Chapter 120 "Natives"

These ideas of his were not just random ones.

People from different cultures and regions have different habits for self-identification.

In the countries and regions where he lived, the fusion of surnames and clan names, and the fusion of "names" and "characters", were mostly simplified because of the redundancy of meaning.

After the fusion of names and characters, the clan names that often change and the surnames that rarely change basically followed the previous rules. The addition of characters to names gradually disappeared after the "modern times", which was also an event node and a manifestation of social changes at that time.

The order of generations originally reflected in the "characters", such as Bo, Zhong, Shu, Ji, Meng, etc., is itself a manifestation of history.

The disappearance of these generational markers is also a manifestation of historical events of an era.

In addition to what was said before, if there are many people with a certain surname in an era, then it means that a related event occurred in that era, and it is a manifestation of the prosperity of a certain tribal family or powerful person.

Going back to the early era before the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the increase of a certain clan name probably means that the population of a certain tribe has multiplied to the point where it needs to be separated and marked with a clan name.

In the future, if the family with this surname prospers and the slaves have more descendants after being given surnames, the unique "surname-granting" history of his country during his lifetime will be reflected.

In his era, there were several major surnames such as Zhang, Wang, Zhao and Li, which was itself a manifestation of the prosperity of a family or power in the historical dynasty.

Why was the power added deliberately? Because the surname "Zhang" has a closer relationship with Taoism.

Similarly, the situation of avoiding changing surnames because a family suffered a disaster or changed dynasties is inconsistent with the development of the number of people with the corresponding surname in the previous era. This is also a manifestation.

This is just one point.

There are also differences in naming and surname naming between different cultures.

In some areas, the names of their previous generations are added to their own names, and each additional section is a generation.

Or, in some areas, surnames are only for nobles, and the naming methods of civilians and even slaves who originally had no surnames when they obtained surnames are quite rough and primitive.

For example, in Europe and other religions, suffixes are added to religious celebrities, or suffixes are added to the fathers.

For example, the surname Jackson, jackson, jack+son, son of Jack.

Or even using appearance features as surnames, such as White for a white part and Brown for a black part.

Or various Matsushita and Kawakami of a certain island country.

In areas where there were no surname records, such surnames emerged on a large scale after a certain era, which represented the historical event that the rulers at that time had carried out a large-scale population registration for the first time.

From such side changes in text, we can understand the situation of an era.

For example, in the history of his country during his lifetime, there were basically few descriptions of quantifiers such as "one", "one", and "a kind".

The descriptions of "one" and "one" are themselves the reflection of the influence of the English articles a and an during the modern vernacular movement.

There are many manifestations of such influences in text. People who are careful about history and life will gradually notice these problems.

The influence of historical society is reflected in all aspects.

Therefore, these things are highly related to history and can indirectly verify history.

Even the emergence of some characters is the product of some surname characters when they were avoiding disasters.

However, even most of the works related to history are not aware of this point.

Those works that claim to be in line with history and historical dramas rarely pay attention to this problem.

There are also manifestations such as pronunciation, such as "awkward" speeches and the fact that they are Wu language loanwords. The widespread spread of Mandarin is also related to a huge social event.

Yao Yan's eyes fell on this man.

He also learned about this information by chance and began to pay attention to it. Moreover, there are too many and too complicated things. It will take many years to sort them out in detail.

Yao Yan himself is just repeating what others have said. It is not difficult to understand these in the Internet age.

But

Did this man in front of him discover it by himself?

Discovered it independently under this worldview?

And summarized a set of rules?

Regardless of whether the other party's summary is correct or not, regardless of what the other party has summarized, Yao Yan's view of this man has changed a little.

"What's missing?"

Temori repeated the question, and then said in a deep voice:

"Everything is missing."

As he spoke, his expression became a little excited:

"The changes in social language and writing don't match history!"

"Our social writing doesn't match history!"

"We are another species, a species that is completely unrelated to this history."

While speaking, Taimori's eyes showed vertical pupils like snake eyes, and ignited flames:

"Misplaced!"

His somewhat excited expression and the changes in his snake-like eyes gave Yao Yan some ideas:

"Snake?"

His low voice reached the other party's ears.

This question with a questioning tone made Taimori's eyes cool down:

"This is not important."

His tone became gloomy:

"You are different from us, a native?"

This sentence was really unexpected by Yao Yan.

Perhaps because of preconceived ideas, he thought that the other party's guess might be to question this world and think that there is something wrong with this world.

However, he didn't expect that the various inconsistencies found by the other party only led to the guess that they themselves were not indigenous people.

That's right.

Because it is found that the history and text reflect the indirect records of this kind of society do not correspond, it will feel that there is something wrong with the world. This situation is originally difficult to happen.

What's more terrible is that the other party thinks that he is the "native" of this disappeared civilization.

What should I do?

Should I pretend?

Follow the other party's guess and pretend to be a native?

Got it.

Thinking of what he had just done, Yao Yan said:

"It's really strange to call the fire eaters natives."

He who was living in the female body also showed a look of resignation.

He did not intend to guide the other party to think that there was something wrong with this world. After all, he didn't know what the consequences would be. It would be okay to try it before leaving.

The worldview of this world is very strange, and he still hasn't figured it out until now.

His focus is "fire eaters".

He didn't forget that he still had the black crow.

However, at this moment——

The man in the lime coat widened his eyes:

"Fire-eaters? Never heard of them. Are they natives like us?"

The moment this sentence came out, Yao Yan realized that his first thought was not wrong.