Explanation of knotting notes
There were no words in ancient times, and knots were used for memory. "Easy. Cohesion: "In ancient times, there was a method of tying ropes, and later sages changed it into a book contract." Confucius said, "Zheng Kangcheng, people tied the rope and put a note on the cloud. If this matter is tied up, this matter will be summarized. " Jin Gehong's "Bao Puzi Shi Jun": "If the boat and the garage can't work, the pen and ink will become knotted, and the latter is better than the former." Later refers to ancient times.
For example, kipu (or khipu) is a method used by ancient Incas to tie records with ropes to count or record history. It is made up of many knots of different colors. This method of knotting sounds has been lost, and no one can understand its full meaning yet.
Knot notes (counting): a recording method initiated by primitive society to reflect objective economic activities and their quantitative relations in the form of knots. Knotting notes (counting) is one of the recording methods widely used by primitive ancestors. Literature records: "In ancient times, there was a rule of knot, and later there were sages who used books easily, and hundreds of officials could rule, and everyone could observe" (Yi Ci Xia).
Although the knotted objects left by primitive ancestors have not been found yet, the net patterns in primitive social paintings, rope patterns on pottery, pottery net pendants and other objects all show that the net of ancestors was the main condition for fishing and hunting at that time. So there was an objective basis for taking knot notes (counting) as a recording method at that time.
According to ancient books, the method of tying rope is: "tying rope for big events;" Small things, sum up their ropes, and the number depends on many things "(19 Yan Jia), that is, according to the nature, scale or quantity of the events involved, different knots are made. Ethnological data show that some ethnic minorities still record objective activities by knotting in modern times.
Today, no one keeps records in this way. However, for ancient people, these knots were the only clues they used to recall the past.
Historical allusions of knotting notes
In order to remember one thing, the ancients tied a knot on the rope. When he sees this knot, he will think of it. If he wants to remember two things, he will tie two knots. Remember three things, he can tie three knots, and so on. If he tied a lot of knots on the rope, I'm afraid he can't remember everything he wants, so this method is simple but unreliable. It is said that Darius, king of Persia, gave his commanders a rope tied with 60 knots and said to them, "People of Ionia, from the day you saw me going to Cecilia, you untied one knot on the rope every day until the day I untied the last knot. If I don't come back, I'll pack your things and sail back by myself. "
Zhang Xian, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote, "The heart is like a double screen with a Qian Qian knot inside.". Describe the state in which the family misses the old friend and their thoughts are tangled after the girl's lovelorn. In classical literature, "knot" has always symbolized the lingering feelings of young men and women. How colorful human emotions are, and "knots" are ever-changing. In the long process of evolution, "knot" has been endowed with various emotional wishes by sentimental people. Jie Jie suggested that in Chinese, many important events with centripetal convergence are almost metaphorical, such as knot, couplet, oath, alliance, unity and so on. The marriage events between men and women are also represented by "knots", such as marriage, marriage, union, marriage and so on. Knot is the beginning of things, with a beginning and an end, so there are "results", "endings" and "endings". Such as a token of love, its "concentric knot" has been a vow of eternal love between men and women since ancient times, "embroidered with acacia knot, tied with brocade clothes" and so on. Knots have been regarded as an emotional thing by people. "Married couples" also originated from the wedding night of the ancients, and both men and women took a pinch of long hair to swear eternal life. There is a poem that says "cross the silk into a dragon and phoenix, colorful flowers decorate the clouds, an inch of heart, a hundred years of flowers" is a vivid description.
Other extensions of knotting notes
Precautions for breaking knots-Precautions for knots don't mean "tying the knot on the rope to remember things", but actually "tying the rope" means tying the rope on the flagpole. Several different ropes tied to the flagpole represent the union of several different tribes, and the word "thing" in "Knot Notes" is not "thing". "Billing" means that some colleagues hold flags and use a few ropes. After the "note", the pennant came into being, and then the present flag came into being. The second half of the game is the image of the knot.
Xi Murong has a poem on this subject: Notes on Knoting Ropes.
Riddles: knotted ropes (playing procedural terms 1) Answer: original records.