In the era of information explosion, there are many people who know a little bit about everything, brag about what they are saying, and then find out through in-depth communication that they know nothing.
Chen Jingke is one of them. He has learned many things from Feng, but in the end he can stick to only two things.
One is calligraphy; the other is outdoor adventure, and I specialize in drilling into caves, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to travel through them.
Regarding Oracle, he only paid attention to it for a period of time out of interest, and then left it alone.
Relying on that little understanding, I could barely translate fourteen words, but this was enough to convince Li Shimin and others.
He went to the palace early the next morning. Li Shimin was still attending the morning court, so he strolled to the harem.
The eldest grandson Wugou said: "Hey, it's unusual to enter the palace so early. You also bring gifts. When did you become so filial?"
Chen Jingke sat down opposite him, poured himself a glass of water, and said, "I don't miss my aunt anymore. I miss you so much that I came to see you."
Changsun Wugou sneered and said: "Ha...this little mouth is getting sweeter and sweeter. Unfortunately, I am not a little Sizi, so this trick is of no use to me. Tell me, why do you have any bad ideas when you come so early in the morning?"
Chen Jingke put down the teacup, took out the pages and handed them to her, saying, "Take a look."
Changsun Wugou curiously took it and looked through it, and asked doubtfully: "What is this ghost-like talisman? It can't be some kind of writing, right?"
Chen Jingke said: "You really got it right. This is the text."
Changsun Wugou looked through it again and then lost interest and said, "Which country's writing is this? Why did you bring it into the palace?"
Chen Jingke pushed the armored bone box in front of her and said with a smile: "Don't worry, you can take a look at this again."
Changsun Wugou opened the box with confusion, and then became even more confused: "Isn't this just a bone... Well, it should be a dragon bone used for medicinal purposes, am I right?"
Chen Jingke said: "That's right, take a closer look at what's so special about this dragon bone."
Changsun Wugou was already accustomed to his bad taste of telling people to make people's appetites, so his attitude was very calm.
Picking up the keel and observing it carefully, I found something unusual: "This pattern..."
She picked up those pages and compared them carefully, and finally confirmed her guess. The lines carved on the dragon bone were words.
This made her even more curious, and asked, "Who carved words on bones for what?"
Chen Jingke pretended to be mysterious and said: "Guess."
Changsun Wugou glared at him angrily, but still said: "Since the First Emperor wrote Tongwen, the development and changes of writing can be traced... I don't remember such writing appearing."
"Well, it is either owned by a barbarian tribe or a small country in the pre-Qin period. Is my guess correct?"
Chen Jingke no longer deliberately titillated and said: "By the way, this writing does exist in the pre-Qin period. But it is not from a small country, but from the Yin and Shang dynasties."
The eldest grandson Wugao was greatly shocked and said: "Yin Shang writing? Is it the Yin Shang before the Zhou Dynasty?"
Chen Jingke nodded and said, "Yes, that's the Yin Shang."
Changsun Wugou quickly looked at it again, but still didn't see the reason, so he simply put down the paper and oracle 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, are you causing trouble again?"
Chen Jingke said unhappily: "Sage, I don't like hearing what you say. What do you mean, when have I ever caused trouble?"
"Haha..." Li Shimin sneered: "Do you want me to count them for you? It seems that the Guo family is still chasing Chang'an County to find out who beat their children."
Chen Jingke said nonchalantly: "Is this a big deal to you? If the Guo family wants to sue, just let them sue. It pisses me off and I use a sack to trap him every day."
Li Shimin pointed at him and said to his eldest grandson Wugou: "Look, look, he looks like a scoundrel. If it weren't for the sake of you and Xiao Sizi, I would have to punish him today."
Changsun Wugou said: "I don't want to protect him today. You can deal with him well."
Li Shimin said: "What will Xiao Sizi do if he finds out?"
Changsun Wugou said: "He has the nerve to complain to Xiao Sizi? How could Xiao Sizi know if I didn't tell him?"
Li Shimin was very capable with his hands, so he immediately slapped Chen Jingke on the head and said, "I'll tell you not to behave well."
In fact, it was still a bun, and I didn’t really exert any effort.
Chen Jingke was speechless, but the couple was singing opera.
However, he also knew that he would not be able to help the couple without Xiao Sizi, so he simply gave up and said: "Yes, yes, I was wrong... By the way, today I am here to congratulate the saint."
Li Shimin was also joking. When he saw that he was submissive, he sat down and said, "Congratulations? Are you happy, or have you come up with some new invention?"
"That's not true, but you will definitely like this happy event."
"Oh, tell me."
Chen Jingke pointed to the nail bones and those pages and said, "Isn't this it?"
Li Shimin first picked up the paper and looked at it, and guessed that it should be a kind of writing.
What's more, the words on one page have been translated into the current language. It would be stupid not to see this.
Then he looked carefully at several bones and discovered the lines on them.
He immediately thought of those pages, picked them up and compared them carefully, and they were exactly the same.
As a calligraphy enthusiast, 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 pretending, Li Shimin said angrily: "Just tell me what's going on."
Chen Jingke shrank his neck and quickly answered: "This is a text from the Yin and Shang Dynasties."
The eldest grandson Wugao on the side couldn't help but laugh. This child just needs someone to treat him.
"What?" Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, thinking he heard wrongly and asked again.
Chen Jingke introduced: “During the Yin and Shang Dynasties, people loved divination and prayed for God’s guidance whenever they encountered problems.”
"And the most commonly used ritual tool for divination is oracle bones... People at that time would carve on the oracle bones what they wanted to tell the sky..."
"These oracle bones with inscriptions were buried deep underground for various reasons. They have endured for thousands of years and have been preserved until now."
"Hiss..." Li Shimin took a breath and looked at these old oracle bones. His eyes changed from indifferent to very serious: "Can you confirm?"
Chen Jingke said with certainty: "It can be confirmed that the elders of my family accidentally discovered the dragon bone and traced its origin."
"They also tried to translate...It's a pity that I didn't learn this knowledge in depth and didn't know much."
Li Shimin picked up the pages again and said, "Did your family elders translate these fourteen words?"
Chen Jingke said: "Yes, the family has collected more than 4,000 oracle bone inscriptions in total, but only half of them can be deciphered."
"According to the research of family elders, our writing has evolved over several generations."
"First came the oracle bone inscriptions. The oracle bone inscriptions evolved into bronze inscriptions... They were made by casting characters on gold and bronze utensils. The elders in our family called them bronze inscriptions."
"After the bronze inscriptions came the pre-Qin inscriptions that we are more familiar with, and then later the First Emperor wrote the same inscriptions, and then evolved into what it is now."
As a calligrapher, Li Shimin naturally had a deep study of characters.
But the earliest text he had access to was Li Si's handwriting from the late Warring States Period.
What did the writing look like before this? No one has seen it, and no books have mentioned it.
As for where Chinese characters came from... of course it was created by Cangjie. Do you even need to ask?
Now he finally knew that things were far from simple.
It turns out that before this, Chinese writing had experienced so many generations of evolution.
Then he started to get excited.
The writings of the Yin and Shang dynasties, which had been submerged by history, reappeared in the Zhenguan Dynasty. There are too many things that can be manipulated here.
Just as Chen Jingke had thought before, Li Shimin immediately thought of how to use this matter politically.
but……
He frowned and said, "Is that all?"
If you only have these few bones, you may not be able to win people's trust, and may even be criticized as fake.
Chen Jingke naturally understood this truth, so he told the story of the oracle bone inscriptions discovered in Zixiao Temple: "For the time being, we only have a dozen oracle bones in our hands."
"But since there are these pieces, it means that the ruins of the Yin and Shang Dynasties have been discovered and excavated. There must be other oracle bones spread out. I have asked Taoism to start collecting them."
Hearing that this kind of treasure was used as a dragon bone and ground into powder and used as medicine, Li Shimin's expression was very complicated. He was very angry, wanted to laugh, but was helpless.
But he also knew that no one was to blame for this matter. Who would have thought that these bones could be ancient artifacts from the Yin Shang Dynasty or ritual vessels for worshiping heaven.
Without Chen Jingke's guidance, it is estimated that even if someone discovered it, it would not be taken seriously.
"Hurry up and let people collect them, 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?" Li Shimin was surprised at first, and then showed relief.
Since the Chen family was able to collect more than 4,000 oracle bone inscriptions, they must have found relics.
Chen Jingke said: "The main part is in Henan Province, there is also a part in Shandong Province, and there is also some in Gyeonggi Province."
"Henan Road is the birthplace of Chinese civilization. There are not only ruins of the Yin and Shang Dynasties there, but also ruins of earlier dynasties."
Li Shimin said as he should: "Henan Road? That's right."
After all, Heluo, Luoyang was once the capital of the Zhou royal family. The capital of the Zhou Dynasty and Shang Dynasty was very normal in Henan Province.
"Before the Yin and Shang Dynasties, there 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 even more than one dynasty before the Yin and Shang Dynasties, but whether it was called the Xia Dynasty remains to be discussed."
"But what is certain is that there are ruins from the ancient pre-Yin Shang Dynasty in Henan Province, dating back to four thousand years ago."
"The ruins of an ancient country four thousand years ago?" Li Shimin was shocked again, this was completely beyond his knowledge.
What's even more shocking is that such an ancient country doesn't have any historical records. If Chen Jingke hadn't said it, he wouldn't have known about it.
Then he couldn't help but recall in his mind the civilized war that Chen Jingke mentioned before.
Those who lose will lose everything, even traces of their existence will be erased.
Isn't this the case now? Although we 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 back then, they have all disappeared like smoke.
If Chen Jingke had not mentioned it, no one would have known that there had been such a country and such an era.
If Chinese civilization was wiped out by foreign civilization... He could no longer imagine it.
No, we must go out and make the whole world surrender under the feet of Chinese civilization.
We want to be the strongest and even the only one.
Chen Jingke had no idea that his talk about archeology could trigger such a big reaction from Li Shimin.
What he was talking about was the four thousand year old country, the ruins of the Heluo ancient country that had just been excavated before traveling through.
In order to deny Chinese civilization, Westerners first deny all history before the Yin and Shang Dynasties, saying that you have not unearthed any written antiquities. How can you prove the existence of the Xia Dynasty?
Because of the strength of Western civilization and the drive of domestic well-known and ignorant people, this statement has been recognized by many people.
China had no choice but to carry out excavations in Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi and other places, and then ancient ruins were discovered one after another.
Faced with this irrefutable evidence, Westerners changed their tactics again.
Without any evidence, they say that the Chinese are an alien ethnic group who established their own civilization after killing all the indigenous people.
The relics unearthed on Chinese soil from thousands of years ago have nothing to do with Chinese civilization and belong to the destroyed aborigines.
People are so shameless, what can China say? It can only study in silence, and then the ruins of the Heluo Ancient Kingdom were discovered.
The emergence of the Heluo Ancient Kingdom proves with ironclad evidence that the Chinese civilization is the aboriginal people of this land, and our history has always continued and never been interrupted.
Then Westerners started to act stupid and pretend not to see.
Those public intellectuals have also become quails, hoping in their hearts that their Western fathers will quickly find new places to blackmail China.
But by this time, China has understood a truth. Westerners don't care about the facts at all. Their purpose is to be black for the sake of being black.
You excavated the ruins, right? It doesn't matter. I'll find a place to blackmail you and deny you in a few days.
It is foreseeable that this struggle will continue.
There is no possibility of compromise in the war of civilizations, especially for the narrow civilization of the West, which has no concept of common development.
They cannot tolerate any different civilizations, especially civilizations that are better than them, and they will definitely find ways to eliminate each other.
Although Li Shimin didn't know what the battle of civilizations was, he knew very well what it meant when these ancient countries were discovered, and said excitedly:
"Where are the specific locations of these ruins? I will send people to dig out them right away."
Chen Jingke quickly dissuaded him and said: "Don't, excavation of ancient ruins is a very profound knowledge, and you can't just dig up the soil and dig things out casually.
"If we act rashly now, 99 percent of everything may be destroyed."
"It's best to keep them there and not move them. From now on, find someone to specialize in this knowledge, and then start digging and researching when you are confident."
Li Shimin said: "How can we prove the existence of the Yin Shang Dynasty without excavating the ruins?"
Chen Jingke said: "Since there are oracle bones appearing, it means that some ruins have been discovered accidentally."
"Let's first trace where this batch of oracle bones were found, and then take the next step based on the situation."
"If we can excavate the exposed ruins first, we should be able to prove the existence of the Yin Shang Dynasty."
"If it doesn't work, you can practice with this ruin first, and then dig other ruins when you gain experience."
Li Shimin nodded and said: "Okay, I'll do as you say and find out the cause and effect as soon as possible."
