Zhou Zhi is actually not worried about this. What he does is not so much academic work as it is products.
If we switch to science and engineering as an analogy, what he does is actually more similar to engineering work in liberal arts, which is to apply theoretical knowledge to production and life practice. For example, the Hanwen Character Library is the most typical example.
However, the reminders of the old men should be taken seriously. It doesn't matter if he is embarrassed, but the reputation of the Lao Gu family will be damaged because of it. This is unacceptable to Zhou Zhi.
"The research on the roots of oracle bone characters is a good thing." Mr. Wang nodded: "It is very suitable for the idea of Chinese characters. I heard that it helped me understand the meaning of many characters?"
"Yes." Speaking of this, Zhou Zhi felt a little proud: "For example, the upper part of the word gully means "trap" in Chinese. How did this word come about? What about the one on the right, actually in seal script? , is the root of 'hand', and the upper part of Rui on the left is actually a wooden or bone farm tool similar to Yi in the seal script, and the mouth below is actually the pictogram of a pit. "< br>
"So the original meaning of this word is to dig a hole in the ground with a digging tool in hand."
"In the oracle bone inscriptions, the word "well" is similar to this, but there is no root word for hand. Therefore, people initially understood the word "", which represents farm tools, as the pictogram of a person, so the word "well" was interpreted as a The understanding of a person falling into a pit.”
"After we handed over the root analysis to Xiaozhi, Xiaozhi first searched for the seal script of the character '呑' in "Shuowen Jiezi Collection", and then searched the oracle bone script library based on this seal script. We found out several characters that we thought were variant characters in the past, and thought that those characters with hand roots are the real characters of "Ji"
"We previously understood Yi as a person and thought it was the glyph of the original character. In fact, it is the real variant character and abbreviation."
"Removing the hands at that time did not affect everyone's understanding of the meaning of the word. However, in the subsequent spread, everyone misrepresented the meaning."
"After this character was deciphered, we also understood the origin of the character "trap". The part on the right side is also a corruption of the character "trap" in early oracle bone inscriptions, but this time the tool was removed and turned into a hand-written character. The image of digging a hole.”
"This explanation is obviously more scientific, and it is also some surprises from the introduction of neural network algorithms into the Oracle Fit Project. Xiaomiao played an indispensable role in this process."
"At present, we have cracked more than 300 oracle bone characters through root analysis, of which more than 100 are variant characters and more than 200 are single-body characters. In the past few years, I would throw out a few every year ,Afraid that Master Shi won’t give me a doctorate?”
"The previous words are quite pleasant, but the last sentence is ridiculous!" Mr. Qi has studied epigraphy for a lifetime, so he naturally knows the weight of the achievement of deciphering more than 300 ancient characters.
Especially for single-type characters. The cracking of each single-type character means that a large amount of information contained in ancient characters has been decoded. At the same time, it forms a network connection with surrounding words and sentences, which is a force that cannot be underestimated in promoting the annotation of oracle bone inscriptions.
Cracking more than 300 files at once can be called another milestone in the history of Oracle.
"This is a short-term explosive growth brought about by the introduction of new technologies and new tools, and it is not sustainable." When Zhou Zhi saw the eyes of the two elders starting to shine, he quickly got vaccinated.
"Hahaha," Mr. Wang happily patted Zhou Zhi on the back: "Thank you Xiaomiao. If someone uses this or that to slander you in the future, this will be a shield. It's more than three hundred words! Knowing computers is different. ! ”
"Xiaomiao has always been a treasure!" Zhou Zhi smiled and rubbed Mai Xiaomiao's hair: "I just couldn't play with her this time."
"There are many opportunities! Come back next time!" Mr. Wang took out a copper plate and handed it to Mai Xiaomiao: "You can play with this, it will just match the one with your elbow!" "Ouch, this can't be done!" Zhou Zhi He quickly stood up: "This is too precious."
"This is from Xianfeng. It's far worse than your one-knife-five-thousand-money mother. Don't take it seriously!"
"This is Bao Gong being the Mother of Thousand Eagles!"
It seems that there is always such a pattern in ancient Chinese coins. Whenever there is inflation, the country will choose to issue large amounts of money. The big money policy is painful for the common people, but it is a blessing for future generations of Koizumi collectors.
During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, the peasant uprising of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom developed rapidly and established its capital in Nanjing. The Qing government mainly minted Yunnan copper, but the Taiping Army blocked transportation, causing Yunnan copper transportation to be blocked.
In order to make up for the shortage of copper materials and large military expenditures, the Qing government began to issue banknotes and re-coin large coins in the third year of Xianfeng to solve financial problems. For a time, large Xianfeng coins were minted in various places. Not only did the coins appear one after another, but the sizes were inverted. When a hundred coins were smaller than fifty coins, it often happened. The chaotic currency system hindered the development of social economy.
The circulation of these large coins is very small. Before issuance, copper plates need to be carved out to make money samples for re-casting. These money samples are called "carved mothers". There are even fewer carved mother coins in existence than copper coins. .
The "big copper plate" in Mai Xiaomiao's hands is just such a carving. There are basically no traces of use. The coating is an extremely exquisite passivation film with no rust at all, and the whole body has a copper shine. , dazzling under the light.
The carving craftsmanship is exquisite, and the twists and turns of the text are vividly expressed. On the front are the four characters "Xianfeng Yuanbao" in regular script, on the back are the Manchu characters "Dang Qian" above and below, and on the left and right are the Manchu characters "Bao Gong". ”
The surface finish of the money meat is like a modern polished finish. Anyone who takes a look at this ingenious carving will know that it is a good thing.
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Of course, this carved mother cannot be compared with the value of Zhou Zhi's Han Dynasty's five thousand coins, but it is also one of the big coins that frequently appears in coin collection magazines. Everyone commented that it is the most exquisite one known to the world so far. A big coin carved mother.
"It's not for you, it's for Xiaomiao, why are you so excited?" Mr. Wang looked like an old man who gave his children lucky money during the Spring Festival to stop their parents from accepting it.
"Thank you Xiaomiao for finding us the snuff bottle." Mr. Qi also took out a small seal made of Shoushan stone: "I didn't get it for a while. Xiaomiao doesn't have his own seal yet, right? Let's play with this."< br>
"What is this?" Zhou Zhi took a piece of paper and printed it, and found that it had the two characters "Chun Ya" written in seal script.
Mr. Qi himself has been the president of the Xiling Seal Society, but he has a habit of never making seals himself. The seals he uses for calligraphy and painting all come from gifts from friends and his own collection of ancient seals.
"Deng Shiru, are you familiar with it?"
"It's no stranger to me. There are several pieces of his seal script in the Shu Museum. I also have one of his couplets: On the seat is the autumn water of South China; between the screens is the spring mountain of Beiyuan." (End of this chapter)