coobybook Chapter 372 Pinyin and Punctuation
Chapter 372 Pinyin and Punctuation
"art college?"
After following Ying Yu into another branch of the Academy of Sciences, a big question mark appeared on Meng Yi's forehead.
There is a connection between medicine and science, and Meng Yi can understand it. After all, penicillin, iodine, and various injection devices are all invented by scientific research.
But when will this literature be connected with scientific research?
And didn't His Royal Highness always dislike Confucianism, and prefer scientific research and craftsmanship?
Why is there a liberal arts academy in this scientific research academy?
Meng Yi looked at Shi Huangdi suspiciously, but Ying Zheng was equally puzzled.
"The main research of this academy of literature is how to enable the people of Daqin to learn more knowledge at a faster speed and with higher efficiency."
"There are also tricks in this path to study."
Ying Yu smiled and said, "For example, the Qin pen is less labor-intensive than the brush pen. If you master a more scientific pen-holding posture, the writing speed can be improved to another level, and the font will be more beautiful."
"The emergence of Qin paper and printing has also made books cheaper and more convenient to print, allowing more people to read books."
"And learning knowledge, if you can master certain tricks, is more effective than rote memorization."
"A very important point is to annotate various articles so that students can better understand the meaning of the words in the book."
"Understanding the meaning of books is much more effective than simply memorizing the contents."
"The gift that the minister wants to give to the emperor is also in this academy of literature."
Ying Yu explained with a smile.
"Then I'll have to get to know you better."
Ying Zheng laughed out loud. Since ancient times, nothing has commented on the achievements of emperors more than martial arts and martial arts.
The improvement of medical level can also be regarded as a kind of cultural governance.
But what is really easier to be known by the public is the overall cultural level.
Simply put, it is the number and level of scholars.
In the current Daqin, due to the promotion of free government schools, libraries, and literacy classes, the literacy rate of the people has far exceeded that of previous dynasties.
Daqin's civil governance is absolutely unprecedented, which makes Yingzheng quite proud.
But now, Ying Yu actually said that there is still a trick to reading and literacy, which undoubtedly aroused Ying Zheng's curiosity.
A better and faster understanding of the gist of the book means faster success, which is definitely a great thing for Daqin who is in short supply of talents.
"Father, the first gift my son gave you is punctuation marks."
Entering the Faculty of Arts, Ying Yu smiled and said.
In the Qin Dynasty, and even in history, until a thousand years later, there was no sentence segmentation tool such as punctuation, so "sentence reading" was needed.
The so-called sentence reading is actually how to break a sentence.
In Han Yu's "Shi Shuo", the sentence "If you don't know how to read a sentence, if you don't understand it when you are confused, whether you are a teacher or not, I have not seen it clearly because I am a primary school student." This sentence emphasizes the importance of sentence segmentation.
Because of the broad and profound Chinese characters, a sentence can have completely different or even completely opposite meanings due to the difference in sentence punctuation.
The most classic is Confucius' "The people can make them understand what they know".
From the perspective of Furu, the meaning of this sentence is very simple, that is to say, for the common people, we can only make them do what we want, but not let them understand why we do it.
The common people cannot be educated, but the people must be fooled. This kind of talk has been passed down for thousands of years in the history of later generations.
In fact, according to the nature of Confucius who likes to educate and educate people, the correct reading of this sentence should be "The Master said: If the people can do it, let them do it; if they can't do it, let them know it."
That is to say, it is necessary to take the initiative to teach the common people who do not understand the etiquette and let them understand the truth.
This is the correct syntax, which makes sense both in terms of grammar and thought.
This shows how important the sentence is.
That's why Han Yu said in "Shi Shuo": "If you don't know how to read a sentence, if you don't understand it if you are confused, whether you are a teacher or not, I have not seen it when I was in elementary school." This is a mocking sentence.
The meaning of this sentence is to say that we are learning the thoughts of Confucius, but we can't even judge the basic word order, and we still make rash comments, which is really ridiculous.
Such misunderstandings caused by different sentence sentences can be said to be very common in the subset of classics and history.
To solve this problem, the only way is for the imperial court to issue a unified sentence-sentence standard, which is the official authoritative interpretation and annotation, and it is widely used throughout the country.
And Ying Yu also introduced punctuation marks at this time.
"I didn't expect these small symbols to have such a big effect."
"In this way, all students can accurately sentence sentences, and there will be no more ambiguity."
After listening to Ying Yu's explanation, a look of surprise flashed across Ying Zheng's face.
In the past, when a hundred schools of thought prevailed and Confucianism was divided into eight factions, in fact a large part of the reason was due to different interpretations of the classics.
But now, with these few punctuation marks, the imperial court has the right to interpret the books. If the hundred schools want to fish in troubled waters, they will be completely useless.
Ying Zheng, who is a book lover himself, the more he thinks about it, the more he discovers the meaning in it, and he immediately takes the lead again and again.
"This comment on punctuation and sentence segmentation is mainly for students who already have a certain foundation.
Another gift prepared by Erchen is for the newly enlightened children. "
Ying Yu smiled and said: "This thing is called Pinyin, which is to phoneticize all characters, which can make Daqin's enlightenment education simpler and more effective."
Compared with later English, Lagong and other alphabetic characters, pictographs have a unique advanced nature.
That is, not only can the left and right brain be exercised at the same time, but also the maximum meaning can be expressed with fewer words.
For example, if alphabetic characters want to express a new thing, a new word must be created. If this continues, there will soon be hundreds of thousands, or even millions of words, and it is very likely that there will be countless words in the future.
Normal people can remember five-digit words well, and they will forget them again as they are not used for too long.
As a pictographic character, Qin Wen can fully express all meanings with relatively few words.
Even in later generations, most people only mastered thousands of characters.
According to statistics, only one thousand commonly used characters are enough to cover more than [-]% of written materials.
However, learning and understanding Daqin characters is relatively more difficult than simple and rough alphabetic characters.
At this time, the appearance of pinyin can improve the literacy efficiency of beginners, and they can master the standard Qin language faster.
This is of great significance for standardizing the Qin language, eliminating accents as much as possible, and allowing people in different regions of the Great Qin to communicate faster and more conveniently.
In particular, it can allow residents of areas outside the mainland of Daqin, who were originally from foreign countries, to learn Qinwen and Qinyu through pinyin faster, and integrate into the Daqin cultural circle.
Looking at the brochure Ying Yu handed over and listening to his explanation, Ying Zheng, Meng Yi and the others took a deep breath together.
A small pinyin actually has such a great significance, not only can Daqin culture be promoted faster and better, but it can even be covered outside of Daqin.
Meng Ruyi on the side looked at Ying Yu with admiration.
What girl wouldn't like such a man.