Chapter 912: Ciphertext

It looks like papyrus, as if it is just a paper prepared by simply peeling a certain plant and cutting it thinly, with symbols written one by one.

It's not Chinese characters, neither traditional nor simplified, nor any language Yago knows, but Yago can clearly understand its meaning.

The crooked appearance doesn't look like large or small seal script, let alone official script, it's closer to oracle bone inscriptions.

But it was also this point that made Yago look at the notes more carefully.

Although it is not the text of the Celestial Dynasty, it must be related.

A little shadow of simplified characters can be seen in the outline of the glyph structure.

Simplified again?

Yago suddenly remembered an event that happened decades ago in the era of the Celestial Dynasty.

Although this scheme of simplifying the simplified characters was not successful, it still developed for a period of time.

but

It is said to be two simplified characters, but it is not consistent with the set of two simplified characters in Yago's impression.

Whether it is a simplified character or a simplified character, it is not perfect.

Yago is familiar with the Chinese characters, neither the ideograms nor the phonetic characters are accurate enough.

The reason for the former is that after the evolution of characters, their morphological and structural components have been simplified and abstracted, and the function of directly expressing meaning has been substantially lost. Although there are still reservations, it is not complete.

For example, the "day" of the sun is not very abstract, and the direct meaning is still reserved, but other characters, after simplification, abstraction and various variants, have deviated from the original meaning.

But in the final analysis, although they have lost the function of directly expressing meaning, they can still correspond to meanings and text symbols through memorization.

For example, water and ice, although you can’t directly understand that it represents water without knowing the meaning of the symbols "water" and "氵" corresponding to water, but if you memorize the two symbols "water" and "氵", It means water, remember, then when you see other symbols with "water" or "氵", you can understand the basic meaning of "related to water".

These still belong to the category of expression.

If it is a phonetic text, a single character cannot form such a meaning, and several specific symbols are needed to form a word as an affix to complete it.

But the phonogram itself can become a part of pronunciation alone, but the ideogram cannot.

At this time, the status of the two is reversed.

Shui and 氵 are pronounced shui, but there is no "shui" in the pronunciation of lake, ice and other words, which is not easy to memorize.

This is an inherent flaw of ideograms.

In the Chinese characters of Tianchao, the extension of "shengbang", which is close to the category of phonetic characters, has been developed.

However, the side-voice does not fully represent the phonetic.

For example, Pang and Pound, Pong

Either the finals are the same and similar, or the initials are the same and similar, instead of directly becoming syllables——

If "side" is pronounced ang, then it can be regarded as a phonetic character.

In this case, the "sound side" in Tianchao Chinese characters is more like "meaning-phonetic characters" in essence.

The simplification is not complete. Sometimes the glyphs of words with related meanings are related, and they all have the same sound and shape, and sometimes the body and shape are completely different. It is difficult for some people to see the two characters immediately. Reminiscent of the commonality between the meanings of the two words.

For example, "Rang" and "Rang", "Rang" and "Rang" are the same sound.

This is a situation where the simplification of a simplified character itself is not complete enough and there is no exact correspondence.

Yago is naturally familiar with this point.

Those who study history and folklore are not familiar with their own cultural history, but are familiar with the culture and folklore of other regions, which will not happen to Yago.

What's more, the simplification of Yijian characters is actually not perfect, and some characters cannot be linked to the "expression".

But Yago is also clear that the implementation of a simplified character is for the sake of literacy when it is not perfect.

However, when we continued to implement the improvement of the patch version, there were mainly two obstacles, except for historical events.

The first is that the act of simplification itself will detract from the information carried by the text, no matter how perfect it is, it is inevitable.

The second is the power of habit. If it is before literacy, unfamiliar characters only need to be learned once, and after the public is familiar with the characters, then the familiar characters will have to be discarded and learned again.

For Yago, the font style of the text seems to be different from his professional direction?

But it is not.

Strange and mysterious symbols are big names in various mythological, religious and folk cultures.

In China, a country that uses ideographic characters, many of these symbols, symbols related to mystery, religion and folk customs, are directly integrated into the text of daily life.

Divination, fortune-telling, and other occult-oriented things, in the Celestial Dynasty, sometimes directly use words as the medium.

For example, Yago once saw a fortune-teller who asked the customer to write a word at will, and then the person "fortune-tells" based on this word.

Whether it is the Barnum effect or other idiomatic routines, the integration of symbols related to mystery and daily life is very deep.

However, just as ideographic characters lose their original meaning and direct meaning with simplification and shape changes, various mysterious symbols will gradually deform.

However, deformation is also regular.

At least, as Yago saw, the text on this "notebook" did not follow the law of simplification, which is different from the situation where some of the characters in the first and second simplified characters are not perfect, and the related words cannot be completely related. These words are more like dismantling part of them indiscriminately.

as if

In order not to be understood.

In order to let only oneself or specific people understand.

In general, this is called cryptography.

A simple way of ciphering.

Think about it.

Yago frowned slightly, and read it carefully again. After confirming that the correspondence between the glyphs and the information he had captured did not correspond to the Chinese characters he was familiar with, he affirmed his guess.

After confirming, he was puzzled again.

Is this. Xiushi Lu's memory?

The figure seen in the fingernail-sized book page fragments and the fragments of memory and cognition before was indeed Xiushi Lu.

But Yago also remembered that Xiushi Lu was unlikely to use such a temporary "cipher text".

As a bad friend, he remembers very clearly that Xiushi Lu created a set of ciphertexts by himself when he was in junior high school and high school.

It's not something very "technical".

However, not necessarily?

After all, when Yago mentioned the set of "cipher texts" sometimes, Master Lu just told him to stop talking with embarrassment and haste.

"Secondary Two"?

Yago remembered that he seemed to have said so.

The word Yago is not used to it. Although he knows what the word probably refers to, he is more familiar with Eriksson's personality development theory, which describes the excess of self-consciousness and puffed-up personal consciousness in the hearts of adolescent men and women. .

Although the word "Secondary Two" has deducted the roughly corresponding time period for teenagers and boys, Yago feels that this word is not clear enough in terms of nomenclature.