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

Chapter 137 The Three-Year History
The discovery of oracle bone inscriptions awakened an ancient civilization that had been lost for more than 3000 years.

In an era of infinite respect for ghosts and gods, ancient inscriptions are left behind, revealing the mystery of the ancestors' creation of characters.

That is the strong sound from an era, and it is the seal cutting of the life and customs of the ancestors.

At this moment, in the program, the sound of silk and bamboo orchestra gradually appeared.

Beside Yi Ze, mysterious words emerged one after another.

Surrounding Yi Ze, it is constantly rotating.

At this moment, he is like a king surrounded by stars, walking alone in his own kingdom.

"The ancient lines awaken the dawn of civilization; the continuous strokes inherit the memory of China."

In 1046 BC, the Shang Dynasty was destroyed by the Zhou Dynasty.

Twenty years later, when Jizi, an ex-official of the Shang Dynasty, passed by Yin, the capital of the Shang Dynasty, what he saw was a wheat field.

The wheat show is gradually coming, and the millet is oily.

Jizi sighed as he stood in front of Yin, who was already a scene of a wheat field.

Cars drink, horses burn.

In just 20 years,

The prosperity of that year has completely disappeared in the time and space of history.

The bustling capital has since completely disappeared on the ground.

The Shang Dynasty, where Jizi once served, gradually disappeared from people's vision as time went by.

The oracle bones, which were used extensively by the people of the Shang Dynasty, were no longer mentioned with the demise of the dynasty.

As for Yin, the capital of the Shang Dynasty, no one knows about it after generations of new and old replacements.

No one knows that under this ripe golden wheat field, lies the prosperity of an era.

"Then, how do these oracle bones, which have been dusty for thousands of years, come to be known?"

Yi Ze's voice always sounds so appropriate.

As the picture progressed, while everyone was amazed, he appeared without any hesitation, just like silky chocolate, blending in instantly and complementing each other.

Some of the audience paid a little attention to this, but more people rarely heard about it.

Oracle is famous all over the world and well-known, but everyone knows only this name.

On the barrage, the doubts of the audience remain.

"This touches on a blind spot in my knowledge. Can anyone explain it?"

"It seems that the oracle bone inscriptions were discovered during the Ming Dynasty? I forgot, I really can't remember clearly."

"I remember there is another story in it, which was discovered by an archaeologist who was sick and took traditional Chinese medicine."

"Wang Yirong! It's not Mingguo, but he got malaria in the 25th year of Guangxu, and oracle bone inscriptions were found on the keel in the medicinal materials prescribed by Chinese medicine!"

"Amazing, I also know this kind of unpopular knowledge, big boss!"

The words Big Brother kept floating on the barrage.

The person who answered the question suddenly felt happy in his heart.

The satisfaction of cultural people is sometimes as simple as that.

This is why many people show off their literary talents.

Not to mention that literati think highly of themselves, most of the time, what they like is this kind of admiration from everyone.

Now, being able to be called a boss is also a spiritual satisfaction.

And you have to have a word or two of "humility".

"It's all pediatrics. You just need to pay a little attention and you'll know everything."

The question raised by Yi Ze was perfectly answered, and the enthusiasm of many audiences rose again.

And the rest of the audience also cheered up.

This time it was someone else who was called the boss, so next time, it might not be me.

That's how good interactions happen.

In 2944 after the demise of the Shang Dynasty, at that time, the land of Huaxia was still controlled by a decadent dynasty.

In the 25th year of Guangxu, the imperial capital was the Forbidden City.

Wang Yirong, the minister in charge of the Guozijian, was suffering from malaria. After seeking medical advice, he used "dragon bone" as medicine.

And on these keel bones used as medicine, Wang Yirong accidentally discovered that there were symbols engraved on the so-called keel bones.

As a minister of the Imperial Academy, Wang Yirong himself has a certain ability to discern.

After a period of research, he believed that these strange symbols must be an unknown text from ancient times.

That year was 1899 AD.

However, the veracity of this story has not been investigated.

Maybe there is a suspicion of far-fetched.

But the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions is indeed a major achievement of Wang Yirong.

It is precisely because of his knowledge and vision that the oracle bone inscriptions that have gone through 3000 years have been amazed to the world.

These tortoise shells engraved with mysterious characters record the memory of a civilization.

While exploring this distant memory, there are also the joys and sorrows of countless characters, deducing the more than one hundred years of oracle bone inscription research.

That is, in the second year after the oracle bone inscriptions were discovered, eight armies invaded the imperial capital, and Wang Yirong threw himself into a well to die for his country, tragically ending his life.

"What is recorded on the oracle bone inscriptions?"

At first, many people did not believe Wang Yirong's statement.

They stubbornly believe that the hoop script recorded in "Shuowen Jiezi" is already the oldest script, and there should be no more ancient script than the hoop script.

This is nothing more than a scam, a lie carefully woven by antique dealers for personal gain.

Everything is a scam created by antique dealers.

And antique dealers, in order to seek personal gain, did fabricate many lies in it.

They concealed the real location of the oracle bone inscription.

Some say it was unearthed in Tangyin, some say it was unearthed in Weihui, there are different opinions.

But no one said that it was unearthed from Xiaotun Village, five miles northwest of Anyang.

Among them, it was Luo Zhenyu, an epigrapher, who discovered the real place where the oracle bone inscriptions were found.

He firmly believes that the inscriptions on oracle bone inscriptions are extraordinary historical secrets!

The king of Yin had more than ten posthumous names.

In other words, in the oracle bone inscriptions he discovered, there are more than ten titles of Shang kings.

Because of this, Luo Zhenyu suddenly realized that the so-called oracle bone inscriptions should be the capital of the Shang Dynasty.

殷！
This ancient capital, which had disappeared for 3000 years, appeared in front of everyone in a unique way.

Hidden behind the oracle bones, the once lost Yin Shang civilization is beginning to emerge.

If there were no oracle bone inscriptions, in the public perception, this era would still be a kind of myth.

What kind of history will the age of myth have?
we do not know.

At least before the appearance of oracle bone inscriptions, the era of the Shang Dynasty was a cloud of fog.

But after the appearance of oracle bone inscriptions, at least the existence of the Shang Dynasty, we can already be sure.

No one can doubt it!
This is a clear proof of civilization, proving the existence of civilization, and there are traces to follow.

Rather than coming from random fabrications.

Around 1300 BC, the Shang Dynasty, which experienced the chaos of the Ninth Dynasty, ushered in the most outstanding king in history.

Pangeng!

He led the subjects and started a grand trip to move the capital.

From Yandi in the south of the Yellow River, cross the Yellow River west to Yin.

Anyang, Huanhe.

The mighty Huanhe River winds here into a big "Ji" shape.

Going back along the Huan River, at the other end of time, on a certain day 300 years ago, a migratory team came from afar.

They saw this great river, and saw a place with dense forests.

They will build a brand new capital here.

And here, inherit the eight generations and twelve kings, and continue the national line of the Shang Dynasty.

It lasted for three years in 270, so later generations also called it Yin Shang.

The Shang Dynasty has since stabilized and no longer migrated frequently.

For more than 200 years, the people living on this land established a prosperous capital and left a valuable wealth for future generations.

The oracle bone inscriptions unearthed in Yin Ruins are the earliest Chinese character system in China that can be confirmed so far.

"As the earliest mature and systematic Chinese character system in China, are oracle bone inscriptions a simple pictograph?"

"Is it every word and every sound, or can it only be understood but cannot be expressed in words?"

Yi Ze's voice appeared in the constantly advancing picture, like an appropriate and beneficial narration, making up for the part that could not be shown in the picture.

At the same time, it also brought a lot of thinking to the audience.

The problem this time is obviously far more complicated than the previous one.

Many bigwigs disappeared without a trace, as for the general audience, they dared not speak out.

This obviously involves a certain degree of professionalism, and it is actually difficult to explain clearly in a few words.

The screen is constantly displaying pictures of oracle bone inscriptions.

The characters carved on the oracle bones are presented to the audience one by one.

They found that the oracle bone inscriptions have not only been able to completely record the language, but also,

It's out of the raw text stage!

In other words, it has been a long time since the oracle bone writing matured.

"The number of oracle bone inscriptions is very large. According to statistics, the number of individual oracle bone inscriptions has exceeded [-]!"

With so many words, the concepts that can be expressed will be quite complicated.

It's like, if there are only two numbers 0 and 1 in the world, there are only two combinations of 01 and 10 that do not repeat each other.

And if there are three numbers, 0.1.2, there are already 01.02.10.20.12.21.012.021.102.120.201.210 expressions that do not repeat each other, reaching twelve kinds.

Just one more number, resulting in ten more expressions.

When the number of numbers increases, the more information can be expressed!

The same goes for text.

The quantity determines the meaning that words can express, how complicated it will be.

The meanings that can be expressed by two separate Chinese characters are obviously limited.

But how complex meanings can be expressed by four thousand mature words?
Moreover, this is an assumption made before the part of speech of the text is mentioned.

If part of speech and grammar are added, the meaning that can be expressed is beyond people's imagination.

The parts of speech possessed by oracle bone inscriptions are quite complicated.

The so-called nouns, verbs, pronouns, adverbs, etc. are all included in it.

So, are oracle bone characters a simple pictograph?
it's not true.

Oracle bone script is not equivalent to hieroglyphs.

To be precise, pictographic characters are only a part of oracle bone script.

Among the oracle bone inscriptions, there are already Zhishi characters, knowing characters, and the most important thing is the appearance of pictophonetic characters.

The thin meaning of hieroglyphs can no longer adapt to the development of the times and civilization. The breakthroughs and creations made by oracle bone scripts on this basis are very surprising.

In "Shuowen Jiezi", the description of ancient man-made characters is just like the so-called looking up at the astronomy, looking down at the geography, and observing the writing of birds and beasts.

When pictographs no longer adapt to the development of the times, its demise is only a matter of the times.

The oracle bone inscriptions, which are more in line with the times, can express specific meanings, and have more complex functions, have stepped onto the stage of history.

Words are written on a special carrier. Before three-dimensional creation is impossible, the two-dimensional world is the shelter of words.

And in this two-dimensional world, the wisdom of the ancients was brought into full play.

The difficulty of compressing the three-dimensional world seen by human eyes into the two-dimensional world through wisdom and means is self-evident.

At the initial stage of the origin and development of characters, the ancients relied on their own ingenuity to continuously innovate and create characters, and finally formed a magnificent Chinese character culture.

Founder, which is finally formed between two dimensions, not only represents the shape of Chinese characters, but also symbolizes the unique humanistic spirit of the ancient East, which has been imprinted in more than 3000 years.

In October [-], during the war-ridden years, the archaeological excavation in Xiaotun Village, Anyang, had begun.

A group of scholars, with their enthusiasm for oracle bone inscriptions and the exploration of that mysterious history, plunged into the vigorous archaeological tide.

And in this mysterious capital that has been buried for more than 3000 years, many surprising things have been discovered.

After 3000 years of baptism, the characters engraved on the tortoise shell and cattle bones have once again appeared in the public's field of vision.

These divination records inscribed on tortoise shells and animal bones by Yin people are letters between Shang kings and nobles communicating with ghosts and gods.

Most of the oracle bone inscriptions discovered so far are engraved on the plastron of a turtle or on the shoulder blade of a cow.

These plastrons and cattle bones used for engraving have been carefully polished.

Among these inscriptions that record divination, the deciphering of a group of words is very important.

One of them is the word "zhen".

When many people see this word, they will subconsciously think of the chastity archway.

In fact, in "Shuowen Jiezi", the meaning of this word is related to divination.

The frequency of occurrence of the word "zhen" is quite high.

The words that appear before the word "Zhen" are even more important.

So, what is the meaning of the words appearing before the word "zhen"?
Some scholars believe that the characters in front of "Zhen" should also be a kind of inscriptions, representing the meaning of divination.

However, some scholars, based on the repetition of the content behind the word "Zhen" on the oracle bones, inferred that what appeared before the word "Zhen" should be the name of a specific person.

That is to say, it is a certain person who makes the divination question.

That is, "chaste man"!
There are many such people.

They are burdened with the king's expectations for the results of divination, as well as the fear of the unknown.

In the oracle bone inscriptions, there is a divination about war:
Jihai Lizhen: The king of the three clans ordered Fang to pursue him, and Yu.

The calendar in this is the name of the chaste man.

Among the oracle bone inscriptions discovered, a total of 128 names of chaste people were found.

The scholar who discovered Zhenren was named Dong Zuobin.

This is an extremely important contribution in the whole history research.

Through the study of these 128 chaste people, scholars have completed the confirmation of the history of the Shang Dynasty for more than 200 years after Pan Geng moved the capital.

It perfectly confirmed the correctness of the history of the Shang Dynasty recorded in "Historical Records".

So, how did the process of divination in the Shang Dynasty work?

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(End of this chapter)