The paper I just wrote turned out to be true

Chapter 88
The next day, the sky was just slightly bright.

Teacher Bai and others have already arrived.

In the last Oracle Bone Inscription Contest, Lin Chen had a few encounters with him. After the two sides got acquainted, Teacher Bai immediately ordered someone to start scanning and rubbing.

He brought a professional team.

They sprang into action quickly.

Grandma and Lin's mother looked at the posture, and quickly pulled Lin Chen aside and whispered: "What's going on, where did you find him?"

"Grandma, Mom, they are from an archaeological research institution. I have dealt with them for a while. This time I came here because of these stone tablets. The things recorded on them are very important." Lin Chen pointed to the stone tablet and said.

Mother Lin and grandma felt a little more at ease.

Mother Lin realized that her child had really changed.

Not only has his appearance and temperament changed drastically, but even the people he knows are so powerful.

These people look like a professional team.

She can't understand where to gesture with a high-tech instrument.

"Do you need any help?"

"No, you two just rest."

After thinking about it, the two went back to the house to cook.

Teacher Bai and Lin Chen sat on a stone table.

Teacher Bai turned on the laptop, which was transmitting data in real time, and high-definition pictures quickly appeared on the computer.

"This is a total of nine stone tablets."

Teacher Bai pointed to the computer and said, "Look at this, these nine steles should have been arranged in this way before."

"What I told you yesterday was recorded on the three stone tablets in the middle."

Teacher Bai is flexibly operating the laptop with his right hand.

He taps the space.

Inside appeared small seal characters.

Press it again.

Immediately converted into simplified characters.

Teacher Bai then imported it into the vernacular translation system to convert this short and concise classical Chinese text into vernacular text.

Sure enough, technology has improved.

Archaeological work is developing towards intelligence.

In the past, these words had to be translated manually by experts. Unlike now, with a few simple taps, the input system can automatically produce the results.

Lin Chen stared at the computer screen.

The system may not be very intelligent, resulting in some unsmooth translation.

However, the general meaning can be understood in combination with the above classical Chinese.

"Government by knotting ropes in ancient times... A hundred officials are governed, and ten thousand people are governed by inspection."

"In the past, Rongcheng, Dating, Bohuang, Lilu, Lihu, Xuanyuan, Hexu, Zunlu, Zhurong, Fuxi, and Shennong, it was the time when the people knotted ropes. And use it."

The unknown alchemist of the Qin Dynasty pointed out the story of knotting and keeping records at the beginning of the chapter, and sorted out the evolution of knotting since ancient times.

These are not the main ones.

The story described later is the core.

In ancient times, Hou Gang had two sons.

The eldest son Hou Gangjie, with a long face and four eyes, was born with Ruide.

The second son, Hou Gangwei, has heavenly eyes in his eyebrows, and his head is like a moon disk.

Hou Gang was one of the tribal leaders at that time.

Whoever can inherit the Hou Gang family can become the leader of the tribe.

Therefore, the brothers fought, and the eldest son Hou Gangjie won, inherited the Hou Gang clan, surrendered to the Yellow Emperor, and became the left historian of the Yellow Emperor.

The second son, Hou Gangwei, led some people to join Shennong's Emperor Yan.

On the basis of his predecessors, he created a new mode of knotting notes.

Hou Gangwei divides meanings according to color, material, thickness, and latitude and longitude.

In terms of color, humans use seven colors and black and white, a total of nine colors to give it meaning.

In terms of material, the rope can be made of animal wool rope, bark rope, straw rope, hemp rope, etc. There are dozens of types of ropes of various materials.

In terms of thickness, at least it can be divided into thick, medium and thin ropes of three different specifications.

From the warp and weft, there are horizontal ropes, longitudinal ropes, main ropes and branch ropes.

For example, the Yandi tribe defeated another tribe, so they got thirty sheep, forty chickens, twenty male captives, and thirty female slaves. How to record it?
First of all, you can use a horizontal thick rope, painted red on the top (assuming that red here means success, which means festive), and there are four ropes below.

The first is a rope made of wool. Three small knots on the upper part of the rope represent "three", and a big knot at the end represents "ten".

The second rope is made of hemp rope. When weaving, the chicken feathers are tied together, and then "four" is placed on the upper part, and a big knot is tied at the end.

The third rope is made of men's hair mixed with hemp rope, woven into a "medium thickness" rope to symbolize a man, with "two" at the top and "one" at the end.

The fourth thread is made of women's hair mixed with hemp rope to form a "thin" rope, which symbolizes women's fragility. The upper part is tied with "three" and the end is tied with "one".

That way things can be recorded.

Relying on Hou Gangwei's method of knotting and keeping track of events, the Yandi tribe's administrative, agricultural and other aspects rapidly improved, and soon became a powerful tribal group at that time.

After Hou Gangjie came to the Yellow Emperor's tribe, he didn't work hard on knotting and keeping track of events.

Instead, he developed new ways to record things.

Inspired by the footprints of birds and beasts, the historian Hou Gangjie has worked hard for decades to collect, organize and popularize the pictographic symbols handed down by the ancestors.

Although the knots are different in size and shape, they are difficult to identify due to the age.

Hou Gangjie looked up at the trend of Kuixing's ring, looked down at the texture of the turtle's back, the claw marks of birds and animals, the shape of mountains and rivers, and the fingerprints of his palms. He was inspired by them and created pictographs based on the shapes of things.

On the day when the characters were created, it rained millet in the sky, and ghosts cried at night!
"This is the story of Cangjie's creation of characters."

Lin Chen was surprised.

"That's right, Hou Gangjie is Cangjie. His surname is Hou Gang, and his first name is Jie." Teacher Bai explained.

"Then why have I never heard of Cang Jie having a younger brother?"

"Things that have happened for thousands of years will not be handed down, and the Jieshang Jishi has been gradually eliminated after the text came out. Although it has been improved, it is of no use. If no one uses it, it will be difficult for people to remember him. "

Teacher Bai said with emotion: "Thousands of years ago, there are only a few names that can be remembered."

"If it wasn't for this Qin Dynasty alchemy to record this story, I'm afraid it would have been completely lost."

Teacher Bai continued to transform the text of the picture behind, and said: "The meaning behind is probably that the warlocks of the Qin Dynasty discovered this legend from an ancient book, and then after the meteorite fell in the Qin Dynasty, they realized that the world might change, and he didn't want to be contaminated by ordinary people. Cause and effect in time, escape from the world.”

"Studying into ancient scriptures, I want to decipher the method of knotting and keeping records in ancient times."

"Unfortunately, it wasn't completely successful."

"The pattern on the stele at the back is the way he collected the remaining knotted knots to record events at that time, but the meaning has not been deciphered, so he carved it on the stele and buried it in the ground."

Teacher Bai suddenly said: "Wait, here is some more information. This alchemy said that Hou Gangwei rejected words all his life and supported the way of knotting notes. Later, after Emperor Yan and Huangdi formed an alliance, they gradually stopped using knotting notes. Therefore, he went elsewhere."

"where?"

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(End of this chapter)