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"what is this?"

A thick stone tablet stands at the foot of the mountain, wrapped in vines and moss, it looks like a cut-off tree trunk inadvertently. It was not until I went around the side and saw the front that it was a wide-faced stone tablet.

Raising his hand to brush off the moss on the front, the thick lined gloves were quickly stained with a layer of black and green, and the handwriting on the stone tablet stood out, some like bird-shaped characters, how should I say it?Anyway, to those who are accustomed to reading modern characters, there are always some inappropriate places, which are very weird.

"This stele..."

Among the companions in the same group, there are those who are interested in archaeology. As a group of donkey friends, their favorite thing is to explore ancient times. This kind of inaccessible place is why they are interested in trekking through mountains and rivers with huge mountaineering bags on their backs. coming.

Passing through the ancient village in the deep mountains with no roads and poor network signals, and then seeing this mountain where the sun cannot be seen when looking up, and then seeing this slightly skewed stone tablet, I don’t know how many years have passed. Even if you don't know the words on it, and you don't know what is written in it, it still makes people feel a kind of leisurely emotion, as if seeing the thick tree trunk and thinking of the time represented by the rings of annual rings.

"It looks like it has been there for many years. Maybe it's still a cultural relic. Let's not mess around and report it."

"Stone steles are considered cultural relics? I see how many steles in the forest of steles, and few of them value the wind and rain."

"No, the stone monuments in the museum are covered with dust, and they haven't even been cleaned. What kind of cultural relics are they?"

The people in the same group chattered in a hurry. They were not ignorant people. No matter what, they all graduated from high school, and they were successful people when they put down their backpacks outside. Only in this matter, what they value is still different.

"Hey, this is different." The one who wanted to report looked at the words on the monument and said, "Everything is rare and expensive, and we are considered knowledgeable, even if we can't write, we can read it. Who can tell which dynasty's text this is?"

"Maybe it's a minority..."

There are still people who are stubborn. There are many wars and chaos in history. In modern times, a country with strong inclusiveness has been cast. Any nation can find its own place in this big family. The culture, language and writing of ethnic minorities What, they are even protected by the state.

This is another rare thing.

"Yeah, maybe it's from the village in front..."

Another person agreed that the village they passed before belonged to ethnic minorities, and everyone did not speak the language very well, so they found a student who came out of the village to lead the way. Primitive scenery.

The language there is incomprehensible, it’s like the language of a small country, just listening to the language without looking at the person, you don’t know what kind of existence the other party is, but the words, looking at the handwriting printed on the fabric, can judge The other party is a word, or because such a thing is used as a sign, otherwise, who knows what it is.

This kind of primitive stockade, which is hardly connected to the outside world, they think is possible if this kind of bird-shaped script was used many years ago.

"The point is not whether we recognize the characters, but the number of characters is scarce, no matter which dynasty it is from, maybe we can still find a blank spot in history?"

The speaker interrupted what might have strayed from the main line, and returned directly to the subject of the stele.

"As expected of a student of history, I just pay attention to these things."

Another person praised it, and then everyone laughed. They studied different majors, and in the end they didn’t engage in related majors. They went into business and started their own companies as bosses. All of his knowledge seems to have been learned for nothing, at best it is his current hobbies, a little bit brought out in his speech, and there is also a bit of a cultural person, not the feeling of a nouveau riche who came out recklessly all the way.

The text on the inscription is nothing to study, and I can’t even read it. I exhausted my greatest enthusiasm after guessing. I took pictures to commemorate the circle of friends. Several people continued to move forward. On the return journey, they even took a group photo in front of the stele. If the stele is really special in the future and it is transported into the museum, they will feel proud when they talk about it again.

Thinking about it, no one stopped that person from reporting it. When he got to a place with a good signal, he checked the phone number of the cultural relics bureau. He made a call to tell the situation, and then sent the photo, and the matter was over.

After waiting for a while and receiving the reward from over there, I felt a little fresh, and it was a circle of friends to show off. Next time, I will revisit the old place and watch the stele left after it was transported away. The deep pit, obviously after some excavation, is another photo as a souvenir.

Because the matter has a degree of participation and a sense of novelty, I will also inquire about the details, and only then do I know that the existence of the stone tablet has really filled a blank spot.

In the history of more than 6000 years, there are always some periods that are difficult to find traces in history. The more modern, the more evidence is left to explain the events of that period, but the more distant it is, the more difficult it is to find a few words from it.

In an era when there is no writing, we can only judge the past from those fossils. When we suddenly discover a certain site, we have to research whether the existence of those humanoid objects represents a lost civilization?

Taking history as a mirror, we can know the ups and downs.What they have to do is not only to search for history, to find the evidence of that period of change, but also to find the root.

Where do I come from, where is the root?

The tracing of history is not only a search for the source of life, but also a deep reflection and perception of oneself. A country lacking cultural heritage is like duckweed on the water, and even if it flourishes, it is only a moment.The trajectory of human activities is constantly creating history, and at the same time following these histories, we can see the starting point and the hardships and hardships along the way, and understanding these, it seems to understand the whole path of roots transporting nutrients from the soil , There are roots where there are leaves, where there are fronts and futures, and only then do you know where you can go and where you should go.

Like a growth trajectory, the living environment and educational background when I was a child will have a profound impact on life. Only by knowing those can the heart take root, not only to be proud of this land, but also to never be confused about the future.

"It's not the first time I've seen this kind of text..."

A professor said so, his eyes behind the glasses narrowed slightly, thinking, recalling where he had seen a similar thing, it was a stone slab of a bridge, and there were similar words on it, not many, just a few here and there , looks like a child's random graffiti, if it is a text, it should have the same origin as this...

"Oh, why didn't I think of it earlier?"

Therefore, the scattered words were picked up, from the stone slab for the bridge, from the pavement for people to step on, from the back of the reused tombstone, scattered, broken, and out of shape , The torn characters are pieced together, yes, this is one word, look, this is another.

With the text on this stele as a reference, people began to look for similar texts, from the things that can be seen everywhere, from the remnants eroded by wind and rain, from the old objects that have been forgotten and do not know when they were. Last... After the first episode of "Looking for History" was broadcast, many people said that they had discovered such words.

Some are still a pity——

"I met you when the mountain was opened. At that time, there were not enough stones to pave the road. Most of the stones that were just blown up were smashed into stones to pave the road..."

"I didn't know this at the time. I thought it was a waste of that good stone. It was re-carved into a screen, and the words on it were gone."

"I saw it at the bottom of the river before. It was said to be a talisman to suppress the river god. It looks a bit like a Taoist priest. I don't know if it is still there..."

"My uncle's family has it. It's used as a bed board. The old man loves the stone bed. They say it's cool to sleep in summer, and the board is upright!"

"Isn't the stone thick? At that time, there was a shortage of boards, so they were cut directly. There are several boards. I don't know if the ones with words are still there, and they might have been worn off..."

"I seem to have seen this word before on the stone mill. I thought it was a broken carving. I didn't expect it to be characters. The old stone mill is not used now, but it is still there."

"This thing is still worth money, how much is it worth, my family also has it, and I will give it to you if you give it!"

One after another, stones with writing were collected. As the number of samples increased, the professors also figured out some rules of writing, and began to decipher the information conveyed in those writing.

The dating analysis of the stele has also yielded results. Modern instruments can measure how many years ago the stele was, and such a year was placed in history, which happened to be the ignorant period 6000 years ago. Some people think that it was an age of legends, an age of myths.

The descriptions of that era in some books that have been passed down to the present are also full of a lot of things that cannot be explained and proved by science. Because witchcraft was the mainstream in that era, and theocracy and kingship were parallel, it is also called the era of witchcraft or the era of theocracy. Corresponding to the same period, there was no trace of civilization in other continents, but they had already started the civilization calendar unique to Wu Zhu.

It is a pity that there is a lack of more effective evidence in this regard, and it is not recognized by foreign countries. They always think that this is all made up by their own people, and they don't think that their civilization is so much older than theirs.

Now, the appearance of the stele, even if it is not sufficient, is enough to prove that that era is not a fiction, and the verifiable text also pushes the origin of human civilization to an earlier time.

Like a pearl salvaged from history, it is shining brightly, illuminating the dark night of ignorance.

"Exploring the footprints of our ancestors, from ignorance to civilization, from civilization to glory, we are moving forward..."

National pride is a very metaphysical thing. When it exists, even if the road is blue, you can still hold your head high, worthy of the world, and not afraid of any hardships.When it is lacking, even though it is well-dressed, the spine is broken, and the soles of the feet are hollow, as if it is unable to straighten its waist under the hedge of others,

A piece of stone tablet, a piece of incomprehensible text, brings the sense of national pride that makes people's faces glow, and rekindles everyone's confidence in themselves, and the torch will be passed down through the ages.