Chapter 118: Studying Ancient Characters

The disturbances in the city still reached Ye Xing's ears, and looking at the two women and the guards who were proud of him, he couldn't dampen their interest, so he agreed to leave in a few days.

After many people tracked down, they continued to dig up Ye Xing's whereabouts, knowing that Ye Caizi had been living on a big ship recently, but he couldn't board the ship.

also knew that Ye Xing and the three of them had gone to Guizang Academy to study, and many people went to investigate, so that Yi Lao had to close the door and accept students for the time being.

In fact, the tuition fees of Ye Xing's three people were enough for him to spend for several years, but he was too annoying, and many people kept coming to harass him, so he simply closed the door and went out temporarily.

originally planned to leave soon, but Ye Xing also had a new idea, and in the past ten days of studying the "Returning to the Tibetan Sutra", he always felt that it was necessary to study this scripture in depth.

Of course, it is only in this ancient cultural capital that there is a better chance to learn these ancient knowledge, so it is necessary to stay here for a longer time.

Ye Xing and the three of them didn't get off the boat, but it was rare for the guards not to have to guard the boat, and they all went to the city to be chic.

Ye Xing took out the book he had just bought and looked at it, mainly about the history of Pingyuan County, and after reading a few books, he found that there was an interesting thing, most of the legendary stories of the Song Kingdom really happened in or near Pingyuan City.

For thousands of years, there have been countless legends here, many of which are myths and adventures of famous people.

For example, thousands of years ago, there was a poor scholar and genius who had to meet the guidance of immortals, topped the high school list, and became a generation of famous generals; Someone disappeared after entering the mountain, and decades had passed since he reappeared, and he himself only thought it was a few days; There are also many love stories of fox fairies and talents, as well as countless gods and monsters.

For these heroic anecdotes and strange events, some people think they are miracles, some people think they are nonsense, and most people just talk about it. Folk tales, that is, stories, often may exist, but no one will ever really take them seriously.

Ye Xing is different, he has long had this understanding, any incident is circulated, it is by no means its sensation, but there is a reason, and the reason is often true.

As the cultural center of tens of thousands of years, the plain area is, of course, a place where the characters are dazzling, and these amazing characters, of course, are the eternal talk of people, and heroes are worshipped in any era.

People have the habit of beautifying heroes, and there is a need to deify heroes, and Hougu is the most characteristic cultural phenomenon of the Song Kingdom.

And countless gods and monsters, of course, there are real reasons behind them, Ye Xing analyzed, in fact, it is because there are really people who are different from the world, those cultivators who pursue the longevity of life.

Cultivators are extremely rare, and there is only one in ten thousand, based on the birth realm required by cultivation, they do not want to get involved in mundane affairs, and because there are some mandatory rules, they rarely intervene in mundane affairs.

Cultivators also have to find a place where the aura is excellent for long-term cultivation, so naturally they want to stay away from those mortals in the city.

However, these cultivators are not uneaten, they will always come to the side of ordinary people, and occasionally do things that surpass ordinary people's thinking and knowledge, which is the main source of legends of gods and monsters.

Ye Xing took out the map of the Song Kingdom, marked the places where the story took place one by one, and found that most of the celebrity anecdotes of the Song Kingdom occurred in Pingyuan County and Xiyuan County, and there were many gods and monsters and there were well documented, while there were fewer other places where they occurred, and all the words used were rumors and sayings.

For the locations of such monster events, there are many in Plains City, and there are even more between the mountains outside Plains City.

Ye Xing pointed out the nearby locations one by one, and determined a few places worth seeing to visit.

Ye Xing preliminarily selected three locations: one is an ancient temple in the Plains City, which is said to be tens of thousands of years old, and it was there when the Plains City was built, and it enshrines mythological figures from ancient times;

A Confucian temple on the Dongshan Ridge outside a plain city, it is said that the Holy Master, the place where the Holy Ancestor of Humanity gave lectures in those years, is now called the Sage Ridge;

the other is a mountain range in the west of Pingyuan County, which is the state religion of the Song Kingdom, the ancestral court of Tiandaoism, Taihua Mountain;

Ye Xing told the two girls about his plan, of course the two women were extremely supportive, in fact, they didn't want to leave Plains City so soon, for the two of them, Plains City was their girl's dream place.

Early the next morning, Ye Xing informed Shiwei of his whereabouts, went to the ancient temple in the city, and told them not to follow.

The three of them simply changed their costumes, and the three of them knew Ye Xing's appearance, and now many people in the city recognized him, and the makeup was still very troublesome.

Ye Xing disguised himself as the servant of the two daughters and walked behind the two eldest ladies.

The two young ladies were not so outstanding, and they also wore headscarves, just a bit like the daughters of nouveau riche, a little red and green, and their faces were smeared with too much fat powder.

The ancient temple is in the center of Plains City, and the three of them have been in Plains City for more than ten days, but it is the first time they have come here.

I thought that the ancient temple should be protected very good ancient buildings, to see, only to know that this is not the case at all, in fact, it is very new, under inquiry, only to know, here has been rebuilt many times, in fact, every hundreds of years to rebuild once, the latest reconstruction is just a few decades ago.

Nothing can resist the ravages of time, and this so-called ancient temple is a renovated fake antique.

Ye Xing bought some sacrifices and followed the two eldest ladies into this famous ancestral temple in the Song Kingdom.

It enshrines the statues of the earth-breaking characters in the legends of the Song Kingdom, the gods who are said to have created people, and the gods who are in charge of the changes of the four seasons, the ancestors of agriculture and commerce.

Walking in front of a figure sculpture, the two women were just playing, but Ye Xing carefully observed each sculpture and found that each one was delicate and expressive, and it was indeed an exquisite craftsmanship, but these sculptures had been beautified by craftsmen, and they were almost the same as people now.

In this world, there are only offerings, but there is no custom of burning incense, so it is safe.

Came to the apse, there were a lot of old things in it, Ye Xing noticed that many old things were engraved with words, and asked the guardian of the ancestral temple, only to know that this was the text of the previous dynasty thousands of years ago.

Ye Xing found that the structure of these characters was very different from the current Song Guozhi script, but it was much closer to the desert island script, although it was still a different script.

Ye Xing gave a small ingot of silver to inquire, some old scholars in the city may still know some ancient characters of the previous dynasty, but the Song Kingdom has been established for 3,000 years, and it has tried its best to erase the affairs of the previous dynasty, so no one can really understand it now.

Only some people who like archaeological research can still find relevant knowledge from old books, which is not very systematic and completely fragmented, and not many people know about it.

Ye Xing discussed with the two women, and then came to a well-known ancient academy in the city to meet an old man, who was also one of the people in charge of rebuilding the ancestral temple back then, and now the only remaining old scholar, Mr. Mu.

This old Mr. Mu looks elegant, but he is not in good health, and his hands and feet are a little trembling, but he speaks quite clearly.

Seeing that Ye Xing and the three of them sincerely asked for advice, they didn't want their knowledge to decline, so they took out their decades of research results, a comparison of the ancient characters of the previous dynasty and the current texts, and showed them to Ye Xing for observation, which was thousands of words.

But many words do not correspond one-to-one, so Mr. Mu also explained what he knew.

Ye Xing quickly transcribed it with a pen and paper in front of him, and for a whole afternoon, although he didn't know the pronunciation, with this comparison, he could indeed understand some ancient books from the previous dynasties.

Mr. Mu told Ye Xing that there are very few ancient books from the previous dynasty now, but there should be many royal inner library collections in the capital, because they have been looted for thousands of years, and all of them have been forcibly taken.

There are also several old people in the city who have the same hobby, and they also have their own experiences and can also visit.

Ye Xing gave a bottle of strengthening pills to the old gentleman as a reward, and returned to the boat with dozens of pieces of paper and hand-copied dictionaries.

Ye Xing returned to the boat, recopied the dictionary again, and made it look like a real dictionary, and annotated the explanations of many old gentlemen in small characters.

The three of them spent ten days on this work, during which they went to several old gentlemen to learn ancient characters, and this was all thanks to Mr. Mu's letters of recommendation.

When the three of them looked at this new dictionary of their own, they felt a great sense of accomplishment, and with the dictionary, they could study ancient books against it in the future.

Now that there are nearly 6,000 words on it as a dictionary comparing the old and new characters, Ye Xing feels that he will definitely be able to slowly interpret the Guizang scriptures in the future, although the text of the scriptures is older.

But there is no hurry in all this, and the role of the Guizang scriptures in addition to pranayama is not in a hurry to know now, because there is no definite argument, and I don't dare to practice indiscriminately.

Ye Xing is different from others, he has a strong ability to deduce, as long as he enters the door, he can slowly understand the whole picture of the scriptures.