: Bridging the gap

The expert Hu Tainai hired was Hou Wenbin, a scholar from Suihua who was engaged in ancient writing research. She contacted this scholar through some official connections and channels, and the other party's response was also very warm.

, now people are already waiting in the room on the other side of Mrs. Hu’s house.

I immediately brought two cards and went to visit this scholar. He was a very gentle, somewhat thin man, about forty years old, wearing glasses with extremely thick lenses. However, he seemed to be farsighted, and the glasses under the lenses looked extremely large.

, are somewhat inconsistent.

After a brief greeting and a few pleasantries, I got straight to the point and placed the first card in Du Juan’s set of golden cards in front of Hou Wenbin. According to Zhang Xinya’s analysis, this set of cards may contain more important information than the other cards.

If the mysterious characters on the back of the card could be deciphered, perhaps the context of the whole matter would suddenly become clear.

Hou Wenbin first glanced at the card, then frowned and remained silent for a while.

Lao Bai couldn't wait any longer, so he asked: "Um... Mr. Hou, our brothers are all rough guys, and they don't know much about this. Some people say that these words can be looked at with a glance, and they look at each other.

Manchu and Mongolian are a bit similar, it is said that this is a kind of Tungus script, what do you think?"

Hou Wenbin suddenly came to his senses and muttered: "It's strange that such words really exist..."

Immediately, he turned to look at Lao Bai and said with a smile: "Comrade, I have to correct you. You should speak Tungus language, not Tungus writing. Language and writing are two concepts. In our professional field,

is very important.

Why do I have to emphasize this?

This is because the vast majority of Tungusic languages ​​do not have written characters. At least, according to our current archaeological discoveries and documentary records, this is the case. The only ones with written characters are Manchu, Jurchen and other very few languages.

Most of these languages ​​belong to the Manchu branch.

As for some Tungusic languages ​​further ahead, they should be completely unwritten. For example, the historically famous Goguryeo, a large country in the northeast that had several conflicts with the Sui and Tang empires, their language Goguryeo also belongs to the ancient Tungusic language.

Yes, but the characters they officially use are still Chinese characters. It can be seen that they most likely have not evolved their own characters. Of course, some people think that they have their own characters, but they were changed by the Tang Dynasty.

After the dynasty was conquered, this kind of writing disappeared. In this regard, I am more inclined to the former. After all, many Goguryeo tombs have been discovered in the Northeast, many of them large-scale, but there are still no traces in them.

The discovery of Goguryeo characters actually proves that they had no writing.

Think about it, the Tunguska are a huge ethnic group with extremely complex traditions. Goguryeo is one of the most powerful empires ever born in their ethnic group, and they still haven’t developed their own writing, let alone other little-known small ethnic groups.

Already.

However, in recent years, there is a theory that has become popular. Basically, in the earliest times, there were a large number of Tunguska tribes dotted in the Northeast and the Korean Peninsula. Some of the most ancient tribes were born among these ancient tribes.

Early writing.

No, it can't even be called a systematic writing. It may just be the prototype of writing, some symbols. The earliest function of these symbols is to use them in sacrifices...

And these symbols are the source of the later Jurchen writing!!

You should know that the Jurchen tribe is one of the Tungus people. The activities of their ancestors among the white mountains and black waters can be traced back to the pre-Qin period. It was not until the founding of the Jin people in about the twelfth century that they had their own writing. So... these

Are the characters really fabricated out of thin air? Many people think that there should be an evolution process, so some people think that the source of the Jurchen script is the symbols used in the ancient Tungus tribe's sacrifices!!"

After listening to Hou Wenbin talk so eloquently, Lao Bai was a little dumbfounded. He originally wanted to use these words to start a conversation, and then ask about the strange skinning custom. Who knew... Hou Wenbin gradually got better.

For a moment, I didn’t know what to say. My two little eyes were as wide as a tortoise’s. They were round and somehow cute...

We actually don’t have much hope for the text symbols on the back of the card. After all... symbols of the same system as these text symbols have appeared in those suicide videos. Even with the relationship between Tianmeng, we can’t find anyone who understands.

Not to mention this remote place.

However, from Hou Wenbin’s tone, it sounds like he’s having fun!

So he asked tentatively: "So..."

"I suspect that the cards you are holding now are most likely the sacrificial symbols used by the ancient Tungus tribe!!"

Hou Wenbin rubbed his chin and said: "I know a little bit about Jurchen script, but not much. As you know, the research on Jurchen script has always been a shortcoming. The main reason is that there are too few archaeological discoveries in this area. For those of us who study ancient scripts,

There is really no good way. I can roughly tell now that the characters on these cards have some traces of Jurchen script, but it must have gone through several generations of evolution from these symbols to Jurchen script. There is no way to infer these characters from Jurchen script.

That’s what it means!”

I was disappointed for a moment and thought, what do you say? I lost all thought of chatting with this guy and asked directly: "What about that weird skinning ritual? How much do you know?"

.”

Hou Wenbin said he didn’t know!!!

Lao Bai, who had been taught for a long time, finally couldn't bear it anymore and interrupted: "You don't know the words, and you don't know the details of the ceremony, so why are you here?"

Hou Wenbin was choked so much that he coughed repeatedly, and his face became a little uneasy. He said with embarrassment: "I just heard about these things, and I was a little curious, so I came to take a look...

Well...as I just said, the speculation that the strange symbols of the ancient Tungus people's sacrifices are the ancestors of the Jurchen script is not groundless, but in recent years, many objects with such symbols have appeared.

, It’s just that these objects are not preserved by the state. How can I put it? This part of the Northeast used to be a foreign land, and no one paid much attention to it. Since the rise of the Manchu dragon, this part has completely entered people’s field of vision. It’s just that

The Manchus protected their Longxing Land very well. At that time, few people thought about it. However, since the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the area has been in chaos. Tomb robbing has become particularly popular, and the local soil among the people has become very popular.

The master was robbing, and the Japanese were also robbing when they came. Even the guards of the tombs were robbing. As a result, the tombs of the Manchu nobles were excavated, and the tombs of nobles from Goguryeo and other countries also suffered. The ancient Tungus ethnic groups in the past were also robbed.

The tombs and relics left behind have been visited one by one, and everything is gone. Things with such sacrificial symbols are basically among the people, collected privately, and on the black market. I know these things exist, but...

…I’ve never seen it before. People who have the ability have gone to big cities to develop, but those of us who don’t have the ability to stay, have no channels and no financial resources, so we can only stare at it!!”

I looked at him with a dark face.

Hou Wenbin immediately said: "However, I am not here for nothing. Now I have read it and roughly confirmed the direction for you. Although I am not an expert in this field, I know the experts in this field!! Among them!

There is one person, who is definitely an expert among experts. He deliberately came to the Northeast to do research in the early years. I studied with him for a period of time. I will give you this person’s contact information later. You can introduce it to Xiaohou of Suihua.

Yes, he should give me some face.

Whether it’s the skinning ceremony or these words, I think it’s all a system, and I guess you can all have the answer there!”

The faces of all of us looked much better now.

Immediately, Hou Wenbin rubbed his hands and asked cautiously: "These inscriptions of yours... are large in volume and have a long history. The value of academic research is really too high. I don't know..."

"Not yet!"

I considered his request for a moment, shook my head and said: "However, please leave your contact information. When we solve our problem later, I can make a copy for you so that you can do your own research.

!”

Hou Wenbin was overjoyed immediately, left us a phone number happily, and then left.

However, after getting this phone number, my hands trembled involuntarily.

This number is so familiar!

Who would have thought that we went around looking for experts, and the experts... were actually right next to us!

This phone number... is clearly Qian Guangqi's!!

Who knows, Qian Guangqi is actually an expert in Tungusic language!!!

"God, what are you so afraid of?"

I closed my eyes in despair and said solemnly: "I have sworn that I will never take the initiative to contact this person again in this life. My family... If we can't protect them, our brothers will fall into the mud. Who knows?"

It went around and around, but in the end the matter was passed into the hands of this person. If I owe him a favor, I'm afraid that my brothers will not be able to pay it back with their lives..."

…

(Sorry, I was interrupted for a whole day yesterday. I couldn’t help it. This paragraph involves the Tungus ethnic group in the Northeast, a nation whose history has been basically submerged. Although I have collected a lot of information before starting the book, when it comes to writing,
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