Xixia dead book

Chapter 12: Legend of the Undead in the Book of the Dead (12)
"Hehe, Yuanyuan, you have observed well. Xixia characters evolved from Chinese characters. You see, the structure of Xixia characters is very similar to Chinese characters, and they are also square characters. , 捷, Zhe, Zhegou and other stroke groups, even the calligraphy style is the same as Chinese characters, there are five calligraphy styles: Kai, Xing, Cao, Zhuan, and Li, which often make people who are new to Xixia Wen mistakenly think that Chinese characters are actually Chinese characters. It is a completely different language. So far, more than 5000 Xixia characters have been discovered. Although they resemble Chinese characters, none of them are the same as Chinese characters. This reflects the strong national consciousness of the party members. Let’s look at these Xixia characters again. It is cumbersome, with many slanted strokes, especially the more strokes and strokes, so the history books say that the Xixia script is "like Fulu", which means that the strokes of the Xixia script are cumbersome and obscure. Disappearance has buried hidden dangers.

"After the Xixia was destroyed by the Mongols, the Xixia script quickly disappeared into the long river of history. For hundreds of years, no one knew about it. Until the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, Gansu scholar Zhang Shu returned to his hometown to recuperate, and found a closed room in a temple in Wuwei. I asked the monk what was in the room. The monk said that there was a stele in the room. The inscription on the stele was strange and might be evil, so it was closed in the room. Zhang Shu has been an official for many years, and he has seen a lot, so he doesn’t believe it. According to the theory of evildoers, the monk was asked to open the door to see what evildoer he was. The monk had no choice but to open the door for Zhang Shu. Zhang Shu found that there was a stele in the room. Suddenly, he was shocked. When he carefully turned to the back of the stele, he found that there were Chinese characters engraved on the back of the stele, which had the same number of characters as the words on the front. Zhang Shu suddenly realized that the text on the front of the stele was the Xixia script that had disappeared. This monument is the famous "Reconstructing Huguo Temple Induction Tower Monument in Liangzhou", which is still preserved in Wuwei City Museum.

"Since then, Xixia script has gradually begun to be valued by the academic community. In 1909, Russian explorer Kozlov excavated a large number of documents written in Xixia script at the ruins of Heishui City in Ejina Banner. Kozlov put these Xixia The documents were transported to Petersburg together, and the Russian sinologist Yi Fengge found the famous "Pearl in the Palm of Pan-Han Heshi" in the Xixia documents brought back by Kozlov. This is a bilingual dictionary of Xixia and Chinese. Compiled by Xixia scholar Gu Le Maocai, Yifengge interpreted many ancient Xixia documents through this dictionary. It was the father and son of famous scholars Luo Zhenyu and Luo Fuchang who began to systematically study Xixia characters in China. In 1913, Luo Zhenyu and Luo Fuchang father and son , obtained a part of "Pearl in the Palm of Fanhan Heshi" from Yifengge. After years of research, Luo Fuchang used the traditional Chinese character "six calligraphy" method, namely, pictographic, referring to things, pictophonic, knowing, borrowing, and Zhuanzhu. The analysis of Xixia characters has greatly improved people's understanding of the structure of Xixia characters. Later, more and more scholars engaged in the study of Xixia characters, but because Xixia characters have disappeared for many years, they have no practical value, and the strokes of Xixia characters are cumbersome and obscure. It is difficult to understand, so until today, there are still very few scholars who can master Xixia characters."

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After listening to Professor Luo's long speech, everyone had a certain understanding of the history of Xixia and the characters of Xixia, and everyone praised Professor Luo for his profound knowledge.Then, Professor Luo also showed everyone some Xixia characters with slides, and translated them to everyone in comparison with Chinese characters.

While everyone was amazed at the ancient Xixia characters, Han Jiang stared at the jade screen in front of him without saying a word. What is the content engraved on the jade screen?How could there be such a bizarre and terrifying experience?So many died for it, a terrible blood curse! ——He didn't know any of the words on the jade screen, it was really a book from heaven.No!It should be said to be a dead book!Thinking of this, Han Jiang suddenly said, "Professor, let's interpret the mysterious dead book on this jade screen."

"Dead book?" Everyone was shocked when they heard the word that popped out of Han Jiang's mouth. Professor Luo was also slightly taken aback, and then smiled, "Yes, Captain Han is right, this is indeed a dead book. .”

"Dead book! Don't you know the professor?" Tang Feng asked in surprise.

Professor Luo pondered for a while, and said: "As I said before, Xixia characters are the same as Chinese characters. There are five script styles: Kai, Xing, Cao, Seal, and Li. However, so far, there are four script styles: Kai, Xing, Cao, and Seal. I have seen all the Xixia scripts in the official script, but no one has ever seen the Xixia script in the official script. And the characters on this jade screen, based on my many years of experience, are neither regular script Xixia script nor running script Xixia script script, not to mention Xixia script in cursive script and seal script, so I preliminarily judged that the Xixia script on the jade screen should be Xixia official script that the world has never seen before!"

"Ah! It's so complicated, since no one has seen it before, so no one knows it?" Liang Yuan couldn't hide her disappointment.

"Hehe, don't be in a hurry! Although I didn't recognize these characters when I first saw them, but after all, it's just a different style of writing, and the characters are still Xixia script. If it is a common style of Xixia script like regular script or running script, I can do it in an hour. The translation has come, and the reason why I closed the door for a week is because it is the first time I have seen such official script. Fortunately, through my research this week, I roughly translated the text on the jade screen. The text, but I'm not completely sure..." Speaking of this, Professor Luo hesitated to speak.

Han Jiang cast a trusting look at Professor Luo: "Professor, whether it is correct or not, let's listen to it."

Professor Luo nodded and began to translate the text on the jade screen: "The text on the jade screen is divided into two parts, the front part is relatively small, and it looks like the preface of the whole article. The full text of the preface of the article is, "The children and grandchildren are in trouble, the four screens are united, thousands of mountains and rivers, a narrow escape, a vast sea and a city, and the blessing of longevity, you can get the capital to restore the country. Those who restore the country are not my descendants. Curse.' There are 44 characters in total. There is no punctuation in the original text. The punctuation marks in the middle are added by me. clear."

"Professor, what do these 44 words mean?" Tang Feng asked everyone's questions.

Professor Luo's expression was solemn, as if he was full of concerns. After waiting for a long time, everyone heard Professor Luo say: "These 44 characters, according to my initial deduction, are related to an amazing secret of the Xixia Dynasty..."

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Professor Luo went on to say: "Let me interpret it sentence by sentence. The first sentence 'difficulty for descendants', I speculate that this 'difficulty' should refer to the great disaster encountered by the Xixia Dynasty, such as when the country is in danger of subjugation, that is to say, the future generations Children and grandchildren, if you encounter a catastrophe. The second sentence "four screens in one", I thought hard about this sentence, and I couldn't understand it, but after analyzing the full text, when I looked back at this sentence, I seemed to understand , so we don’t look at this sentence for the time being. Looking down, the following two sentences are “Thousands of mountains and rivers, a narrow escape.” These two sentences are not difficult to explain literally. They are talking about difficulties and dangers. What are difficulties and dangers? I think it should mean that the road is difficult and dangerous, you have to go through thousands of mountains and rivers, and you have a narrow escape. Let’s look at the next sentence "Han Hai Mi Cheng", what does it mean? I couldn’t figure it out at first, but I will compare this sentence with the previous one. When the two sentences are read together, it seems to be clear, after passing through thousands of mountains and rivers, and narrowly dying, where is the purpose to go? It is to go to the city of Hanhai Mi."

"Hanhai Micheng? What kind of place is this? It takes thousands of mountains and rivers to get there. It's so mysterious!" Liang Yuan asked Professor Luo.

Professor Luo shook his head: "I have studied the history of Xixia all my life, and I have never heard of a place like Hanhai Micheng."

"Could it mean that, Hanhai is a place, Micheng is a place, and 'Micheng' sounds like the name of a city." Liang Yuan guessed.

Tang Feng also guessed: "Hanhai, I don't think there is any special meaning, it refers to the desert. Hanhai Micheng, taken together, it is a city in the desert, called Micheng."

After listening to Tang Feng's analysis, Professor Luo nodded slightly: "I agree with Tang Feng's opinion on this point. Micheng is probably a city hidden in the desert. Let's look further, and the next sentence is 'Longevity Blessed' , this sentence should have no practical meaning, it means praying for the blessing of Changshengtian. In ancient China, many nomadic peoples in the north, such as Mongolia, Khitan, and Dangxiang, worshiped Changshengtian. Ceremony, praying for the blessing of longevity. The following two sentences, "You can get the capital of restoring the country, the person who restores the country", according to my guess, it means that after going through thousands of mountains and rivers, after nine deaths, you can find the city of Hanhai Mi, and you can get The capital of restoring the country, the people of restoring the country. "The capital of restoring the country" is easy to understand, it is wealth, and how much wealth can restore the country, you can imagine!"

"I understand a little bit. No wonder so many people want to get this jade screen for hundreds of years. It turns out that it is not only for this treasure, but also for the amazing fund for restoring the country!" Tang Feng's words made everyone suddenly realize .

Everyone was suddenly enlightened, it seemed that this series of incidents had been sorted out, but Professor Luo still frowned: "Don't be happy, this is not just about fighting for a huge fortune." Zi' is easy to understand, but how should we understand "people who restore the country"?"

Restoration man!Is it an army?How can this be?Everyone fell into silence.Professor Luo went on to say: "Okay! Let's ignore this 'man of restoration' for the time being, and look at the last two sentences, 'If you are not my descendants, you will be cursed with blood'."

When Professor Luo read the words "must receive the blood curse", everyone in the secret room trembled, blood curse!Terrible blood curse!It was actually engraved on the jade screen.

"'Those who are not my descendants will be cursed by blood.' Although these two sentences are scary, they are easy to understand. This is the curse issued by the person who made this jade screen at that time. If outsiders get the jade screen and find Han Hai Mi City, you must be cursed by blood." After Professor Luo finished explaining, he looked at everyone, all of them were preoccupied, even Han Jiang and Zhao Yong, who never believed in ghosts and gods, had gloomy faces.

It was Liang Yuan who asked first: "Then will we also be cursed by the blood curse?"

Professor Luo said with a smile: "Actually, this is mostly used by the ancients to scare people."

"Professor, you may not know that in the past half month, besides Liang Yunjie, several people have died because of this jade screen." Han Jiang finally spoke.

Professor Luo was also surprised by Han Jiang's words. After being silent for a while, Professor Luo managed to squeeze out a smile and said, "Don't worry, everyone. According to my research over the years, after the demise of the Xixia Dynasty, many party members joined the Mongolian army. People call these Dangxiang people the "Tang Wuti Army", and one of them settled down in the mainland with the surname of "Tang". So speaking of it, Tang Feng, you are very likely to be a descendant of the Dangxiang people! Since They are the descendants of the party members, so there is no need to worry about blood curses, ha ha."

"What? I'm a descendant of the party members! Professor Luo, don't comfort us." Everyone knew that Professor Luo made up a reason to comfort everyone, but Tang Feng still exposed Professor Luo.

"Okay, don't get entangled in the 'blood curse' anymore, since we joined Old K, we won't be afraid of any blood curse!" Han Jiang's words resounded loudly.

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Han Jiang scanned the people in the room, and said solemnly: "Uncovering the hidden secret of the jade screen is very dangerous, but I don't believe in blood curses. Could it be that people hundreds of years ago can be resurrected, embarrassing us? Only our greedy and cruel opponents are our real enemies! Professor Luo, you haven't interpreted the meaning of the second sentence yet?"

Professor Luo looked at Han Jiang and continued to interpret: "As I said earlier, I didn't understand what the second sentence meant at first, but after I read the complete text, when I looked back, it seemed that I began to understand the meaning of the four-screen combination. The meaning of one. Four screens in one, I speculate that there should be four jade screens..."

"Four jade screens?" When Professor Luo said this, everyone was stunned.

"Yes, there are four jade screens. Only by combining the four jade screens can we know the exact location of Hanhaimi City. Look..." As he spoke, Professor Luo put on his white gloves and turned the jade screen over. Going to the back, pointing to some sunken places on the back, he said: "Look, everyone, the sunken lines on the back, according to my guess, should be an inscribed map."

"map?"

"To be precise, it is a map leading to Hanhaimi City."

"Isn't that a treasure map?" Liang Yuan asked in surprise.

Professor Luo smiled: "You can say so if you want, but this one alone is not enough. You need to collect all four pieces of jade screens and put them together to see the map leading to Hanhaimi City clearly."

"Oh! I see." Liang Yuan nodded.

"In the same way, the Xixia characters on the front of the jade screen, except for the first part we have deciphered, and the text with relatively large characters below, I speculate that it refers to the location where the four jade screens are stored, and there may be some Other information about Hanhaimi City. Next, let’s look at the text on the jade screen. The text in the text is obviously larger than the text in the previous preface. After my preliminary translation, the text of this jade screen is Translated into Chinese characters is, 'Heitou Shishihuang waters, red-faced father's tomb Baigaohe, Changmi Yaoren country is there.'”

Professor Luo fell silent after reading this, and Liang Yuan urged: "Professor, why don't you continue reading."

"It's over, I've finished reading."

"What? There are only a few words in the main text." Everyone was very discouraged.

"Yes, there are only 21 characters in the text of this jade screen."

Tang Feng listened to Professor Luo's translation of these few sentences in Xixia, and suddenly said in shock: "I seem to have heard these few sentences somewhere. By the way, it is the seven letters that Academician Arik sent to Mengliefu. At the end of that letter, Alik suddenly added a paragraph, saying that Yi Fengge mentioned a few poems to him before his death, and these are the few lines."

"Yes! Tang Feng, when I translated these lines, I was also very shocked. This shows that Yifeng Pavilion had already deciphered these lines of poetry back then. Unfortunately, he died later and did not study further."

"Then what does this poem mean? What's the connection with Yuchaping?" Tang Feng asked.

"General academics believe that the first three sentences of this poem describe the place where the early Dangxiang people lived. And 'Bai Gaohe', I think it refers to the Baihe River Basin in the northwest of Sichuan today, which is the early settlement of the Dangxiang people And combined with my research on jade screens and years of accumulated knowledge and judgment, the 'Heitou Shishi' is likely to be the place where one of the other three jade screens is stored. If my deduction is correct, it will Rewriting the entire history of Xixia has great academic significance." It can be heard that when Professor Luo said this, he obviously raised his voice.

"So, finding the Blackhead Stone Chamber is our next goal!" Zhao Yong said, casting a questioning look at Han Jiang.

Everyone looked at Han Jiang, Han Jiang didn't speak, but Tang Feng said: "Everyone, I don't doubt Professor Luo's research level, but based on the current evidence, I can infer that there are four pieces of jade inserted into the screen, and what did you say?" There is another jade screen in the 'Black Head Stone Room', I still can't believe it. Besides, we don't know the exact location of this 'Black Head Stone Room'! How to find it?"

After hearing Tang Feng's question, Professor Luo said calmly: "I said before, all of this is just my own inference, but you asked me, I remembered that there is another evidence on the jade screen, which can To prove my inference, you may not know that there is a Chinese character on the jade screen.”

"Oh! There is a Chinese character on the jade screen, why didn't I see it?" Tang Feng was full of doubts.

Professor Luo turned the jade screen to the side, pointed to the side wall of the jade screen, and said to everyone: "Look, everyone, there are very small Chinese characters here."

Everyone gathered around and watched carefully. Sure enough, everyone saw that there was a small "white" character on the side wall of the jade screen.

"What does the word 'white' mean?" Tang Feng was puzzled.

(End of this chapter)