Many listeners were very interested in this theory, and some asked him which classic record it was in, and wanted to read it themselves.
Guo Kang also supports this.
"This is a systematic theory, which is of great reference significance for us." He told everyone: "If you are interested, I can find some for you."
"However, these books were originally written in classical Chinese." He thought for a while and added: "Although someone has done Greek translation before, there will inevitably be losses and changes in meaning during the translation process. . If you really want to read the original meaning, it’s best to ask brothers who understand Chinese for help. Let’s study and think about it directly. This will not only help you understand the meaning, but also learn the language by the way.”
"Among the Eastern classics of the classical era, the "Spring and Autumn" series is considered the best to understand. It should be a lot easier to start from here. This is how I felt when I studied the classics with my grandpa."
Everyone expressed their understanding.
Unlike other churches, the Purple Horde Khanate does not restrict the translation of scriptures or the use of languages, and even encourages everyone to translate and spread more. This has nothing to do with religious concepts - or rather, it is because the Khan's court has no religious concepts and has never cared much about doctrinal issues.
Their focus was mainly on the cultural impact and how to deal with the language mess in this place. Moreover, because the three scriptures of the Roman Church were first written in Chinese, they would not work without translation. So in order to promote it, almost at the same time as it was launched, there was a Greek translation.
As for more people, their language and writing are more messy. According to the classification of the Greeks, they all speak Slavic dialects. But in this place, unlike the Central Plains, language and writing are closely linked. Two different dialects have different ways of writing. When broken down, any two villages can be counted as different writings, which is definitely not possible.
The Khan's response at the time was to recruit a group of priests for training and then let them train others.
As early as hundreds of years ago, the Greek priest Cyril invented a set of phonetic symbols based on the Greek alphabet to record the Slavic language. However, the Roman Church believes that it is just phonetic notation and there is no need to develop so many systems. Otherwise, if everyone has to learn that after learning this, wouldn’t it be a waste of time?
So, this is actually the old question about language again.
In the view of some senior priests, both the Greeks and the Slavs actually had no writing. "Shuowen Jiezi" says, "When Cangjie first wrote calligraphy, his writing was based on pictograms, so it was called wen"; and the word "wen" was "wrongly drawn, and the images were intertwined with wen". This means that when Cangjie created characters, he used pictographic techniques and used interlaced strokes to record them. This is called writing. Many subsequent types are derived from this basis.
Over thousands of years, Chinese characters have undergone many changes, but changes in language and changes in writing are independent of each other.
Scholars of this era already know that the writing and accents of different eras may be different, but the changing trend of writing is very obvious, that is, with the change of writing materials, it is developing in the direction of more convenient writing. This change has nothing to do with the change in spoken pronunciation.
The so-called writing here is just the opposite - this thing follows the spoken language, so it will change accordingly.
In Chinese, the emergence of dialects and changes in the language itself do not affect the shape of the characters and will not change the way of writing. But in the languages of the Mediterranean world, this cannot be done. It was the discovery of this phenomenon that led the priests to develop such theories.
Some priests studied ancient classics and found that there were relevant records in some ancient stories. For example, in the story of the Tower of Babel, the Heavenly Father changed the languages of all mortals so that they could not understand each other, which led to the ultimate failure of the construction of the Tower of Babel - the word "Babel" means chaos.
But the priests discovered that what Heavenly Father changed was the language, not the words.
So, they thought, the reason here was clear: Heavenly Father was merciful, and He forbade people from speaking the same language because the people in Babylon were too evil at that time. Heavenly Father knew that together they could accomplish anything, and He purposely separated them so that they would not be able to wreak great havoc on the world.
But He would not completely ban mankind’s efforts to unite. On the contrary, He deliberately left words as a breakthrough for future generations. In the long history that follows, good people will eventually defeat evil people, and civilization will eventually defeat barbarism. At that time, through unified words, mankind will be able to unite again and get out of the chaotic "Tower of Babel Era" and return to the ideal "Eden Eden".
To illustrate vividly, some people quoted the ancient fables of the Greeks.
It is said that Prometheus created humans and stole fire from the sky and gave it to them. The Greek gods were angry and wanted to punish Prometheus and humans.
However, Prometheus was very vigilant and they never succeeded. So, the gods made Pandora, the first woman in the world, and gave her a clay pot, which contained greed, hypocrisy, slander, jealousy, pain and many other evil things. Because Zeus believed that Prometheus would not be fooled, he asked her to be handed over to his future husband.
When Pandora came to the world, Prometheus saw that there was something wrong with her, but his brother Epimetheus was obsessed with Pandora's beauty and insisted on marrying her despite his brother's persuasion. Sure enough, after the wedding, Pandora took the opportunity to open the clay pot, and all the evil inside came out, causing harm to the world.
However, Prometheus's old friend Athena also participated in the creation of humans and felt pity for them, so she secretly put "hope" in the clay pot. Therefore, when all disasters have escaped, only hope remains.
In the eyes of the priests, these characters were not gods but symbols. For example, "Prometheus" in ancient Greek means "prescience" and represents human wisdom; "Epimetheus" means "hindsight" and also means regret. This type of story was caused by the ancients being inspired by Heavenly Father but failing to understand it correctly. Without the religious worship part, it can still be regarded as a valuable fable.
With this kind of last remaining hope, you can see similar situations in many places.
Therefore, some radical priests directly proposed that Chinese characters are this kind of "hope" for human beings.
If mankind can be progressive enough to restore civilization based on this last "Eden text", Heavenly Father will happily approve and bless it;
On the contrary, if mankind continues to fall and lose even the Chinese characters, Heavenly Father will initiate judgment, destroy this sinful world, and start over.
These priests also established a religious organization called "Tower of Babel". Their main job was to lobby and publicize everywhere. They also often went to remote areas to teach others to learn Chinese characters. To this day, there are still people active.
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