Chapter 1323: Academic Discussion
However, Zhou Zhi only dared to criticize, because as long as he dared to ask, the two old men would definitely say: "Why not?"
As expected, Mr. Qiu opened Zhou Zhi's lecture notes. Revisiting an old matter: "Your method of summarizing the roots of oracle bone characters is indeed a good idea. It also shows that the Liushu method of character creation actually originated as early as the oracle bone period. You You can definitely study it and write a paper. In addition, can bronze inscriptions and bird seal scripts be used..."
Zhou Zhi quickly changed the topic: "As for the question of whether the destiny words in oracle bone inscriptions are interrogative sentences or affirmative sentences. , I have some ideas of my own."
"Oh?" Mr. Qiu's interest was indeed grasped: "Tell me about it."
"I think it's actually both."
"In other words, Zhenren is not responsible for his own conclusions?" Qiu Xigui asked.
“This needs to continue to be studied.” Zhou Zhi said: “But judging from the inscriptions, some literary structures are indeed very obvious.”
“I am more inclined to believe that oracle bones have their own meanings. Fixed filing grid The style can be roughly divided into four parts: narrative, destiny, fortune-telling, and verification. "For example, this sentence: Jiayou divination, Zhen: Xun, disaster." It comes from the west.”
"The sentence 'Jiayoubu, Zheng, Zhen' is a descriptor, indicating that the time of divination is Jiayou day, the event is divination, the fortune teller is an official named 'Zheng', and his position is 'Zhenren', that is, he is responsible for passing the divination A person who professionally explains the traces of burned tortoise shells and animal bones made by diviners.”
< br> "'Ten days of disaster' is a fortune-telling word, which is the result obtained by the Zhen people after divination on the matters ordered by the king. Here it means that there will be no disasters in the next ten days."
"'Divination said The sentence "you have evil spirits" is a word for zhan. Zhan is Wang's final conclusion. It can be seen here that. The King of Shang has the highest power of interpretation in divination activities and can overturn the conclusions of Zhen people after divination. For example, this divination shows that there is no disaster, but the king insists that there is disaster."
"Finally. One sentence is a test of words, which records the final result of divination. Five records are recorded here. After that, news of the disaster really came from the West, which shows that the king is still more powerful than Zhenren."
"Yes, so the dictation here, that is, when Zhenren gives the conclusion, is an affirmative sentence. Yeah." Mr. Qiu said, "This is also my conclusion."
"But what about this set of divination?" Zhou Zhi asked: "Gengzi divination, Zheng Zhen: The next Xin Chou, it will start? Guang Zhen: The next Xin Chou, it will not start? The king said: It will rain tonight, and the next Xin Chou will start. It rains on one night, and it rains on the next day.”
"The difference between this set of words and the previous set is very big. When translated, there is a structure of 'Yixin Chouqi' and 'Yixin Chou Bu Qiqi' appearing side by side. Shouldn't it be translated as 'Zhenren' Arguingly asked: Tomorrow is Xinchou Day, the sun will rise Isn't the sun going to shine? 'Such a question?"
"In order to answer this question, the King of Shang said: It will rain tonight, and the sun will shine tomorrow."
"Verify. The divination also confirmed the accuracy of King Shang’s divination: It rained that night, and the sun came out the next day.” Words, not questions.”
"There are many more sentences like this, such as 'A good woman gives birth to a good child? Not a good one?', or 'Eastern soil receives years? Doesn't it receive years?', or 'Ten days are ruined? Ten days bring disaster?'."
"If these predicates are conclusions, some of them are unreasonable. The proposition given by the king is what gender will be the child if the woman gives birth to a good woman. If this is an affirmative sentence, then the result given by Zhenren is "the child will give birth to a good woman." The child may be a boy or a girl. ’”
“The King of Shang asked: ‘Will there be a good harvest in the east? ’ Zhenren came to the conclusion: ‘There may be a good harvest, or there may be a bad harvest. ’ King Shang asked, ‘Will there be any harm in the next ten days? ’ The conclusion is: ‘There may be disaster, or there may not be disaster. ’, if you do this, I doubt Zhenren will be beheaded. "Zhou Zhi said. Qiu Xigui said: "But based on the comprehensive study of numerology, we can not only find that it is better for a woman to give birth, but not better. ’ In such a structure, we can also find sentence patterns such as ‘Eastern soil receives years, Eastern soil receives years’, or ‘Ten days of disaster, ten days of disaster’. ”
“I am now more inclined to call the two paragraphs of destiny with completely opposite contents as ‘Dui Zhen’, and the two paragraphs of destiny with the same content as ‘Pai’. Zhen'. ”
"If it is a question about chastity, it cannot explain the phenomenon of chastity exclusion."
Huh? Zhou Zhi found that he was shallow again. After saying this, it seemed that Mr. Qiu's idea was more reasonable.
“Let’s look at this type of divination together.” Qiu Xigui took down the thick book from the bookshelf and turned to a labeled place: “Look here, ‘Wang Divination said, the only divination ', and here, 'It uses three divination', and there is this type of 'Wuzi divination, uses six divination'."
"From these inscriptions. It turns out that for a big event, businessmen often do more than one divination. Three divination can be almost counted, and the number can even reach six divination.” , when Zhenren could not make a decision, the problem was handed over to the king, who made a 'judgment'. ”
"Therefore, it makes sense to record the different results of Zhenren's divination in the fortune-telling, or to emphasize the same result of divination, and to use the pairing and rowing of Zhens for the King of Shang to make a choice."
" I also agree with your statement that oracle bone inscriptions should be divided into four sections: narrative, destiny, divination, and verification. The paragraphs should all be declarative sentences. The name of the person in the narrative may just be the manager of the Zhen people. He is responsible for gathering the interpretations of the divination marks by different Zhen people and then reporting them to the King of Shang for decision-making. "
“At every stage of divination, there may be exceptions. For example, sometimes there is a lack of If one part of the divination is missing, maybe the divination is sometimes performed by a person trusted by the King of Shang, or sometimes the entire divination process of narration, destiny, fortune-telling, and verification is completed by the King of Shang."
"But. Divination is a record of the results, so it should be a declarative sentence, rather than a "fate" or a question as traditionally believed. "Zhenye'."
"Today's academic research divides mingci into shuwen, zhenwen, Jiwen, divination code, xiandian, Fengdian, classics and Shidian. In addition to Zhenwen, , the rest are all determined as declarative sentences. The only dispute is whether Zhenwen is a declarative sentence."
"So that's it." Zhou Zhi scratched his forehead, feeling that he was working behind closed doors again.
Qiu Xigui said: "Of course it is a good thing to have your own ideas. When you have an idea, you should find evidence to prove it. No matter whether the final answer is yes or no, it is a benefit to learning."
“Your opinion cannot be said to be wrong, it is because you have already mastered it. The thinking and inferences based on the knowledge are very valuable." Qiu Xigui said with a smile: "But you haven't studied this knowledge deeply enough, and the knowledge you master is not comprehensive enough. You can draw the conclusion without fully grasping the information elements. Of course, the conclusion is also relatively one-sided. Let us call it "one-sided". "One-sided correctness is not the truth, so our top priority now is to establish Oracle's information system as soon as possible, so that when you encounter similar confusion in the future, you can solve it in the system." Quickly search within to find out all the details for verification My own thoughts."
"Are you interested in working in Anyang for a while? There is the largest database of oracle bone inscriptions there. You can use your advantage to digitize it and make it available to oracle bone inscription researchers across the country. I can be your recommender!”
"Uh, this..." Zhou Zhi waved his hands repeatedly: "Mr. Qiu, it's definitely not possible now."
(End of this chapter)