Time is always playing hide and seek with people. It travels through the day like the wind, and blooms like a flower in the depth of night. While searching, it passes in the blink of an eye.
The next seven days were fast and slow.
Whenever Shulot was alone, it was a long and difficult night. Under the dim candlelight, he repeatedly thought about the murals in the Snake Room. The four walls were all about Quetzalcoatl, who had a human body and a snake body. He swims
Walking among villages and towns, being worshiped by mortals.
On the roof, there is the farewell of Quetzalcoatl being framed by the original sun Tezcatlipoca and self-expelled. But the position of the original sun in the myth has been replaced by the newly depicted patron saint. Also not far above, Avitt
The prayer room of the patron saint where it is located was also the prayer room of the original sun. The changes of the patron saint are clear at a glance.
Thinking of the murals in the palace corridor and the message from his grandfather, Shulot understood the unfinished meaning of the elder. He began to think long and hard about how to formulate a code of law.
At this time, the little green snake will crawl out of the underground sewer wet, and then wring its body dry on the straw. Then it will walk freely on the boy, looking for a comfortable sleeping place. Usually it is a warm chest, sometimes a smooth
Its back will occasionally be wrapped around a strong arm or thigh, depending on its mood.
The boy's heart was peaceful and kind. Just like the moon in the fourth house, he let the little green snake run around randomly. He just refused the gift that the little green snake brought back: a beautiful Mexican butterfly fish, which he bit to death.
Yes, not poisonous.
Whenever the elder arrives, it means the beginning of day, and the accompanying captain of the guard will also leave a new candle. The little green snake will escape in advance and go to the underground water to hunt for prey. Shulot will take the elephant and
The board of Chinese characters explained to the elders word for word. The principles here are the pictograms, meanings, meanings and phonetic sounds in the Six Books.
"A single character is a text, and a combination is a character." The first characters are all pictographic single characters, which are used to represent all things in the world and can usually be observed with the naked eye. These characters should actually be called "wen" alone. Oracle bone inscriptions
The graphics of Mexico and Mexico are at this stage.
For example, it is "mountains, rocks, fields and soil, flowers, birds, fish and insects, sun, moon, fire and rivers, human eyes, limbs..." and so on. These all have corresponding references in the original graphic writing of the Mexicans.
There are not many obstacles to simplifying to a more concise pictographic single character.
The elder understood the pictographic single-character characters very quickly, and these concepts had long been ingrained in his mind, but now they have just been transformed into something more concise.
Of course, the understanding of some words will differ depending on culture. For example, the pictogram of "husband" is an adult man with a hairpin, and in the Mexican understanding, it is an adult warrior with feathers. And the symbol of "female"
The pictogram is a woman kneeling with bent legs, which represents the subordinate status of women. In the Mexica culture, where women generally have the right to inherit and even serve as tribal leaders, this subordination has been abandoned and transformed into the meaning of home.
Some pictographic things that have not appeared, such as "cows, horses and sheep carts", cannot be explained for the time being. Shulot can only generally describe them as large quadrupeds that can be domesticated, and vehicles pulled by quadrupeds. As for the
The elder was quite interested in the fast-moving chariots and horses that Hulot described.
In the eyes of the rulers of the empire, communication efficiency is the biggest limitation of the empire's territory. The time of distance is the most important factor restricting the expansion of classical military empires, not just spatial distance. The efficiency of communication from the ruling center to the border determines the local
The support of the residents also determines the stability of border rule.
The Mexica often captured hostile city-states. In the farthest south, they even conquered nearly a thousand kilometers and reached the border of the Yucatan rainforest. However, these surrendered city-states had to fight due to long communication times and extremely low transportation capacity.
Instead of being a direct vassal of Mexica, it became a disloyal vassal with repeated rebellions.
In every distant expedition, the number of troops that could be deployed was very limited, because the food transportation capacity of the manpower was too low. This was why the Otomi people's war failed.
Before the invention of railway technology, the most efficient communication methods were water transport and sea transport. Therefore, the Roman Empire controlled the Mediterranean Sea for rapid communication, while the Chinese Empire was obsessed with building canals for efficient transport.
"My child. In the boundless grassland in the far north, there is a huge four-legged beast that is running fast. These are its horns. Do you think we can tame it?"
The elder looked at Shulot calmly. The sculptural warrior behind him handed over a curved horn. Shulot identified it carefully and blew a low "woo" sound. This should be a North American bison.
"It's worth a try. But it should take several generations and decades." Shulot pondered slightly, but stopped talking.
If you want to tame the bison, you will always succeed as long as you capture enough cubs. But taming only allows the bison to get used to living with people. Domestication means that you can use the bison to pull carts or plow fields, so that wild animals can get used to it.
To work for humans. This step requires extremely high time and labor costs.
Thirty years later, the Spanish colonists would bring European cattle to Cuba for the first time. But if they wanted to domesticate the North American bison within thirty years, Shulot felt that he was not very sure.
The elder nodded slightly. Soon, an envoy was summoned. The elder gave a few simple instructions, and the envoy hurried away. Starting from this year, the tributes of the northern Huastecs added "huge horned four-legged
"Beast cubs", the number is forty, and the tribute of feather clothing is exempted.
"It can be recognized by sight, and the meaning can be seen by inspection." After the pictographic single-character character, there is the word referring to things. Referring to things is the first step in developing from pictograms to ideographic meaning. It expresses some local or relative concept by using
Abstract symbols are added to the corresponding parts of the pictograms to indicate the local scope represented.
From pictograms to ideograms, it usually takes thousands of years to develop. The original graphic writing in Mexica only stood on the edge of ideograms.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The characters for reference can be simply understood as single abstract symbolic characters. The most representative ones are the three characters "upper", "middle" and "lower"
. Up, one horizontal line at the bottom and then up. It is a high place, and it is also a vertical movement, and it also refers to nobleness. Down, one horizontal line at the top and then down. And in the middle, it is one vertical and impartial.
Other referring characters include "Ben, Zhu, Mo", that is, adding referring symbols to the root, trunk and top of the "wood". "曰" is marked with a short horizontal mark on the mouth to represent the spoken words.
Sound. It is worth mentioning that the meaning of King of Mexica is "big talker", and its symbol is similar to it, which is a gust of wind or cloud painted on the character's mouth.
Hearing this, the elder nodded slightly. "曰" can be used as an iconic symbol on the king's clothing and a symbol of authority.
Next, there is the most important ideographic character, which is composed of two or more single characters and expresses a comprehensive meaning. The ideographic character can express many abstract meanings and has a strong word-making function. The ideographic character integrates Chinese culture
The concept is a unique understanding of the nature of things.
Shulot first told the elders about the word "god". The left side is "shi" which means the altar, and the right side means "shen" which means guidance. The spirit descends the original energy, interacts with all things, and then guides all things.
"Shen" can also mean thunder and lightning. The altar is connected to the natural force, which is the spirit that communicates between heaven and earth.
This is the meaning of the gods in China. The gods are just some kind of existence that guides all things and possesses natural power. All things and gods coexist without distinction between each other. The gods in Europe are gods who create all things, and even the world is controlled by gods.
create.
The elder was thinking silently, appreciating the culture in Chinese characters, and considering the future direction.
Shulot tentatively asked the elders for their opinions. What did "god" mean?
The elder glanced at the young man lightly, and said simply and clearly: "All things obey God, and God gives all things to the Mexica people."
Shulot nodded silently, convinced.
Then, Xiulote talked about "martial arts", from Ge to Zhi. Zhi is the feet, Ge is the weapon, that is, people walk with weapons to conquer and show off. The elder nodded slightly, "Martial" is the foundation of Mexica society.
.The warrior holding weapons is the symbol of the Mexica people.
"My child, what kind of weapon is this?" the elder asked, pointing to "Ge".
Shulot thought for a moment: "This is a simplified war stick. When we have enough copper ore, we can make a unified copper weapon. It is not easy to wear, so only a sharp copper blade is needed to attack, and
It’s not like a battle stick that has many obsidian sharp blades that are easy to wear.”
The elders meditated quietly. It was a general trend to replace stone weapons with copper weapons, and the Tarascans were also on the eve of military changes.
Then there is the word "shoot" for bow and arrow, which means the arrow fired from a bow. Cun is the adaptation of arrow. "cut" means a person who chops down trees with an axe. "rong" means a person who carries weapons and guards the border.
The elder stared at "Rong" for a moment. From now on, the battle clothes of the Jaguar and Eagle warriors can be engraved with the word "Rong". These noble warriors will be responsible for collecting tributes from vassal city-states in various places.
Then there is "Two trees grow side by side to form a forest, three people gather together to form a crowd, and a bird falling by the river is a bird. Two people follow each other to follow each other, and objects divided with two hands are broken. The sunlight shines to form a dazzling wave. The small ones on the top and the large ones on the bottom are pointed. Eight
The knife cuts each other into parts, the valleys in the mountains become valleys. The sun and the moon shine together to become bright, the colors are rich and colorful, and the beneficial insects in the world are silkworms..."
"My child, what are silkworms?" the elder asked thoughtfully, but with his knowledge, he had no impression at all.
"Silkworms are leaf-eating insects from the far west. They can spin silk cocoons. The silk can be spun into thin silk, which is as valuable as gold, no, as expensive as the rarest quetzal bird feathers."
Hulot explained. In Mexica, which is rich in gold and silver, exquisite feathers are much more precious and are regarded as gifts from the gods, while cheap gold is just the excretion of the gods.
Far in the West. The elder looked deeply at Shulot and said nothing.
These ideographic Chinese characters are the most difficult for Shulot's warriors to master and understand, because their concepts are simple and their thinking has not yet risen to this level. The elder is the fastest person Shulot has ever seen who learns Chinese characters.
The ideographic Chinese characters did not bother him at all.
Finally, there are the largest number of pictophonetic characters. Pictophonetic characters are produced on the basis of pictograms, referring to things, and meanings. Chinese characters start from here, moving from ideograms to phonetic symbols. More than 80% of Chinese characters are pictophonetic characters, which are actually
There is unlimited room for expansion.
The phonetic characters can be left-shaped and right-voiced, which means money and materials are melted; right-shaped and left-voiced, which means putting a duck on the neck; upper-shaped and lower-voiced, which means an empty room; lower-shaped and upper-voiced, which means firewood, sauce basin and urn; inner shape and external voice, which means smelling.
Ask about Fujian; the external appearance and the internal sound are used to ward off bandits and keep their bodies solid.
If you want to understand the pictophonetic characters, you have to learn and use them for a long time. After mastering the commonly used rules, you can take the initiative to create on the pictophonetic characters. It is conceivable that in different inheritance soils, the future of Mexica people
Unique new phonetic Chinese characters will definitely be created.
The elder finally stopped here. He looked at Shulot quietly, his eyes softened for a moment, and then returned to indifference.
"My child, have a good rest. Tomorrow is Avit's enthronement ceremony. I will take you to see the great sacrifice and tribute. After that, there will be your answer."
The old man turned around and walked away without stopping. Like the cold current in the Arctic Circle, he moved forward without stopping, only with solemnity and loneliness.
On the last night of the seventh day, there were no candles, and Shulot spent a quiet night without light. The little green snake coiled quietly on his chest, preparing to say goodbye tomorrow. This night, Shulot made a word-making task.
Dreams, when divine words are written down, become the sun and blood.
Early the next morning, melodious and joyful songs floated in the lake capital, like the chants of gods, announcing the replacement of kings in the world. Shulot woke up from the singing. He shook his head laboriously and vaguely saw the light of the capital.
