Oracle bone inscriptions are also called "deeds", "oracle bone inscriptions" or "tortoise shell and animal bone inscriptions". They record and reflect the political and economic conditions of the Shang and Zhou dynasties. It is said that this kind of writing was used by the royal nobles in the late Shang Dynasty for divination and recording events.
As for the special symbols engraved on tortoise shells or animal bones, oracle bone inscriptions continued to be used for a period of time after the fall of the Yin Shang Dynasty and the rise of the Zhou Dynasty.
When I was in college, a teacher said that oracle bone script is one of the earliest systematic writing forms known in China. It inherits the original carved symbols and the bronze inscriptions at the bottom. It is a key form in the development of Chinese characters and is known as
It is the "earliest Chinese character". It is generally believed in academic circles that modern Chinese characters evolved from oracle bone inscriptions, and only a few hundred of them can be barely recognized today.
Because of some personal experience, I always thought that the legendary "Cangjie made characters" created oracle bone inscriptions. Later I learned that the characters Cangjie made were just the prototype of oracle bone inscriptions. To be more precise, what he created was a symbol similar to characters.
For this reason, I have always liked to inquire deeply, and I also checked a lot of information to compare the differences between oracle bone inscriptions and those early symbolic texts. Therefore, I can say without shame that I am one of the few people of my age who has a certain impression of oracle bone inscriptions.
One of the people.
However, when I looked at those words with confidence, I realized that I was too pretentious.
I don’t recognize any of the oracle bone inscriptions engraved on the huge stone tablet as high as two stories high!
What's going on!?
Staring at those criss-crossed gestures, I felt a little uncomfortable. After a while, I felt dizzy and almost fainted. Seeing this, Lord Jiu grabbed me, frowned very suspiciously and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I don't know, I have a bit of a headache." I said, rubbing my eyebrows and walking to another stone tablet. I looked up and saw that the text on it was similar to the one above, but the content recorded on it was completely different from the one just now.
I changed several stone tablets, but I still couldn't read the content on them.
However, what is very strange is that as long as you stare at the huge words on the stone tablets for more than ten seconds, those words will appear as ghosts one after another as if they are alive, followed by a bad feeling like motion sickness.
It swept through my nervous system, and finally I couldn't bear it anymore, so I held on to the stone tablet and vomited it out.
Fortunately, I haven't eaten for a long time, and my stomach has long been empty. When I vomited, all that came out of my mouth was gastric juice. Seeing me like this, Xiaopang took out a tissue from his backpack and handed it to me, and then asked very puzzledly.
I said, "What's wrong with you? Are you sick?"
"I can't tell." I waved my hand and said.
"Then what is written on it? Do you recognize it?" Hearing this, he asked again.
"I only know a few characters, and they don't make sense together. However, I can confirm that this thing was left over from the Yin and Shang Dynasties. In the Zhou Dynasty, such characters rarely appeared." After saying this, I
After vomiting a few more times, I sat down against the stone monument and saw that in the eyes of the huge corpse, a big long-eared cat named Fengli was showing its head and laughing. I looked at it and was so angry that I really wanted to kill it with a knife.
As a result it lost its life.
What's interesting is that this little thing knew we were hostile, but it didn't take the opportunity to escape. It hugged the huge skeleton's body and looked confident, which made me slightly worried.
"Master Jiu, look at that pile of bones, don't you think it's a little strange?" I asked Master Jin Jiu, tilting my head. Only after a quick look did I realize that Master Jin Jiu was staring at the stone tablet with his mouth slightly open.
He was in a daze. Looking at his straight look, he seemed to be attracted by something. No matter how I called him, he would not move...
Seeing him like this, my heart sank. I turned to look at Fatty and asked him: "Little Fatty, look at the words on the stone tablet."
"What's wrong?" Hearing this, the little fat man stared at the inscription on the stone tablet again and again, then tilted his head with an innocent look on his face.
"Do you have any special feeling?" I stood up and wiped the corners of my mouth and asked him. Hearing this, the little fat man shook his head, then spread his hands and said to me in confusion: "Isn't it just a bunch of symbols? What's there?
Special.”
It's over.
Hearing what he said, I knew something was wrong, so I quickly ran to where Jin Jiuye was, stretched out my hand to pull Jiuye, but Jin Jiuye didn't pull at all. Jin Jiuye was nailed to the ground, like a stone tablet, with an expression on his face.
He was so sluggish that he couldn't even breathe...I stretched out my hand and put it under his nose. I panicked. In just a short while, he actually ran out of breath...
dead???
No...
I never expected that something like this would happen, and I lost my backbone all of a sudden. I called Xiaopang over and lifted Master Jiu up and put him aside. He was as motionless as a stone statue.
When the little fat man saw it, he was also panicked. He beat his chest and pinched the person for a while, but Jin Jiuye was like a dead body, standing upright without any reaction at all...
"Holy shit! What's wrong with Mr. Jiu!?" Xiaopang's voice changed as he was sweating profusely.
"I don't know. It seems that I have been tricked. We have to think of a way." I stretched out my hand to grasp his pulse, but it disappeared. I put my ear against his chest and found that Jin Jiuye had no heartbeat. After a while,
This old man is already as hard as an ice lump.
In this way, a large number of corpse spots crawled up his face, and Jiuye's anger quickly disappeared like a flood at low tide. Immediately afterwards, his body shrank, and the body that was still hard just now collapsed like a deflated rubber ball.
, to describe the change, as if it had become a corpse.
"Don't bother, he has been dead for a long time." At this moment, a sneer came from my ears. I turned around and saw a monk in red sitting on the treetop not far away. Beside him was the man who had just been there.
Ding Ling went to the toilet. Ding Ling sat there, trembling all over, looking at her as if she was greatly frightened.
"What did you just say?" Everything happened so suddenly that I hadn't fully accepted it yet. I stepped back and asked him with deep shock.
"Jin Jiuling has been dead for a long time, haven't you noticed?" The monk smiled coldly, with a look of disdain on his face.
"You are talking nonsense, how could Lord Jin Jiu die?" said the little fat man, picked up a stone and threw it over. The monk waved his hand and the stone flying in the air immediately turned into powder.
He sat crookedly on a branch, holding Ding Ling in his arms and looking very lazy. He put his big fat face on Ding Ling's neck and sniffed, then stuck out his tongue and licked Ding Ling's cheek.
.
Damn it, at first glance, the blue-black tongue was more than a foot long, and the inexplicable secretion was scraped on Ding Ling's face, which made me gag.