When many people heard the young Duke talking about Fang Yun’s mistake, their eyes moved, and Qiao Juze looked at Fang Yun.
Wei Yu immediately said: "This is Lingyan Pavilion, if you tell him about this, think about the consequences!"
Many people sighed, and Qiao Juze said helplessly: "Even if I use my tongue to thunder, he can't hear it. This is Lingyan Pavilion after all." After saying that, he looked at Fang Yun's increasingly smaller figure.
Fang Yun rushed to the end of the hunting ground, dismounted, walked into a wooden door, and the scenery in front of him changed.
I saw smoke all around and the distance was hazy and nothing could be seen. A pavilion appeared right in front of me. On the plaque of the pavilion was written the word "etiquette". Next to the pavilion, a wooden sign the size of two palms appeared, emitting a faint golden light.
Letter to the emperor: Fang Yun, ten chips for hunting and ten chips for horse riding.
Fang Yun looked back and saw thick fog.
Fang Yun was not careless. After all, it was his first time entering the Lingyan Pavilion. If Wei Yu suddenly became enlightened and made progress in the four arts of music, chess, calligraphy and painting, he might be defeated.
Fang Yun took a deep breath and stepped into the etiquette pavilion.
There are four large halls before your eyes, getting larger and more magnificent from left to right. However, the historical weight of the four halls is the opposite, with the smaller ones having more heritage.
On the far left is a wooden hall, which is extremely simple and made of stacked thick logs, with even the bark clearly visible.
The second hall is built with huge stones, and the signs of human power are more obvious.
The third hall is a mixture of stone and mud bricks.
The fourth hall is entirely built of Zhuantou and is covered with beautiful glazed tiles, making it even more beautiful.
These four halls represent the Xia, Shang, Zhou and Qin dynasties respectively, and also represent the Xia rituals, Shang rituals, Zhou rituals and Qin rituals respectively.
Students can choose any hall to take the test, but they can only get a maximum of six points for Qin Li, a maximum of eight points for Zhou Li, and ten points for Shang Li and Xia Li.
However, the vast majority of students did not choose Shangli or Xiali, but chose Zhouli.
This involves the origin of the writing system of the Shengyuan Continent.
The oldest and most mysterious writing system in Shengyuan Continent is oracle bone script, also known as astronomy.
Back then, the demon saints used all their strength to send eight demon saints and barbarian saints to break through the Two Worlds Mountain. After entering the Shengyuan Continent, they immediately took control of the Shang Dynasty and began to destroy the oracle bones on a large scale.
All the famous Shang Dynasty figures who understood oracle bone inscriptions have died.
Since then, oracle bone inscriptions have almost disappeared.
After King Wen of Zhou killed the Seven Sages, he remained in seclusion, reportedly to study oracle bone inscriptions.
As for what secrets the oracle bone script contains, the human race has always had different opinions, but there is a consensus. That is, no one can study the oracle bone script unless they are a sub-saint, because a semi-saint once studied the oracle bone script, which led to the decline of his own sainthood, so that the semi-saints after him can only have a rough understanding of the oracle bone script at most.
Without oracle bone inscriptions, almost no one knows about the Shang rituals, and the earlier Xia rituals have become even more of a mystery.
Fang Yun looked at the Shangli Hall with shining eyes. People in Shengyuan Continent did not recognize oracle bone inscriptions, but he did!
Even in the ancient country of China, oracle bone inscriptions remained silent for thousands of years until they were discovered in the late Qing Dynasty. After that, through the study of a large number of bone fragments excavated, it was found that there were more than 4,500 oracle bone inscriptions, and the meanings of about 2,500 characters were determined.
According to current records, some oracle bones have also been excavated in Shengyuan Continent, but the number is extremely small, with only a few hundred items in total having oracle bones on them.
It was also recorded in the book that the Oracle bone script of Shengyuan Continent seemed to have mysterious power. All those who studied Oracle bone script would die one after another, and even the semi-saints would decline. Therefore, it had long been shelved by the human race, and no one was studying it.
The human race is now "searching for the ancient past", hoping to indirectly study oracle bone inscriptions by completing the long river of history, but that is an extremely long project, and the demon and barbarian saints are obstructing it at every turn, making the human race's search for the ancient past extremely slow.
The Zhou Li and Qin Li Kao presided over a grand ceremony, but the Shang Li and Xia Li were different. As long as the mistakes were corrected, a certain number of chips could be obtained.
Every year, some students who cannot pass the third pavilion randomly change the business rituals in the hope of obtaining enough six chips to enter the next pavilion, and every year one or two people succeed.
Fang Yun thought about it and immediately walked towards the Zhouli Hall.
After entering the Zhouli Hall, Fang Yun found himself as if he had returned to ancient times. He saw a group of officials and servants dressed in Zhou Dynasty costumes bending down and bowing, greeting each other together.
Next, Fang Yun inquired about the purpose of this ceremony, and it turned out to be a ceremony for a prince to worship his ancestors. So Fang Yun assigned the tasks meticulously according to what he had learned, from the well-known "Eight Dances" to the placement of bells and tripods, from the choice of patterns on curtains to the attire of servants, Fang Yun gave orders for everything himself, no matter how big or small.
In the Confucian system, etiquette is an extremely important concept, similar to military discipline. Other things can be slightly worse, but if etiquette is not respected, it will inevitably lead to a lot of attacks.
Fang Yun simply thought that Yang Yuhuan was more important than the women of the Mengsheng family, which angered the evil emperor. The Holy Court's Rites Hall even published an article criticizing him. However, Fang Yun's contribution was too great, so the people in the Rites Hall let it go.
After presiding over the ancestor worship ceremony of the princes, Fang Yun left the Zhouli Hall.
Unless someone can make additional additions to Zhou Li, no matter how well Zhou Li is done, it can only get eight points.
After the Lingyan Pavilion appeared, no one has ever scored ten points in the Ceremonial Pavilion.
When Fang Yun walked out of the Zhouli Hall, there were still some people outside, some of whom had just entered and some were about to leave. Because some people chose the simpler Qinli, they completed the test of the etiquette pavilion earlier than Fang Yun, but they obtained the lowest number of chips.
When those people saw Fang Yun coming out of the Zhouli Hall, they all bowed and greeted him.
"This Zhou ritual will certainly not be difficult for Lord Wenhou."
"I deliberately chose Qin Li instead of the more difficult Zhou Li this time because I hoped to enter the fourth pavilion together with Fang Zhenguo and not be left too far behind by him."
A dozen people hurried towards Fang Yun, thinking that he was going to leave the etiquette pavilion and enter the fourth pavilion, the Tanbo Pavilion.
However, they suddenly stopped because Fang Yun not only did not leave, but walked towards the Shangli Hall.
"Ah? Didn't he perform the Zhou Li well, so he took a gamble just to pass the etiquette pavilion?"
"It should be. Otherwise, no one would go to the Shangli Hall. Not even one person out of ten thousand would be able to gain any benefit in the Shangli Hall. Instead, they might suffer losses."
"Something must have happened to him while he was presiding over the Zhou ceremony. But it doesn't matter. He will definitely be able to pass this etiquette pavilion!"
Fang Yun walked to the Shangli Temple and observed it carefully.
There are many items from the Shang Dynasty displayed in the Shangli Temple, which are probably all imitations. Since no one knows the etiquette of the Shang Dynasty, the items appear a bit messy.
A small number of these utensils were engraved with obscure oracle bone inscriptions, and Fang Yun's eyes soon fell on a table.
There were some drinking utensils on the table, and Fang Yun noticed that one thing was placed wrong.
These wine utensils should be used for important people, but one of the cups was engraved with the oracle bone script "Qiang", which can be simply understood as "two-legged sheep", which means slave in oracle bone script.
On the wine pot next to it is engraved the oracle bone character "Hua". This character has a very high status in oracle bone script. Later generations have verified that it may be one of the sources of "Huaxia".
Fang Yun pretended to look at it for a while, then picked up the cup with the word "Qiang" engraved on it and threw it away. (To be continued...)