The Tang Dynasty started from saving Empress Changsun

Chapter 445 Communication Across Time and Space

In the era of information explosion, there are many people who know a little about everything, brag about everything, and really communicate deeply and find out that they know nothing.

Chen Jingke is one of them. He has followed suit and learned many things, but there are only two things he can stick to in the end.

One is calligraphy; the other is outdoor exploration, and I specialize in drilling that kind of cave, otherwise I wouldn't have traveled through it.

Regarding the oracle bone inscriptions, he only paid attention to them for a period of time out of interest, and then left them alone.

Relying on that little understanding, I managed to translate fourteen characters, but this was enough to convince Li Shimin and others.

He went to the palace early the next morning, and Li Shimin was still in the early court, so he wandered to the harem.

The eldest grandson Wugou said: "Hey, it's rare to enter the palace so early. You also brought a gift. When did you become so filial?"

Chen Jingke sat down opposite him, poured himself a glass of water, and said, "I'm not missing my aunt, I'm really thinking about it, so I came to see you."

The eldest grandson Wugou sneered and said: "Heh... this little mouth is getting sweeter and sweeter, but unfortunately I'm not a little boy, this trick is useless to me. Tell me, what bad idea did you come up with early in the morning?"

Chen Jingke put down the teacup, took out those few pages and handed them to her, "Look at it."

The eldest grandson Wugou took it curiously and flipped it through, then asked doubtfully, "What is this thing that looks like a ghost drawing? It can't be some kind of writing, right?"

Chen Jingke said: "You really hit the spot, this is the text."

The eldest grandson Wugou flipped through it again and lost interest, and said, "Which country's language is this? What are you doing with it in the palace?"

Chen Jingke pushed the armored bone box in front of her, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, you can look at this again."

Changsun Wugou opened the box very puzzled, and then became even more puzzled: "Isn't this just a bone... Well, it should be a dragon bone used in medicine, am I right?"

Chen Jingke said: "That's right, take a closer look at what's so special about this keel."

Changsun Wugou has become accustomed to his wicked taste of teasing others, so his attitude is very calm.

Picking up the keel and observing it carefully, he found something abnormal: "This pattern..."

She picked up those pages and compared them carefully, and finally confirmed her guess that the lines engraved on the keel were words.

This made her even more curious, and said, "Who engraved the words on the bones for what?"

Chen Jingke pretended to be mysterious and said, "Guess."

Changsun Wugou glared at him angrily, but he still said: "Since Emperor Shi Huang wrote Tongwen, the development and changes of writing can be traced... I don't remember such writing appearing."

"Well, it's either owned by a certain barbarian tribe, or owned by a small country in the pre-Qin period, is my guess right?"

Chen Jingke didn't deliberately whet his appetite, and said, "By the way, this text did exist in the pre-Qin period. But it's not from a small country, but from the Yin and Shang period."

The eldest grandson Wugou was shocked, and said: "Yin Shang script? But the Yin Shang before the Zhou Dynasty?"

Chen Jingke nodded and said, "Yes, it's that Yin Shang."

Changsun Wugou hurriedly looked again, but still didn't see why, so he simply put down the paper and bones, and said:
"Tell me honestly what's going on."

At this time, Li Shimin's voice came from outside the door: "What's going on? Jing Ke, you're causing trouble again?"

Chen Jingke said unhappily: "I don't like to hear what you say, sage, what do you mean, when did I get into trouble?"

"Heh..." Li Shimin sneered and said, "Do you want me to count it for you? It seems that the Guo family is still chasing Chang'an County to find out who beat his child."

Chen Jingke said indifferently: "Is this a problem for you? If the Guo family wants to sue, let them sue. It annoys me and covers him with sacks every day."

Li Shimin pointed at him, and said to his eldest grandson Wugou: "Chou Chou, Chou Chou, he looks like a rascal. If it wasn't for the sake of you and Xiao Si, I would have to deal with him today."

Changsun Wugou said: "Today I don't want to protect him anymore, you should deal with him well."

Li Shimin said: "What if little Si finds out?"

The eldest grandson Wugou said: "He has the nerve to complain to little si? ​​If I don't tell, how can little si know."

Li Shimin's hands-on ability is so strong, he immediately slapped Chen Jingke on the head, and said, "I'll let you be a bad boy."

In fact, it was still a bun, and I didn't really use any strength.

Chen Jingke is speechless, the couple are singing.

But I also knew that he was no better than the couple if Xiao Si was not here, so I simply admitted: "Yes, yes, I was wrong... By the way, today I am here to congratulate the saint."

Li Shimin was also joking. Seeing that he was subdued, he sat down and said, "Congratulations? What's your congratulations, or do you have some new inventions?"

"That's not true, but you will certainly like the occasion."

"Oh, let's hear it."

Chen Jingke pointed to the nail bones and the few pages of paper, and said, "Isn't this what it is?"

Li Shimin picked up the paper and looked at it first, and guessed that it should be a kind of writing.

What's more, the words on one page have been translated into the current text. It would be too stupid if you couldn't see it.

Then he looked at a few bones carefully and found the lines on them.

He immediately thought of those pages, and when he picked them up and compared them carefully, they were exactly the same.

As a calligraphy lover, he immediately became interested and asked, "What is this character?"

Chen Jingke said: "Because it is carved on oracle bones, the elders in my family call it oracle bone inscriptions."

Seeing that he was still playing tricks, Li Shimin said angrily, "Just tell me what's going on."

Chen Jingke shrank his neck and quickly said the answer: "This is a text from Yin Shang."

The eldest grandson Wugou beside him couldn't help laughing, this child needs someone to treat him.

"What?" Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, thinking he had misheard and asked again.

Chen Jingke introduced: "During the Yin and Shang Dynasties, people liked divination, and whenever they encountered problems, they would pray to God for guidance."

"And the ritual vessel most used in divination is the oracle bone... People at that time would engrave on the oracle bone what they wanted to tell the sky..."

"These oracle bones with inscriptions were buried deep in the ground for various reasons, and have been immortalized for thousands of years, and have been preserved until now."

"Hiss..." Li Shimin took a deep breath, and the eyes he looked at these old oracle bones changed from indifferent to very serious: "Can you confirm?"

Chen Jingke said affirmatively: "It can be confirmed that the elders of my family accidentally discovered the keel and traced its origin."

"They also tried to translate it... It's a pity that I haven't studied this knowledge in depth, and I don't know much about it."

Li Shimin picked up those pages again and said, "These fourteen characters were translated by the elders of your family?"

Chen Jingke said: "Yes, the family has collected more than [-] oracle bone inscriptions, and only half of them can be deciphered."

"According to the research of the elders of the family, our characters have evolved through several generations."

"First came the oracle bone inscriptions. The oracle bone inscriptions evolved into bronze inscriptions...that is, the characters were cast on gold and copper utensils. The elders in our family called them bronze inscriptions."

"After the bronze inscriptions came the pre-Qin scripts that we are more familiar with, and then later the Shihuang Shu Tongwen, and then evolved into the current appearance."

As a calligrapher, Li Shimin naturally has a deep research on characters.

But the earliest text he could get access to was from Li Si's handwriting at the end of the Warring States period.

What did the text look like before that?No one has seen it, nor has it been mentioned in any book.

As for how Chinese characters came about...it was naturally created by Cangjie. Is there any need to ask?
Now he finally knows that things are far from that simple.

It turns out that before this, the characters of the Central Plains had experienced so many generations of evolution.

Then he started to get excited.

The characters of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, which were submerged by history, reappeared in the Zhenguan Dynasty, and there are too many things that can be manipulated.

Just as Chen Jingke thought before, Li Shimin also immediately thought of how to use this matter in politics.

but……

He frowned and said, "Is that all?"

If there are only these few bones, I am afraid that I will not be able to win the trust of others, and I will even be bitten back and think it is a fake.

Chen Jingke naturally understood this truth, so he told about the oracle bone inscriptions discovered by Zixiao Temple: "For the time being, we only have a dozen oracle bones in our hands."

"But since there are these few pieces, it means that the remains of the Shang Dynasty have been discovered and excavated, and there must be other oracle bones that have been handed down. I have asked Taoism to start collecting them."

Hearing that this kind of baby was being ground into powder and eaten as medicine, Li Shimin's expression was very complicated, very angry, wanting to laugh, and helpless.

But he also knew that no one could be blamed for this matter. Who would have thought that these bones would be ancient relics from the Shang Dynasty or ritual vessels for worshiping heaven.

Without Chen Jingke's guidance, it is estimated that even if someone finds out, they will not be taken seriously.

"Have someone collect it quickly, and at the same time find out where these oracle bones were found." Li Shimin said.

"I have asked them to do it." Chen Jingke said: "As for the ancient ruins of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, I know the approximate address."

"Really? Where is it?" Li Shimin was surprised at first, then relieved.

Since the Chen family was able to collect more than 4000 oracle bone inscriptions, they must have found the relics.

Chen Jingke said: "The main body is in Henan Province, there is also a part in Shandong Province, and there is also Gyeonggi Province."

"Henan Road is the birthplace of Chinese civilization. There are not only Yin and Shang ruins there, but also ancient dynasty ruins."

Li Shimin said as it should: "Henan Road? That's right."

After all, Heluo, Luoyang was once the capital of the Zhou royal family.In the Shang Dynasty of the Zhou Dynasty, it was normal for the capital of the Shang Dynasty to be in Henan Province.

"Before the Yin and Shang Dynasties was the Xia Dynasty. Are the ruins of the Xia Dynasty and the Yin and Shang Dynasties together?"

Chen Jingke said: "There must have been one or more dynasties before the Yin and Shang Dynasties, but whether it was called the Xia Dynasty is still open to question."

"However, what is certain is that there are ruins of the ancient country before the Yin and Shang Dynasties in Henan Province, dating back to 4000 years ago."

"The ruins of the ancient country 4000 years ago?" Li Shimin was shocked again, which was completely beyond his cognition.

What is even more shocking is that such an ancient country does not have any historical records. If Chen Jingke hadn't said that he would never have known about it.

Then he couldn't help recalling in his mind the civilized war that Chen Jingke said before.

The loser will lose everything, even the trace of existence will be erased.

Isn't that the case now?Although I don't know how these ancient countries were destroyed, in fact they did disappear in the long river of history.

No matter how many heroes they gave birth to in those years, they have all disappeared like a cloud of smoke.

If Chen Jingke hadn't mentioned it, no one would have known that there was such a country and such an era.

If the Chinese civilization was wiped out by foreign civilizations...he couldn't imagine it anymore.

No, we have to go out and let the whole world surrender at the feet of Chinese civilization.

We want to be the strongest and even the only one.

Chen Jingke didn't know that talking about archaeology by himself could cause such a big reaction from Li Shimin.

What he was talking about was the 4000-year-old ancient country, the ruins of the Heluo ancient country that had just been excavated before crossing.

In order to deny the Chinese civilization, Westerners first denied all the history before the Yin and Shang Dynasties, saying that you did not unearth any ancient writings, how can you prove the existence of the Xia Dynasty?

Because of the strength of Western civilization and the promotion of domestic public knowledge and ignorance, this statement has been agreed by many people.

In desperation, China could only carry out excavations in Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi and other places, and then ancient ruins were discovered one after another.

Under this ironclad evidence, Westerners have changed their tricks again.

In the absence of any evidence, it is said that the Chinese are a foreign ethnic group and established their own civilization after killing the aborigines.

The thousands of years ago relics unearthed on Chinese land have nothing to do with the Chinese civilization, but belong to the destroyed aborigines.

People are shameless, what else can China say, only to study silently, and then the ruins of the ancient Heluo country were discovered.

The emergence of the Heluo ancient country proves with iron-like evidence that the Chinese civilization is the aborigines of this land, and our history has continued and never stopped.

Then Westerners began to pretend to be stupid, pretending not to see.

Those well-known people have also turned into quails, hoping that their Western fathers will quickly find a new place in black China.

But by this time, China has already understood a truth, Westerners don't care about the facts at all, their purpose is to black for black.

You unearthed the ruins, didn't you?It's okay, I'll find another place to hack you and deny you in a few days.

It is foreseeable that this struggle will continue.

There is no possibility of compromise in the battle of civilizations, especially for the narrow civilization of the West, there is no concept of common development.

They can't tolerate any different civilizations, especially those superior to them, and they will definitely find ways to destroy each other.

Although Li Shimin doesn't know what a civilization war is, he knows what it means to discover these ancient countries, and said excitedly:
"Where are the exact locations of these ruins? I'll send someone to dig them out right away."

Chen Jingke hurriedly dissuaded him: "Don't do it, excavating ancient ruins is a very profound knowledge, not just digging and digging things out.

"If we did it now, maybe 90.00 per cent of everything would be destroyed."

"It's best to keep them there and not move them. From now on, find someone to study this knowledge, and start digging and researching when you are sure."

Li Shimin said: "How can you prove the existence of Yin Shang without excavating the ruins?"

Chen Jingke said: "Since there are oracle bones, it means that there are relics discovered by accident."

"First find out where this batch of oracle bones were found, and then take the next step depending on the situation."

"If possible, excavate the exposed ruins first. It must be able to prove the existence of Yin Shang."

"If it doesn't work, you can practice with this ruin first, and then dig other ruins when you have experience."

Li Shimin nodded and said: "Okay, I will do as you said, and find out the ins and outs as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)