Chapter 243
In those days, the three of us had a lot of fun in Yinchuan, eating Tuofeng delicacies and buying brand-name clothes, and shopping and buying whatever we wanted. Xiaoxuan bought several pieces of handmade Hui clothing, and Douyazai bought several bottles of expensive wolfberry medicinal wine. I asked Douyazai why you bought this at such a young age. Dou Yazai smiled and said, "Ningxia wolfberry is the best in the country. The boss of the wine I bought said that every wolfberry is king, and one is worth ten. I am preparing for my future marriage."
There are two places that impressed me.
We played sandboarding at Potou in Tengrisha. I don’t know if there is any more sandboarding now. Sandboarding involves two or three people sitting on a wooden board and then sliding down the sand slope. It is very exciting. Another place is the Northwest Film and Television Base. We went to play on the city wall, which is the earthen city wall where Supreme Treasure and Zixia Fairy met in the movie Westward Journey.
After playing for a few days, I went back and saw that Baotou was still studying the parchment, so I asked: "Baotou, you have written so many things on the paper, what have you come up with?"
He folded up a dozen pieces of white paper, shook his head and said: "It's too difficult. I went to the Yinchuan Museum the day before yesterday, copied a word on the parchment and asked an associate researcher for help, but... he didn't recognize it either. "
"You don't know anyone who came from a junior college?" I was a little surprised. Many of the researchers at these local museums are big guys. They have a solid foundation in local historical research. The Xixia script is difficult to identify, but a small number of people should know it. That's right.
"Yes," the leader sighed, "The researcher's surname was Ma. He shook his head when he saw the characters I copied. He said that this is a special type of characters in Xixia script, similar to palace scripts, and is only used in the small circle of Tangxiang nobles and royal families. It’s used in, and it’s very difficult to translate it now.”
"Gongwen? Was it also made by Ye Li Ronghen of Xixia?" I knew that it was Ye Li Ronghen who created more than 6,000 Xixia characters.
Just as he was talking, Dou Sprout came into the room with wine.
"What are you talking about? Touhou, try the wolfberry king wine I bought. It's a great supplement!" Bean Sprouts smiled and poured a small cup for Touhou.
"Yunfeng, you guys should try it too," Dou Sprouts poured me half a cup.
He relaxed a lot and took a sip of the good wine, which had a strong medicinal taste.
"Botou, you mean we can't recognize the Tangut characters on the sheepskin?" I asked.
"There is no sign at the moment," he said, putting down his glass of wine, "but in the field of domestic literature and history, there are crouching tigers, hidden dragons. Since Nori Eihito was able to create this kind of writing, I believe someone can translate it now."
The topic turned to the man who created Tangut.
More than seven hundred years ago, Nori Ronghen was a genius. When Yuan Hao became emperor, Xixia still used Chinese. Yuan Hao was ambitious and wanted to make great achievements, so he ordered his minister Nori Ronghen to create a script that belonged to Xixia.
Nori Junghi led a large group of scholars to proofread day and night. After more than two years of hard work, he finally created Xixia script based on Chinese characters. Yuan Hao's initial request to him was: "My dear, I hope to make our own writing tall and unique, so that people from the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty can recognize at a glance that it is our Xixia writing."
Nori Ronghin had to lose all his hair to satisfy Yuan Hao's request. In the end, the characters he created were too many and difficult to write. If it were left to this day and a child was asked to write his own name in Xixia script, he would probably be scared to tears just by looking at it.
In addition to inventing this kind of Tangut script that is used by all the people, Nori Eigen also invented a kind of Tangut script that is used by nobles. The meanings of the words in the version are also different, which can be regarded as the pro version of Tangut script.
Nowadays, no one specializes in learning this stuff. They all look like ghost drawings.
The next morning he came to me and said, "How are you preparing everything? Yunfeng has had enough fun. Let's go back to the Special Department and deliver the things to Aji and the others."
"It's all ready, but the generator is a bit heavy."
"It's okay. I told Mr. Shang and he promised to lend us some good camels. If nothing happens, I'll bring the camels back in the afternoon and we'll set off tomorrow."
"Okay, oh, by the way, there's one more thing," I turned around and asked as I was about to reach the door: "Those things we have..."
He squinted his head and said, "Bring it on."
A few of us went to the camel park to lead some camels. Xiaoxuan was thoughtful. She bought a lot of snacks for children in the supermarket and filled two snakeskin bags. These are gifts for the children of the Hute people. .
After a night's rest, we loaded the generator dolls, snacks and toys on the camel in the morning, and we set off at around 9 a.m.
I originally planned to call the guide Lao Zhang, but I told him that there was no need to call him. I should remember the route more or less, and the people from the Special Department were also waiting for us, so they probably wouldn't move for the time being.
I actually knew it, but I didn’t ask any more questions.
