Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1239 Oracle Appreciation

But once the course started, the audience couldn't help but be attracted.

Sure enough, this class is called "Oracle Bone Inscriptions Appreciation", which is really good at all.

Zhou Zhi first showed a picture. It is said to be the oldest writing in China, which is the writing created by Cangjie in the legend. It stands in Cangjie Temple. It is said that Confucius has not deciphered it. It is called "Bird Trace Stele", which is the legend that leads to " The part where the sky rains with millet and the ghosts cry at night.”

There are a total of 28 characters in this inscription. Although the authenticity is questionable, the approximate meaning of the characters can be seen to be simulated based on the formation method of Chinese characters.

The Cangjie Monument is not reliable, but there is one thing that is very reliable, and that is the oracle bone inscriptions.

In one class, Zhou Zhi talked about two words, one for China and one for country.

, there are three ways of writing oracle bone inscriptions. The first way of writing is like a flag, with a vertical pen like a flagpole, a Chinese character in the middle like a flag banner, and two ribbon-shaped strokes on the top and bottom, like a flag.

Why does writing like this represent the concept of "middle"? Because in the ancient army, the flag was erected in the middle army as the command symbol of the four armies.

The second way of writing is very similar to modern Chinese characters, with the upper and lower ribbon-like strokes omitted. The explanation of the glyph is that the mouth means "place" in oracle bone inscriptions, and here it represents the military stronghold.

The flagpole passes through the center of the military village, and the distance from the upper and lower ends to the military village is equal, which represents the concept of "middle".

The third one is also similar to modern Chinese characters, but there is an extra horizontal line at the starting point of the vertical painting above, and two more short horizontal lines at the bottom of the vertical painting.

What this glyph represents is that an arrow shot through the target and penetrated the wall behind the target, but it does not mean winning in "China", but winning in "winning the bid".

Therefore, judging from the oracle bone inscriptions, Zhong actually started out as two characters, one meaning "center" and the other meaning "hit".

Or the two characters have similar pronunciations and similar glyphs. Therefore, in the subsequent evolution of characters, they gradually merged into one, becoming different glyphs, and the meanings can be mixed. In fact, one character has multiple meanings. Modeled.

This can also be seen from the spread of writing. In the subsequent bronze inscriptions, three examples of glyphs still existed, but by the Warring States Period, the three examples were omitted to two, and the writing method of the first example disappeared.

Moreover, among these two examples, the writing in the middle of the shooting is mainly seen in Qin bamboo slips, while the writing in the center of the military camp is mostly seen in Chu silk books.

The seal script is inherited from the Warring States period, and the ancient script is inherited from the Qin Dynasty. The top and horizontal strokes are removed and the curved and vertical strokes are used;

The text of Zhen is inherited from the two examples of bronze inscriptions, but the banner is slightly changed.

There are also three writing methods in official script. The first one is inherited from the first writing method of bronze inscriptions; the second one is inherited from the first writing method of bronze inscriptions, omitting the upper and lower parts; the third one is inherited from seal script and retains the vertical painting style. Qubi.

It can be seen from this point that the text changes of each generation are inherited from the previous two generations, and it is by no means just one generation.

It wasn't until the advent of regular script that Chinese characters were combined into one character.

As for Guo, there was no external mouth at first. There was only one "or", but the shape of the glyph was Yi Ge, Yi Yi.

Ge represents weapons, which is extended to force and army; the word "ge" means defense, in this case, it refers to land.

The combination of the two means a place that needs to be defended by force, meaning "territory" or "territory". Later, a "" shape was added to the outside, and the inside was still the shape of Cong Ge Cong Pi, except that more black dots were added in the middle of the mouth for decoration, and more short horizontal lines were added under the mouth, which also means the meaning of land.

This glyph is easy to understand and very standardized. The two traditional mouth shapes of the Chinese character, the inner and outer mouth shapes, have also become the standard format for most cities in China in later generations, that is, the back-shaped structure of the inner city and the outer city.

After understanding the origin of the word "China", everyone can know its significance. In fact, this is the "central idea" that Chinese civilization has adhered to for thousands of years. The Eastern civilization that grew up on this land is different from the Western civilization that has never achieved great unification in terms of culture, ethnicity, and territory.

Each of the two civilizations has its essence and its dross. It is the right thing to learn from each other's strengths and offset each other's weaknesses. If others are not willing, just quietly learn from each other's strengths to offset the weaknesses. There is no need to belittle oneself or be blindly confident.

But one thing is absolute, that is, the word "China" contains things that people living on this land are worth fighting for and defending with their lives.

The sum total of those things worth defending is China.

"Oracle Bone Appreciation" is an elective course, or an elective course offered in the evening. If it weren't for the temptation to get credits without taking the exam, many people would not be willing to come, or they would bring their own textbooks and homework and just sit here and listen. I studied by myself with the wind in my ears.

No matter what their thoughts, no one would have thought that this course would be so interesting, and that in the end, it would actually be of value to the kid on the podium? !
Instead of saying it was a class, it almost turned into a lecture at the end, and it was quite exciting. It attracted everyone's attention, and in the end they couldn't help but applaud collectively.

The first class was quite successful, so Zhou Zhi announced the end of get out of class. Before get out of class, he told everyone that the next class would still be in the same format, and would still talk about two words. These two words are equally important, because they are the basis of Chinese dualistic philosophy - — Yin and Yang.

At that time, someone raised their hand: "Teacher! Please send us a copy of today's lecture notes!"

"Then I'll prepare it and distribute it to everyone in the next class." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "In addition, I will also post today's content on the Clover Forum. If you go to the computer room to use the computer, you can use it in our campus BBS forum. See it here.”

After everyone had finished, Zhou Zhi walked up to the group of people in his class and said, "What do you think? Give us more opinions."

"Elbow, you are so awesome!" Du Wenxin and Li Yijia both admired Zhou Zhi, and praised with stars in their eyes: "It turns out Oracle is not difficult at all, it's quite interesting."

"Hieroglyphs are not difficult in the first place. The characteristics of our Chinese civilization are that the closer they are to the original writing, the easier it is to understand most of them." Zhou Zhi said with a smile.

"You've become so brilliant after a few compliments." Du Xing, however, didn't give any face: "Everyone comes here to support you, don't you express your gratitude?"

"It looks like we don't need to come to support you in the next class. Now the rules have been changed. You can come and go freely, but if you don't attend class, you will get no credits."

"This is too much, isn't it?!" Li Dongping was practicing Shuzhong dialect recently, and he grabbed Zhou Zhi: "Before class, I was worried that the effect would not be good, so I tremblingly asked everyone to come and make a scene, and now it's I have become so stubborn that I don’t recognize anyone anymore. Today’s treat..."

Everyone was filled with righteous indignation: “You have to do it even if you don’t do it, and you have to do it even if you don’t!”

Lu Jiayi clapped her hands: "Why do I want to have a casserole and skewers!"

Organizing a reception is actually very simple. Not far from the school gate, there is a Chuan Chuan Xiang restaurant at the entrance of the alley next to Hongqi Village.

Because of the honeycomb briquette stove, the fire is relatively small. In order to keep the heat, the boss used an ancient coal sand pot as a pot. Because of the good taste, the casserole skewers actually became famous.

Everyone was divided into two tables and chatted around the casserole, and the topic was inseparable from the upcoming CET-[-] exam.

(End of this chapter)