During the period of 20 16 and 10, China Literature Museum issued an announcement entitled "Selection Scheme of Oracle Bone Inscriptions Outstanding Achievement Award". Announcing the plan is simple. Today, the China Museum of Literature put forward a new plan about the development of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's deciphering, and announced that it would look for people from all walks of life to decipher the unread Oracle Bone Inscriptions. The museum will reward him with a word of 6,543,800 yuan, and if someone can give a new explanation to the controversial Oracle Bone Inscriptions, he will also be rewarded with a word of 50,000 yuan.
As soon as this announcement came out, public opinion from all walks of life was in an uproar. Many people are eager to take the exam with their own "cracked" words, but in the end they are rejected by word experts for various reasons, resulting in no one getting a "good start" in the "Oracle Bone Inscriptions Interpretation and Reading Award Scheme" in the past two years. Who is this social figure who cracked Oracle Bone Inscriptions? He is Jiang Yubin, a folk expert engaged in the study of ancient Chinese characters.
As we all know, Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an ancient Chinese character in China, also known as "Wen Qi", "Oracle Bone Inscriptions", "Yin Ruins Book" or "Tortoise Shell and Animal Bone Book", which belongs to the earliest mature Chinese characters we can see today. Oracle Bone Inscriptions originated in China, and China has the largest collection of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the world, with a collection of120,000 pieces, while some countries such as Japan, Canada, Britain and the United States only have about 20,000 pieces. Even so, our decoding in Oracle Bone Inscriptions is still in a slow progress stage. Oracle Bone Inscriptions's Yi * * * currently has about 4,500 words, but so far, only more than 2,000 words have been successfully interpreted, which is less than 1/2 of the total.
The words that Jiang Yubin cracked this time undoubtedly brought hope to the development of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, China, and expanded the direction of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's cracking to all walks of life. The text cracked by Jiang Yubin has appeared several times in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, but what exactly is this word? Many philologists can't explain it, so they can only study it as an uncommon word.
Jiang Yubin likes studying Chinese characters since he was a child. As early as in high school, under the influence of his teacher, he began to study Oracle Bone Inscriptions's cracking. For decades, he has been studying Oracle Bone Inscriptions in his spare time. However, due to the obscurity of Oracle bone inscriptions, Jiang Yubin's research results have not made a big breakthrough so far. In recent years, he has been studying an abstract Oracle Bone Inscriptions, but he has also encountered a big bottleneck, and his research work has temporarily reached a deadlock.
One night, after finishing another wave of desk data work, Jiang Yubin suddenly realized that he subconsciously associated this word with the words "Tun" and "Chun". "Only the accumulation of quantity can produce a qualitative leap", Jiang Yubin's inspiration is by no means accidental, but the result of studying materials all day long. Finally, he confirmed that the word that once stumped him was "swallow"! However, Jiang Yubin also believes that although the word is "tun", it is still a general word, that is, the word "stupid".
In order to prove his guess, Jiang Yubin specially wrote a professional paper to explain the origin of the word "stupid". Jiang Yubin believes that as early as the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, there were some disturbances and uneasiness near the Central Plains regime, which needed to be solved through conquest. But the problem came unexpectedly. What should these countries be called in ancient books? Jiang Yubin explained it this way: "For example, a violent foreigner is called a' stupid foreigner'; The turbulent bowl is called the "stupid bowl". This interpretation of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's "stupidity" solved the problems of "stupidity" and "stupidity" in the inscriptions of the Western Zhou Dynasty. These are the tribes of Fang, which were first in turmoil and then conquered. " .
At the same time, Jiang Yubin also cited many examples in his paper, such as Mozi's "Foolishness has seedlings", Shangshu's "Foolishness", the "Foolishness" in The Book of Songs and the "Foolish Country" in Huaqing Bamboo Slips. Its definition is consistent with the context, and even the explanation of "fool" in Shuo Wen Jie Zi is exactly the same as the above materials. In other words, Oracle Bone Inscriptions's "Tun" actually means "stupid" and is properly interpreted as "ready to move". Of course, in the written culture of our country, the word "stupid" is also slightly derogatory, such as "stupid" and "stupid" and so on.
The achievements of Jiang Yubin's thesis have attracted the attention of the field of ancient philology. After the unanimous evaluation of many archaeologists, it is finally determined that the conclusion of this paper is clear and conforms to the research direction of ancient Chinese characters. Therefore, China Literature Museum declared that Jiang Yubin's research results were true and effective, and not only awarded him the Medal of Honor, but also awarded him 6,543.8+10,000 yuan.
Jiang Yubin believes that Oracle Bone Inscriptions's research is boring, but as long as we find the right direction, all the efforts are worthwhile. Once it is successfully cracked, the joy is beyond words. At present, Jiang Yubin has started his own research work again, but the Oracle bone inscription in this study is the word "one". Luo Lao, an expert in ancient Chinese characters, once thought that the word "unitary" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions should be a wine sacrifice for wine tasting, while he thought that the word should be "nothing to do with the accumulation of firewood and sacrifice" and belong to the object of "drums" and "blows".
According to Jiang Yubin, at present, he has found the word "you" with an oblique point beside it in all Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which has appeared as many as 2,000 times. Although people in the industry know something about its usage and pronunciation, they have not been able to give a clear explanation. Self-learning this word is a brand-new challenge.
It is no exaggeration to say that Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the source of Chinese characters and the essence of human writing. Deciphering Oracle Bone Inscriptions is of far-reaching significance, which can not only clarify the source of China, but also find the deepest foundation of Chinese civilization.