Chapter 17 "Book of Changes" built by stone

Still a pyramid. According to the correspondence and predictability of the various construction data contained in the pyramid and the rules of celestial bodies, some modern scholars assert that this is a kind of intelligent will of the ancients to future generations. In my words, they are like the "Book of Changes" built with huge stones. Later generations will read them if they can understand them, and if they can't read them, they will be alone in a corner, waiting for more distant descendants. When all the impossibilities have become facts standing in front of us, it can be said that the pyramid has a partial subversive energy for the common sense of literature and history that we have been talking about for a long time.At least, it points out that we should have several more grammars in our interpretation of the profound meaning of civilization, rather than just adding vocabulary under one grammar.I might have been able to interpret part of it, but unfortunately the Europeans did two unforgivable bad things.

The first is that in 47 BC, when Caesar captured Egypt, he burned 700,000 volumes of books in the library of Alexandria, including the famous "History of Egypt"; The second thing was even worse. Four hundred years later, in 390 A.D., the Roman emperor banned paganism and dispersed the only Egyptian priests who could read ancient characters. As a result, all ancient books and monuments were quickly deciphered. up.If the first thing is similar to the burning of books by Qin Shihuang, then the second thing is exactly the opposite of Qin Shihuang, because Qin Shihuang unified Chinese characters, which is equivalent to establishing a code covering the land of China, and ancient history will no longer be partially annihilated because no one interprets it. .

It should be noted that the greatest annihilation is not the loss of books, but the loss of the ability to interpret their words. Here I see at least one technical reason for the interruption of Egyptian civilization and the continuation of Chinese civilization.At first glance, writing is just a tool, but China is so big, its composition is so complex, and the dialect system is so powerful, and the concepts of region, ethnic group, and social status are so strong that even agricultural tools, utensils, accents, and diets cannot be unified. How difficult!In other places of civilization, the biggest problem faced by modern archaeologists is the recognition of ancient characters. It often takes decades to guess a few, and some are basically unreadable even today, but this situation is not seen in China. Even the oracle bone inscriptions were quickly deciphered.

I think that the so-called ruin of civilization is not the disintegration of ancient city walls, but a large area of ​​dark ancient characters with no meaning at all.For this reason, standing by the Nile River, I miss Qin Shihuang a little bit. When the pharaohs mummified their remains, so did the history of Egypt, but Qin Shi Huang kept Chinese history alive.We are now reading ancient books thousands of years old, like reading a letter just sent by a few friends who like classical Chinese, which is something that few other civilizations dare not imagine. Standing in front of the pyramids, my biggest emotion about Egyptian culture is: I only know how it declined, but not how it was built; I only know how it left, but not how it came.

It's like a giant who came from nowhere, silently performed a few brilliant moves and then crashed to the ground, touched his pocket, leaving no name, place of origin, or will, how awe-inspiring. Climbing is forbidden in the pyramid, but there is no one to stop climbing the eight or nine steps below.I climbed up a few steps, raised my head close to my body, and looked up at it for a long time.After thousands of years of aging, it has lost any neat details, all right angles have become round and blunt, and all straight lines have become quivering pens, so it looks like a natural product made by heaven and earth, but in general, the jagged details are still integrated into one. straight pen.

The pyramid opened two strokes without making a sound, and wrote a Chinese character.The two strokes are steep and neat, and the top points directly at the sun, which makes people blind. Only the white clouds are set off on the half slope. Hearing Xu Gehui say eternity in front of the camera, it seems to mention that they will still be like this in five thousand years.This gave me an idea The Pyramid has refused to reveal why it is so eternal, but it has revealed what eternity is. Always simple, always rough, always unbending and straightforward, always occupying the junction line of desert and aquatic plants, always accepting and slipping away from the millennium wind and sand.

It is the tragedy of Egyptian civilization that it cannot be deciphered, but for the pyramid itself, it is more permanent than those easily deciphered civilization relics.Popularity is the channel for others to invade, and logic is the ladder for future generations to step on, and it simply comes to indifference and builds a barrier.Therefore it may be added It is always a burial of intentions, and it turns complicated logic into sincerity. In the afternoon of October 9, 1999, in Cairo, Egypt, staying overnight at Les 3 Pyramides Hotel