Riding the wind of rebirth

Fortunately, Zhou Zhi didn't go too far. After all, today he was here to look at the new income, not to provide guidance on work.

When it comes to wood carving, Dongyang, Yueqing, Chaozhou, and Fujian are the top choices nationwide, while when it comes to stone carving, Jiaxiang, Hui'an, Qingtian, and Quyang are the top choices. But in Sichuan, there are also several places that are very famous for carving.

Wood carving is mainly done in Beibei, Yuzhou. Because of the "Huguang Filling Sichuan" policy, many craftsmen came to Sichuan. Among them, wood carving craftsmen mainly gathered in Yuzhou, where the floating wood rafts are most concentrated.

As for stone carvings, there are Dazu and Wanzhou. Dazu Rock Carvings is a very famous place, and Wanzhou is famous because Wu Zetian once built large-scale projects in that area and sent craftsmen of royal level.

In addition, there are places like Anyue, which are also extraordinary in Song and Ming stone carvings.

In addition, there is bamboo carving, which is a tradition that has existed since the Ba people. Northern Sichuan and Liangping in Yuzhou are both very famous places.

In addition, the Sichuan River serves as the throat of the river, attracting many skilled craftsmen to seek a living, leaving behind quite a number of fine products.

The only thing lacking is the material. There are not many precious wood and stone materials, and they are difficult to transport, which is also due to geographical limitations.

This also means that except for statues like the Three Saints that are well protected by mud-sealed shells, the surviving wood and stone carvings in the Three Gorges area are not very old, and those from the Song and Yuan dynasties should have been weathered and decayed.

However, this is not a problem for the things preserved in the Muzong warehouse. After all, things from the Song and Yuan dynasties should go to museums, not here.

After the tour, Zhou Zhi couldn't help but feel fortunate for the rescue action he initiated.

The items are of considerable value and in huge quantities. We have now entered the peak period, and there is no sign of an end in sight in the short term.

If the rescue efforts had been started a year or two later, many things would have been lost and would have been sadly buried under the water.

Although time is tight now, at least we can still make it in time.

This place is not just a simple warehouse, but also a research site. For researchers of archaeology, history, and folklore, it is a huge material library, and many topics can be found by simply digging around.

For some topics, there may not be a place in the whole country that can gather so many samples. Therefore, many staff members are conducting their own academic research while surveying, taking pictures, organizing and summarizing. It is indeed a good place to publish papers.

Zhou Zhi was very satisfied with the work of the working group. He only made some small suggestions on security issues and then returned to Shu University.

He estimated that he would not be able to wait until the start of the semester to go back to school, so he needed Professor Gu to guide him in studying books and papers, discussing his research direction during his graduate studies, and continuing to prepare for future doctoral studies.

The surprise that Zhou Zhi brought to Gu Youwen is self-evident. From the very beginning, Gu Youwen knew that Zhou Zhi would introduce computer technology into literary and historical research, but he could never have imagined that it could be developed to the current scale.

The power of text search engines has already been demonstrated. In order to make good use of this tool, the old man, who is over 80 years old, has begun to study computers seriously. The news media has also promoted this as a positive example of learning throughout one's life.

In fact, if Zhou Zhi brought out some of the projects that Clover was working on, such as the aggregation of oracle bone inscriptions, the study of the relationship between ancient Yi characters and Neolithic runes, or even the "Chronology of Oracle Bones and Divination of the Shang Dynasty", "Three-year Perpetual Calendar of the Xia and Shang Dynasties", "Five-star Perpetual Calendar", and "Four-quarter Moon Phase Perpetual Calendar", any one of them would be qualified as a doctoral thesis, not to mention a master's degree. However, neither of them had such a thing in their logic, because graduate students must learn new things, and the above-mentioned things are what Zhou Zhi has already mastered, so they cannot be counted in.

"Or should I continue to organize my great-grandmaster's "Shu Zheng"? Or work with my uncle on "Ji Yun"? " Zhou Zhi asked tentatively.

"Shu Zheng" refers to "Guangyun Shu Zheng" written by Gu Youwen's father Gu Shaoxian in the 1950s. It is a work used to prove "Guangyun".

"Guangyun" is a linguistic work created by Chen Pengnian and Qiu Yong in the first year of Dazhong Xiangfu during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty. Before the publication of "Guangyun", the rhyme book people relied on was "Qieyun" by Lu Fayan, a linguist of the Sui Dynasty.

Later there were "Kan'ao Buque Qieyun", "Tangyun", "Guang Qieyun", "Guang Tangyun", etc., but they all made partial additions and modifications to "Qieyun", which was just a change of name but not the substance.

In the Song Dynasty, the imperial court ordered a revision of the old version because of errors in radicals, omissions in copying, and lack of annotations. The revised Guangyun version has five volumes in total. The Pingsheng version is divided into two volumes, one for Shangsheng, Qusheng, and Rusheng. It contains more than 26,000 characters, more than double the number of Qieyun.

There are a total of 206 rhymes in the book, 193 of which are from Qieyun, and the rest are from the works of later generations.

The greatness of Guangyun lies in the fact that it is the first officially compiled rhyme book in China. In the minds of literati and scholars at that time, it became a supreme model of pronunciation that must be followed.

In terms of phonetics, since Guangyun inherited the phonetic system and fanqie of Qieyun and Tangyun, and Qieyun and Tangyun have been lost, it became the most important material for studying Chinese sounds before the complete Qieyun was discovered.

Moreover, the study of ancient and modern sounds also requires the deduction and interpretation based on Guangyun. In the history of phonology, Guangyun has always played a role in inheriting the past and ushering in the future.

In other words, Guangyun is a medieval rhyme book that connects the past and the future and records accurately and completely. It can be traced back to the pre-Qin period and the Ming and Qing dynasties. Its importance is self-evident.

However, "Guangyun" also has its own problems. The rhyme divisions are too narrow, which makes it inconvenient for everyone to use.

Tang Fengyan's "Wenjianji" once said: "Lu Fayan of the Sui Dynasty, together with Yan and Wei, determined the northern and southern sounds and compiled "Qieyun", with different rhymes for Xian, Xian, Shan, Shan and other words. The scholars of literature were annoyed by its strictness and details. At the beginning of the country, Xu Jingzong and others discussed it in detail and used it because its rhymes were narrow and suitable for playing."

"Guangyun" basically inherited the rhyme list of "Qieyun" and even expanded it. Therefore, the pain of being strict and meticulous increased. When using it, people can only adopt some methods of using it together and some methods of using it alone. Using it together means that several similar rhymes can be used together when rhyming poems, but using it alone cannot be used with other rhymes.

Because Guangyun is important, it has been passed down throughout the years. As phonetics began to change with the times, the examples of common and unique usage in Guangyun also began to become erroneous. Gu Shaoxian's teacher Dai Zhen once wrote "A Table of Four Tones for Common and Unique Use of Guangyun", which I have always thought to be more credible and was followed by subsequent phonologists. Therefore, the rhyme tables of Guangyun listed in general phonological works now basically use Dai Zhen's theory, which is somewhat different from the rhyme table in the original Guangyun book.

As a direct disciple of Dai Zhen and Duan Yucai, Gu Shaoxian immersed himself in this art for decades and had many original insights of his own based on the work of his teachers.

He compiled these insights and his teacher's research results into a book, Guangyun Shuzheng. However, the book was lost during the turmoil along with another book, Jingdian Shiwen Jishuo Fujian, until Jiang Shuyi found it in a used bookstore.

The four works, "Maoshi Yunli", "Newly Edited Guangyun", "Guangyun Shuzheng" and "Jingdian Shiwen Jishuo Fujian", constitute Gu Shaoxian's huge, complex, scientific and rigorous academic system. All four works are written in ancient Chinese, totaling nearly five million words.

At present, these four works have not been studied in depth by enough scholars. They are a treasure trove waiting to be discovered. (End of this chapter)