Chapter 293 Dragon Character
Ancient myths, especially the most important myths, are often passed down by word of mouth and will not exist in the historian's history books... Read the latest and most complete novels
Because, in such a thoughtful Confucian and Taoist world, even recording history must be qualified, and not anyone can record history. When recording history, historians must conduct on-site verification and after many research and confirm that it is a fact, they can only record it.
What is recorded in this way is history and myth history. And those myths in ancient times are almost difficult to study, so even if a historian in the semi-saint's literary position wants to record it forcibly, it will take a lot of thought and effort. He even has to push back based on fortune-telling to determine the facts.
Just like Sima Qian, the "peerless historical saint" of the Han Dynasty, his "Records of the Grand Historian" was a masterpiece of historians created after many researches, references and field investigations of historical books of history, and on-site investigations and visits. However, after all, there are some parts that cannot be verified, which were written vaguely by Sima Qian through great sacrifices and later calculations.
As for another way to record myths is to write myths into novels. In this way, the myths can be recorded and passed on without using precise textual research. However, the threshold for novelists is also very high, almost not weaker than the historians' textual research.
Especially if you want to record that shocking myth, it is probably only possible to write it if you are a novelist or more than half-saint, or multiple great scholars, and combine it with each other. Last time in Jian'an Mansion, the novelist Xiao Qisheng of Dasiong, wrote "Shennong Tastes Hundred Herbs". This is a very famous article in mythological novels, written by several great scholar-level novelists.
Because myths are difficult to record in both historical books and novels, word of mouth has become the main form of myth inheritance. In this way, only a large family like the Su family that has been passed down through orderly for thousands of years can know more ancient secrets and myths.
Now, the myth about the Ancestral Dragon and Cangjie mentioned by Su Zhong is part of it. Cangjie wanted to create the word "dragon", but when dealing with the Ancestral Dragon, he encountered many difficulties. Even the Holy Emperor Huangdi was injured by the Ancestral Dragon.
So in this way, how was the word "dragon" created in the end?
Such a question lingered in everyone's mind, and Su Lin was also surprised, and he couldn't think of it. At that time, so many powerful humans were dispatched, but they were not able to subdue Zulong. What other way could there be?
"Uncle Second, Ru'er found that the story you told was really nice. I will tell Ru'er every day in the future..."
Su Ru was also fascinated by the hearing. She seemed to see a huge golden dragon, fighting with countless human mighty people, finally breaking through the predicament, trapped the dragon ascended to heaven, and fled.
"Indeed! Mr. Su is right. Our Mo family seems to have passed on some related myths. I have also heard that the character "Dragon" was one of the most difficult characters created by Cangjie, and Cangjie even wanted to give up creating the character "Dragon".
Xiangkaiwu is the direct inheritance of the Mohist school, so naturally some myths are passed down by word of mouth, but he did not know some of the specific details.
"Uncle Second, don't keep it aside. Tell me how the word "dragon" was created in the end? If your demon master doesn't say anything, I can take back that piece of the best dragon blood coral ink..."
Su Lin felt itchy. If he had this question, if he didn't solve it, he would probably not be able to sleep all night.
"Hehe! Su Lin, so it's up! Uncle Second will not take advantage of you in vain. Not many people in the entire Tianren Continent knew about Cangjie's creation of the 'dragon'. If it weren't for our Su family's ancestor Su Qin who passed it on from his teacher Guiguzi..."
Su Zhong smiled proudly and continued, "In fact, in the end, all the powerful humans were dispatched. They could only trap the ancestor dragon for a while, and there was no enough conditions for Cangjie to understand the mystery of the word "dragon". Moreover, Cangjie at that time also realized the profoundness of the word "dragon", so in the end he had indeed given up creating the word "dragon".
"Give up? Impossible! If you give up, how could there be the word "Dragon"? Second Uncle, you can't deceive us. Ru'er can write this word "Dragon"... You see..."
Su Ru picked up the pen and ink from the living room and wrote a big and beautiful word "dragon" on rice paper, ascending to the sky and dancing wildly like a flying dragon.
"Yes! Second Uncle, if Cangjie really gave up creating the character "Dragon", then where did our current character "Dragon" come from?" Su Lin also asked in confusion. Even though Su Lin had three ways of thinking, no specific clues, and a mythological allusion from tens of thousands of years ago, he could not think of one even if he wanted to break his head.
"That's right! I didn't lie to you. Cangjie really gave up creating the character "Dragon", and... the character "Dragon" we are using now is indeed not created by Cangjie." Su Zhong said with a smile.
"What? The word dragon was not created by Cangjie? Can the word "dragon" still be transformed out of thin air?"
Everyone present was shocked. Su Lin, including Su Lin, knew since childhood that all the Chinese characters used by the human race were created by Cangjie, the saint who created the character. But now, Su Zhong told them that the character "Dragon" was not created by Cangjie, which was tantamount to a violent earthquake in their minds.
"Uncle Er, you are a big liar! Why don't Ru'er believe your nonsense? Although Ru'er has only learned to recognize words for a few months, she also knows that the Chinese characters we use are all created by the Saint Cangjie. The character dragon is no exception...Uncle Er is a big liar!"
Su Ru was the first to object, after all, this was really unbelievable. Su Lin, Xiang Kaiwu and others did not argue, and looked at Su Zhong in confusion, waiting for Su Zhong to explain further.
"Uncle II, it's not that I don't believe you. If the character dragon was not created by the Saint Cangjie, who else could have the ability to create characters? Who else could have the ability to defeat the powerful ancestor dragon and understand the essence of the character dragon?" Su Lin also asked in confusion.
"Su Lin, think about it. At that time, if only one person in the entire Tianren Continent knew the true meaning of the word "Dragon", then who would this person be?"
Su Zhong asked with a smile on his beard touching his chin, and when Su Lin heard this, his eyes immediately lit up and he shouted in surprise: "Uncle II, what do you mean... is Zulong himself?"
But when he thought of this result, Su Lin immediately denied it himself, "Impossible! Impossible! The ancestor dragon wants to fight Cangjie hard, and even does not hesitate to be enemies with the entire human race, just to avoid Cangjie understanding the idea of the dragon character and creating the dragon character. How could he create the dragon character himself? This is too contradictory and is fundamentally inconsistent."
"Su Lin, don't rush to deny this conclusion. In fact, the word dragon used by our human race is really created by the Zulong himself."
Su Zhong smiled and continued, "At that time, he defeated Zulong, who seriously injured many powerful human races, escaped and suffered considerable injuries. Moreover, after this confrontation with the human thought monks, Zulong further understood the terror of the human race monks. Therefore, he wanted to resolve the past grudges with the human race monks and seek a stable future for his dragon sons and grandsons..."
"Indeed! If it were the situation at that time, many divine beasts and ferocious beasts fell one after another in the hands of powerful human thought cultivators, although the descendants of the dragon clan led by Zulong were the most powerful divine beast community, they would inevitably be sad about the rabbit's death and foxes. But, because of such worries, would the arrogant dragon clan's ancestor dragon be willing to bow to the human race?" Su Lin shook his head and said.
"The thoughts contained in the word dragon are very profound and strange, and no one can see through them. Even the Dragon King of the East China Sea and others contain the strongest bloodline of the ancestor dragon, they do not have a deep understanding of the thoughts of the dragon. Even so far, only the ancestor dragon has been the only one who can fully interpret the meaning of the dragon."
Su Zhong continued, "Although Zulong is very confident about this, he began to be afraid and loosen when he saw the ideological breakthroughs made by the human monks. He was afraid that the human monks would really understand the mystery of the dragon character, so his dragon sons and grandsons would be easily slaughtered by the human monks like other divine beasts and ferocious beasts. Therefore, he simply found Cangjie directly and asked for help Cangjie to create the dragon character. But the prerequisite was that the only holy character created must belong to his Zulong..."
"So that's it! I understand, Uncle Second, Zulong must have wanted to use this method to block all the ways to understand the Dragon Clan's thoughts. As long as he masters this only holy dragon, even if there are genius monks in the human race, it is absolutely impossible to understand the true thoughts of the Dragon."
When Su Zhong said this, Su Lin suddenly realized it. Combined with his own understanding of the Pinyin Holy character, he understood Zulong's intention more deeply. It was really a long-term plan!
"Yes! This is what the Ancestral Dragon means, but the Saint Cangjie is not so easy to talk to. At that time, the relationship between the Ancestral Dragon and the human race was very stale. However, the Saint Cangjie was about to arrive, so in order to create the character dragon, he had to agree to the condition of the Ancestral Dragon. However, an additional condition was also proposed, that is, the Ancestral Dragon would give away part of his Ancestral Dragon blood and implant it into the blood of our human race for inheritance..."
Chapter completed!