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Chapter 340 The Progress of Anthropology! (Seeking monthly votes!!!)

Soon, Director Li and Dean Chen submitted the final draft.

This is his final review. As for what happens next, we can only hold a video conference and slowly summarize the remaining shortcomings and flaws.

This project is basically nearing completion. At that point, we probably won't be holding video conferences anymore. Instead, we'll find a venue, hold meetings for a few days, make changes on-site, and then integrate everything together.

His manuscript is almost finished, and he will send it directly to the bookstore to be printed. That will be their academic achievement.

There is no doubt that their academic output is considerable, at least three thousand pages long, and it would probably be even more if it were converted into a dictionary.

"These are the last three hundred characters, and the most characters we can recognize. We are unsure about some of the others, and we are still exploring them."

"Without relevant academic papers to confirm this, we dare not draw any conclusions. After all, compiling a dictionary requires a certain level of rigor. This is a project that will last for generations, and we have already done a good job in this area. As for the texts that follow, let future generations do them."

"Not really necessary. I'll finalize those texts next, and as for the paper, I'll add that later."

Director Li frowned. He felt that the young man in front of him was quite arrogant, but he also felt that there was nothing that this person couldn't do. He also felt a little sad. It seemed that all the years of scholarship they had done were still no match for the person in front of them.
Zhou Yue didn't care about all that. Anyway, he had a database here, which allowed him to access some more advanced knowledge. He was organizing it and considering it his own academic achievement. As for the rest of the text, he would write it down into a paper little by little.

After thinking for a moment, he sent over the ancient characters he had compiled, which numbered about two hundred.

This isn't even finished yet; we can probably still identify about a hundred more.

A dictionary with over a thousand characters is quite good, considering that it examines the origins and development of characters and even includes many different character forms in one place. This requires reading many books and consulting many documents to achieve this.

But when Director Li received these words, his hands were trembling.

what is this?
Two hundred words is equivalent to two hundred very complete academic papers!
After all, when you want to verify a character, you have to gather all the arguments from top to bottom. Those pieces of evidence are scattered in various ancient books. However, the young man in front of you has listed all these documents and verified the character very clearly.

The two hundred-plus words included some that they were still working on and some that they had never seen before, but after reading his research, they found them to make a lot of sense.

Moreover, the arguments are incredibly substantial, almost to the point of being very clear.

“I think we need to discuss these two hundred-plus characters that Professor Zhou mentioned at a conference, and bring together the scholars of ancient scripts. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to determine the meaning of these characters.” Director Li was more serious than ever before.

He really couldn't imagine that someone could achieve such a level of scholarship.
He now finally understood why those architecture scholars were so polite to Professor Zhou, and even their dean of the architecture school greatly admired Professor Zhou.

This person's approach to scholarship is simply unreasonable. Things that you can't understand at all, he almost always gives you the answer directly. Who can resist that!
As for the process, they may need to consider it for a long time before they can give an answer.

"I hope Professor Zhou can understand, because if Professor Zhou's more than two hundred characters are confirmed, it will definitely have a huge impact on the entire process of philological research and the academic achievements of many historical document studies."

Director Li was not exaggerating.

Ancient texts, even a single word or sentence, contain profound meanings.

For example, in the Zuo Zhuan, a single word can express praise or criticism, representing the attitude of the ancient sages at that time.

Therefore, the identification of an ancient script will definitely have a huge impact on the entire discipline, and it is no exaggeration to say that it will bring about earth-shattering changes.

It can have a huge impact on the history of a nation, the entire academic process, and even beyond academia, in many other aspects.

Philology, history, and the collation of ancient books (also known as textual studies) and philosophy.

Anthropology. Both are of great significance.

This is just based on one important character; the ancient script research has revealed that it has such a significant impact.

But what about right now?
More than two hundred!

He felt his hands were trembling slightly; the fact that they could recognize a thousand characters was already quite good.

The intention is to leave those unsolved texts, or rather, mysteries, for later, allowing people to interpret them further.

After all, the study of philology is not a project that can be accomplished by one generation alone. For example, during the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods, there were cases of the knowledge being passed down from father to son.

The study of writing has continued from ancient times to the present, with almost every generation engaging in this field of study.

Now you're telling me to just do the textual research of the last thirty years?
Yes.

According to Director Li's initial estimate, even if all these characters were verified, it would probably take at least thirty years. Verifying two hundred characters in thirty years is already a very fast pace.

After all, the document had just been issued from above.

A reward of 100,000 yuan will be given for each ancient character discovered.

But now, more than two months have passed since the document was issued, and not a single word has passed their expert review.

Insufficient materials.

Or perhaps the justification wasn't sufficient. When the higher-ups give money, they naturally have to be very rigorous in approving the funds.

Therefore, even some ambiguous proposals were rejected, and they were asked to reconsider or continue to improve them.

This document may trigger a surge in research on ancient scripts.

But it's not that dozens of them can be researched in a year.

He even felt it was highly unlikely that the figure would be in the double digits.

Some basic papers should at least be published, and at the very least, they need to be recognized by the public, or be considered as academically recognized works.

all in all.

Those two hundred-plus words truly terrified him.

He studied it his whole life, but he still couldn't figure out more than two hundred!
And we also have to take into account his teacher's research achievements.

He is widely recognized as the last great literary master.

However, despite occupying such a high academic position across two generations, they may have only managed to produce a few dozen words of research.

"Teacher Zhou is really defying the heavens."

(End of this chapter)