Shao Ling's remarks gave everyone another way of thinking, but also made the source of the painting incident even more confusing.
Gu Qingqing summed it up in the book:
The first possibility is that "Shan Hai Jing Tu" is a painting, and it is also the origin of the painting event and the first painting entered by the entrant. The reason may be that during the witchcraft activities, a different world was triggered for some reason, so It also led to the dark power, and then the dark power looked for an opportunity to break through the enchantment and enter the world in an attractive form.
The second possibility is that "Shan Hai Jing Tu" is a witchcraft symbol, or a sorcery, used together with Jiuding and Diwei to suppress the dark forces that already existed. For unknown reasons, the dark forces set up attractive Form, looking for an opportunity to break through the enchantment and enter the world.
For the time being, everyone could not determine which of these two possibilities they belonged to, and they all fell into their own thoughts. After a while, they heard Ke Xun say, "Actually, we don't need to fight these two questions for the time being, because no matter which possibility it is, we will All need to find Jiuding, so the current investigation direction can be slightly changed, that is, to collect information about Jiuding, and to investigate whether there was anything worthy of attention in the era of Dayu."
When Shao Ling heard this, he looked at him with some amusing: "I am afraid it is very difficult to investigate the materials of that era, because there is no written evidence handed down from the Xia Dynasty. There are only a few words about the existence of the Xia Dynasty, so some historians believe that the Xia Dynasty may never even exist.
"Of course, some cultural relics were unearthed in our country later to prove that they existed in the Xia Dynasty, but most of the history of the entire Xia Dynasty is blank except for some records in historical books such as "Historical Records" and "Book of Zhou". .
"However, on the Xia Dynasty pottery unearthed from the Erlitou site, there are dozens of text-shaped symbols. Some people speculate that this is the predecessor of oracle bone inscriptions, but some scholars say that people in the Xia Dynasty used more carved wood and knotted rope to record things. , against treating these symbols as words…”
"—Symbol?!" Ke Xun raised his eyebrows suddenly, "Comrades, maybe all the coordinates of the museum are not a signature, but a—sign?"
"Haowen, have the simulation results come out?" Mu Yiran asked Zhu Haowen almost as soon as Ke Xun finished speaking.
Zhu Haowen's response was not slow, and he immediately showed his laptop display screen to everyone. Connecting the fourteen coordinates plus the coordinates of the next art museum, there may be thousands of graphs that can be formed, "I Exclude the results of English letters and traditional and simplified Chinese characters, and then import the oracle bone inscriptions, golden inscriptions and seal characters, and images that match the fonts of the fonts will be screened out.”
Everyone stared at the fast-running screening program on the screen with bated breath, waiting for the establishment of an important inference that might come true.
The screen switched rapidly, constantly flashing contrasting images of various fonts and coordinate points, and just three minutes later, the screen suddenly stopped, a golden inscription and the coordinate point map overlapped, and the screen displayed: coincidence degree 90 %.
This is the word with the highest degree of coincidence with the coordinate map in the font library.
Saying it is a character, it is more like a pictograph. The center of the character is a cross, the ends of the horizontal are slightly upturned, there is a dot on the left and right, and the lower end of the vertical is followed by a softened version. The glyph of the word "bow".
The whole word looks like a person kneeling there reverently, with arms raised and flames raised.
"This word is..." Everyone looked at the comparison table of ancient and modern words that Zhu Haowen called out—
"Light!"
"—Light! In "Shadow", white and black—+ and - positive and negative electrodes—additive color mixing means that all colors of 'light' are mixed together, and what comes out is the 'light' of 'white'! - Right! !" Wei Dong was incoherent with excitement.
"What kind of text is Jinwen?" Fang Fei asked Shao Ling from the side.
"Bronze was called gold in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties," Shao Ling answered her in a steady voice, suppressing his excitement, "and the ritual vessels made of bronze are represented by tripods, and the inscriptions engraved on the tripods are called Zhongdingwen, also known as "Zhongdingwen". Jinwen."
"—Ding! Jinwen! Light!" Luo Meng shouted with fists clenched in both hands.
"What's the difference between gold inscriptions and oracle bone inscriptions?" Zhu Haowen asked Shao Ling from the side.
"Jinwen was born out of oracle bone inscriptions, and it is said that it began at the end of the Shang Dynasty," Shao Ling said while thinking, "Although there is no written record of the Xia Dynasty, but no unearthed does not mean that there is really no.
"You must know that the oracle bone inscriptions already had a fairly mature and complete writing system during the Shang Dynasty, which proves that the oracle bone inscriptions before the Shang Dynasty must still have a process of gradually maturing.
"Before Shang was Xia. In a sense, the Xia Dynasty probably already had the prototype of early oracle bone inscriptions. Jin inscriptions were born out of oracle bone inscriptions, and oracle bone inscriptions were probably born out of - let's call it 'Xiawen' for the time being, then this The word 'light', it is not impossible to say that it is a 'Xiawen'!"
"I don't understand until now," Ke Xun said, "It turns out that the suggestion of the painting "Bai Shi" may not only be a witch, but a text. This oracle bone script composed of coordinate points of the art museum is the meaning of "Bai Shi". Our hint!"
"Mom, I got goosebumps!" Wu You exclaimed and rubbed his arms.
"Then the word 'light' is here, is it a signature or a symbol?" Qin Ci asked.
"... It feels possible." Wei Dong said.
"If it's a signature, then I'm afraid I'm really thinking about it," Zhu Haowen said, "As Ke Xun suspected before, the real world we live in is likely to be a painting, and the word 'light' , perhaps the signature of the author of the painting."
"Brother Wen'er—you scared me to death—" Luo Meng was particularly afraid to hear this statement, and tugged the down jacket that had been thrown on the sofa into a ball and hugged it tightly in his arms.
Shao Ling: "..." Mine. Let it go.
"And if it is a symbol," Mu Yiran, who had not spoken for a long time, took Zhu Haowen's words, "it is very likely to be a witch symbol, then maybe it confirms another of our guesses: the map of mountains and seas on the nine tripods, In fact, they are all images related to witchcraft, including witch dances, witch costumes, methods of applying witchcraft, and symbols representing the content of witchcraft.”
"Actually... the most incredible thing is the scale of the word 'light'," Gu Qingqing said with awe and a little daze in his eyes, "If it is a magic symbol, then who can 'describe' this symbol on the ground with such a large span What about above? People in the Xia Dynasty would have to spend a lifetime if they wanted to walk all over these places..."
"... So, in fact, the word 'light' is still a signature?" Wei Dong swallowed, "So this world is still a painting, and people outside the painting sign their names on the painting, of course. There is no difficulty..."
Luo Yu: "Hey..."
"The program just now showed that the degree of coincidence is 90%, that is to say, the coordinate points that have appeared are connected to complete 90% of the word 'light'," Ke Xun rubbed his chin and thought, "Brother Qin said about the painting "Spiritual Pivot" It implies the relationship between each art museum and the entire painting event. I think this is only one of them. It also implies that every time we conquer a painting, it is like opening an acupoint on the second vein of Ren and Du. Same, now we have opened 90% of the acupuncture points. When we have opened up all the acupuncture points, we will complete a complete signature. Maybe at that time, like every painting we conquered, we will find the signature. You can leave the world of painting."
Luo Yu: "Hey... Brother, what do you mean, we may leave this world and go to a world we have never seen before? But we... We were born in this world. , what can you do outside? There is no home, no relatives and friends outside, and the creatures in the outside world are uncertain what they will look like. We... paper people, if you go outside, you will be blown away by the wind. Has he disappeared?"
Everyone: "… "
Ke Xun: "You are very imaginative."
Luo Yao: "Now is not the time to praise me, brother."
"Silly boy, do you think we have other choices?" Ke Xun looked at him, "We only have two choices, either we all die in the painting, or we can only do our best to get to the end, even if we wait at the end. It may be unimaginable for us. Anyway, I am not willing to die halfway, which one do you want to choose?"
Luo Meng rubbed his eyes: "Of course I follow you guys."
"Then go back to the word 'light'," Ke Xun looked at everyone, "If it is a signature, then we can only continue to enter the picture, try to 'write' the word completely, and then see what happens .And if it is a witch talisman, it is likely to have some kind of witchcraft power. According to Yiran's previous speculation, perhaps the word 'light' is a talisman used to seal the dark power under the ground. Do you think Woolen cloth?"
"Then, what are the bones of us Jiuding and Diwei for?" Wei Dong asked.
"Maybe it's for 'blessing'." Wu You said, "My grandma used cinnabar and yellow paper to write a lot of amulets every New Year's Eve to give to relatives and friends who came to ask for amulets. Hold the paper directly to the person, but sew it into a small red bag, or wrap it in red paper and fold it into a triangle. I feel that this red cloth bag or paper bag is a kind of yellow paper charm inside. Blessing, maybe Jiuding and Diwei also play the same role."
"It makes sense." Everyone nodded in agreement with the guess.
"So to sum it up," Zhu Haowen said, "this word 'light', which uses landmarks as nodes and connects into a huge witch amulet, was born in the Xia Dynasty. If it was used to suppress the dark power under the ground, it means that This force was created during the Xia Dynasty, and it had a bad influence - otherwise there is no need to suppress it, so here is the question: what happened in the Xia Dynasty?"
"But Mr. Shao said that the historical records of the Xia Dynasty are almost blank. Where can I check this?" Wei Dong was worried.
"If such a miraculous and bizarre thing could happen, I don't believe that there would be no relevant records left at that time." Ke Xun said, "Even if there is little or no text, you can always draw images, right? The Classic of Mountains and Seas can be drawn, and the Can't draw a major event related to witchcraft? Mr. Shao, think about it again, has there been any cultural relics with paintings unearthed in the Xia Dynasty?"
Shao Ling shook his head helplessly: "I tell you this - the historical period before the Xia Dynasty had no written records, only oral legends, so it was called the Age of Legends or the Age of Myths. There are written records or unearthed cultural relics that record The era of social conditions at that time, called the Xinshi era, began at the end of the Shang Dynasty.
"The period between the Age of Legends and the Age of Belief in History is called the Period of Half-belief in History. This 'half-belief' does not mean half-belief, but during this period, some historical events were confirmed to exist through unearthed cultural relics, while some, Heroes such as those half-human and half-gods, weird and bizarre spirits and beasts still appeared in the oral history of this period. Therefore, the half-believing history era is a real and proven historical event, and the history of myths, legends and oral traditions The era of coexistence of events.
"The period of half-belief in history is a transition period from the period of legend to the period of belief in history. This transition period is very long, more than 1,500 years. And it has a very significant feature, that is, the blank period.
"If the half-believing history period is compared to a long white banner, then the real historical events that have been proven to exist are like a few ink blots that appear every tens or hundreds of meters on this white banner. The vast majority of the banners are blank.
"This blank period of nothingness has appeared many times, sometimes even for hundreds of years, without any historical records, and without any myths and legends, just like a vacuum that has been swept away from everything, It was terribly quiet, and future generations had no idea what had happened in such a long time.
"The entire Xia Dynasty and the early Shang Dynasty were in the period of half-belief in history. The blank time in history is too long. It's not that we are not good at checking the information, but there is no information to check at all..."
"... This half-belief in history period is really mysterious..." Wu You exclaimed, "I feel that there is a kind of... strange and deliberate quietness in those completely blank time periods, as if a long text was deliberately erased with an eraser. A few words in it."
"—Wait," Ke Xun opened his eyes wide, looking at Mu Yiran and Shao Ling, "Wu You's words are very reasonable- those blank periods were 'erased' from history by some force. Woolen cloth?"
This statement shocked everyone. Shao Ling's breathing was a little short, and he frowned: "It's not impossible... But we must also consider whether there really was a text at that time. If there was no text, Of course, there is no historical record left... That's not right... There are still historical facts confirmed by the unearthed cultural relics. It makes no sense that the historical traces will appear again after a few hundred years. normal… "
Mu Yiran was more composed than him. After thinking about it, he said, "Perhaps, this is the real reason why Dayu created the Jiuding?"
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This painting is over, welcome everyone to join me in the next painting, which is also the penultimate painting~
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