A lot of content has been written on the stone wall now.
In addition to the ropes and baskets mentioned in the first two days, there are more bows, arrows, barrels, fruits, wood, armor, etc. in the back.
All diaries contain a few simple pictographic characters and do not use the simplified Chinese characters that Xu Chen is most familiar with.
A bow is represented by an arc plus a vertical line;
The arrow is an arrow at the top, a vertical arrow in the middle, and a small arrow on each side of the bottom to represent feathers;
The wood and fruit are even simpler, but there are actually similar simple graffiti murals on the stone walls;
A is more complicated, with a cross in the middle representing a person and a grid-like pattern.
Time and weather cannot be recorded too carefully. We can only use simple hieroglyphs such as moon, sun, clouds and rain to express the general outline. Year, month and day are impossible to appear.
As the saying goes, if you go beyond one step, you are a genius; if you go beyond ten steps, you are a heresy.
He didn't want to do something that would frighten these primitive people with something beyond their knowledge.
Hieroglyphics happen to be a characteristic of civilization that humans in this era have just begun to produce.
Because he is not the only one graffitiing inside and outside the cave. In fact, it has long been filled with all kinds of random patterns. Most of them were drawn by a group of children. There are trees, birds, various animals and flowers, and even
There are some strange patterns drawn by some adults using mineral pigments of different colors, many of which contain rudiments of text.
However, these are not real words, they are just describing what they see, hear and think, and they do not correspond to the language of daily communication.
Moreover, some of these messy patterns have been around for a long time, and the imprints are of different shades. It seems that some of them have been gradually formed since this group of primitive people lived here, maybe decades, or maybe hundreds or thousands of years.
Recently, Xu Chen has been writing a diary on the stone wall every day, and a group of children have followed suit and painted more.
However, Ye saw that the area where he was writing was very tight and did not allow children to draw. He even used animal skins dipped in water to wipe away some of the messy things originally drawn on it, leaving him with a
Large blank spaces can record a lot of things.
I went down the mountain for the first time today. Although I didn't gain much, I still gained a general understanding of the surrounding environment and a deeper understanding of the living conditions of this group of primitive people.
At this time of year when plants are ripe in abundance, there is no shortage of food.
There are also many animals, not only a large number of wild beasts, but also countless fish in the river.
However, with the crude tools of these primitive people, most of the time they could only return empty-handed.
Although snakes, turtles and hedgehogs can also satisfy hunger, they are not a long-term solution after all. These things also have different seasons. When autumn really comes, they will hibernate and cannot be found at all.
Besides, hunting itself is not in line with the human way of survival. Even if the bow and arrow were invented, hunting every day for a living would still be extremely dangerous and hidden.
Any bite or injury from a snake is almost fatal.
And just by collecting it in the wild, you can indeed eat enough in summer and autumn, but what about winter and spring?
Food cannot be preserved, and when food is scarce, it will be even more deadly.
Therefore, farming and raising livestock, and slowly abandoning gathering and hunting, is the long-term development direction of the tribe.
There is wheat at the foot of the mountain.
Xu Chen used charcoal to draw the shape of a mountain under the last diary entry, and added a wheat pictogram behind it.
There are fish in the river.
The second observation is recorded below. A flowing water represents the symbol of a river, followed by a fish pattern.
There are snakes in the grass.
On the third line, draw a pictographic grass character at the beginning, followed by a snake pattern.
There is a beast outside the valley.
In the fourth line, draw the shape of a valley, followed by the hieroglyphic characters of the beast.
When Xu Chen was writing, Ye squatted next to her and watched very carefully. Every time Xu Chen wrote a word, he would point at her and teach her how to pronounce it.
Over the past few days, she has been able to recognize the words she wrote a few days ago, and can even imitate them herself.
The rope, basket, bow, arrow, etc. invented by Xu Chen have become new words recognized by all tribesmen.
However, as more and more things are invented, more and more words will be created. Xu Chen feels that education should be used to promote the unified language and writing of the tribe, which will be more conducive to future communication.
So he decided to take some time to teach Ye and a group of children how to read.
Education should start from childhood.
Adults have become accustomed to the fact that natural things are difficult to change, but children are still a blank sheet of paper, and it is easy to twist it.
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The next day, a group of men divided into two teams. The young hunters with higher strength went down the mountain to hunt, while the remaining few stayed on the mountain to learn how to make bows and arrows with Xu Chen.
This kind of crudely made bow and arrow is not complicated, and there is no need for Xu Chen to explain it repeatedly. In fact, after seeing the bow and arrow, a group of men already knew how to make the bow and arrow. They just needed Xu Chen to provide some experience and simple guidance.
These primitive people were more familiar with the surroundings and more comfortable using tools such as stone knives and stone axes. Therefore, in just half a day, they got back a lot of materials for making bows and arrows. A group of people sat in front of the cave, chopping and chopping.
Very happy.
Xu Chen, on the other hand, has a lot of free time to arrange his own affairs.
In order to find clay, you must first make a stone hoe.
However, this thing is thought to be simple, but in fact it is not easy to do.
After spending half an hour breaking through a lot of rocks, he still didn't get the look he wanted. He was so angry that he pushed a few naughty children nearby and beat them up, and then went to the woods to spend an hour.
, chopped back a 7-shaped old tree root, and then chopped off two stone axes, and finally turned the root into a wooden hoe.
The wooden hoe is not a tool unique to primitive people. Even in the 21st century, it is still used by ethnic minorities in Yunnan and Guizhou. Xu Chen once visited the Dulong River Basin in Gongshan, Yunnan, and the local ethnic minorities
This agricultural tool is still widely used.
Moreover, the local ethnic minorities even retain very primitive living habits, which are similar to the group of primitive people in front of us. A group of men and women live together after marriage, and there is no fixed relationship between husband and wife. Once married, men and women do not distinguish between husband and wife.
, can court each other, but intermarriage is not allowed within the tribe, a typical tribal clan inheritance.
They have language but no writing. They carve wood and knot ropes to record events. They do not use livestock for farming. They are still stuck in the extremely primitive slash-and-burn cultivation stage. Men like to hunt with bows and arrows, and women gather and gather food, which is also an important source of food.
It can be said that the living habits of the Dulong people are almost the same as those of the primitive people in front of us.
The only change is that the government provides them with electricity and transportation, and people have clothes to wear.
If it weren't for the changes in his body and the difference in the surrounding climate and environment, Xu Chen would have known that he had traveled through time, otherwise he wouldn't have been too surprised if others told him that he was now in a very primitive ancient tribe in Yunnan.
After all, he had seen scenes of primitive ethnic minority life, which were almost the same as this.
Although this hoe is crude and crude, it is very unusual for a group of primitive people.
Because the sticks currently used for digging plant roots are all wooden sticks, and they can only be sharpened for ease of use.
Therefore, after the wooden hoe was made, it immediately attracted a group of men and women who were making bows and arrows and drying food. They watched in amazement, and then followed Xu Chen into the woods. When they saw him, he easily
When a big hole was dug, everyone screamed in excitement.
This is another great invention that has never been seen before. It is more magical and useful than the rope, and almost only a little worse than the rattan basket.
So a woman couldn't wait to go down the mountain carrying a wooden hoe.
As expected, the good news was reported to the leader Mu Ba.
Xu Chen didn't care. He took out his bow, reworked it, polished it, and re-twisted a few stronger strings to use as bow strings. After finishing it, he looked at the sky again. It was just noon, so he gathered a group of children.
Come over and teach me how to read in front of the cave wall where I write my diary.
"Read with me, Rope~"
"Shengga!"
"rope!"
"Shengga!"
"Next, basket~"
"Bankaga!"
"basket!"
"Bankaga!"
Oh, your uncle!
Xu Chen had black lines all over his head. Every time he taught a word, these little savages always had the habit of adding a "ga" at the end. No matter how much he was taught, they could not change this oral habit.
While a group of children were reading loudly along with them, a group of men sitting nearby who were making bows and arrows and twisting ropes were also cheering and reading loudly, and the sound of rattling echoed throughout the mountainside.
There are a few dogs, they are really a bunch of savages and there is no way to teach them.
Xu Chen's face twitched in anger, but he had been stubborn since he was a child and was not a breed that could easily be led astray. Therefore, he vowed to change the savages' chattering habits, so he called a group of children next to each other to follow.
Read aloud together, no "ga" allowed, hit the palm of your hand if you make a mistake.
So there was a child who was hurt by the beating and started to cry and want to skip class.
But Xu Chen, who had just gotten addicted, was not willing to give in. He pinned the two most noisy little savages to the ground and beat them severely.
"Muga,%￥#..."
The little savage who was beaten began to cry for his father and mother, but a group of men didn't care at all. They watched and laughed while making bows and arrows to thwart leather ropes.
Because in this matrilineal group marriage system, men are only responsible for hunting and breeding, and the children only recognize their mothers but not their fathers, and no one knows who their father is.
Although some women looked distressed and wanted to come over to persuade him, they were immediately stopped by several older women nearby.
Although they didn't know much about what Xu Chen did, many of his recent inventions and innovations had brought huge changes to the family, and the things he wrote and painted on the stone walls were novel and mysterious, and he had obviously begun to transcend.
According to their cognitive scope, a group of older women and mothers all agreed that everything Xu Chen did must have special significance and may be closely related to the prosperity of the ethnic group, so Xu Chen should not care about anything he did.
Under this mentality, a group of children became miserable. After being beaten continuously for half an hour, they started to cry and change their habit of talking.
After more than ten days of getting along, Xu Chen was able to roughly understand the daily communications of this group of primitive people.
It's nothing more than eating, drinking, eating, and simple knowledge.
The origin of words is mostly onomatopoeia, and more complex communication is mixed with rich body language.
Because there are no words, a complete language system cannot be formed.
Xu Chen's purpose is not really to teach a group of children how to read, but to use this kind of education to start from childhood and subtly transform them into the language they are accustomed to.
So he initially taught himself a few innovative things.
Rope, basket, bow, arrow, armor, etc.
This will not conflict too much with the ontological language of the current group of primitive people, and will avoid arousing too much suspicion among these primitive people and producing some unpredictable consequences.
After all, the more ignorant you are, the more you believe in ghosts and gods. From the perspective of primitive people, there are too many incomprehensible things in the world, and they can all be attributed to the control of gods.
For example, Xu Chen's death and resurrection is already scary enough, but a sudden change will only frighten them, and it will definitely not make them happy.
Just after Xu Chen almost corrected the pronunciation of a group of children, the mother bus hurried back from the way down the mountain with a few women carrying rattan baskets, naturally still holding the wooden hoe in her hand.
"get out of class is over!"
Xu Chen dropped the wooden stick in his hand and waved, and a group of children cheered and dispersed.
"Chen Ga, #@￥..." Mother Ba walked up to Xu Chen excitedly and pointed at the wooden hoe.
"hoe!"
"Hoe Ga?"
"hoe."
"Hoe!"
Okay, Xu Chen nodded resignedly, "Hoe!"
Mother's face was even more excited. She held Xu Chen in her arms and praised her. Then she called the two men who had made the tools over and pointed at the wooden hoe and started giving instructions.
The two men nodded repeatedly, then took the stone ax and went to the woods to look for wood to make a wooden hoe.
The mother did not stay in the cave for long. She poured the food she had brought back into the cave and arranged for people to dry it before drying it. Then she hurried down the mountain with a few women.
Now is the time when food is ripe in large quantities. In order for the tribe to have enough food to survive the winter and spring, they have no free time at all.
With rattan baskets and backpacks, they can collect much more food this year than in previous years.
And the wooden hoe Xu Chen made today will be a sharp tool for digging roots and stems.