The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Hearing the young Duke talking about Fang Yun's mistake, many people's 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 you use your tongue to make spring thunder, he can't hear it. After all, this is Lingyan Pavilion." After saying that, he looked at Fang Yun's increasingly smaller back.

Fang Yun rushed to the end of the hunting ground, turned over and got off the horse, walked into a wooden door, and the scenery in front of him changed.

I saw smoke all around, and the distance was hazy, and I couldn't see anything. A pavilion appeared in front of me, and the plaque of the pavilion read "etiquette". On the side of the pavilion, a wooden sign as big as two palms appeared, emitting a faint golden light.

It read: Fang Yun, ten chips for hunting, 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 to enter the Lingyan Pavilion. If Wei Yu suddenly got enlightened and improved in the four arts of music, chess, calligraphy and painting, he might lose.

Fang Yun took a deep breath and stepped into the etiquette pavilion.

Four halls appeared in front of him, which became larger and more gorgeous from left to right, but the historical weight of the four halls was the opposite. The smaller the hall, the more profound it was.

The leftmost hall was a wooden hall, which was extremely simple and made of thick logs. Even the bark was clearly visible.

The second hall was made of huge stones, and the signs of human power were more obvious.

The third hall was a mixture of stone and mud bricks.

The fourth hall was built entirely of bricks, with beautiful glazed tiles on it, which was even more beautiful.

These four halls represent the Xia, Shang, Zhou and Qin dynasties, and also represent the Xia ritual, Shang ritual, Zhou ritual and Qin ritual respectively.

Students can choose any hall to be tested, but Qinli can only get six chips at most, Zhouli can only get eight chips at most, and Shangli and Xiali can get ten chips.

However, most students do not choose Shangli or Xiali, but mostly choose Zhouli.

This involves the origin of the writing of Shengyuan Continent.

The oldest and most mysterious writing of Shengyuan Continent is oracle bone script, also known as astronomy.

At that time, the saints of the demon clan used all their strength to send eight demon saints and barbarian saints to break through the Liangjie Mountain. After entering Shengyuan Continent, they immediately controlled the Shang Dynasty and began to destroy oracle bone script on a large scale.

All the Shang Dynasty celebrities who knew oracle bone script died.

Since then, oracle bone script has almost disappeared.

After King Wen of Zhou destroyed the seven saints, he has been in seclusion, and it is said that it was to study oracle bone script.

As for what secrets oracle bone script has, the human race has always had different opinions, but there is a consensus, that is, no one can study oracle bone script unless he is a sub-saint, because there was a semi-saint who studied oracle bone script, which led to the decline of his own saintly way, so that the semi-saints in the future can only be roughly proficient in oracle bone script at most.

Without oracle bones, almost no one knows about Shangli, and the earlier Xiali has become a mystery.

Fang Yun looked at the Shangli Hall with shining eyes. People in Shengyuan Continent did not know oracle bones, but he knew them!

Even in the ancient country of China, oracle bones had been silent for thousands of years until they were discovered in the late Qing Dynasty. After that, through the research of a large number of bone fragments excavated, it was found that there were more than 4,500 oracle bones, and about 2,500 characters were determined.

According to current records, some oracle bones have been excavated in Shengyuan Continent, but the number is very small. There are only a few hundred items with oracle bones.

Moreover, it was recorded in the book that the oracle bones in Shengyuan Continent seemed to have mysterious power. All those who studied oracle bones would die one after another, and even the semi-saints would decline in the way of sainthood, so they had long been shelved by the human race and no one was studying them.

The human race is now "looking for the ancients", hoping to indirectly study oracle bones by completing the long river of history, but that is an extremely long project, and the demon barbarian saints are everywhere, making the human race's ancient search project extremely slow.

Zhou Li and Qin Li Kao presided over a grand ceremony, but 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 randomly changed the Shang Li because they could not pass the third pavilion, hoping to get enough six chips to enter the next pavilion, and one or two people succeeded every year.

Fang Yun thought about it and immediately walked into the Zhou Li Hall.

After entering the Zhou Li Hall, Fang Yun found that he seemed to have returned to ancient times, and saw a group of officials and servants dressed in Zhou Dynasty costumes bowing and greeting together.

Next, Fang Yun asked about the purpose of this ceremony. It turned out that it was a ceremony for a prince to worship his ancestors. So Fang Yun assigned everything meticulously according to what he had learned. From the well-known "Eight Dances" to the placement of bells and tripods, from the pattern selection of curtains to the costumes of servants, Fang Yun gave orders for everything himself.

In the Confucian system, etiquette is an extremely important concept, similar to military discipline in the army. Other things can be slightly worse, but if etiquette is not respected, it will inevitably cause a lot of attacks.

Fang Yun just thought that Yang Yuhuan was more important than the woman of the Mengsheng family, which angered the evil king. The etiquette hall of the Holy Court even issued an article to criticize him, but Fang Yun's contribution was too great, so the people in the etiquette hall let it go.

After presiding over the ceremony for the princes to worship their ancestors, Fang Yun left the Zhouli Hall.

Unless someone can make additional supplements to Zhouli, no matter how well Zhouli is done, it can only get eight points.

After the appearance of Lingyan Pavilion, no one has ever got ten points in the etiquette pavilion.

When Fang Yun walked out of the Zhouli Hall, there were still some people outside, some 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 the number of chips they received was the lowest.

When those people saw Fang Yun coming out of the Zhouli Hall, they all saluted and greeted him.

"This Zhouli will definitely not be difficult for Lord Wenhou."

"I deliberately chose Qinli instead of the more difficult Zhouli this time, hoping to enter with Fang Zhenguo at the fourth pavilion, and not be left too far behind by him."

A dozen people hurriedly walked towards Fang Yun, thinking that he was going to leave the etiquette pavilion and enter the fourth pavilion, the Danbo Pavilion.

However, they suddenly stopped, because Fang Yun not only did not leave, but walked towards the Shangli Hall.

"Ah? Did he not complete the Zhouli well, so he took a gamble to pass this etiquette pavilion?"

"It should be, otherwise no one would go to the Shangli Hall, and not one out of ten thousand people would be able to get benefits in the Shangli Hall, but might suffer losses."

"It must be that he had an accident while presiding over the Zhouli, but it doesn't matter, he will definitely be able to pass this etiquette pavilion!"

Fang Yun walked to the front of the Shangli Temple and observed carefully.

There are many things from the Shang Dynasty in the Shangli Temple, which should be imitations, because no one knows the etiquette of the Shang Dynasty, so things look a bit messy.

A few of these utensils were engraved with obscure oracle bone inscriptions, and Fang Yun's eyes quickly fell on a table.

There were some drinking utensils on the table, and Fang Yun noticed that one thing was placed wrong.

These drinking utensils should be used by important people, but one cup was engraved with the oracle bone inscription "Qiang", which simply means "two-legged sheep", and in oracle bone inscriptions means slaves.

On the wine pot next to it was engraved the oracle bone inscription "Hua", which has a very high status in oracle bone inscriptions, and later generations may have verified that it is one of the sources of "Huaxia".

Fang Yun first pretended to look at it for a while, then picked up the cup engraved with "Qiang" and threw it away.