treasure hunt god pupil

Chapter 259 Ancient Text Before Oracle Bone Inscriptions

In the conference room of the Faculty Building of Peking University, professors and lecturers came in one after another. They were all temporarily notified that all those in Kyoto would gather in the school conference room for a meeting.

A few young teachers were still a little unhappy. After all, there were still many days before the start of school at Peking University, so calling them for a meeting at this time would be of little use.

The meeting room, which originally could only seat more than ten people, is now full of people, with more than 30 people.Professor Zhu Changping was discussing something in a low voice with some familiar professors. About 3 minutes later, Director You and Dean Gao walked into the meeting room, and the noise inside immediately stopped.

"Professor Zhu, it seems that the emotions on everyone's faces are not going well. Let me tell you about the situation you know, and let everyone know why they are so anxious to ask them to come to the school to attend the meeting."

Director You smiled and said, breaking the slightly awkward atmosphere in the conference room.

On the projection screen in front of the meeting room, Professor Zhu Changping's mobile phone has been connected, and he is operating the mobile phone, and photos appear on the projection screen.

They are all pieces of black pottery, and there are many in number and variety.The eyes of the people in the classroom were immediately attracted, and it could be seen that the black pottery was just unearthed, and the surface was still wet with mud.

"The photos you see are real, and they were taken by my student Li Mo and sent to me one by one today. You may have seen that these black pottery were just unearthed today."

The professors already knew what happened. After all, they had seen the three black pottery that Li Mo bought in the market a few years ago, and one of the eggshell black pottery cups was even more exquisite.

"Professor Zhu, can you tell me what's going on?" one of the young lecturers raised his hand and asked.

Zhu Changping pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said with a smile: "This matter starts from years ago. My student Li Mo found three pieces of black pottery successively in the old alley of Dongjiaomin Lane. The three pieces are all from the late Neolithic age, and based on the sophistication of the black pottery, it is speculated that they are likely to come from a large Neolithic tomb, so Li Mo has been sending them years ago based on the few clues he has obtained. People are investigating in secret, and just the day before yesterday he personally went to the place where he finally traced, just to find out whether there are really large tombs from the late Neolithic period."

"Professor Zhu, are these black pottery all unearthed from that large tomb?"

"From the perspective of these quantities, it is quite consistent, but from the perspective of the types of black pottery, it seems that the specifications are far beyond a lot."

"Student Li Mo is really amazing. You can find this kind of Neolithic tomb. Professor Zhu, I volunteer to sign up to assist Li Mo."

"I'll sign up too."

Many young lecturers raised their hands and scrambled to go over. The displeasure on their faces when they came had long been forgotten, and now they wished they could fly over immediately.Since last year, the status of the Department of History of Peking University has gradually risen, and the bonus at the end of the year has doubled compared to previous years, making the teachers of other departments envious.

They all knew in their hearts that if they followed in Li Mo's footsteps, their progress would be faster.

Look at Teacher Zheng Bin who has been sitting in the corner silently. He was also an ordinary lecturer before, but after he was selected to join the Xiang Yu Treasure Project Team last year, he was basically in charge of the work in the Kyoto Museum if the professors and experts were not present. Work.

If this continues, it will not be difficult for him to nominate an associate professor in the future.

So when they heard that classmate Li Mo had found another Neolithic tomb, they all raised their hands to sign up, for fear that there would be no places for it to be too late.

"Everyone be quiet and listen to Professor Zhu continue."

Director You was also happy. See how motivated these young teachers are. If they can be cultivated, then the Department of History of Peking University can be regarded as successors, and there will be no embarrassing situation of lack of success.

"Years ago, I also discussed with the professors. If the tomb is really found, then Professor Zhang Hao of Qing University will lead the team, and we will send a young team from Beijing University to study. But today Li Mo called, and the matter There has been a change."

Professor Zhu Changping didn't drop the bomb until this time, and even the other professors didn't know about it.They still thought that what Li Mo found was a large tomb from the late Neolithic age. Could there be other important things that they didn't explain?

"Li Mo reported back that the underground was not a Neolithic tomb, but a cultural site that had not been discovered in the late Neolithic age. And the more than 100 pieces of black pottery he unearthed today It's just a dirt pit, and it hasn't been cleared yet."

"What, is it a new cultural site of the Neolithic Age? Professor Zhu, student Li Mo did not make a mistake in his judgment, did he?"

"If it is a Neolithic cultural site, it will be a big project to fully excavate it. Li Mo can really confirm it?"

Not to mention those young teachers, even a few professors were a little suspicious.

Professor Zhu Changping coughed twice, and said firmly: "I believe in Li Mo's judgment, so the archaeological project of cultural sites in this new era must be led by our Peking University."

That's right, the miracle created by Li Mo made everyone give up [-]% of their thoughts immediately.

"Professor Zhu, how do you think the next job should be arranged?" Director You felt as if he had eaten honey. Judging from his work performance, promotion was inevitable.

Dean Gao also kept smiling. As long as Li Mo proposed work, although he didn't fully support it, at least he couldn't drag him back.

"That's what I plan to do, I'm ready"

Before Professor Zhu Changping could finish speaking, he saw a video request sent by the chat account. He subconsciously clicked to accept, and saw a dialog box appear on the huge projection screen. One was from Professor Zhu and the other was from Li Mo. .

At this moment, Li Mo's face was still stained with mud, and there was also a lot of mud on his collar and chest.As soon as Zhu Changping got connected, before he could speak, he heard him say anxiously: "Teacher, there is an important discovery, it is really amazing discovery. I will switch the direction of the camera, and you will take a closer look."

The camera switches, and what appears on the big projection screen is a huge pottery, like a water tank commonly used in rural areas.Everyone in the conference room stretched their heads to look at the picture. As the picture got closer, the depiction pattern on the outside of the pottery vat appeared in everyone's eyes.

"This is like an ancient scene of worshiping heaven." Professor Zhu Changping was a little dazed. A huge pottery unearthed from the Neolithic Age was actually engraved with "worshiping heaven", which had never been seen in pottery unearthed before.

"Teacher, this is not the most important thing, you can look at the other side."

Li Mo moved, and the camera moved accordingly. When nearly a hundred complex symbols appeared on the projection screen on the other side, the entire meeting room fell silent.

Professor Zhang, who has studied ancient characters, especially oracle bone inscriptions, was the first to come back to his senses. He pointed to one of the complex symbols and shouted: "That, that symbol is very similar to the 'land' in oracle bone inscriptions, and that is similar to the 'land' in oracle bone inscriptions." Ming' is very similar, God, what kind of characters are these, are they the characters before Oracle?"

Professor Zhang is considered to be an authority in ancient writing. When he shouted, the entire quiet conference room erupted.

For a long time, oracle bone inscriptions have been identified as the earliest characters, which can clearly express the meaning of them, but no older characters have been found before oracle bone inscriptions.

Some people say that Tao inscriptions are written before oracle bone inscriptions, but numerous scholars have failed to find any connection between them.But what I have to say is that oracle bone inscriptions cannot appear out of thin air, nor can it appear concentratedly in a certain historical time period, so there must be an ancient writing in this historical process connecting the past and the future.

Oracle bone inscriptions evolved from those ancient characters.

The hundreds of complex symbols carved on the pottery jar are basically unknown, but some of them are very similar to the later oracle bone inscriptions. Does this mean that they are an ancient script before the oracle bone inscriptions?

If it is really confirmed, that black pottery jar is simply the most culturally valuable ancient relic in history.

And the symbols engraved on the black pottery are likely to be an astronomical ritual, and the black pottery vat is also the oldest ancient object with inscriptions unearthed so far.

But it's all speculation now, but even if it's only a [-]/[-] probability, it's enough to make everyone in the meeting room excited.

"Take action immediately, and charter a car to rush there early tomorrow morning. Director You, you are in charge of all work arrangements. I will communicate with the school leaders and report to the relevant higher authorities immediately."

Dean Gao slapped the table to make a decision.

(End of this chapter)