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Text Chapter 1027: God¡¯s will is about to drop the elephant, and the turtle will emerge from the trap

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    How dare Wang Guan forget? Even if he forgets, Mr. Zhou and others will surely be there to remind and urge him.

    "What's the meaning?"

    "However, Mr. Xu didn't understand the code word, or he somewhat understood it, so he wanted to ask clearly.

    "It's not interesting, keep reading."

    At the same time, Mr. Zhou said with a smile: "The Bogu pictures from the Wanli period are rich in pictures and texts, and they are printed very clearly. The most important thing is that there are no insects or wrinkles on the pages, so they can be called rare books."

    "It is a rare book."

    Seeing that Mr. Zhou and others did not want to say more, Mr. Xu did not ask any more questions, but smiled and said: "However, I have never pursued any rare books, rare books, or complete books. As long as they are ancient books, I am willing to collect them. These books have been passed down for thousands of years.  Ancient books from 1970 are very precious, unlike today¡¯s books that can be printed in batches and published unlimited times. For these ancient books, which are rare, the economic value is only secondary, and protecting them is the key.¡±

    "That's right."

    For a moment, everyone was convinced and agreed.  The reason why Chinese civilization has been passed down for thousands of years without interruption is because everyone pays attention to history and passes down books, and has a rich collection of classics, so that the essence of national thought and culture can be passed down.  It can be said that ancient books are the treasure house of Chinese culture, and every ancient book is worthy of careful study.

    Some people collect books to show off and show that they are rich in knowledge; some people collect books just as a hobby so that they can read them frequently and learn more from them; some people collect books to protect and pass on culture.  This is a kind of progress, and someone should do some things. Otherwise, the traditional culture of the Chinese nation would have been cut off long ago.

    After reading Bogutu.  Mr. Xu took out another set of ancient books in the general category, telling historical stories.  In addition, there are Zhaoming's Selected Works, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, etc., whether they are orthodox literature or popular readings.  He has a collection.  After all, ancient popular books that can be passed down to the present can be regarded as works by famous writers.

    The most typical examples are naturally the Four Great Classics.  these writings.  At that time, it was still classified as pornographic, but everyone knows human nature. The more forbidden something is, the faster it spreads.  After hundreds of years of precipitation.  Naturally, it has accumulated a lot of popularity, so that many people now make a living from these books.

    certainly.  Among Mr. Xu¡¯s collection.  Not only these precious ancient books, but also some black tigers.

    As I said before, the so-called black tiger is the common name for inscriptions on stele.  The main reason is that there are many counterfeiting techniques for inscription rubbings, making it difficult to distinguish the authenticity from the fake ones.  It was like being bitten by a tiger.  However, the ink rubbings collected by Mr. Xu are a bit strange. They are not simple inscriptions, but some strange patterns.

    "That's weird, what is this?"

    At this time, Mr. Zhou picked up a page of ink rubbings and studied it carefully for a moment, but he couldn't figure it out. He frowned slightly and said: "This kind of paper has a color like topaz and a texture like child's skin. It should be commonly used by the powerful in the Ming Dynasty.  Gold foil paper. And the ink color of the rubbing is like cicada's wing, so it must be a cicada's wing rubbing. The question is, what is the rubbing?"

    "Brother Zhou, there are times when you don't understand." Mr. Xu smiled, quite proudly.

    "If you don't understand, you don't understand." Mr. Zhou said calmly: "The world's knowledge is as bright as the stars. We ordinary people have no knowledge. If we can understand a small part of it, it is enough to be happy. How dare we say that we know everything in the world."

    "Too."

    Mr. Xu nodded in agreement, but he did not rush to reveal the answer, but let others watch and figure it out.

    Wang Guan and others were naturally quite curious, and gathered around to take a look. They saw that the ink was blackened, and then some mottled marks were formed.  At first glance, these traces appear to be chaotic, but upon closer examination, there are some patterns.

    After studying for a while, everyone felt very baffled and shook their heads to express that they had no idea what this was.

    "Brother Xu, don't be so pretentious."

    At the right time, Mr. Zhou urged: "Tell me, what kind of rubbing is this? It should not be simple to rub something with such precious gold foil paper."

    "Well, I feel the same way." Mr. Xu agreed: "So I took it in."

    "Huh?"

    For a moment, Mr. Zhou said thoughtfully: "From what you said, I don't seem to know what the rubbing is."

    "Haha, you are right."

    At this time, Mr. Xu smiled sheepishly and said: "You big experts can't understand it. How can I understand it clearly? I just recognized that this paper is the gold foil paper of the Ming Dynasty, so I bought it."

    "Eh¡­¡­"

      For a moment, Mr. Zhou and others shook their heads.

    "If it were you, you would do the same thing."

    Mr. Xu said proudly: "The buyer didn't know that this was gold foil paper, and he didn't know what it was, so he gave it to me at a very low price. Putting aside other things, the money for this paper is enough.  I earned it back."

    "No wonder"

    Everyone suddenly realized that they had missed it.  Ancient paper has great room for appreciation, not to mention the very precious Ming Dynasty imperial paper, which was supplied as tribute paper to the royal family, and its value is certainly not low.  No matter what the extension is, the paper itself is valuable enough.  Of course, if the rubbing is rare enough, the price will definitely increase several times.

    "Speaking of which, I seem to have seen these rubbings somewhere."

    It is said that there is strength in numbers. After studying for a while, an expert hesitated and said: "There seems to be something similar to this in the information on the Forbidden City."

    "Really?" Mr. Xu's eyes lit up, but he didn't doubt it.  After all, there are so many classics in the Forbidden City, so it is not surprising that there are similar things.

    "It should be." The man said uncertainly: "You also know that things like this that are inexplicable and have no clear classification can be easily put into a corner for safekeeping and storage when no results can be found after research. I am also sorting them out.  When I was there, I saw it occasionally, but I didn¡¯t take it seriously.¡±

    "In this case, when I go back, I will look over it again." Mr. Zhou said casually: "I will tell you the results once I have them."

    "good¡­¡­"

    Mr. Xu nodded slightly, and he understood Mr. Zhou and others quite a bit.  After all, there are too many things in the Forbidden City, and each expert's research is inconsistent, so it is normal to not know the situation.

    "actually¡­¡­"

    At the same time, Wang Guan hesitated and said: "Don't you think this looks like the texture of a tortoise shell?"

    ¡°Turtle shell texture?¡±

    For a moment, everyone was stunned for a moment, and then started to look at it again.

    After a moment, Mr. Zhou immediately shook his head and said: "No, the texture of the tortoise shell is in pieces, in the shape of regular corners, and these are lines and some inexplicable small dots, which are completely different from the texture of the tortoise shell."

    "Mr. Zhou, I dare to say this, I must be somewhat sure."

    At this moment, Wang Guan took a few pages of rubbings, spread them out, and then said: "In my opinion, these pages of rubbings are only part of them. They should be rubbings on a large piece of tortoise shell.  Then break it into pages.¡±

    After Wang Guan laid out a few pages, two or three of them were connected, and an outline appeared, an outline of a tortoise shell, which naturally confirmed that he was not lying. Mo Tuo might really be a tortoise shell.

    "Huh."

    After taking a look, Mr. Zhou and others were naturally even more surprised.  Because judging from the outline, the rubbing tortoise shell is really not small. One piece of the shell alone is as big as a plate.  It can also be inferred from this that the entire tortoise shell is amazingly large.  The most important thing is that since it can be confirmed that the thing is a tortoise shell, the lines and dots on the tortoise shell should have been carved later

    "Hetu Luoshu?"

    Thinking of this, Mr. Xu blurted out.  For a while, others also somewhat agreed.  There is no way, after all, in the impression of the Chinese people, the things with pictures and text carved on the tortoise shells are either Oracle Bone Inscriptions or the famous Hetu Luoshu.

    What is the Book of Lotuluo? It is a mystery that China has been studying for thousands of years and has not been able to completely decipher.

    "Book of Changes" says: "The river produces pictures, the Luo produces books, and the sages follow them."

    Scholars usually interpret these sentences to mean that in ancient times, dragons and horses with figures on their backs appeared in the Yellow River, and divine turtles with figures on their backs appeared in Luoshui.  Fuxi drew the Eight Diagrams based on the graphics on the dragon and horse; Dayu formulated the Nine Domains based on the graphics on the turtle, which are the nine categories of laws that govern the world, including methods of controlling floods.

    According to legend, long before the appearance of the Divine Turtle in Luoshui, when Dayu's father Gun was controlling the water under Yao's order, a group of turtles called and trailed past one after another, leaving traces on the ground. It was based on such traces that Gun came up with the idea  A method of building embankments to keep water out.  Although Gun's flood control was not successful in the end because blockage was not as good as dredging, Turtle made great contributions to flood control.

    There are also myths and legends. During the ancient flood, all mankind was drowned by the flood, and only two brothers and sisters were left in the world. It was the giant tortoise who saved them, and mankind was able to reproduce.

    In short, Hetu Luoshu is the source of Chinese mysticism.

    And the ancients have always believed that the secrets of heaven and earth are hidden in tortoise shells.  In the earliest literature about tortoises, the upper cover of the tortoise shell was compared to the sky and the lower cover to the earth, and the tortoise shell was regarded as a miniature of heaven and earth.

    The turtle isIt is a divine object that corresponds to the stars in the sky, so it has a spirit.  There is a texture on the back of the turtle. The ancients believed that this texture was given by God and contained mysterious contents. Only saints could understand its secrets.

    This is the so-called will of God, and the image will fall, and the tortoise will appear.  It is for this reason that among the four spirits passed down from ancient times, only the turtle is the only real thing.  In addition, the green dragon, red bird, unicorn, etc. are all imaginary creatures.

    The thousand-year-old tortoise and the ten-thousand-year-old turtle can live for such a long time, and the turtle has naturally become a symbol of longevity.  It's just because of Confucius' saying that old people who don't die is a thief, and after extending it, turtle became a curse word.

    ¡°Young people are still smart and react quickly enough.¡±

    At the same time, Mr. Zhou glanced at Wang Guan with an expression of approval.

    "That's right, young people's minds work faster." Mr. Xu also sighed. He has had the thing in his hands for several years, but he didn't see any clues. He just made a judgment after looking at it for a while

    It¡¯s great to be young!
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