ancient Chinese literature, the digital method, a new method for comprehensively deciphering oracle bone inscriptions, attracted wide attention from the participating experts.
- It's hard to believe that this method was invented by a farmer in City A, Province L.
——This farmer's name is Li Yun, 50 years old this year, born in City A, and his father used to be a private school teacher who was proficient in poetry and literature. His father gave him a good cultural enlightenment and strict family discipline, and Li Yun was very interested in oracle bone inscriptions since he was a child.
- For a while, Li Yun was sent to a small village, where he settled down to farm. When he settled in, the first thing that came to his mind was Oracle. In just a few years, Li Yun familiarized himself with many monographs such as "A Review of Yinxu Divination" and "The Great Series of Fortnightly Golden Inscriptions", which made his understanding of oracle bone inscriptions more in-depth.
After decades of study, recording, observation, and research, Li Yun has invented a method of digitizing the radicals of the oracle bone inscription to explain the meaning of the oracle bone inscription on the basis of repeated arguments. The oracle bone inscriptions interpreted in this numerical method coincide with the known meaning, and they can be used to decipher other oracle bone inscriptions.
——This year, Li Yun's monograph on oracle bone inscriptions was published, and since then, his digital deciphering method has attracted more and more attention at home and abroad. Li Yun, director of the Institute of History of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, believes that Li Yun's research method is completely different from that of general paleography, but is based on the traditional Chinese elephant mathematics and has a unique path.
——Today, Li Yun has been hired as an oracle bone researcher by the Academy of Social Sciences of L Province, and he has also been hired as a part-time researcher by the ancient culture office of a university in City A.
Lu Tian listed these words, I can't help but feel too rigid, if you want to write the characters alive, you have to put some effort into the character, add details, and highlight the story, but how to write? He was a little confused.
Lu Tian wrote all afternoon, but he was always not satisfied, he always felt as if something was wrong, and he couldn't find the reason for it for a while. Just when he was at his wit's end, the phone rang.
It was the whistleblower who called, and the whistleblower was still talking anxiously.
"Reporter Lu, have you rushed out of the manuscript? Can you send it out soon, I want to get the sample as soon as possible. ”
"Also, you know, I'm an exclusive interview with your newspaper, and there are many newspapers waiting to interview me, but I can't turn them away, not because of the popularity of your City Life newspaper......
The whistleblower muttered non-stop on the phone, but Lu Tian still heard it, isn't this voice Li Yun himself, an oracle bone writing expert! Speaking like a fish spitting bubbles, from time to time he snorted a few sentences, as if the car couldn't hang up.
The whistleblower broke the news that Lu Tian encountered it for the first time.
Lu Tian explained: "Don't worry, I will find a manuscript to rush out this weekend, and I will show it to you first, and we will publish it when you are satisfied......
Before Lu Tian could finish speaking, the other party hung up the phone.
It's inexplicable. Lu Tian hung up the phone and muttered to himself.
Lu Tian wrote all night, and finally drove the manuscript out, and he came to the editor-in-chief's office, ready to be approved by the editor-in-chief so that it could be published in time.
The editor-in-chief is an old man in his fifties, who has been engaged in editorial work for many years, he wears a pair of glasses, his hair is a little gray, and he looks like a senior old pen.
The editor-in-chief took the manuscript, just glanced at the title of the manuscript, and was stunned for a moment, he glanced at Lu Tian suspiciously with the gap above his glasses, and then came back to his senses and skimmed the following cursoryly.
Through the eyes of the editor-in-chief, Lu Tian became a little uneasy.
"You interviewed this script?" The editor-in-chief put down the manuscript and asked questioningly.
"yes, what's wrong?" Lu Tian replied truthfully, but the editor-in-chief's tone told Lu Tian that there must be a big problem with the manuscript.