Chapter 162 Liberal Arts Research Group is online!
"'Quanxian' should have first appeared in the Records of Strange Things by Ren Fang of the Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties. The original text was 'Jiaoren, that is, Quanxian, also known as Quanke'. This record is too late. Even the name 'Jiaoren' did not appear until the Han Dynasty. There were only records of 'Di people' before the Qin Dynasty."
"I don't agree that 'Quanxian' is 'Quanxian'. I still say that the statements we have seen are all deliberately translated by that α. Who knows if there will be any deviations?"
"Hasn't Professor Qiu already deciphered part of the text? Hey? Professor Qiu, please don't fall asleep! Say something, Professor Qiu!"
"Ahem... ah, yes, yes, there is a preliminary proof of some of the texts! That's right! Our team found that many ancient books collected from the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchant Alliance used texts that are highly similar to certain symbols of oracle bone inscriptions. Even most of the deformation and evolution can be found out. So our team is currently using the translation that comes with the game to reverse decipher the oracle bone inscriptions. If what is finally presented is a readable and logical text record, then both parties can verify each other... huh... huh..."
"Oh, I fell asleep again!"
"Let Professor Qiu sleep a little longer. I heard that he hasn't had a good night's sleep for a long time. He must be tired! Come on, let's continue chatting!"
"What nonsense! Doesn't this prove that Guixu Realm and Blue Star have a close relationship? It can't be that the ancient myths and legends were all true, and then one day, everything recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" was split into another world, so Blue Star disappeared, right?"
"As expected of a great writer, he has a rich imagination. This is not impossible!"
"Impossible! The time doesn't match! Our history is only a few years old, while their writing system has existed for tens of thousands of years. The oracle bone script is less than four thousand years old, so their writing system, which is more advanced and more complete than the oracle bone script, must be at least five thousand years old!"
"Hey, Professor Yuan, we can't speculate based on Blue Planet's standards. What if they really have some means of traveling through time and space?"
"It's true that the various concepts in the Guixu Realm that are reflected in the myths and legends of flower planting on Blue Star and the records in ancient literary classics appear in a completely chaotic chronological order! There is no pattern to be found!"
"We can indeed find many concepts corresponding to the 'Xiling clan', but the very contradictory point is that the records in the Wuwei Han bamboo slips unearthed in 1957 clearly prove that the present-day Xiping County was called 'Xiling' before the Han Dynasty. If the 'Xiling' in the ancient legend of the Flower Growers refers to the 'Xiling clan' in Guixujie, then what is the 'Xiling' in the Wuwei Han bamboo slips?"
"The record about 'Xi Ling Shi' in Shi Ben should be the earliest record, and coincidentally, the original text also mentioned Lei Zu - the ancient characters 'lei' and 'lei' are the same, so Lei Zu is 'lei zu'."
"Obviously this is not a coincidence, but what is puzzling is why the history books of our Blue Star Flower Growers record the history of the Guixu Realm?"
"Look at it in a positive way. Isn't this the way it has been since ancient times?"
"What kind of history book is Shiben? It can only be regarded as a reference!"
"In a broad sense, history books are what record history!"
"But it is not authoritative and can only be used as a reference!"
"I don't agree with that. If the ancient books from the pre-Qin period are not authoritative, then what else can be considered authoritative? Even if there are artistic processing, they are still the first reference material!"
…There were constant controversies in the conference room. Several history researchers, ancient Chinese characters researchers, and flower-growing mythology researchers all held different opinions and argued heatedly.
It is now a little after eight in the morning, capital time. The project team has almost rushed several teams of cultural research and text decryption to a meeting on the dot. They have also compiled all the content of last night's communication with Coral, giving each person a copy.
The project team targeting Guixu Realm certainly includes not only various science and engineering research groups, but also various liberal arts research groups focusing on history, text research, and sociology research have also been established a long time ago. It's just that they have never encountered any urgent matters, so they seem to be idle.
This time, diplomacy with the Quanxian tribe has been highly valued and even urgently listed as the top priority of the entire project team. The liberal arts research group has finally come online to show its presence.
The human cultivators in Guixu Realm are short-sighted and have no idea about the Quanxian tribe, but the many scholars and leadership teams of the Flower-Bearing Family are not stupid - a tribe that has been passed down for tens of thousands of years, has its own language and writing, and social system, and is suspected to have a close connection with the ancient myths and legends of the Flower-Bearing Family. There are so many things represented behind this!
The simplest question is - are mermaids and humans so similar in appearance related? If so, why do mermaids live so long while humans can only live for a few decades? If not, what is the reason for the two being so similar? There can't really be a "hand of God" behind everything, right?
While everyone was talking non-stop, Aunt Wang, who had been waiting silently, quietly pushed the only science professor who was deliberately pulled over and was sitting on the Diaoyutai like her - Academician Wu, a famous paleoanthropologist and researcher at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
"Academician Wu? What do you think about this?"
“Hmm…”
Professor Wu was a slow person. He deliberately lowered his voice and said slowly: "I really don't have any idea, Wang Rabbit, you know, this is the first time I have seen a real mermaid creature today..."
"Hey, how can I not have any ideas! Professor Wu, you are definitely the best in human biology." Unexpectedly, someone was sharp-eared and heard what Professor Wu said. He immediately pulled Professor Wu to join the discussion. While talking, he gave a thumbs up and then warmly invited: "We are all a group of people who are engaged in writing and history. Many times, we are prone to professional misunderstandings, right? You see, you should talk about it from your more scientific perspective. For example, do you think this 'Quanxian tribe' has anything to do with us humans?"
"Uh... this..."
Professor Wu felt the hairs on his back stand up when he heard such a long paragraph of flattery. He subconsciously glanced at Aunt Wang, but she just shrugged indifferently and gave him a helpless look. He had no choice but to swallow his saliva and tried to choose his words carefully: "Well, after all, I am only a biologist and don't understand these historical myths. If we talk about it from a biological point of view, I think this mermaid and human beings are very likely to have a very close connection.
"First of all, mermaids live on the bottom of the sea, and in the deep sea. But what kind of environment is the deep sea? It is cold, lightless, and has a pressure that most animals with air cavities cannot survive. In order to adapt to this environment, some organisms have evolved to solve the osmotic pressure problem by adjusting the concentration and composition of body fluids. These structures are completely different from those of the human body, or even completely opposite.
"As for the merman, let's just talk about the upper body. It has no gills and probably breathes with lungs. It is almost impossible for this physiological structure to evolve in a natural state and in an underwater living environment.
"Since these human-like features appeared in an unnatural state, we must boldly speculate why this race living on the seabed did not evolve an appearance that is more adapted to the seabed environment, but instead became more similar to humans?" "Of course, this is just my personal private speculation based on my understanding of biology, and it may be completely wrong. After all, there is spiritual energy in the Guixu Realm!"
Continued from the previous chapter——
Records about Wangshu: Wangshu in front is the pioneer, and Feilian behind is the follower. (Chuci·Lisao) Records about Xian'a: Huainanzi says: Yueyu is called Wangshu, also called Xian'a. (Hong Xingzu (Northern Song Dynasty) added notes in Chuci·Lisao)
The prototype of the Jinling Clan: There is a Dingling country, whose people have hair from the waist down and are good at running on horse hooves. (Classic of Mountains and Seas·Seas Inside the Sea) Records about Leizu: Huangdi married Leizu and gave birth to Changyi. (Classic of Mountains and Seas·Seas Inside the Sea) Records about Xiling Clan: Huangdi lived in Xuanyuan Hill and married the son of Xiling Clan, called Leizu, and gave birth to Qingyang and Changyi. (Book of Family Origins·Volume 1 Emperors' Genealogy) (In addition: there is no "Lei" in oracle bone script, it is "Lei") Other records about Qingqiu have been saturated in immortal cultivation novels, so I won't post them one by one, after all, I'm lazy QAQ
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