Chapter 284 Deciphering Oracle Bone Inscriptions!(1/2)
The word "Biáng" has stumped many students. Of course, some students know that this word cannot be typed out in various input methods, or the typed out shows not Chinese characters, but a picture with the word "Biáng". This character can be said to be a combination character.
Biáng, specifically used for Biángbiáng noodles, a traditional Guanzhong specialty pasta. The word "Biáng" has many ways to write it, and its origins are different.
Li Fan then selected the word he wrote and explained one of the stories, he said:
"Legends say that a scholar who gathers talent and does not meet cynical poverty and hunger, and cold will come to Xianyang. When he passed by a noodle restaurant, he heard the sound of 'biang-biang' inside. He was hungry for a moment and couldn't help but pace in.
The bowl of noodles smelled so fragrant. The scholar drooled and ordered a bowl of noodles. He ate so much that he ate it. In an instant, the bowl was completely exhausted. He wiped his head sweat and touched his pocket. He was immediately panicked, his bag was empty. At this time, he regretted it and wanted to slap himself a few mouths. Why is he a literary scholar? If he was a martial scholar, it would be great. If he had a tycoon meal, what could you do to me?
The waiter standing beside him shrugged his shoulders with his eyes slanted and his smirk, and he had already seen the scholar's embarrassment really. Just as the scholar was about to speak, the waiter blocked his words, "Customer, this store is operated in a small business, and it is not on credit."
The scholar had no choice but to touch him and touch him, thinking about finding a few change. He was thinking about a plan to escape, but he was talking to the waiter casually to delay time.
The scholar asked: "Waiter, what's the name of your family?"
‘Who is Biáng!’ The waiter learned from the scholar’s tone and said, ‘Biángbiáng.’
The scholar asked in confusion: ‘Biángbiáng’? How to write the word Biángbiáng?’
This noodle shop is a well-known time-honored brand. Its surface is made with special surfaces. The surface hits and the panels and produces the sound of "biangbiang", so it is called Biángbiáng.
How to write the word "biangbiang"? No one has ever thought about how the shop makes noodles and the customers eat noodles. Moreover, there was no nine years of compulsory education in ancient times, and there were not many people who were educated to read, and there were many people who were illiterate.
Seeing that the waiter in the shop couldn't answer, the scholar immediately had an idea. He said, "Waiter, you have discussed with the boss. I have no money today. Can you write the word "Biángbiáng" and change it to this bowl of noodles?"
After asking the boss, the waiter came back and said, "Success."
The scholar muttered in his heart, how could he be owed? The word "Biángbiáng" has not existed throughout the ages. If it is not in the book, how can it be created?"
The students asked:
"Yes, why don't you pay for it?"
"How did you miss this word "Biáng" come up?"
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Li Fan smiled and said, "Scholars are so rude. He is in a dilemma at this time and is full of sadness and melancholy. He remembered his miserable life. He studied hard for decades. Now that he has failed to achieve his achievements, he is not worthy of his reputation. In the public's eyes, he fell into such a land of ruling debts. It is unfair to heaven!
When he was anxious, he cursed the emperor in his heart: What is the sun and moon shining in the sky? The people suffer, the sorrows are everywhere; the palace is in conflict, the jackals are in power; corrupt officials are rampant in the village; I was a scholar studying hard, but because I had no money and no one, I could not get through the joints and could not gain fame, so how could the sun and moon shine? The laws of nature are unfair!
When the scholar thought of this, he shouted loudly: 'Work and serve!'"
Li Fan said this, and picked up the pen, and the pen was like a dragon and snake. While writing, he said: "Flying to the sky, the Yellow River bends on both sides; the eight characters are wide open, the words are inward, twisting the left and right; one long in the west and one long in the east, add a horse king in the middle; the character "heart" and the character "moon" are left with a hook-and-hanging candy; push the cart and go to Xianyang!"
The word "Biáng" was written again, and everyone suddenly realized that it was the meaning.
Li Fan put down his pen and said, "One word describes all the mountains, rivers, geography, and the world is in a cool and cool way. From then on, the Biángbiáng face is famous in Guanzhong. This word shocked the world with its complex strokes! The traditional Chinese characters reached 56 strokes! Our chairman also mentioned this Biángbiáng face when we were entertaining guests."
Everyone said:
"One more word, Li Fan!"
"Another word!"
"I've learned a lot."
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Gu Yating held the notebook in her arms. As soon as she walked into the classroom, she saw everyone surrounding Li Fan. She asked in confusion: "What are they doing?"
A girl thought for a while, "Oh, food, sex, sex!"
If this girl had either misunderstood this sentence, or had used it for the present. "Food, color, nature" comes from "Mencius", which is what Gaozi said. The normal structure should be "Food, color, nature", which means "Like beautiful things, is the nature of human beings". This sentence has nothing to do with Confucius, and it has nothing to do with the general understanding of "food, color, nature".
But it doesn't matter. This sentence is very accurate in summarizing their conversations. They did talk about it from the initial "sex" to "food", and there is nothing wrong with it.
When Gu Yating walked into the room, the bell rang and class started.
Sitting next to Li Fan, she glanced at the font on Li Fan's notebook and asked, "Is this delicious?"
"I haven't eaten it either. Otherwise, during the National Day Golden Week, we will take time to have a meal in the local area, such as biangbiang noodles, roujiamo, meatballs and spicy soup, eat it with fullness!"
Speaking of this, the taste buds of the two people were about to open up, and then they both waved their fingers to calculate the time, and then stopped talking. The topic ended. How could there be any extra time in this Golden Week?
A moment later, Professor Sun walked into the classroom in silence and apologized: "Sorry, classmates, I'm late!"
Walking to the podium, insert the USB flash drive into the device, and adjust the curtain. Today's lesson "A Brief History of the Development of Chinese Characters" begins.
"Students, our lesson today starts with oracle bone inscriptions. Oracle bone inscriptions is the oldest mature text in the dynasty period of our country. It records information on China's politics, economy, culture and other aspects more than 3,000 years ago. The discovery of oracle bone inscriptions opened up a new era in my country's academic history and advanced my country's trusted history by more than 1,000 years ago.
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Who knows who was the first to discover oracle bone script?”
Professor Sun glanced at the classmates below the stage, and his eyes fell on Li Fan's face first (or his eyes fell on Li Fan's face many times at the beginning of class). At this time, Li Fan's facial expression was a little solemn, his eyebrows were slightly locked, and his two sword eyebrows looked slightly tall.
This is a confusing expression, but it is a questioning expression. Because the two expressions are too similar, Professor Sun clearly understood the former, so he did not ask him questions. His eyes slightly shifted and said, "Gu Yating, please answer."
Gu Yating stood up and said, "Wang Yirong, during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, discovered that this man was an epigrapher. He found that the dragon bones sold in Chinese medicine stores had some very ancient patterns with seemingly written characters. After realizing that this was a very precious cultural relic, he bought all the dragon bones and found that each piece of the dragon bone had similar patterns. He was sure that this was a kind of text, and it was relatively complete. It should have been from the Shang Dynasty, so oracle bone inscriptions officially appeared."
Professor Sun nodded with satisfaction, "You are right, please sit down. In 1900, Wang Yirong's oracle bones were transferred to Liu E's own. His in-law Luo Zhenyu learned that these oracle bones came from Xiaotun Village in Anyang, so he sent people there many times to buy oracle bones.
The dynasty was declining and the current situation was turbulent. After learning that the oracle bones were profitable, the villagers in Xiaotun Village began to dig countless times. They set up mats, started stoves, and fought for territory. They often fought for this, making Xiaotun Village ‘rife with holes and ravines’, and swept away the oracle bones they dug out by merchants and foreigners who were purchased on the ground, leaving a large number of them lost to overseas.”
Professor Sun said this and began to sigh and regret.
"It has only been 119 years since the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions. Through the joint efforts of our experts and scholars in China, about 1,500 oracle bone inscriptions have been interpreted, but there are still nearly 3,000 oracle bone inscriptions that have not been interpreted. Even if there are still about 500 of the characters explained, there are still big doubts...
The official website of the Chinese Character Museum is preparing to issue a reward announcement these days. If a group or individual deciphers the unread oracle bone inscription or makes a new interpretation of the controversial oracle bone inscription, once the research results are approved by the expert committee, a single word reward of 100,000 yuan will be rewarded."
Wow!
Everyone was amazed.
"How many? 100,000 per word?"
"Isn't it too valuable?"
"Knowledge is power, and you can get rich if you have knowledge!"
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Ma Qiang pulled Li Fan for a moment and asked, "The teacher said how many more have not been deciphered?"
“More than 3,000.”
Bang! Ma Qiang slapped the table, "I'm getting rich! I'll crack 100 of them and it's 10 million. If you have this money, you'll travel around the world all your life!"
It is very difficult to decipher this oracle bone inscriptions. It involves many disciplines such as language, philology, archaeology, etc. It is no exaggeration to call it an unpopular skill. Moreover, the easy-to-decipher has long been deciphered by predecessors. What remains are "difficult" issues, and there are also a large number of place names, clan names, sacrifice names and other proprietary nouns. Many proprietary nouns seem to have no connection with our world.
There are very few scholars studying oracle bone inscriptions nowadays. The reason is very simple. The oracle bone materials are relatively old and difficult to study. Those who are easy to study have also allowed their predecessors to study them all.
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Professor Sun pressed the page-turning pen and cast a pattern on the curtain. The content of this pattern is: An animal has two pointed ears on its head, and downwards, with limbs, arms and legs. (The oracle bone script cannot be punched out, but what to do, collapse!)
"Students, what do you pronounce this cute word? Guess it."
Countless students raised their hands.
"Teacher, this word is pronounced 'cat'!"
"Fox, fox's 'fox'!"
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"Not right, this word is the word 'ding', and the ancients used 'ding'."
All the students made up their minds and suddenly realized.
Press the page turn pen and another word was released. The students continued to answer wrongly. Professor Sun smiled and said, "This word is 'sheep'!"
After several words were released in succession, Professor Sun glanced at Li Fan from time to time. After all, Li Fan had the best foundation in Chinese studies in this classroom. Not to mention this classroom, even among all the scholars in the Chinese cultural circle, Li Fan "killed" anyone else.
When a teacher raises a problem, he will basically ask the students with the best grades in the class if they know it. This is because of the teacher's nature, but Professor Sun glanced at Li Fan again and again, and then gradually became confused by his expression.
What expression is this? He is serious, frowning, and never laughs. He is not a normal student's state of listening to the class. Moreover, his brows become tighter and tighter, as if he has a slight tendency to shake his head slightly. Professor Sun slowly finally read another meaning, which is the question of wanting to speak but stopping.
At this time, there is a word on the curtain: one "vertical", and on the left side of the "vertical" are followed by four "horizontal" with a certain arc, four "horizontal" in groups in two, and there is a clear gap between the two groups. The shape of the entire character is like a flag fluttering in the wind.
"This word is '?' (Note: yǎn),?, like a flag flying. Please note that the 'upright' of this oracle bone inscription looks like a flagpole?" Professor Sun couldn't hold it in his mouth after he said this. He pointed at Li Fan and said, "Li Fan, do you have any insight?"
Note that Professor Sun kept saying "What do you think it is" and "What do you think" to other students, but when he came to Li Fan, it turned out to "What do you think?" Professor Sun would not ask his students what they wanted in class to make the right wording. It may be a subconscious emphasis. After all, Li Fan is already a scholar in the academic circle.
Li Fan stood up and said, "Professor Sun, can I explain my humble opinion to you after class?"
"It's okay, but it's okay!"
Li Fan pondered for a moment and said, "Professor Sun, I personally think this word should be the word "Zhong".
Professor Sun frowned and confused, saying, "Why?"
"Professor Sun, can I write a few words on stage?" Seeing Professor Sun nodding, Li Fan walked to the podium, pulled open a blackboard, and wrote several oracle bone inscriptions in succession.
It’s really impossible to explain that Oracle Bone Inscriptions don’t come to the stage. After all, they can’t describe the appearance of Oracle Bone Inscriptions.
The characters written by Li Fan are very similar to those projected on the curtain. One obvious feature is that there is an additional character "叶" in the middle of the "叶" (or, you can also do the following puzzle: the Chinese character "䏶", in which two groups (or ones) of a certain arc of "叶" are connected to one side of the "叶" and are placed above and below the "叶" character, and are unified on the left or right side of the "叶").
As soon as these words were released, the other students were confused, but Professor Sun understood in his heart that Li Fan really understood oracle bone inscriptions! At least he had studied it!
Li Fan said: "Oracle bone inscriptions, also known as 'Qiwen' and 'oracle bone inscriptions', are mainly used to divine good and bad fortune in the late Shang Dynasty of my country. The word "indian" can be borrowed to represent the 'zhongding' of 'Bozhong'--" When Li Fan said this, he circled the oracle bone inscriptions on the blackboard, "I think this word is the article of these other words."
Professor Sun frowned and said, "In "Shuowen Jiezi", "The Travel of the Flags and the appearance of Jianqi. The meaning of this character is the same in the "Kangxi Dictionary". There is no problem using it to decipher this oracle bone inscription."
To be continued...