Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 303
On the third day when Liang En was translating the content on the bamboo slips step by step, he found two words written in cinnabar on a bamboo slip, and the translated content made his eyes widen.

"梼杌!" Looking at the translated two words, Liang En showed a shocked look on his face, because in his impression, this is a history book that has disappeared, and there is even only one book left in history. book title.

According to "Mencius Li Louxia": "The traces of the king die and the "Poetry" dies, and the "Poem" dies and then the "Spring and Autumn" is written. Jin's "Cheng", Chu's "梼杌", Lu's "Spring and Autumn", One. Its work is related to Qi Huan and Jin Wen, and its writing is related to history."

That is to say, like the existing Lu State history book "Spring and Autumn", each country at that time had its own historians to record history, and "梼杌" is the name of the history book of Chu State, a powerful country in the south.

As for the reason why this book is called "梼杌", there are two theories. One of them is that the "梼杌" here refers to one of the four evils in ancient times. The ferocity of the 梼杌 is used to warn the bad guys.

At the same time, Wuwu also has the ability to predict the future. Using this name as the name of the history book also means to know the present through the past.

Another way of saying is that according to the explanation in "Shuowen Jiezi", 梼 is a broken piece of wood, and 杌 is a tree stump.When the two words are connected, it is a disconnected tree stump.Obviously, 梼杌 means annual rings, representing the passage of time.

Compared with the previous statement, this statement is obviously more reasonable. At least in the horizontal comparison of the same kind, both Wuwu and Chunqiu refer to the passage of time, which is also in line with the nature of history books.

As for the identity of this book, Liang En probably had some guesses when he translated it before. After all, he found a lot of valuable historical materials from those words, such as the establishment of the "Three Prisons" and "Republican Governance" in the Zhou Dynasty. The exact meaning, Zhou Ping Wang Dongqian, the origin of the Qin people, etc.

However, as the Chu State that dared to publicly shout "I am a barbarian" at that time, the country located on the edge of the ritual and music cultural area also showed a unique side in the historical records.

For example, he does not have the Confucian habit of hiding himself from the venerable, so in terms of historical records, most of the records in the Central Plains are different, especially in the perspective of recording historical events.

To give the simplest example, when recording the history of King Ping's migration to the east in the Western Zhou Dynasty, he pointed out that King Zhou Xie, the younger brother of King Zhou You, was orthodox.

The first paragraph of the record on the bamboo slips is consistent with modern history books, that is, because King Zhou You loved Baosi, he abolished the virtuous queen Shenhou and the prince Yijiu born by Shenhou, abolished the elder and established the young, and changed the favored concubine Baosi to be The queen, Baosi's son, Bofu, is the crown prince.

As a result, Empress Shen and Prince Yijiu were forced to flee to the State of Shen. Until 771 BC, Empress Shen’s father, Marquis Shen, joined forces with the State of Zan and the Dog Army to attack Haojing. go to Beijing.

The following records are different from the existing history. According to the records on the bamboo slips, the monarch and Zhuzheng established the younger brother of King You Yu Yuguo as King Xiehui.

In the [-]th year of Li Li, Marquis Wen of Jin Dynasty Qiu Nai killed King Hui in Guo.In the ninth year of the death of the king of Zhou Dynasty, the princes and princes of the state did not rule in Zhou Dynasty. Jin Wenhou was against King Ping in Shao'e and established him in the capital.

If you connect the context, you will find that in 750 BC, King Ping of Zhou colluded with Lu, Jin, Xu, Shen, and Quan Rong to attack the Zhou family.

As for the princes surnamed Ji, the Jin State and the State of Lu stood on the side of the unorthodox King Ping, in order to weaken the strength of the Zhou family, and needed an unpopular and easy-to-control King Zhou.

That is to say, the bamboo slips record that Shen Hou, Zen Hou, Xu Wengong and others established Yijiu as the emperor of Zhou, and the people of Zhou and the princes and nobles established Yu Chen as the king.King Xie was established by the Zhou family, and King Ping was established by Shen Guo, who was an enemy of the Zhou family, so it is said that King Xie of Zhou is orthodox.

King Zhou Ping killed Queen Zhou Xie, donated the Guanzhong Plain, the foundation of the Zhou family, to Qin State, and led the royal family to move eastward to Luoyang in order to obtain the protection of Jin State and Guo State.The Zhou royal family never recovered.

Obviously, this is the same thing as "Chunqiu Zuoshi Zhuan · Zhaogong 26th Year": "Bringing the king's treacherous life, the princes replaced it, and establishing the king's heir, and using Qianjia." The record is the same thing, but the point of view is completely opposite.

Although it is basically impossible for modern people to know which one of the different history books records the truth of history, at least it will allow everyone to look at those histories from a new perspective.

For historical research, the more sources of information, the closer the researchers will be to the historical reality. If there is only a single source, it is easy to be influenced by the recorder's own point of view.

Take the history book "Spring and Autumn" again as an example. Although the author of this history book has two versions: Confucius and Lu State historians, one thing is certain, that is, the author used subtle words and righteousness when writing, or the article called "Spring and Autumn" style of writing. wording.

The biggest feature of this kind of article writing is that the author's ideological tendency is shown in the narrative of the article, rather than expressed through argumentative words.

The Spring and Autumn Period brushwork takes conformity with the etiquette as the standard, including not only the side of not concealing the truth, but also the side of "taboo for the respected, the taboo for the relatives, and the taboo for the sage".

But for later historical researchers, these writings with personal emotions may bury part of the truth of history, causing people to misunderstand ancient history.

Just when he was sure that this book was the long-lost ancient Chu history book, four cards appeared in his mind at once.

Unexpectedly, there were no low-level N cards among the four cards, but three R cards shining with bronze light and one SR card shining with silver light.

"It seems that the gift my hometown gave me this time is quite valuable." Liang En sighed with emotion in a low voice, and then began to count these cards.

Two of the three R cards are common cards, including one [Repair (R)] and one [Appraisal (R)] and the other is a skill card [Linguist: Gu Chu Yu (R)]

[Linguist: Ancient Chu Language (R): During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, although nobles from various countries could communicate in elegant dialects, in fact, each country had its own language.

Although as a member of Zhuxia, the language and writing of Chu State also originated from the Western Zhou Dynasty, but due to the fact that all countries came together in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, the language and writing gradually took on local characteristics.

Enhancement card (one-time), consume this card, you can master the language and writing skills of a prince of Chu, including those language-related knowledge that the prince needs to learn at that time. 】

"Chu language? I feel that the pronunciation between ancient Chinese and modern Chinese is too different. If you find someone who doesn't know it, you might not be able to recognize that this pronunciation is actually Chinese."

The first time Liang En saw this card, he immediately used the card to obtain this knowledge, but after sorting out the newly acquired knowledge in his mind, he felt that it was a bit strange to recite these ancient languages ​​today.

But after he casually said a few words in this ancient language, he quickly took out his mobile phone and started searching as if he thought of something.

(End of this chapter)