Chapter 79 The Mystery of Symbols, Codes, and Suggestions
After Professor Sun finished speaking, he stood up and walked us out the door. I thought to myself that this old man was really strange. He didn't say it when he first came in, but he turned his back on him. He heard what he meant at the beginning, as if he was ready to tell us, but later he didn't know where to tell us the identity of Da Jinya, so he became stern. Maybe he thought we were liars and wanted to come to him for trouble.
According to my usual temper, since I have said this, I will definitely stand up and leave by myself without anyone chasing me. But this time it is a big deal. Maybe it is a life-and-life event. In addition to me and the fat man, it may also be related to the life and death of Professor Chen and Shirley Yang.
I said to Professor Sun: "Professor, Professor, you also heard me say the last sentence is OK. I don't know how you smelled that we were rustic. However, this guy with gold teeth, we are not really busy with cultural relics. We worked for the archaeological team for a long time. Have you heard of it from Chen Jiuren from Beijing? We just worked with him."
When Professor Sun heard me telling Chen Jiuren's name, he was slightly stunned and asked, "Old Chen? Are you talking about you two working in his archaeological team?"
I nodded quickly and said, "Yes, I think you and both are Taishan Beidou in the archaeological world. In our archaeological circle, when you mention the name of your two elders, then no one can hear them..."
Professor Chen's expression calmed down a little, and he waved his hand: "Don't flatter me, you kid, what kind of weight do I have? You know. Since you know Lao Chen, then you can stay by yourself and let them both avoid it."
When I heard what Professor Sun said, it seemed that there was a way to go, so I asked Da Jinya and Old Man Liu to leave first, leaving me to talk to Professor Sun alone.
After Da Jinya and the others went out, Professor Sun put the door in and asked me some questions about Professor Chen. I briefly mentioned how I went to the Xinjiang desert with Professor Chen and others to find the ancient city of Jingjue.
After hearing this, Professor Sun sighed and said, "Old Chen and I have met each other. I have heard of the accident in the desert. Alas, it is good that his old bone was not buried in the sand. I want to visit him in Beijing, but I heard that he went to the United States to treat his illness. I don't know if he can see him again in his lifetime. Back then, Lao Chen was kind to me. Since you are his acquaintance, I will no longer hide some things from you."
I was waiting for Professor Sun's words and asked hurriedly: "I think the bruise that suddenly grew on my back is very eyeball, which is related to the ancient city of Jingjue that we saw in the depths of the desert. The people of the Ghost Cave Clan in the Jingjue Kingdom worship the power of eyeballs. I think I was hit by a curse, but I heard that this is not an eyeball, but a word, so I would like to ask you to tell me what this word means. Fortunately, I am prepared for my thoughts. Of course, I am also a person who has died seven or eight times. I don't pay much attention to my personal safety, but Professor Chen probably also has this symptoms. What I worry about the most is his old man."
Professor Sun said to me: "It's not that I don't want to tell you that these facts cannot be said. If you know, it will be useless to you. But I can tell you clearly that this mark on your back is definitely not a vain thing like a curse, and it will not affect your health. Don't worry."
The more I listened, the more anxious I became. Doesn’t this mean I didn’t say anything? But Professor Sun said it was not a curse. This sentence reduced my psychological burden a lot. But the more I couldn’t say it, the more I wanted to know, what else could not be expressed to me in the text information thousands of years ago, and today, there is still something that cannot be shown to others, not to mention that this word has grown on me.
After my repeated questions, Professor Sun had to tell me something:
Professor Sun has been studying the ancient monuments in the Yellow River Basin for many years. He is an expert in ancient characters and is good at cracking and translating ancient secret texts.
In ancient times, Cangjie created characters, and the emergence of characters ended the wild history of human knots and recorded events, making the characters contain a lot of information, including the mysteries of all things in nature. Today, there are four pronunciations that are directly introduced.
However, in the earliest era, there were actually eight pronunciations in text, which contained a large amount of information that ordinary people could hardly imagine. However, these additional information was monopolized by the ruling class, and the other four pronunciations became a confidential language, specifically used to record some major events that cannot be learned by ordinary people.
There are many ancient characters similar to the ancient Chinese texts of Jia in later generations, but no one can recognize them. Some people say that the heavenly books have no words and the heavenly books have no words, which is actually a distortion. The heavenly books are an encrypted information in ancient times, with literal information, but if they cannot be cracked, even if they are placed in front of you, you will not understand them. Professor Sun has been dealing with these heavenly books that no one knows in his life, but the progress has never been great. It can be said that they are struggling step by step, and they have not developed any results.
Until 1978, archaeologists excavated an ancient tomb of the Tang Dynasty in Micang Mountain. This tomb was looted by tomb robbers many times. There were six or seven holes. The tomb owner's body had been destroyed, and the tomb chamber was also rotten and sank. Most of the burial objects were stolen, and almost all the remaining ones were seriously corroded.
Judging from all the signs, the owner of this tomb should be Li Chunfeng, the Taishi in the palace who specializes in astronomical calendars, as well as yin and yang mathematics. The science and technology, culture, economy and other fields of the Tang Dynasty were a peak in the history of Chinese civilization. As a famous "scientist" Li Chunfeng, who was very famous in the Tang Dynasty, there should be many important objects and materials with great research value in his tomb, but unfortunately they were all destroyed. This is a huge loss. All the archaeologists on the scene felt extremely regretful about this.
However, the cleaning work still needs to continue. However, as the cleaning work deepened, a huge surprise appeared in the decaying coffin. Archaeologists found a mezzanine in the coffin board above the head of the tomb owner.
There was actually a mezzanine on the top of the coffin, which no one expected in advance. Even the most experienced experts had never seen a mezzanine in the coffin board. Everyone carefully opened the mezzanine on the coffin board, which was wrapped in cowhide. After opening it, there was a piece of oil cloth and red paint wrapped around it. It was a flawless white jade box. The jade box was covered with gold-plated silver, and the stone box was engraved with the pattern of a winged spirit beast. The lock on the lid was made of pure gold.
Because it is hidden in the interlayer of the coffin board, it has been able to escape the looting of tomb robbers over the years and has been preserved to this day.
An experienced expert could tell at a glance that it was a royal property of the Tang Dynasty. It might have been given to Li Chunfeng by the emperor, and it was placed in such a secret coffin interlayer. The importance of it can be imagined. The jade box was immediately sent back to the base camp of the archaeological working group.
In the box made of a whole piece of mutton fat jade, many important items were found, including a dragon bone (some kind of tortoise shell), which was engraved with "Heavenly Book" and named "Red Bone Different Texts". There was also a pure gold plate with a small gold plate, with four corners forming the shape of an animal head, and the front and back sides were densely packed with many words. It seemed to be a table. The characters on it were some recognition, some were not recognized. At that time, it was named "Beast Horn Fantasy Golden Plate".
So he asked Professor Sun, an expert in ancient characters, to be responsible for cracking the secrets of this keel and gold plate. Professor Sun received this task and locked himself in the laboratory and started his work of forgetting to eat and sleep.
Professor Sun has seen this kind of "Dragon Bone Different Text Collection" many times. He can remember the ancient characters on it even with his eyes closed, but he can never analyze what words they are, what their meaning is, and what is the content recorded in this strange text?
This so-called "Tian Shu" is a hurdle faced by Chinese ancient Chinese characters. If it cannot be overcome, there will be no progress. Once there is a little breakthrough, the other problems can be solved easily, but this obstacle is too big.
Some scholars believe that the "Shi Shu" is a text left over from a disappeared civilization, but this statement is self-defeating because some ancient characters unearthed together with the "Shi Shu" can be easily interpreted. After carbon 14 test, those who belong to the Yin and Shang dynasties should be products of the same period and are by no means the remains of some prehistoric civilization.
After more than a month of repeated consideration and research, Professor Sun finally solved the "Miss of Heavenly Book". By comparing the "Beast Horned Mysterious Writing Golden Board" unearthed in Li Chunfeng's tomb, he found that the records of the ancients using "Missive Writings" on the dragon bone were encrypted text.
As early as the Tang Dynasty, Li Chunfeng had already cracked this ancient encrypted text. In order to commend his merits, the emperor specially cast a gold medal and rewarded Li Chunfeng to commemorate this incident. The words and symbols on this gold medal are the comparison table of the heavenly books interpreted by Li Chunfeng.
In fact, the Book of Heaven is very simple. It is annotated with the phonetic marks of the most four secret sounds, rather than engraved on the keel bone in words. However, only a few people who can read these secret pronunciations can understand the content of the text.
Li Chunfeng got inspiration from "A Detailed Study of the Eight Classics Notes and Commentaries", thus finding ways to understand the secrets of heaven and crack the mystery of heaven's books. Professor Sun understood how to interpret heaven's books from the inspiration of this "Beast Horn Mysterious Writing Golden Board", which caused a subversive sensation in the archaeological world. A large number of ancient confidential texts were interpreted, a lot of information was stunned, and many of the established history would also be rewritten.
Taking into account various factors, the superior leader gave the following instructions on the information decrypted by Professor Sun: treat it with a cautious attitude and will not publish it to the outside world until a definite conclusion is made.
Professor Sun said to me: "This trace behind you is an ancient secret text, which is not appropriate. This word is not a word in the Book of Heaven. I only saw this symbol on the tortoise shell unearthed from Gutian. It symbolizes something special. People at that time did not have accurate words to describe it. I want to call it a graphic, which is more appropriate. The graphic is a symbolic symbol, but I don't know the meaning of this symbol. It appears in the encrypted text of the Book of Heaven. The content of a piece of the celestial armor unearthed in Gutian. The content of one of the celestial books seems to be a record of disaster. Since it was just unearthed and time was tight, I just took a rough look and didn't have time to carefully analyze what this symbol means. I didn't expect that on the way back, a military plane crashed and crashed. Those secrets may never be known."
I asked Professor Sun: "Didn't you leave a record of rubbings for such an important thing? Although you think the mark on my back is not a curse or something, I still think it's too strange. If I don't know the details, I will not be at ease. Let me tell me what the article is about in the text of Bone Armor? Is it related to the ghost cave in Xinjiang? I promise Chairman Mao that I will never let go of the secret."
Chapter completed!