Arcane Linguist

Chapter 131 Historical Records and New Text!

Roland stood on the stage, listening to the noise at the scene, and sorted out his thoughts.

There seemed to be a voice telling him that he was on the right path.

The legendary destiny of inheriting civilization and benefiting the world is about to move, becoming more and more clear and concrete.

The surge of inspiration has activated the memory in my mind, past and present, and many experiences are vividly remembered, as if a huge electronic database is burned deep in my soul.

The so-called novels originally refer to some hearsay and small talk, which have always been difficult to be elegant.

In the previous life, Blue Star also developed and matured in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and many masterpieces appeared.

However, there is a saying that people are similar, and things are the same.

Such things as novels also exist in this world.

Roland had seen several classic works adapted from the history of plane wars in Orvisto's study before, as well as adventure stories of knights and mages.

Here too, novels are distinguished from fables, historical biographies, and story books.

However, because of the existence of the bard, a profession that completely replaces the storyteller, the differences between these are even smaller, and similar styles are often lumped together and become the same category in literary themes.

Why is it that literature as a whole is not taken seriously in Arterine?
They had to be collectively referred to as "other styles".

"No magic... a novel?"

At this moment, in a mage tower in a distant city, the eyes of the famous bard Poytes shine.

He once had an intersection with Roland, and obtained many chapters of the "Book of Songs" from him, and he still had email contact until recently.

It was also the first time he had heard this term.

Because of the relativity between the universes of Blue Star and Alter Rhine in the previous life, the realism in Roland’s mind is equivalent to the overhead doctrine here, while the non-magic novels in the eyes of the At Rhine people are roughly equivalent to the fantasy stories of Blue Star in the previous life Or the sci-fi type...

"Poytes, do you think "The Romance of Siris" will be a novel?"

Ammand, another bard in the channel in the same tower, asked.

He came here with his companions out of curiosity, and found something he was interested in.

"There are some styles of poetry and stories in Arterine, and the various stories that we bards often tell are mostly adapted from the experiences of adventurers.

But when it comes to novels, especially novels that systematically tell about a grand and vast background, they are really not very popular.

But it happens that this kind of long story is easier to adapt.

If the novel written by your celebrity friend can become famous, our colleagues in this profession will have a lot of adaptation materials! "

"Ammand, don't you write your fables?" Poytes couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

"How can adaptation and interpretation of original stories be so convenient!" Ammand said disapprovingly.

In this era, original novels require rich experience and knowledge, and the mainstream concept also believes that it needs to be entertaining and have a certain arcane value or philosophy.

This is the enlightenment requirement of classical novels, even a well-informed bard may not be able to write it.

What they are better at is improvisation, as well as some simple poems and songs.

There is still some market for popular novels written by people in Lower Liba, but most people in Lower Liba are not ready to read and buy them, and they have not yet become mainstream.

After a while, the commentators realized that the lecture was not over yet, and gradually quieted down.

Roland continued: "Maybe some people will ask, what is this Wumo novel, and what form will "The Romance of Siris" be created and released? I can answer them all here..."

As he said that, Roland let go of the scene to ask questions, and sure enough, a trainee mage from Iser's Mage Tower stood up and said: "Mr. Roland, as far as I know, novels are mostly created by bards, mages, or nobles. A pastime in spare time.

No matter writing or reading, few people can get clear benefits from it.

Is there any essential difference between the "no-magic novel" "The Romance of Seris" you just mentioned and those novels we understand? "

Roland smiled lightly, and he knew that someone would ask this question.

Most of the popular novels in this world are between tens of thousands of characters in length, and rarely exceed one hundred thousand characters, and the creation theory and writing level have not yet developed to the stage of Ming and Qing novels.

This is caused by the influence of historical culture and living habits.
In the VIP room, Luneves frowned slightly.

Roland never mentioned novels to her.

The Iser Mage Tower and the Iser Kingdom, because they master a special magical ability called "dream deduction", can be regarded as areas that pay more attention to fictional creations such as novels and stories, but there is still It has not reached the point of forming a complete industrial chain.

"The novel is indeed just a pastime, even if it has a certain didactic meaning, it is not realistic to expect any positive benefits through this matter.

Besides, for entertainment and relaxation, wouldn't it be happier to read arcane treatises and do math problems? "

While she was thinking to herself, Roland on the stage said loudly: "Some people may think that novels are just for entertainment and relaxation.

In an environment where arcane achievements are closely related to wealth, reputation and status in life, mages really don't have much time and energy to invest here...

But I think it can actually generate huge benefits.

For example, create a fictitious world for borrowing fakes to cultivate the truth!

This is one of the roots of the theory of escapism. Since human beings have the ability to fantasize and weave stories, they can transcend the current reality and create various new concepts!
Art comes from life, but it is higher than life. The ability to tell stories is always leading our emotions and emotions, leading the direction of spirit and soul;

It can weave dreams for us and create a vast space for virtual reality;

It can broaden our horizons and enrich our life experiences;

It can lead us to experience all kinds of things and live many generations longer with minimal cost and expense;
This is the magic of language and the hometown of spirit. We human beings cannot live without stories...

And novels, as a literary carrier for systematically telling a long story, naturally have their special role! "

Roland originally planned to use the fictional creation guise that esotericism is good at, to move things that were not easy to explain on a large scale, and maximize the use of his alienated soul particularity.

This is a packaging suitable for localization, because the novel has an audience, and if there are readers, it can make targeted plans for various questions and discussions.

This informal form will not have too blunt impact on the arcane world, and many controversies that would have been put on the table will also be buffered.

Therefore, began to spare no effort to promote the role of novels and stories.

Of course, he didn't just brag without any reason, but noticed that the "dream deduction method" that Iser's Mage Tower is good at does indeed have many cases of creation based on novel stories.

Just like after the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the development of the commodity economy and the improvement of the printing level led to the prosperity of the publishing industry and the maturity of novels.

Iser's environment seemed just right.

Simply add fuel to the flames and fiddle with the concept of "no magic novel".

"In fact, I already have a draft, so I'll try to throw out a paragraph, and I hope you can taste it..."

It's useless to say more, just serve it up.

"The first volume of The Romance of Siris, the Chronicle of the Five Emperors..."

"Yellow Emperor, the son of Shaodian, surnamed Gongsun, named Xuanyuan. He was born as a god, weak but able to speak, young and flattering, long and sensitive, mature and smart..."

That's right, the so-called "The Romance of Siris" is essentially the official history of the former Blue Star Siris!
Roland used the method of borrowing fakes to cultivate the real, contrasting the reality and the fiction like a mirror, and carried it over!
With this official history as the main body, there are many other anecdotes about celebrities, official and unofficial histories, famous classics, poems and articles...

All of them can be naturally mixed in!

Everyone was surprised to hear him preaching in public, and some people had already started to use the "scribing technique" and quickly recorded it.

Soon, someone started to see something was wrong.

"This is a brand new style of writing, which is actually recorded in a new narrative style!"

"This is different from inscriptions or inscriptions..."

"Scribe doesn't work on some words! "

The narrative techniques and wording and sentence making of later generations are different from the inscriptions and inscriptions in oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions.

Some characters of later generations are also missing in oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions.

For example, the word "Xuanyuan" originally came from seal characters, which was included in "Shuowen Jiezi", but it was not found in oracle bone inscriptions or bronze inscriptions.

There is also the character "Ling" for the gods, the character "Weak" for being weak and able to speak, the character "Cong" for being young and even, and the character "Cong" for being smart.

None of the Seris characters currently constructed by Roland have corresponding glyphs.

Fortunately, Roland himself also performed the "scribing technique" and cast it on the screen in public to complete it.

"Huh? These new characters... Are they a supplement to the Jin Wenbian?"

Everyone was surprised.

"No, these are... seal characters!
Roland once discussed it with me! "

Somewhere under the stage, Tibo from Fournier's Mage Tower said in surprise.

What appeared in front of them at this moment was a new calligraphy style with neat lines and neat lines. The overall compositional layout and font structure were far more regular than the previous oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions.

And there are many new words that have never been seen before.

Lunifus suddenly realized: "I can recognize these characters, they are seal characters!"

Skold, Yiwen, and Froya, who are close to the school members, also have more or less contact with each other, and they all recognize them at this moment.

This is the result of Roland deliberately not avoiding them and laying the groundwork in advance.

The staff of Isel's Mage Tower sitting nearby were surprised.

"Seal characters?"

never heard of that……

When Roland finished reading the first chapter of the Chronicles of the Five Emperors, and grandly erased the "Taishi Gongyue" and planned to present it in other forms, everyone eagerly raised their hands to ask whether the words they didn't understand were new.

Roland smiled and gave an affirmative answer.

Seal characters generally refer to seal script, which is one of the ancient Chinese calligraphy styles. In a broad sense, seal script includes all script styles and extensions before official script. In a narrow sense, it mainly refers to "big seal script" and "small seal script", which is a standardized official document. font.

Its development history has spanned from oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions since the Shang and Zhou dynasties, to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, and even to the unification of the Qin State.

However, at this moment, Roland is adopting the Qin Xiaozhuan square brush that is biased towards later generations, and has not expanded in the field of calligraphy.

What he did first was to "make" the characters, and the choice of words and sentences was further promoted to the stage of Sima Qian's "Historical Records", and he carried over the first biographical general history, one of the 24 histories.

This step is far greater than before, and history books as romances are indeed difficult for the general public to understand and difficult to spread.

However, just like the comparison between fiction and reality before, the corresponding relationship is also the same in the official history.

Roland also has confidence in his audience. Many mages and bards are capable of assimilating it and translating it.

Sure enough, mages with high intelligence have begun to guess its meaning based on previous accumulation, trying to understand the classical Chinese contained in it.

This is an article composed of a Chinese written language in ancient China, which is a concept relative to the vernacular.

Tai Shigong wrote historical records, which created a style of general history in the biography style, which was praised by later generations of Mr. Lu Xun as the swan song of historians, Li Sao without rhyme. Even if the value of the historical field itself is put aside, it is also very brilliant from the perspective of literary value. of.

Roland carried these over, which was equivalent to showing thousands of years of history and Ma Qian's life-long painstaking efforts of Taishi Company to everyone.

Even if only the first chapter of the Benji of the Five Emperors is given now due to limited time and circumstances, the value contained in it is unimaginable.

The most intuitive feeling is the huge amount of information.

It's too big!
This article is more than 4000 words, translated into more than 8000 words in vernacular. Not only is it different from the previous Seres language in terms of style and format, but also a lot of new words have been added, which makes people have to suspect that this article has arcane value paper.

And when people savored the connotation carefully, they found that it told the biography of ancient emperors and the history of tribal wars in the tribal period, and they were even more attracted by the historical stories in it.

Like many novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, viewing historical events as stories is actually not as twisted and bizarre as the commercialized novels of later generations.

However, under the appropriate control of vivid language and spring and autumn brushwork, it can also taste some ups and downs.

What's even more rare is that since this is the official history of Blue Star's previous life, its interior is self-consistent and complete, extremely rich, and it is far superior to commercial novels that are purely for entertainment.

The historical and cultural heritage contained in it is displayed in front of the Alterian people in a piece-by-piece manner.

Everyone listened, and at first they didn't realize the beauty of it, but gradually, goosebumps stood up all over their bodies, and their whole bodies trembled like an electric shock.

They seem to have seen, above the sky covered in clouds and mountains, a huge monster flew over the clouds like a fleeting shadow.

Just a glimpse of it is shocking.

At the VIP seat, Luneves blushed and her eyes were blurred.

Suddenly, his body trembled and he shivered.

Finally, as if relieved from a heavy burden, the tense body slowly relaxed.

(End of this chapter)