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Chapter 286 Deciphering Oracle Bone Inscriptions!
The word "Biáng" has stumped many students, and of course some students know it.This character cannot be typed by various input methods, or what is typed out is not a Chinese character, but a picture with the word "Biáng" written on it. This character can be said to be a compound character.

Biáng, dedicated to Biángbiáng noodles, is a traditional Guanzhong noodle dish. There are many ways to write the word "Biáng", and the origins are also different.

Li Fan explained one of the stories using the word he wrote. He said:

"It is said that a talented scholar came to Xianyang who was full of talents, cynicism, poverty, hunger and cold. When he passed by a noodle restaurant, he heard the sound of 'biang-biang' inside. He was hungry for a while, so he couldn't help walking in.

The smell of this bowl of noodles was so delicious that the scholar salivated. He ordered a bowl of noodles and wolfed it down. In an instant, the bowl was empty. He wiped the sweat from his head and touched his pocket. Panic, empty bag.At this time, he regretted it and wished he could slap himself in the face. Why was he a literary scholar? It would have been better if he was a martial scholar. What can you do to me when I eat a king's meal?
The waiter standing nearby looked sideways and shrugged, with a wicked smile on his face. He had clearly seen the scholar's embarrassment.Just when the scholar was about to speak, the waiter stopped him and said, "Sir, our shop operates on a small basis and does not accept credit." '

The scholar had no choice but to feel this and that on his body, thinking about how to find some small change, and also thinking about how to get out, he even chatted with Xiaoer casually to delay the time.

The scholar asked: "Xiaoer, what's the name of your house?" '

The waiter in the shop imitated the tone of a scholar and said: "Biángbiáng noodles." '

The scholar asked suspiciously: "Biángbiáng noodles?" How to write Biángbiáng? '

This noodle shop is a well-known time-honored shop. Its noodles are specially made. The sound of 'biangbiang' is produced when the noodle and the panel are knocked together, so it is called Biángbiáng noodle'.

How to write the word 'Biángbiáng', the store makes noodles and the customers eat noodles, no one has thought about it. Besides, there was no nine-year compulsory education in ancient times, few literate people, and many illiterate people.

Seeing that the waiter in the shop couldn't answer, Xiucai suddenly had an idea. He said: "Xiaoer, you can discuss it with the boss. I don't have any money today. Can I write the word 'Biángbiáng' and eat this bowl of noodles instead?"

After the waiter in the shop asked the boss, he came back and said, "Success." '

The scholar murmured in his heart, how could he renege on his debt?Throughout the ages, the word 'Biángbiáng' has never existed.If it is not in the book, how can it be created? "

The students asked:
"Yeah, why are you reckless?"

"How did you come up with the word Biáng?"

……

Li Fan said with a smile: "Scholars are so lazy. He is full of sadness and melancholy in this predicament. He thinks of his tragic life. He has studied hard for dozens of years. Now that he has not achieved fame, he is under the eyes of everyone. It's unfair to go to such a field as bad debts!
In a hurry, he scolded the emperor in his heart: Why is the sun and the moon shining in the sky?The people are suffering and mourning is everywhere; the palace is in turmoil, and wolves are in power; corrupt officials are rampant in the countryside; I am a scholar who studies hard because I have no money and no one, I can’t get through the joints, I can’t get fame, how can the sun and the moon shine! The law of heaven is not fair!
When the scholar thought of this, he shouted: "The pen and ink are waiting for you!""

When Li Fan said this, he picked up the pen and wrote, "flying up to the sky at one point, the Yellow River bends on both sides; the eight-character mouth is wide open, the words go inward, twist to the left, twist to the right; long to the west, East one long, add a horse king in the middle; at the bottom of the heart, next to the moon, leave a hook and hang sesame candy; push the cart and go to Xianyang!"

The word "Biáng" was written again, and everyone suddenly realized that this is the origin!
Li Fan put down his pen, and said, "One character has written all the mountains, rivers, geography, and the world. Since then, Biángbiáng noodles have become famous in Guanzhong. This character shocked the world with its complicated strokes! The traditional Chinese characters reached 56 strokes! When entertaining guests It also specifically mentioned this Biángbiáng noodle. I’m talking about the widely circulated version.”

[What is the concept of 56 strokes? ] There is no 56 strokes in the previous sentence.

Everyone said:
"One more word, Li Fan!"

"One more word!"

"I've known you for a long time."

……

Gu Yating was holding a notebook in her arms. As soon as she entered the classroom, she saw everyone surrounding Li Fan. She asked suspiciously, "What are they doing?"

A girl thought for a while, "Hey, food and sex too!"

Either this girl misunderstood this sentence, or the past is used for the present. "Food, sex and sex" comes from "Mencius", which is what Gao Zi said. The normal structure should be "food and sex, sex also", that is "It's human nature to like beautiful things".This sentence has nothing to do with Confucius, and it has nothing to do with the "food, sex, and sex" that is generally understood today.

But it doesn't matter, this misinterpreted sentence summed up their conversation too accurately. They did talk from the initial "sex" to "food", and there was nothing wrong with it.

When Gu Yating walked into the room, the bell rang just in time, and the class started.

Sitting next to Li Fan, she glanced at the writing on Li Fan's notebook and asked, "Is this delicious?"

"I haven't eaten either. How about during the National Day Golden Week, we two take time to go to a local place to have a meal. Biángbiáng noodles, meat buns, spicy meatball soup, etc., until we are full!"

Speaking of this, the two people's taste buds were ready to be stimulated, and then they counted the time with their fingers, and then they stopped talking, this topic ended here, how could there be any extra time during this Golden Week?

After a while, Professor Sun walked into the classroom in a hurry, and apologized: "I'm sorry, students, I'm a little late!"

Walk to the podium, insert the USB flash drive into the device, lower the curtain, and today's lesson "A Brief History of the Development of Chinese Characters" begins.

"Students, our lesson today will start with Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Oracle Bone Inscriptions are the oldest mature writings in our country during the dynasty. They record political, economic, cultural and other information about China more than 3000 years ago. The discovery of Oracle Bone Inscriptions opened up a new era The new era of my country's academic history has brought my country's letter history ahead of schedule by more than 1000 years.

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Students present here, does anyone know who was the first person to discover oracle bone inscriptions? "

Professor Sun glanced at the students in the audience, and his eyes fell on Li Fan's face first (or his eyes fell on Li Fan's face many times at the beginning of the class).At this time, Li Fan's facial expression was a little dignified, his brows were slightly furrowed, and his two sword-shaped eyebrows looked slightly raised.

This is a puzzled expression, and it can also be called a questioning expression. Because the two expressions are too similar, Professor Sun obviously understood the former one, so he didn't ask him any questions. His eyes shifted slightly, and said: "Gu Yating, please answer."

Gu Yating stood up and said: "Wang Yirong discovered it in 1899 during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. This person is an epigrapher. He found some very ancient patterns that looked like characters carved on the keels sold in Chinese medicine stores. He realized that this is very important. After collecting precious cultural relics, he bought all the keel bones and found that there were similar patterns on each keel. He was sure that this was a kind of writing, and it was relatively complete. It should be from the Yin and Shang Dynasties, so the oracle bone inscriptions were officially known to the world."

Professor Sun nodded in satisfaction, "That's right, please sit down. In 1900, Wang Yirong's oracle bones belonged to Liu E. His in-law Luo Zhenyu learned that these oracle bones came from Xiaotun Village in Anyang, so he sent people many times to Buy oracle bones there.

The dynasty fell, and the current situation was turbulent. After the villagers of Xiaotun Village learned that the oracle bones were profitable, they began countless indiscriminate excavations.They set up mat huts, set up stoves, fought for land, and often fought over it, until they dug up Xiaotun Village to be riddled with holes and ravines. A large number of lost or lost overseas. "

When Professor Sun said this, he began to sigh and lament.

"It has only been 119 years since the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions. Through the joint efforts of experts and scholars of all ages in China, about 1500 oracle bone inscriptions have been deciphered, but there are still more than 3000 oracle bone inscriptions that have not been interpreted. Among the words that come out, there are still about 500 that are very doubtful...

The official website of the Huaguo Characters Museum is preparing to issue a reward announcement these days. If any group or individual deciphers the uninterpreted oracle bone inscriptions, or makes a new interpretation of the controversial oracle bone inscriptions, once the research results are approved by the expert committee, then the single character Reward 10 yuan. "

Wow!
The crowd was amazed.

"How much? 10 per word?"

"It's too expensive, isn't it?"

"Knowledge is power, with knowledge you can get rich!"

……

Ma Qiang pulled Li Fan and asked, "How much did the teacher say is still undeciphered?"

"Nearly 3000."

Snapped!Ma Qiang slapped the table, "You're rich! If you crack 100, you'll get 1000 million. With this money, I can travel around the world for the rest of my life!"

It is very difficult for Oracle to decipher this matter.It involves many disciplines such as linguistics and archeology. It is no exaggeration to call it a "unpopular secret". What's more, what is easy to decipher has already been deciphered by predecessors. What remains are "old and difficult" problems, and There are also a large number of proper nouns such as place names, clan names, sacrifice names, etc. Many proper nouns seem to have no connection with our world.

Nowadays, there are very few scholars who study oracle bone inscriptions. The reason is very simple. The tortoise shell and animal bone materials in oracle bone inscriptions are relatively old, so it is difficult to study, and the good ones have been studied by the predecessors.

As a result, many scholars have turned to the study of Qin bamboo slips and Han bamboo slips. These newly discovered materials are easier to publish research articles and become famous.

Professor Sun pressed the page presenter, and a pattern was projected on the curtain. The content of this pattern was: an animal with two pointed ears growing on its head, and further down, there were four arms and two legs. (Oracle bone inscriptions can’t be typed out, what should I do? Let’s make up my mind with the writing, it crashes!)
"Students, what does this cute word read? Guess."

Countless students raised their hands.

"Teacher, this word is pronounced 'cat'!"

"Fox, the 'fox' of a fox!"

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"Nothing is right. The word is 'ding', the ancients used 'ding'."

All the students made up their minds and suddenly realized.

Press the page presenter, another word came out, the students continued to answer wrongly, Professor Sun said with a smile: "This word is 'sheep'!"

After uttering a few words in a row, Professor Sun glanced at Li Fan from time to time. After all, Li Fan has the most outstanding foundation in Chinese studies in this classroom. Among all the young scholars under his command, Li Fan can "kill" anyone else.

When a teacher asked a difficult question, he would basically ask the best student in the class if he would do it. This is the nature of the teacher, but Professor Sun glanced at Li Fan again and again, and was gradually confused by his expression .

What kind of expression is this?He was serious, his brows were furrowed, and he never smiled. He was not in the state of a normal student listening to lectures. Moreover, his brows were getting tighter and tighter, and he seemed to have a tendency to shake his head slightly. Professor Sun slowly and finally read another meaning. , That is a question that hesitates to speak.

At this time, on the curtain was a word like this: a "vertical", and on the left side of the "vertical", there were four "horizontal" with a certain radian, and the four horizontals were in groups of two, with obvious gaps between the two groups.The shape of the whole character is like a flag fluttering in the wind.

"This character is '' (note: yǎn), which looks like a flag fluttering. Attention everyone, doesn't the word 'vertical' in this oracle bone inscription look like a flagpole?" Professor Sun couldn't hold back when he said this. He pointed to Li Fan and said, "Li Fan, do you have any ideas?"

Li Fan stood up and said, "Professor Sun, is it okay for me to explain my humble opinion to you after class?"

"It's okay, but it's okay to say!"

Li Fan pondered for a moment and said, "Professor Sun, I personally think this character should be the character '中'."

Professor Sun frowned, puzzled, and said, "Why?"

"Professor Sun, can I go up to the stage and write a few words?" Seeing Professor Sun nodded, Li Fan walked to the podium, opened a blackboard, and wrote several oracle bone inscriptions in succession.

It's really useless to explain that Oracle Bone Inscriptions are not on stage, after all, the mouth can't describe the appearance of Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

The characters written by Li Fan are very similar to the characters projected on the screen. They have an obvious feature that there is an extra word "口" in the middle of "vertical" (or, you can also make the following brain supplement: Chinese characters '中', where the side of 'vertical' is respectively connected with two groups (or pieces) of 'horizontal' with a certain radian, and placed on the upper and lower sides of the word "mouth", unified on the left or right side of the word "vertical". are established).

As soon as these words came out, the other students were confused, but Professor Sun knew in his heart that this Li Fan really understands oracle bone inscriptions!At least he must have studied it!

Li Fandao: "Oracle bone inscriptions, also known as 'Qi Wen' and 'Oracle Bone Inscriptions', were mainly used for divination of good and bad luck in the late Shang Dynasty in my country. The inscriptions can be used to represent 'Zhong' from 'Zhong Ding' and 'Bo Zhong'——" Li Having said that, Fan circled the oracle bone script on the blackboard, "I think this character is the original script of the other characters."

Professor Sun frowned and said: "Shuowen Jiezi says that the journey of banners and the appearance of Jian. The meaning of this word is also the same in the "Kangxi Dictionary". It is no problem to use it to decipher this oracle bone inscription."

Li Fan stood on the stage with a smile, and said loudly: "The image of this character is like the flag shape of Jianzhong. The inscription has "Lizhong" and "Jianzhong Banner", which means that there are "major events that can be used to gather people, and can also be used to gather people." Observing the wind direction... Therefore, the students think that the word is '中', not ''."

The students were all dumbfounded, as if they were in a fog, and they couldn't understand at all. What they said was completely beyond their own knowledge base.

Professor Sun frowned and thought, "Your point of view is very novel!"

Under the podium, Gu Yating chuckled, all right, 10!Anyway, in Gu Yating's memory, after meeting Li Fan, Li Fan has never failed in Chinese studies.

Professor Sun asked again, "What about the other words, do you have any ideas?"

Swish Swish Swish, two oracle bone inscriptions fell on the blackboard again, namely the oracle bone inscriptions of "Wolf" and "Embarrassment".

Li Fandao: "Everyone is familiar with the idiom 'wolf is a traitor'. It is said that the wolf's hind legs are short and the front legs of the wolf are short, so the wolf and the wolf go out to look for food together. On the body of wolves. This way they can run very fast. This is embarrassment.

However, "悲" is actually just a legend. There is no such animal as "悲" in nature, but the oracle bone inscriptions decipher this word as "悲", which means animal. I personally have reservations. "

Professor Sun asked, "What is your opinion?"

"Teacher, I am just making a blind analysis. Look, this '狋' is made up of two parts. It is a 'shell (oracle bone)' clamping the tail of a 'dog (oracle bone script)'. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, In the bronze inscription, the 'shell' was moved to the right side of the dog. What does this mean?

In oracle bone inscriptions, "悲" is used as a verb in inscriptions, and it is used in conjunction with dogs and horses. We can understand it as an action and behavior aimed at horses or dogs.

Putting a live shell on the dog's tail may be used to tame the dog and make it lose its wildness in the constant struggle. "

Professor Sun interrupted: "Li Fan, wait a minute, the live shell is clamped on the dog's tail to tame the dog?"

Li Fan explained: "It sounds unbelievable, but such things are not uncommon in rural areas.

Hens have at least one nesting period every year. If you don’t want it to stay in the nest and affect other hens to lay eggs, farmers have a simple way, which is to put a long chicken feather across the nostril of the chicken, or put it on the hen. A piece of red paper is tied to the tail of the chicken.This poor chicken will be scared and run around the world.

Similarly, putting a specially woven bamboo basket over the mouth of a loose calf can prevent it from eating crops.The same is true for wearing black blindfolds on donkeys circling the mill, affecting their behavior. "

Professor Sun: "Okay, you continue."

"The Late Shang Dynasty was the period when wild animals were gradually domesticated and raised, and the animal domestication technology at this stage was relatively mature. So I said that embarrassment should be a kind of technology for taming dogs, not animals. Waist pits are common in late Shang tombs. The sacrifice of dogs, and the appearance of dogs accompanied by warriors as sacrifices, all indicate the emergence of dog training techniques in the late Shang Dynasty.

This word must also be misinterpreted! "

Professor Sun nodded again, "It makes sense!"

Gu Yating thought to herself in the audience: That's it, 20!
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Li Fan: "I have a different opinion on the word 'Tian'!"

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30 million!
Professor Sun asked, "Is there anything else?"

"Not for the time being. At present, I only have doubts about these three words."

Professor Sun wiped his sweat, "Well, Li Fan, please come to the office with me after class!"

Well, after textual research, Li Fan's academic tentacles have touched the next subject - deciphering oracle bone inscriptions.

(Have you all read this chapter?

Terrible.After publishing, I have been thinking about how to modify this chapter so that everyone can understand this chapter, but I have no idea at all. I am really sorry, everyone.

Oracle bone inscriptions are too far away from our lives, and we can’t type them out. No matter how many words we write, we can’t explain them clearly, and even if we explain them, they are very obscure.

In the future, when the plot involves specific knowledge, I will skip it directly and focus on the achievements of the protagonist.

It's really sour, obscure, and extremely boring, and I have to write this introduction. )
(End of this chapter)