The Chinese nation has five thousand years of cultural development and civilization inheritance, isn't there a saying that Chinese culture is broad and profound? In fact, it is true that through the continuous evolution and progress of the ancestors, it has also formed a script that can be initially understood 3600 years ago, oracle bones. It is also a symbol of cultural civilization. However, Chinese scholars have discovered an ancient script, which is tens of thousands of years old and the ancestor of Western writing, so what kind of writing is it?
Yi Wen's discovery
According to the research of mainland scientific expeditions, the earliest writing or prototype of the text we found is the Jiahu inscription, which is 8,000 years away from our present day. You know, in the past 8,000 years, civilization has evolved round after round, and many civilizations have been annihilated in the long river of history.
But the written word, the symbol of this civilization, has been passed down. According to the research of archaeologists, this JiaHu inscription is extremely similar to the oracle bone that is familiar to everyone, and it is carved on the shell of the turtle, and the order of the depiction method is also the same, which does not rule out that there is a close connection between the two.
But what is puzzling is that although this Jiahu inscription is very similar to the oracle bone, there is a difference of thousands of years between the two, which is too long compared to the inheritance of other civilizations and cultural scripts. It also made everyone suspect that Chinese culture was too slow in the early days, but as archaeologists continued to study and discover, they found that it may not be that Chinese culture developed too slowly, but that before the Jiahu inscription, China already had a mature script, that is, Yi. This kind of writing is 10,000 years old, and may even be the ancestor of Western writing. This not only casts a magical veil over the text.
Since it is called Yi, it is conceivable that it is the script of the Yi people. The Yi are the sixth largest ethnic minority in China, mainly distributed in Honghe, Liangshan and other places. In the records, the Yi made indelible contributions to China's anti-Opium War, and in the subsequent War of Resistance Against Japan, the Yi also had countless heroic sons and daughters who sacrificed their precious lives for the cause of the revolution. Although the current Yi people are distributed throughout China and have some gaps in some cultural and folk customs, the characters they have used are the same, that is, Yi.
According to research, Yi is an ideographic script, also known as a syllable script, and is quite similar to Chinese characters in that they are all square ideographs. Therefore, it is not particularly difficult to interpret, and according to the literature of the Yi people, the content is very rich, and it can really be said that the upper knowledge of astronomy and the lower knowledge of geography. It involves a lot of music, mythology, conventions, etc., and even mentions the classic theory of Darwin's theory of evolution, "man evolved from monkeys", which is also a lament about the richness of the cultural history of the Yi people
Spread of the Yi language
In recent years, China has continuously unearthed some ancient cultural relics, and even some cultural relics with a long history that are worth studying. The scientific expeditions are also constantly studying day and night, trying to trace the origin of our civilization and study how human beings evolved.
For some ancient cultural relics carved with some magical characters, this can make it difficult for everyone, because no one can understand what characters are and what they mean. Until the Yi scholar Li Qiao proposed that the character pattern on the cultural relics is quite similar to the Yi script, or can try to use the Yi language to answer, archaeologists have rushed to the Yi scholars and elders to ask for advice, and finally, the meaning of most of the characters was recognized, which also makes people lament the long history of the Yi language.
And the Yi script can not only answer the characters on some ancient cultural relics, but also get most of the answers to all other excavated texts. At this point, the experts probably have a judgment in their psychology, the earliest ancient Yi script may even have a history of tens of thousands of years, that is, ten thousand years ago, the world had the existence of Yi.
And not only that, judging from the imagination of some historical documents and texts, Yi is also very likely to be the ancestor of Western writing. As we all know, the Western alphabet originates from some characters, lines, of the Sumerians of West Asia. The Sumerian characters appeared for 7,000 to 8,000 years, thousands of years earlier than the oracle bones, so Western scholars also believe that the Sumerian script is the ancestor of all the world's writings.
However, the existence of the Yi script shatters this understanding, you know, the Yi script appeared ten thousand years ago, the history is longer than the Sumerian script, and in addition, Western scholars themselves admit that the Sumerian script has many similarities with the oracle bone script. So chronologically, the Sumerian script preceded the oracle bone, and the ancient Yi script appeared before the Sumerian script, so the Yi script is the oldest script.
And as Professor Liu Zhiyi said: "Yi is the oldest script, the ancestor of Western writing." He believes that in the past civilization, the Yi people may have traded with the people of the West or traded goods, so the Yi language also spread to the West, and gradually evolved into the lines and symbols used by the Sumerians. Step by step, it evolved into the alphabet of today's West. And the Yi people in the Central Plains also because of the development of culture, generally evolved the text into the later JiaHu inscription, and then to the oracle bone, etc., and finally formed the Chinese characters we use today, I have to say that this is really the inheritance of the symbolic culture of civilization.
epilogue
Chinese characters are one of the most difficult words in the world to learn because of the polysyllabic characters, and each word can form a different word, and each word has different meanings between them, and there are many protosthes. There are also synonyms antonyms, and ancient poetry also requires rhymes and so on. All of this requires us to have a deep understanding of the culture of Chinese characters.
However, although Chinese characters are difficult to learn, after really learning them, we have to sigh at the richness of the chinese Chinese and the beauty of the language, just like our feelings when reading "The Desert Is Lonely and Straight" and "A Line of Egrets on the Blue Sky", and we have to admire the poets who can use Chinese characters so beautifully. And we must continue to work hard to study hard, carry forward the words of our Chinese nation, and go to the whole world!
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