At the end of the year, the yin and yang rush to short scenes, and the frost and snow in the sky are cold at night.
The sound of drums and horns at the fifth watch is solemn and solemn, and the shadow of the stars in the Three Gorges wavers.
Thousands of families cried in the wild when they heard about the war, and fishermen and woodcutters sprang up in many places of barbarian songs.
The crouching dragon and the leaping horse end in the loess, and the personnel information and books are lonely
——"Gate Night" by Du Fu
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Just when Bai Fu was fascinated by these stone carvings, a broken stone tablet in the weeds jumped into his eyes.
The stone tablet is divided into two sections, the upper and lower sections, respectively engraved with two strange symbols. To outsiders, these symbols look like some kind of ancient totem.
There are fourteen lines of symbols on the top of the stele. These symbols are like small nails and seem to be some kind of cuneiform writing. The beginning and end of the sentences of this symbol are missing, making it difficult to decipher.
There are thirty-two lines of symbols in the lower section of the stele. The shape is neither Zang nor Seal. It is an ancient writing that has never appeared in the world. The writing lines are mostly straight, straight down, slightly thick in the middle, and slightly thin at both ends, making it look thin and straight.
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The fonts are mainly rectangular, with a combination of square and circle, opening and closing, pictographic pictures, simple and vivid, and lifelike images, which should be early Yin and Shang characters.
To others, these two symbols were like a book from heaven, esoteric and difficult to understand, but when Bai saw them again, he was overjoyed. Because the symbols on the lower section of the stele were exactly the symbols on the tortoise shells and animal bones unearthed in Xiaotun, Xiangzhou - early writings of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.
Taifu Xu once asked Bai Fu to memorize the Chinese characters corresponding to each Yin and Shang character.
Although Bai Fu didn't recognize the symbols on the top of the stele, they were no stranger to them. These cuneiform characters were the golden ancient seal scripts that Bai Fu had seen on both Kanding and Xunding - words belonging to gods.
Judging from the arrangement of the words on the stele, although there are changes in density between the words, the characters in the upper and lower paragraphs run through each other, the sizes are dependent on each other, the left and right sides correspond, and they are well-proportioned. The writing structure, loops and echoes, are well organized, and it should be a chapter that records the content.
After repeated deliberation, Bai Fu felt that the two characters on the stone tablet should be saying the same thing. Through the corresponding anchor positions of the oracle bone characters and Chinese characters, he could deduce the golden ancient seal script!
Thinking of this, Bai Fu was so ecstatic that he didn't even bother to go back to the Bashu Guild Hall to rest and stay up all night to fight.
In the following days, Bai Fu was immersed in the fun of deciphering cuneiform script.
At first, Bai Fu felt that cuneiform writing was completely ideographic, just like oracle bone writing. Following this line of thinking, Bai Fu studied for several months and deciphered some of the writing, but he was still unable to make a breakthrough.
The deciphering was at an impasse. Bai Fu stayed at Prince Yin's residence for food and accommodation. He had a slovenly beard, long knotted hair, and rags. He looked like a disciple of the Beggar Clan. Bai Fu looked like a lunatic all day long, talking to himself around the stone tablet, and thinking.
Nagging.
No craftsman from Prince Qing's Mansion dared to get close, for fear of being accidentally injured by Bai Fu, a highly skilled martial artist.
On this day, the Persian princess Boniadi invited Bai Fu to a restaurant for dinner, and then Bai Fu returned to the Bashu guild hall to wash up and change clothes.
Princess Boniadi of Persia dressed up carefully. She changed from her old Hufu into the most fashionable Tang Dynasty lady's clothing. On her golden pony bun, there was a moon scroll lion pattern embossed hairpin. It was paired with a hibiscus, hundred flowers and butterfly slanted skirt.
The bright blue embroidered butterfly cloud silk long skirt makes the tall figure more convex and slim.
The only thing that hasn't changed is that she still wears a veil, and her blue eyes are sparkling and captivating.
Wherever the Persian princess went, the bright light was overwhelming, and the guests in the wine shop gave way to the way, watching in ecstasy as she calmly climbed to the second floor box.
Bai Fu followed the Persian princess and went upstairs to the banquet in a daze.
With a smile as bright as a flower, Boniadi introduced the customs and customs of her hometown of Persia in non-standard Chinese. When there were Persian place names and people's names that were difficult to translate, Boniadi often used transliterations instead.
Bai Fu suddenly realized!
At first, Bai Fu felt that cuneiform writing was completely ideographic, just like oracle bone writing. But Bai Fu discovered that if cuneiform writing was like Chinese characters, it was a symbol with one meaning. The two paragraphs of the same text on the stone tablet were different from the oracle bone writing.
The characters are too long. So some of the cuneiform script must be syllabic.
Thinking of this, Bai Fu was so excited that he left the Persian princess Boniadi behind. He couldn't wait to go downstairs, opened the window lattice, flew down from the second floor, and went straight to the library of Hongwen Hall.
The Persian princess Boniadi was stunned on the spot. Before she could react, Bai Fu had already disappeared at the end of the long street.
Boniadi was extremely embarrassed. After spending several hours dressing up carefully, Bai Fu turned a blind eye and even "ran away" in the middle of the banquet. Boniadi pouted angrily and stamped her feet, vowing to make Bai Fu look good.
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After days and nights of restless textual research and reading of documents and classics, Bai Fu used the names and posthumous names of several Yin kings that had been confirmed in the oracle bone inscriptions to confirm the corresponding anchor positions of the cuneiform and oracle bone inscriptions.
Bai Fu then found the meanings of the twelve syllable symbols in cuneiform and drew a correspondence table between cuneiform syllables and the pronunciation letters of oracle bone inscriptions.
After completing the most difficult step, Bai Fu peeled off the cocoon bit by bit and gradually deciphered the content on the remaining stele.
It turns out that this stone tablet is a sacrificial text from King Wu Pan Geng's ceremony to worship the heaven during the Yin and Shang Dynasties.
The fourteen lines of cuneiform text on the top of the stele, also known as "divine script", are texts dedicated to the gods.
The thirty-two lines of oracle bone inscriptions on the lower section of the stele, also known as "secular style", are common inscriptions commonly used by common people in the Yin and Shang Dynasties.
Therefore, there is a phenomenon of one stele with two inscriptions. Undoubtedly, this broken stele is the golden key to the history of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.
While translating, this fragment of inscription recorded an incredible and jaw-dropping story:
During the Yao and Shun eras, floods occurred. The Chong clan in the Songshan Mountains on the south bank of the river and the Gonggong clan in the Taihang Mountains on the north bank of the river were both tribes with rich experience in water control.
Gun was the leader of the Chong clan. In order to resist the flood, many tribes formed an alliance and elected Gun as the leader to control the flood. However, Gun took nine years and finally failed. After the flood control failed, Gun was killed in Yushan on the coast of the Yellow Sea.
Yu was Gun's son. After Gun's death, Yu was ordered to unite the Gonggong clan and other tribes to continue water control in the Yi, Luo, He, and Ji areas. Yu abandoned Gun's "blocking" water control strategy and focused on diversion.
According to the height of the terrain, water accumulation in rivers and rivers can be diverted to reduce water damage in fertile plains.
After Dayu controlled the floods, the residents in the mountains moved to the wilderness to cultivate fertile soil. From then on, those swamps with lush vegetation and breeding animals became places where people were happy to settle.
Due to Dayu's achievements in controlling floods, the power of the tribes increased, and Dayu was able to unify the royal power.
After Dayu established the Xia Dynasty, he divided the world into Kyushu, and ordered the governors of Kyushu to contribute bronze and cast Jiuding to symbolize Kyushu. He also engraved the famous mountains, rivers, ghosts, spirits, and strange objects of Jiuzhou on the body of the Jiuding, so that one tripod symbolizes one state.
The Nine Cauldrons were gathered in the capital of the Xia Dynasty and displayed outside the palace gate to avoid evil and bring good luck, and to pray for the protection of the Xia Dynasty from heaven.
The above is the legend of Xia Yu Jiuding recorded in historical books.
However, the real history is: Dayu concealed the real secret of Xia Yu Jiuding...