20-09-2026, 06:05 PM
I have some bad news, not about the manuscript but about myself. I have a bit of a fever, and I feel dizzy and disoriented. My current thinking ability is perhaps not even as good as a normal person's.
If the questions previously asked of me are not very urgent, I might answer them a bit later.
However, I am also very curious about one thing: what is our current progress? Is there any exact or definitive result in translating the text or the plants? Or is everything currently just a hypothesis?
I am also very curious: have we only tried Chinese so far? What about other languages like German, Egyptian, or various other languages? Have other languages been tried? Have we tried all the languages?
I might say something that discourages everyone's confidence. Don't take it seriously, it's just a guess. Do you think it's possible that the person who wrote this manuscript was writing completely invented characters, gibberish, with no meaning at all, and the plants might not exist in reality at all? For example, what if someone drew the branches and leaves of an apple combined with the roots and stems of a potato? Although it has been mentioned that the manuscript might not have been completed by one person, but possibly by four or five people working together, do you think it's possible they did it this way? To make a huge profit?
I only recently started learning about the background of the manuscript. It seems it was bought by some German king for a lot of money, and it seems it was discovered in some German museum. I might be misremembering some things, please understand, my head is a bit dizzy. If judged this way, it is also possible.
On a side note, let me tell a funny story. In China, there is something called "rubbing" (拓印). Simply put, a thin, tough piece of paper is soaked in water in advance. Then, a brush is used to gently tap it, so the paper sinks into the crevices. After the paper dries, a brush is dipped in ink and gently and evenly tapped. When brushing, the ink is evenly spread on the paper, and then the paper is peeled off, and a rubbing with black background and white characters is completed. It can be used to copy text, or to copy patterns of weapons, pottery, etc. Later, some enthusiasts collected these rubbings, but most were incomplete fragments.
Later, some opportunistic swindlers appeared. Even more absurdly, some took the patterns on a baked flatbread (shaobing), dipped them in ink, and printed them on rubbing paper. Those collectors, who spent a lot of money thinking they were buying fragments of weapons or undeciphered text, could never imagine that those rubbings, which seemed to have research value, were secretly just random patterns and textures printed by casually crumpled flatbread.
But then again, I really hope this manuscript is real. If it is successfully deciphered, the illustrations involving plants, astronomy, pharmacy, and the human body should have important scientific research value for human history.
If the questions previously asked of me are not very urgent, I might answer them a bit later.
However, I am also very curious about one thing: what is our current progress? Is there any exact or definitive result in translating the text or the plants? Or is everything currently just a hypothesis?
I am also very curious: have we only tried Chinese so far? What about other languages like German, Egyptian, or various other languages? Have other languages been tried? Have we tried all the languages?
I might say something that discourages everyone's confidence. Don't take it seriously, it's just a guess. Do you think it's possible that the person who wrote this manuscript was writing completely invented characters, gibberish, with no meaning at all, and the plants might not exist in reality at all? For example, what if someone drew the branches and leaves of an apple combined with the roots and stems of a potato? Although it has been mentioned that the manuscript might not have been completed by one person, but possibly by four or five people working together, do you think it's possible they did it this way? To make a huge profit?
I only recently started learning about the background of the manuscript. It seems it was bought by some German king for a lot of money, and it seems it was discovered in some German museum. I might be misremembering some things, please understand, my head is a bit dizzy. If judged this way, it is also possible.
On a side note, let me tell a funny story. In China, there is something called "rubbing" (拓印). Simply put, a thin, tough piece of paper is soaked in water in advance. Then, a brush is used to gently tap it, so the paper sinks into the crevices. After the paper dries, a brush is dipped in ink and gently and evenly tapped. When brushing, the ink is evenly spread on the paper, and then the paper is peeled off, and a rubbing with black background and white characters is completed. It can be used to copy text, or to copy patterns of weapons, pottery, etc. Later, some enthusiasts collected these rubbings, but most were incomplete fragments.
Later, some opportunistic swindlers appeared. Even more absurdly, some took the patterns on a baked flatbread (shaobing), dipped them in ink, and printed them on rubbing paper. Those collectors, who spent a lot of money thinking they were buying fragments of weapons or undeciphered text, could never imagine that those rubbings, which seemed to have research value, were secretly just random patterns and textures printed by casually crumpled flatbread.
But then again, I really hope this manuscript is real. If it is successfully deciphered, the illustrations involving plants, astronomy, pharmacy, and the human body should have important scientific research value for human history.