Master Archaeologist

Chapter 241 Liu He is actually a person who loves reading?

"magic!"

"It's all curled up to the size of a hair, and after being put in the water like this, it can be restored?!"

"This is not ordinary water, it is a reduction liquid specially researched by Jingzhou Cultural Relics Center for this kind of dried shrunk bamboo slips!"

"That's awesome too!"

A group of "earth turtle" archaeologists surrounded the pot of unknown liquid, constantly looking at the bamboo slips that were "stretching their waists" soaked in it.

This scene is really amazing.

Although everyone knows that this is the power of technology.

But seeing a bamboo slip that is only a few millimeters re-swelled and stretched to its normal size in the water is quite surprising.

Of course, this is easy to say, but it actually took a few hours to do it.

The whole process is very slow.

Everyone didn't gather around to watch all the time, but just came over occasionally to take a look.

When the bamboo slips were stretched, because this liquid also decomposed some of the stains on the bamboo slips.

The original handwriting on the bamboo slips also slowly appeared.

The font is Han Li, which is no longer the most common Xiaozhuan in the early Han Dynasty.

This can also explain that from the early to the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, it was a period when the national font changed from Xiaozhuan to Lishu.

Xiaozhuan and Lishu are actually two systems.

Xiaozhuan is the end of ancient pictographic characters, and official script is the beginning of new characters that have been changed from pictographic to strokes.

Xiaozhuan still retains the pictographic fonts of Dazhuan and ancient bronze inscriptions, which means that this font is more "painting" than square characters with horizontal and vertical strokes.

The official script, on the other hand, already has mature strokes, and it seems that it does have the characteristics of modern Chinese characters "square characters".

Moreover, the difference between official script and modern Chinese characters, especially traditional Chinese characters, is not very big.

If a modern person travels back to before the Qin Dynasty, he will definitely not be able to understand Xiaozhuan and Dazhuan, and he will not even be able to guess.

But if a modern person travels to the Eastern Han Dynasty, he can basically recognize most of the official script, and he can guess a lot if he can't guess.

The origin of the official script is to simplify the small seal script, and turn the even and round lines of the small seal script into straight and square strokes, which is convenient for writing.

According to legend, this kind of script originated in the prisons of the Qin Dynasty. At that time, the writing speed of Xiaozhuan, which was the official script, was slow, while the official script changed the circle into square fold, which improved the writing efficiency.

Therefore, it is deeply loved by low-level officials and civilians.

However, in the eyes of high-level officials of the Qin Dynasty, the simplified script of official script, which is straight and horizontal, is not elegant at all, and does not have the essence of "pictographic" of Chinese characters.

Therefore, as long as there is a certain status, people will not use official script.

This was true until the early Western Han Dynasty.

It's a bit like the later North Korea. When Hunminzhengyin, the modern Korean script, was created, this relatively simple font of "pinyin" characters was not accepted by North Korean officials and scholars.

At that time, scholars and officials in North Korea mainly focused on Chinese characters that were more difficult to learn, but had richer meanings and higher accuracy.

The official script of the entire Kingdom of Korea is Chinese characters.

However, because Hunminzhengyin is too simple and very conducive to the popularization of culture, it was widely spread on the Korean peninsula in the next few hundred years and became the first language that Korean civilians learned.

So that after the 20th century, North and South Korea simply abolished Chinese characters directly, and fully used Hunminzhengyin as official characters.

The development of Hanli is actually similar.

In the beginning, Han Li benefited from the low cost of learning, and soon it was widely used by the lower classes of the Western Han Dynasty.

By the time there were more people using Han Li than Xiaozhuan, the upper-class nobles and officials of the Western Han Dynasty followed suit and began to fully implement Li Shu as the official script.

By the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the official script had developed to its peak, and in the "Han cultural circle", it was the only common script.

It's just that when did the Han Li be fully popularized.

Among historians, there has always been controversy.

Some people think that Hanli has basically become the mainstream font during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Some people think that Hanli did not completely replace Xiaozhuan until the late Western Han Dynasty.

Some scholars also believe that during the Wenjing period, Hanli had developed.

In short, this is a very controversial academic issue.

But now, so many bamboo slips and wooden slips have been unearthed in Haihunhou's tomb.

If these bamboo slips and wooden slips are restored later, it is certain that most of them were written in Han official script.

It is basically certain that, at least during the period of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, the Western Han Dynasty had completed the transformation from Xiaozhuan to Hanli!

Because Haihunhou is a lieutenant, and he is also the queen of the princes of the Liu family.

If even his own official documents and collections are written in Han Li.

That can show that at least when he was living, Hanli had become the common language of the upper nobles in the Western Han Dynasty!

You must know that among these bamboo slips that have been unearthed, sporadic characters can be seen on some of them.

Among them, many bamboo slips start with the words "Chen Mou".

This shows that a large part of the bamboo slips are actually copies of the official documents between Haihunhou and the emperor at that time!
And these "Chen Mou" all use Hanli fonts!

Even the official documents and memorials between the lieutenants and the emperor used the Han Li. Isn't this enough to prove the popularity of the Han Li in the period of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty?
Of course, there must not be thousands of bamboo slips just for the official documents between the emperor and the emperor.

Given the complicated relationship between Marquis Haihun and Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, there will never be much contact between the two.

In fact, most of the bamboo slips piled up in the library are probably Haihunhou's own collection!

Optimistically, it may contain various ancient documents such as medical techniques and agricultural books.

It will enrich the world's understanding of the history and culture of the Western Han Dynasty, social life, science and technology, and many other aspects.

more importantly.

You know, these bamboo slips filled a whole storage room!
It belongs to the most concentrated one among the bamboo slips unearthed by archeology in the Han Dynasty.

This undoubtedly shows that Haihunhou should be a person who loves reading!
People in the Han Dynasty were relatively "simple" and not so fancy.

In terms of burial after death, they are basically very honest.

The things that the tomb owner used frequently and liked during his lifetime will be buried in the underground palace.

And it will not be buried with some things that do not belong to the owner of the tomb but will help improve the image of the owner of the tomb for the sake of showing off.

That is to say, there are so many books, which can basically prove that Haihunhou is a cultural person who loves reading very much.

Well, the problem is coming.

Haihunhou Liu He's image in history books has nothing to do with a "scholar".

Stupidity is the only comment on him.

However, how can a foolish person love reading and learning culture so much?
Could it be that this tomb is not actually the tomb of the first Haihunhou?

But apart from the first Marquis Haihun, the owner of this tomb has no way to hook up with other people?

So, in the end, it is suspected that the records of Liu He's image in the history books are discredited.

Or is Liu He actually a cultured person who likes to read and acquire knowledge although he is stupid and loves to do ridiculous things?
Goods, fine goods.

(End of this chapter)