Gao Jiaxin solves the mystery of the authenticity of "Dream of the Red Chamber" outer chapter 03 - "Rosetta Stone"

This unit will try to solve the mystery of the authenticity of the Rosetta Stone, which is collected in the British Museum, using the method of solving the "Dream of the Red Chamber".

The stele goes like this:

It is said that the surface of the stele is engraved with the enthronement edict of a pharaoh of Egypt BC. The edict is written in three scripts, the uppermost hieroglyph is the holy script used by the rulers of ancient Egypt, the middle is the secular cursive script used by the poor, and the bottom inscription, dense and small, is the translation of the ancient Greek script of the Egyptian script.

Why do Greek characters appear on the stone tablets of the pharaohs? It is said that Egypt at that time was subject to foreign rulers, who demanded that Egyptian documents must be translated into Greek.

Since the discovery of the stele, there has been a great deal of debate in the academic community about the authenticity of the stele.

On August 24, 2021, Yu published the unit "The Latest Achievements in Red Studies - "Cao's Dark Legality", giving you a new "Dream of the Red Chamber"" and putting forward a point of view: "Taste from the book to the book to solve", which is one of Cao Xueqin's important writing methods.

"From the book to the book to the book" extends to the Rosetta Stone, which means "from the stone tablet to the stone stele". The mystery of the authenticity of the Rosetta Stone also needs to be answered from the words on the stone tablet.

First, the text on the stele is divided into three parts according to the font: the uppermost hieroglyph is a sacred script dedicated to the gods, which represents the heaven in which the gods dwell; the civilian cursive script in the middle represents the earth; is the greek at the bottom representing hell? This is a shocking conjecture.

The holy scriptures used by the Egyptian pharaohs were above the secular bodies of the commoners, and it is easy to understand that the pharaohs and priests were naturally superior as rulers of the Egyptian people; but what about the nations? The script of the foreign rulers, the Greek language, is below the ruled language, and there is still a distinction between people and between people, but what about between countries? If Egypt at that time was really subordinate to foreign countries that used Greek, the Greek on the stele should be above and below the sacred and secular texts, at least side by side. The self-contradiction of the affiliation between the three scripts on the stele cannot escape the suspicion of forgery without a reasonable explanation.

In addition, the stone tablets are divided into sacred and secular forms, indicating that there was a concept of hierarchy in ancient Egyptian society, which was also reflected in the decoration of the names of the elders. It can be seen that the names of the pharaohs and their families in the script of the holy scriptures on the stone tablets are framed with decorative lines, and this decoration should be the prerogative of a small number of ruling classes, and the majority of the commoner class is most likely unable to adopt them. But it is suspicious that in the secular body contrasting with the sacristy, the inscriptions of Pharaohs and other names are not decorated at all. Commoners were free to write the pharaoh's name in cursive secular form without the slightest bit of superiority and inferiority, which contradicted and contradicted the hierarchical concept of society expressed in the holy script.

To sum up the above two, Yu believes that the Rosetta Stone is forged, and the purpose of forging the stone stele is to forge a inheritance relationship, that is, Western civilization is inherited from Greek civilization, and Greek civilization is inherited from Egyptian civilization.

Finally, I still want to say that Chinese civilization is open and inclusive, abandoning competition and confrontation, integrating together, and common development is the greatest well-being of mankind.