Dialogue between ancient and modern: I create programs, national treasures have spirits

Chapter 134 Cangjie's Writing Letter from the Sage
Oracle bone inscriptions are also called "deeds", "oracle bone inscriptions", "Yinxu inscriptions" or "tortoise shell and animal bone inscriptions".

There are more than 500 oracle bone inscriptions that have been discovered so far.

However, there are only more than 500 whose meaning can be confirmed, and there are about [-] remaining, whose meaning is unclear, or there are still disputes.

In the picture, the macro perspective gradually falls back to the earth, focusing on a ruin.

This is the Yin Ruins.

King Pan Geng of Shang moved his capital to Yin, which became the political and cultural center of the Shang Dynasty for a long time.

Most of the oracle bone inscriptions discovered today come from this place.

The picture is from far to near,

The loess on the ground showed mottled colors.

Yi Ze, as if appearing out of nowhere, suddenly appeared on the Yin Ruins as the screen zoomed in.

She was still wearing the familiar gray tunic suit, and her hair was still meticulous.

His narration continues.

The words are correct and round, and you can hear them very clearly even if you don't read the subtitles.

The basic skills are very good.

"These kinds of characters are the earliest ancient characters of human beings."

Beside Yi Ze, the cuneiform characters belonging to the Sumerians, the holy script characters belonging to the ancient Egyptians, and the oracle bone inscriptions of the ancient Chinese are presented in a parallel manner.

Clay tablets, stone tablets, turtle shells and cattle bones...

The ancients adapted to local conditions and used local materials to create texts, which were recorded on these ordinary objects.

These words still have a strong natural meaning, and the curved lines can still see the natural charm.

Hieroglyphs, one of the oldest fonts, are developed from pictorial characters and belong to ideographic characters.

On the above, you can still find the context of the development of the past characters, and you can also see the traces of nature.

"After being popular for thousands of years, most of the ancient characters have been annihilated in history, and have even been forgotten by people for more than a dozen centuries."

As Yi Ze's words fell to the ground, the clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform characters created by the Sumerians suddenly shattered, and the cuneiform characters turned into pieces all over the place.

The holy books of the ancient Egyptians were no exception. The words on the stele peeled off one by one, like lime peeling off a limestone wall, spreading debris all over the floor.

This means that these two ancient pictographs have not been inherited and developed.

With the development of the times, for some reason, cuneiform and holy script characters have become historical relics, and the characters currently used in these areas have nothing to do with their ancient ancestors.

What about the East?
What is the fate of Oracle?

Even if the audience knows the future development direction,
but,

They still hope to hear what Yi Ze has to say.

Nothing less, just a kind of pride.

"However, the Chinese characters in the East, accompanied by the ups and downs of Chinese history, have come down in one continuous line, outlining a clear line of development."

Yi Ze's voice gradually became more passionate.

The background sound also became grand and majestic at this moment.

Behind Yi Ze, oracle bones floated into the sky one by one, and traces of civilization belonging to the Yin and Shang era reappeared in the world.

The quaint and simple palace builds an era of legends.

Words are the most important and main means of remembering legends.

Yi Ze walked slowly in the Yin Ruins, surrounded by Yin people who existed in history one after another.

They are offering sacrifices, and they are praying for blessings from ghosts and gods.

They engraved their findings on turtle shells and cow bones and passed them down to future generations.

Yi Ze looked at the actions of these people who had disappeared, and continued to ask:

"Where did these mysterious and beautiful square characters originate?
China's oracle bone inscriptions are already a mature writing system.

How many centuries of long development will it take to form? "

Questions are heard in the ears of the audience.

Among the audience, there is no shortage of people who have a certain understanding of this, and among them are experts in this field.

"From the perspective of mythology, the earliest creation of characters can be traced back to the time of the Yellow Emperor."

"Cangjie created characters, and sages left books. In fact, if we push forward, it is not impossible."

"Hetu Luoshu? In ancient times, the Fuxi family was said to have obtained the Hetu Luoshu from the shell of an old turtle. Is this a kind of writing?"

"Legends are just legends after all, just like "Shan Hai Jing", which seems to be ancient, but it is actually a long way from ancient times."

"That's right, that period of history is too mysterious. There is no definite period of written records. It can only be passed on through legends orally. But who knows how many private goods are mixed in it?"

"Myths and legends all come from a certain reality, maybe they are just demonized in the process of spreading, but the most basic core still has a certain degree of credibility."

In ancient Chinese mythology, Cangjie created writing.

The ancient book "Huainanzi" recorded that quite earth-shattering moment.

"Cang Jie writes books, while the sky rains millet and ghosts cry at night."

In the ancient tombs of the Han Dynasty, people discovered the earliest portrait of Cangjie.

He sat upright on the ground, with four eyes on his face.

That is the so-called double pupil.

Represents extraordinary wisdom.

There have been many people with double pupils in history.

Each has left its mark in the history books.

The so-called innate abnormality, its fate is extraordinary.

In ancient times, it was believed that those with double pupils were noble.

There are many such people.

For example, Shun, Chong'er, Xiang Yu and others are said to have double pupils.

In the view of modern medicine, double pupil is nothing but a lesion of the eye, similar to cataract.

But when ancient medicine was not particularly developed, this kind of performance, which was very different from ordinary people, naturally became an extraordinary sign.

This is what is often said in ancient times.

For example, Laozi was born with white hair, Liu Bei's ears crossed his cheeks, and Confucius' top was like a ravine...

They are all manifestations of different cultures.

Now it seems that it is just a disease.

But is Cangjie really just a legend?

Does he really exist?
Yi Ze walked in the Yin Ruins.

As the most prosperous center of the Shang Dynasty, it was also the most stable political center.

The prosperity of the whole country gathers here.

"Cangjie's creation of characters is a well-known legend. Today, thousands of years later, it seems to be an insoluble mystery to know the truth of the matter."

"It is said that Cangjie was the official historian of the Yellow Emperor. He was extremely intelligent and almost a god."

Yi Ze looked at the camera, that is, at the audience.

In his hand, there was a thick book.

A swan song by a historian, a lisao without rhyme.

Gently turning the pages of the book, the words on it floated into the air as Yi Ze's fingers danced.

It was a record about the Yellow Emperor.

"The beginning of "Historical Records" is the Jiji of the Five Emperors, starting with the Yellow Emperor."

The first ancestor of humanities, the Yellow Emperor.

Legend has it that he conquered various tribes and defeated Shennong Chiyou.

There are too many legends about the Yellow Emperor.

"The time of the Yellow Emperor was about 5000 years ago.

When did the legend about Cangjie's creation of characters begin to spread? "

Yi Ze waved his hand, "Historical Records" disappeared, and then a bamboo slip appeared.

"During the Warring States period, a "Shiben" recorded: Ju recited Cangjie's writing.

Who is Ju Chan?
What is his relationship with Cangjie? "

Yi Ze's questions were fired like a cannonball.

Many viewers looked confused.

Everyone is familiar with Cangjie.

After all, the four big characters created by Cangjie are displayed in the book.

Major marketing accounts also often move out to make up stories.

Therefore, the name Cangjie is no stranger to everyone.

But who is Ju Chan?

Many people are puzzled.

But Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon among the audience, naturally there are people who know about it.

Then someone came out and explained:

"There is such a record in ancient books that both Jusong and Cangjie were historians in the Yellow Emperor's time."

The audience was taken aback.

It turned out that the two were colleagues.

However, new doubts arose.

Since Jusong and Cangjie were both historians of the Yellow Emperor, why did Jusong disappear from historical records?

Perhaps it cannot be said to have disappeared completely.

It's just that compared to the widespread spread of Cangjie's coined characters, Ju Chan seems too cheap.

If this were a real workplace, everything would obviously be done together, but when it comes to taking credit, all the limelight goes to one person.

This is hard.

Or the record is not credible.

The audience felt more and more that the mystery inside was more complicated.

How true are ancient legends?
No one knows, and no one can tell.

That period of history is really too long.

In the picture, Yi Ze seems to be able to feel the doubts in the hearts of the audience.

He smiled slightly, stretched out his hand, and a book appeared in his hand again.

Turning the pages of the book, Yi Ze said softly:

"Xunzi, a famous thinker in the Warring States period, has such a sentence in his book, which seems to give people some inspiration: There are many good books, but Cangjie has only one."

The audience looked at this sentence in classical Chinese and found it difficult to understand.

"What does this mean? Is there any big bird who can explain."

"I returned everything in classical Chinese to the teacher. Are good books a hobby of reading? I always feel that it's weird to translate like this."

"That's how the meaning is explained, and the meaning inside is actually like this, can you understand?"

"What the hell are you talking about, a bunch of nonsense!!!"

But soon some viewers made up their minds.

"It means that many people are inventing characters, but only Cangjie can unify these characters with different shapes."

"There are still big bosses, yes, yes, I finally understand."

"It turns out that people who are good at reading are not people who like to read. I just said that it sounds weird to say it."

Yi Ze smiled and looked at the camera.

He understood that there should be audiences explaining on the barrage.

But based on his understanding of his own program, it is estimated that there are quite a few people who do not open barrage.

It seems that many people just read books silently and generally don't speak.

Therefore, he still explained intimately:

"Some people may have understood the meaning of this sentence. A good book is not a hobby of reading. The book here actually means writing.

Therefore, the meaning of Xunzi's words is that there are many people who love to write, but only Cangjie can leave the legend of creating characters, which is a manifestation of single-mindedness. "

Yi Ze paused for a while, "What Xunzi wants to emphasize is the importance of being single-minded, but the inspiration we can get from it is not limited to this."

All the writing fell back to the ground.

Yi Ze walked and said:

"As we all know, words cannot be created by one person at a time.

It must undergo continuous development and continuous integration. "

Hearing this sentence, the audience nodded.

It's like the alien shots that appear in movies can basically find their counterparts in reality.

The changes made are more like adding or reducing some parts on the basis of people.

For example, one missing eye, the body becomes thinner and the head becomes larger.

Or the body is transparent.

Nothing is fabricated out of thin air, imagination is also based on reality.

Chinese descriptions of non-existent mythical creatures like dragons and phoenixes illustrate this point well.

Therefore, words cannot be created by one person in one time period.

Cangjie's role in it may be more of a sorter and regulator.

Yi Ze's voice continued:
"On the other hand, Cangjie can systematically organize all the creations of predecessors, all unsystematic and fragmented things, and create systematic characters. This is completely possible."

Yi Ze's statement was unanimously recognized by the audience.

In ancient books and myths, people can touch some ancient history.

Perhaps many people would say that myths and legends are not credible and can only be viewed as stories.

But don't forget that the soil on which myths are born is still reality.

The ancient myths come more from people's worship of tribal leaders.

Or the admiration of heroes.

On this basis, it is not surprising that the descendants are their heroic ancestors, adding various positive buffs, endowing them with supreme godheads.

In China, the ancestor worship that has prevailed for a long time has created this unique civilization wonder.

Almost all gods can be regarded as real heroes.

However, if Cangjie, the official historian during the Yellow Emperor period, was only a collator of writing, then a conclusion can be drawn.

The writing of the Yellow Emperor's period must have reached a certain scale.

If not scale.Even if Cang Jie is really as intelligent as the legend says, it is impossible to create something out of nothing.

Make bricks without straw.

Therefore, during the period of the Yellow Emperor, there must have been a written foundation that had begun to take shape.

The role of Cangjie in it is to process and organize these basic characters and promote them.

This is how the legend of Cangjie coining characters came into being.

But there are more problems that extend from it.

When did Chinese characters start to form?
What would it look like in its earliest form?
There are more and more questions like this in the minds of the audience.

They couldn't wait, they were waiting for Yi Ze to take them into a legendary era.

Many viewers never imagined that Chinese characters, which can be seen everywhere in daily life, have such rich connotations.

Moreover, the myths and legends contained in it are no less than the so-called epic works.

Many people forget that the text itself is the cornerstone of myths and legends.

What can carry the myth itself is only the myth itself.

Yi Ze walked on the land of China, with strong curiosity in his eyes.

This curiosity infects every viewer who is watching the show.

Their hearts are racing, they can't wait.

"What kind of secrets are contained in the myths passed down by the old people?"

"What kind of legends will the square Chinese characters that China has inherited for thousands of years have?"

"When did it originate? Where did it come from? How did it come about?"

"Everyone, I'm Yi Ze."

"Today, let us step into this magnificent text epic and explore the legends from Chinese characters."

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(End of this chapter)