Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1836 Project Transfer

There are a lot of things to do next. The first one is the various preparations before the school opens. In addition, Tu Liangzhi said that there are several children whose parents do not allow them to go to school, so Zhou Zhi needs Lao Chi Ri to "persuade" them to agree.

After returning to Shudu this time, the children's clothing, shoes, and stationery problems have been solved; the textbook problem has also been solved with the help of Liu Mei'e and Sha Ma Ricong with the help of the autonomous region; now the only miscellaneous expense left is basically food expenses.

This year, the township began to generate various incomes, and Tu Liangzhi simply took charge, and the children's food expenses were also paid from the village committee's finances. This means that the children studying in the grain station township primary school do not have to spend a penny more, and at the same time they can also get various kinds of "material subsidies".

If we don't consider that children also need to do some labor at home, this is actually a good thing that can reduce the burden on the family.

But Zhou Zhi certainly would not be so arbitrary, so he asked Lao Chi Ri to take A Zi and himself to visit each household to understand the underlying reasons why each family did not send their children to school, help solve some specific problems, and promise to provide practical benefits by arranging for the family to work and earn money to solve the difficulties. Only then did he reason and do ideological work. With the help of Lao Chi Ri's authority and the promise to set up the main school mechanism, he finally took the children from these mountain families.

After solving this problem, A Zi was about to go back to school, so he had to send A Zi to the city again. At the same time, he had to visit Li Yutang and other leaders of the autonomous region to report to them about his experiences in the island country and the capital, and let them know about the sales of the autonomous region's specialties such as fresh cold chain matsutake, buckwheat soy sauce, Qingzhuo Ziyi wine, Jiukou ware porcelain, and imitation Maki-e lacquerware in the island country.

In addition to these, there have also been some achievements in culture. With the launch of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasty dating project, the Yi script, one of the oldest Chinese scripts, has become increasingly prominent in its reference role in deciphering the "pre-oracle bone" inscriptions. The "Glimpse into the Philosophy of Chinese Character Creation: From Inscriptions to Writings" co-authored by Zhou Zhi and Lao Chi Ri has been published as a paper in an important national journal, and has achieved real results with a certain influence.

With the help of this favorable wind, Zhou Zhi and Lao Chi Ri compiled more works and were able to start projects in the autonomous prefecture.

There are three works in total - "The Origin and History of the Yi Nationality in Liangshan", "Illustrated Catalogue of Yi Inscriptions on Stone and Stone", and "Bimo Sheepskin Book".

Two documentaries - "The Epic of Leoty" and "The Bimo Nuo Ritual".

The materials for the last two documentaries have been collected, and Zhou Zhi has also written the narration copy. Now all that’s left is editing.

However, the information in the first three parts still needs to be supplemented, and the autonomous region's own cultural and historical workers need to participate. Many materials also need the help of the autonomous region's library and archives to find them, so as to avoid omissions.

Zhou Zhi's idea was to complete the two documentaries himself, and for the other three works, he would hand over the collected materials to the district, which would be completed by the autonomous region's cultural and historical research office. He and Lao Chi Ri would only need to be listed on the list of editors.

Zhou Zhi wanted to spare his energy to imitate the book "Rural China" written by Fei Xiaotong, a senior Chinese sociology scholar, and write a book "Bimo Society" based on the materials he had. Bimo society is actually a special social structure of village elders. Bimo, who is at the pinnacle of power in the village, is a person who combines many powers such as witchcraft, medicine, politics, law, and religion. By studying and analyzing the typical "positions" in this special society and his influence on all aspects of the social circle he manages, Zhou Zhi believes that it not only has general literary and historical value, but also will be of great help in revealing some typical phenomena in the Shang Dynasty before the Zhou Dynasty, as well as in the ancient Shu Sanxingdui civilization and Jinsha civilization.

The ancient Bimox culture of the Yi people is most likely the "living fossil" left behind by these ancient civilizations.

After Zhou Zhi stayed in Lianhe Township for a long time, he felt more and more that it was possible, so he couldn't help but want to do this project.

"Is this your postgraduate research topic?" Li Yutang thought the man in front of him was very interesting. If you say he was an academic talent, he had come up with so many ideas on the direction and planning of the autonomous prefecture's industrial development, and they all produced real results. If you say he was a talent in government and business, he had not been delayed in academics, and he had achieved so many results without realizing it.

"Really, none of them." Zhou Zhi could only shake his head and smile bitterly: "The research direction that Grandmaster has decided for me is to infer the phonetics and rhymes of the Middle Ages. At the same time, I need to use modern information technology to build a phonetics and rhymes model for the Middle Ages, complete the establishment of a pinyin database, and realize the programming of the pronunciation rules of the Middle Ages."

Li Yutang was overwhelmed: "Is this a research project for graduate students? Are the requirements for graduate students at Shu University so high? It wasn't like that when we were there."

"It's not like that now." Zhou Zhi held his forehead with his hand: "It's that Master's request to me is a little special."

"So your topic is closely related to your research in Lianhe Township?" Li Yutang asked again, "From what you said, it seems that you are both studying ancient characters or languages?"

"It's not related at all." Zhou Zhi said, "In fact, studying Yi culture is a continuation of my hobby when I was an undergraduate, but my master thought that this would prevent me from learning anything 'new' in graduate school, so he drafted another topic that was more closely related to my major, and then said that studying Yi culture was my hobby, and he personally strongly supported and encouraged me to continue... Uh, Uncle Li, you can stop gloating..."

"Did I show it?" Li Yutang was so happy: "I'm not gloating, I admire you, pure admiration, hehe, Elbow, you are really a compound talent!"

"Uncle, please stop making fun of me. The Origin of the Yi Nationality in Liangshan is actually the Yi people's Records of the Grand Historian. The Illustrated Records of Yi Inscriptions on Stone and Gold is archaeological evidence of the ancient Yi language, and is of great value for studying the origin of the Yi language and verifying the Neolithic carving culture. The Bimo Sheepskin Book is the equivalent of the Yi people's own Yongle Encyclopedia, and is a collection of the Yi sheepskin books and various manuscripts currently in existence. Any one of them should be considered a great contributor to the inheritance of Yi culture. If I were not really short of energy, I would not be willing to take out any of them."

Li Yutang's expression turned solemn: "Elbow, the work you have done for the autonomous prefecture, in addition to practical contributions, the most important thing is that it has opened up the closed thinking of our local cadres, thus bringing a new atmosphere. Thank you very much!"