The heavens from Bailuyuan

Chapter 147 Guns and Bacterial Warfare
After Minister Wu left, Bai Gui cleaned up and went to the lecture hall to attend class.

Although he is now considered successful and has a certain reputation, his academic qualifications cannot be discarded. The difference between dropouts and graduates is still quite large. Anyway, there is only more than a year left for the preparatory course.

There are not many liberal arts courses.

According to the calculation method of Kunlun Mirror Dao Gong, education can also obtain a certain degree of Dao Gong.

It is also a way of learning.

Today is Tuesday, Fire Day.

A class.

No. [-] High School is a Western-style school, and it is also a university preparatory course, so the lecture hall is modeled after a Western-style university, and the classrooms are stepped.

This class is the history of Japan.

"In ancient times, men distributed them in two, tied them on the left and right, and decorated them with pearls. Divided down to the ground, it is also called Meiluozhu, and it is also named after the topknot..."

""Dong Ying Ji Zhu": In ancient customs, the hair of fifteen or sixteen years old is bundled on the forehead, and the seventeen or eight is divided into horned forehead hair. "Ancient Century" called it gourd flower, and later generations called it temple blessing..."

"Men and women don't shave their fetal hair. Men at twenty cut off their top hair, leaving only four more, and put it in a bun on the forehead. The hairpin on the right is small Ruyi. Ruyi is also divided into high and low grades. This is also the same as before. Shaved on the moon. A few inches above the forehead, the order said: 'Yuedai'..."

On the stage, a professor with gold-rimmed glasses holds a pointer in his hand, and is teaching the etiquette and customs of Japan, and talking about the changes in hair accessories and clothing of people in Japan from ancient times to the present.

Bai Gui sat in the first row, in the middle.

This seat is also exquisite.

Although Japan has been westernized, its hierarchy is strict. Such a good position in the first row must be vacated for ministers or seniors. If ordinary people sit in a bad position, they will be excluded and coldly violent.

And he is the deputy minister, also the second, and enjoys his success.

"Fujiwara, tell me about the changes in beard and hair before and after the Restoration!"

Professor Dongying History paused for a while, and his eyes fell on Saburo Fujiwara in the center.

"Mr. Hui..."

Saburo Fujiwara got up, thought for a while, and replied smoothly: "Tokugawa Ieyasu once said to Kato Kiyomasa: 'There are three things to hate about the public, and one is beautiful. Monks..."

"In recent years, I have been learning Western customs, and I regard beard as the most important thing. At the age of thirty or forty, my lips, chin and chin are as far away as bamboo..."

He answered very smoothly, and every sentence was refined.

"good."

"You sit down."

Professor Dongying History nodded slightly, and then looked at Bai Gui who was on the side. One of them asked a question, and the other two came, "Mr. Bai, as I said just now, there is a record of the Black Tooth Kingdom in the "Hanshu". ..., has Mr. Bai done any research on this?"

He knew Bai Guizhi's Spring and Autumn Period, and he specialized in history books, otherwise it would be impossible to write such a masterpiece as the Great Qin Empire.

Asking now is even more difficult than asking Saburo Fujiwara before.

Fujiwara Saburo was asked what he had already said, but Bai Gui was asked what he had not yet said.In terms of address, it is also more respectful.

"Mr. Shiraishi, I happen to have some research results recently."

Bai Gui nodded, put down his textbook, stood up and said, "The so-called black tooth country is a custom. A woman who shaves her eyebrows and black teeth means she is married..."

"It is recorded in "Yi Jue Liao Miscellaneous Notes" written by Zhu Yi of the Song Dynasty: "Today's women cut off their eyebrows and paint with ink to cover the ancient methods." Liu Xi, a native of the Eastern Han Dynasty, said in "Shiming": "Dai, Dai Also. Get rid of the eyebrows to replace them. When a woman is married, she will have her teeth nippled and make her black as paint.'..."

What he meant by this sentence is that it is recorded in the literature: the black teeth in the country of black teeth is a custom, and the nirvana means that the woman has married as a woman.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were already records of some small countries in Dongying. This black-toothed country was on the island of Dongying Honshu.

For example, "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" records: "From the queen's country to the east... although they are all Japanese species, they do not belong to the queen. From the south of the queen's country for more than four thousand miles to the dwarf country, the person is three or four feet long. From the dwarf to the southeast for a year, To the naked country, the black-toothed country..."

It is worth mentioning that in Japanese, Wa and Yamato have the same pronunciation, but people in Dongying also know that Wa is not very pleasant, so when translating into Chinese, they translated themselves as Yamato.

"Bai Jun is very knowledgeable and knowledgeable, which is admirable!"

Professor Dongying History pushed his eyes on the bridge of his nose, showing admiration, but waited for a while, and then said: "It's just... In the early years of Meiji, our country promulgated the order to abolish black teeth and ordered innovation, but now the teeth are like shells." , eyebrows bent like moths!"

"Teachable!"

Bai Gui frowned slightly and sat down.

When Dongying told its own history, it did not conceal it at all, and it was also because of the drastic changes under the Meiji Revolution.

In this way, on the contrary, it proves the legitimacy of the reform...

The worse the previous dynasty was, wouldn't it prove that the current dynasty was more popular and won the destiny? !
However, this is not to say that Professor Dongying History deliberately targeted him.

Just tell the truth.

However, combined with the current environment, it is inevitable that the people of Dongying know more about self-innovation and self-improvement, while the Qing Dynasty, on the contrary, is self-styled and gradually dilapidated...

The Japanese Kingdom and the Black Tooth Kingdom recorded in the "Book of the Eastern Han Dynasty" are all extremely derogatory words against Dongying.

The Chinese civilization is like this. There are no good words to describe the surrounding barbarians. Only the Han is strong, what is the Xiongnu, what is the Yelang Kingdom...

But the big man must have his reasons for saying this. At that time, the big man was the beacon of human civilization, while Dongying was still a land of barbarians.

Although the Qing Dynasty is backward at this moment, there is not such a big generation gap with Dongying, and it is almost the same.

Do not doubt yourself.

after class.

"Mr. Shiraishi, please stop..."

Seeing Professor Dongying Shi about to leave in the corridor, Bai Gui chased after him.

"Bai Jun, what's the matter?"

Professor Shiraishi looked puzzled, but his attitude was very polite.

"It's like this. Listening to Mr. Baishi's lecture today, I feel a lot of emotion. I have finished the first volume of the Great Qin Empire, and the second volume is almost ready. I am going to write some other things, such as... the customs of various countries, cultural studies... …compared with each other…”

Bai Gui considered his words and said.

Professor Shiraishi asked him a question today, which made him a little touched, and he also had a little idea of ​​what to write in his next book.

Originally, when he studied the history of Japan, he planned to write "Tokugawa Ieyasu" or "Toyotomi Hideyoshi", which would definitely make him rise from an ordinary writer to a famous writer.

But... Today, he felt that it was necessary for him to write something else.

Like Guns, Germs, and Steel!
This book is very famous in later generations. It won the 1998 Ameiken National Pulitzer Prize and the English Popular Science Book Award. It can be said that it is basically a must-read best-selling work...

At the same time, it is also the best counterattack to some arrogant people!
(End of this chapter)