How do people remember things when there are no words? 5

In order to remember one thing, the ancients tied a knot in the rope. When he sees this knot later, he will remember it. If he had to remember two things, he would tie two knots.

Remember three things, and he will tie three knots, and so on. If he ties a lot of knots in the rope, I'm afraid he won't be able to remember what he wants to remember, 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:

Ionian men, from the day you saw me on my march against the Scythians, every day you untie a knot in the rope, until the day I untie the last knot, and if I do not return, pack up your things and sail back by yourself. ”

Marking the stone is also one of the ways to help with memory, and the result is of course the same as knotting a rope note. In this way, you can't record the thing itself, it can only play the role of a reminder to remember, and it is impossible to remember too much.

The ancients also used stones to mark the northernmost and southernmost points of the sun's projection, and scratched the rocks to calculate the number of days in the solar and lunar cycles, so they drew up the calendar.

Knot the rope to remember, tie a knot to remember one thing, and when you're done, loosen a knot.

When counting, take a string and tie a pimple, and a few numbers will tie a few pimples. When recording an event, draw a symbol according to the shape of the thing, and sometimes a picture. In fact, each word in ancient times is like a painting, which is drawn.

Of course, it is by oral narration, which is why there is an ancient legend.

If you want to keep counting, I guess you use the knotted rope method.

One: Knotted rope notes.

Two: carved wood notes.

1 Knotting the Notes.

2 Graphical notes.

3 Carved Wood Notes.

In general, it is a sign note.

Hieroglyphs Rope knots.

They are represented by different drawings.

Who said there was no writing in ancient times?。。 Oracle bone inscription is not an ancient script?

Ancient Methods of Remembering].

Before the advent of Chinese characters, the main methods of remembering the events of the ancestors were:

1) Knotting the rope - for fear of forgetting, just knot the rope and remember, big knots for big things, and small knots for small things. This has nothing to do with the production of words.

2) Carved deed - cut bamboo and wood for the book, remember things in a carved way, and carve one tooth for one thing. This method also has nothing to do with the creation of the written Sakura, but it continued for a long time after the creation of the written word. One is used to express the agreement, a bamboo board or wooden board, cut in the middle, both parties each hold half of the spinal fluid, with the two halves in one to fulfill the agreement, so there is still a saying that the "contract" of the debate.

The second is to write the course content on a large wooden board, the edge of the engraved teeth, called "karma", the teacher gives the "karma" to the students, and the students remove a tooth every time they learn a paragraph, so teaching is called "teaching", and students are called "completion" or "graduation" after school

3) Bagua - use a long horizontal to represent the positive (called "nine" in the "Zhou Yi"), two short horizontal to represent the negative (called "six" in the "Zhou Yi"), the two symbols overlap into three, there are 64 combinations. This is more indicative of complex things, but it is still not directly related to the production of words. Later, it was used for divination.

Before there was writing, ancient people used physical objects, knotted ropes, and deeds to keep records.

Physical memorization is the use of physical objects as symbols to help memory or expression.

Simple physical record-keeping, mainly used for counting or timing, some ethnic minorities in the period of cultural underdevelopment of the concept of numbers is relatively poor, they commonly use counting tools such as corn kernels, small stones, small branches, etc.

Complex physical records, that is, the appearance of objects, such as the horns of cows to represent cows, the use of chicken feathers to represent chickens, etc. For example, betel nut, grass tobacco, tea, and salt are used to express friendship, gunpowder, bullets, and chili peppers are used to express hostility, severed beef ribs are used to indicate the breakdown of relations, and chicken feathers, charcoals, and bamboo arrows are used to express the urgency of the matter.

The method of knotting ropes has been popular in many countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Australia, and also has ancient origins in China. The longest memo rope is 250 meters long, and there are people in various places who specialize in using and explaining the memo rope, called "Quup".

The simple knotted rope is used for memo or counting, before the liberation of the Dulong clan and relatives and friends on a date, they will use the knot rope to remember and count the days of the meeting, and when the knot is finished, they will meet at the meeting place.

Complex knotted ropes are different according to the size, part and color of the rope, such as the eight knots of a debt knot rope of the Wa people in Yunnan, and each knot has a different meaning. The ancient Indians of Peru in South America dyed the knotted rope in seven colors, the black knot meant death, the white knot meant silver or peace, the red knot meant war, and so on; The number of undyed knots is ten, double knots are hundreds, and triple knots are thousands.

Engraving is another kind of physical notekeeping method that the ancients used to help memory after the knotting of ropes, and it is mostly used for contracts, that is, using a knife to engrave deeds on materials such as bamboo, wood, bones, and horns to remember. The deed can be cut into two parts, and each party holds one copy, which is not as easy to change and act as a knotted rope, so it is widely used in various contracts.

The frescoes painted by primitive people, most of their subjects are animals, and their images are concise and have strong symbolic characteristics.

The Sumerian hieroglyphs, the Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Roman Latin, the Greek phonetic abstract symbols (the earliest alphabetic forms). With knotted rope and deed inscription, there are pictorial characters, oracle bone characters, ancient texts, seal scripts, official scripts, regular scripts, line scripts, and cursive scripts.

Knotted rope notes, carved wood notes, etc. Originally, the characters were written on oracle bones, silks, and brochures.

They use symbols and some rope.

I'm also okay with children's bedtime stories, no.

In the era when there was no invention of the writing stove, it could only be memorized by oral transmission, and people also invented the method of knotting ropes to remember things, that is, large.

Things are tied in a big knot, small things are tied in a small knot, and connected things are tied in a chain. Later, it developed to use a knife to carve symbols on wood and bamboo as a note. With the development of history, civilization has progressed, things are complicated, and there are many famous things, and the method of knotting and carving wood is far from meeting the needs.

There is an urgent need to create words. Yellow Emperor.

At that time, not only the invention of silkworm breeding, but also the debate Liang Ming boats, cars, bows, mirrors and cooking pots and retorts, etc., under the influence of these inventions and creations, Cangjie.

I was also determined to create a kind of writing.