Chapter 13 Section 3 Khitan Founded Small Characters

Today, Khitan script has become a dead script that no one knows, and even archaeologists have not been able to decipher a complete sentence.Therefore, the Khitan language is known as an unsolved mystery of the 21st century.So what kind of writing is the Khitan script, and why has it become a mystery? There are two film and television drama versions of Mr. Jin Yong's famous book, one Hong Kong version and one CCTV version, both of which have a scene-Xiao Feng's father was killed by mistake, and before he died, he carved words on the cliff.If you look carefully, you will find that the version of Xiao Feng's father in Hong Kong is engraved in Mongolian, while in the CCTV version, Xiao Feng's father is engraved in Khitan, which is the kind of Chinese characters at first glance, but you can't recognize them when you look closely. of.

We all know that the creation of characters by a nation marks the entry into the age of civilization.Especially the Khitan people, as a grassland nation, they have their own writing.Of course, large Khitan characters are not particularly easy to write, nor are they particularly easy to use. For example, the monosyllable "天" in Chinese characters is pronounced as "Tenggeli" in Khitan, so it is awkward to write this character with three sounds.So later the Khitan people created Khitan small characters with reference to the Uighur script, and the Khitan small characters spread more widely.

It is a pity that the Khitan script is so strictly banned that the Khitan script is almost kept as a state secret, and no one in the Song Dynasty can recognize the Khitan script.In this way, once there was a war with the Song Dynasty, the Khitan document was intercepted by the Song Dynasty people, and the Song Dynasty people would not recognize it, which was equivalent to a password.Since people in the Song Dynasty did not understand the Khitan language, the Khitan language gradually became a dead language after the Khitan tribe was wiped out by later powerful nations.Of course, some scholars are now researching and deciphering it, mainly based on the unearthed epitaph (with Chinese characters on one side and Khitan script on the other), but it can be said to be a hard work.

The Khitan people created their own characters, marking their entry into the age of civilization, coupled with the advice of the Hanchens, the Khitan's national power began to flourish.However, when the national power was booming, something happened that made Emperor Taizu Yelu Abaoji (now called Yeluyi) very sad-Han Yanhui ran away.Han Yanhui has made such a great contribution, why did he run away?