What Zheng Xiong did was to select a thousand commonly used characters, simplify them, annotate the pinyin, and add radicals.
No matter how many there are, I have never seen them, I don’t recognize them even if I have seen them, and I can’t find them in my mind.
Zheng Xiong, who was writing vigorously, ignored the changes in the outside world and was immersed in his own world.
The pharmacy's financial bills were piled up in a pile, from July 15th to August 15th, a whole month. Compare the traditional Chinese characters and write the simplified characters, and then start drafting and phonetic notation. Give the definition according to your own understanding, mark the writing method of the traditional Chinese characters, and then write the radicals. Finally, disassemble the whole thing and sort it according to the pinyin radicals.
After a simple sorting, I found about two thousand commonly used traditional Chinese characters from the printing factory, and started notating each one according to my own understanding and adding my own interpretation.
It has to be said that regardless of whether they have learned it or not, the souls of modern people seem to have a natural affinity for traditional Chinese characters, and they can guess most of the traditional Chinese characters found in the printing factory.
Some of the characters remain unchanged and replaced with traditional Chinese characters. The meaning of simplified characters is still somewhat unclear. Adding traditional characters instead of phonetic symbols can make the meaning of the characters clearer.
And inadvertently, Zheng Xiong also adopted the habit of later generations, writing from left to right, and using punctuation marks commonly used by later generations.
Even if the marking is wrong, so what, from today on, you will be the standard, and wrong is also right.
Zheng Xiong has no intention of cheating on others. After all, there is a generation gap between people from the two eras. Not only will he not be able to help, he is afraid that he will be even more busy.
All in all, after nearly a month, the first edition was officially released, modeled after a modern dictionary. Although a lot of paper was used and the fonts were large, there were still problems of one kind or another.
But these problems are all minor problems. Compared with the Xinhua Dictionary, which was produced in 1950 and has been revised for several years or even decades, to the current version 12.0, Zheng Xiong’s dictionary has stepped on the shoulders of giants and has gone a long way. Less detours, it is very close to the Xinhua Dictionary I used when I was a child.
According to research by scholars, there are about 5,000 Chinese characters in oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions, and about 3,000 of them have known meanings.
my country's earliest dictionary, "Shuowen Jiezi", contains 9,353 Chinese characters.
The "Leibian" of the Northern Song Dynasty contains 33,190 Chinese characters, while the "Kangxi Dictionary" of the Qing Dynasty contains 46,933 characters, making it the dictionary with the largest number of Chinese characters in ancient times.
Don't be surprised by the number. The "List of Commonly Used Chinese Characters in Modern Chinese" only has 3,500 Chinese characters. According to the China Language Life Situation Report, 2,394 commonly used Chinese characters occupy 99% of the language space.
China has five thousand years of history, and the history of Chinese characters is too long, so it is difficult to say clearly how many Chinese characters there are.
Holding the finished dictionary, Zheng Xiong breathed a sigh of relief, took the thick stack of manuscripts to the printing factory, and handed them to Wang Zheng.
Compared with the palm-sized Xinhua Dictionary, Zheng Xiong's dictionary is bloated. Of course, it is expected that dictionaries printed by printing plants will not be much smaller than Zheng Xiong's dictionary.
"Ti Ling, these symbols and the writing from left to right are not used to seeing them. Do they have to be like this?"
"Just copy the cat and the tiger, print a hundred or so copies, and don't worry about the rest."
Zheng Xiong, who had finished his retreat, had not yet begun to rest. The boss Zheng Hu's marriage had also reached the final stage of welcoming the bride. Zheng Xiong continued to be busy without rest.
As the person with the highest status in his family, he was indispensable for greetings and escorts. Although the guests coming and going were of low status, most of them were acquaintances of his father, and they did not dare to show off to Zheng Xiong, so they bowed politely. As a junior, Zheng Xiong didn't have any so-called physical problems and was busy with his eldest brother's marriage.
On August 18, Zheng Hu and Qian, who were wearing phoenix crowns and harems, officially got married. The classic practice of kneeling, which had been popular since the Song Dynasty, reappeared. After the kneeling, the couple was sent to the bridal chamber.
"Every woman in the world, no matter how rich or poor she is, can wear a phoenix crown and harem when she marries."
Empress Ma gave all women in the world legal protection, but whether they had the money to wear it or not was a family matter. Therefore, in ancient times, even poor families would accumulate more than ten years of merit for their daughters when they married their daughters. A set of dowry and phoenix crowns and harems are then carried to the groom's home in a sedan chair. This phoenix crown is not as exquisite as the nine dragons and four phoenix crowns used by the queen, but has undergone a series of changes. For example, the ones used between the royal family and the ministers' wives are no longer dragons and phoenixes, but the bird is used instead of the phoenix.
This is especially true among folk women. It only needs to be made in the form of a dragon and phoenix crown. It does not necessarily have to be nine dragons and four phoenixes, but all of them are still called phoenix crowns. The ritual system of nine dragons and four phoenix crowns was the rule of Zhu Yuanzhang's era. The Ming Dynasty had already surpassed this scope. During Zhu Di's time, nine dragons and nine phoenixes and twelve dragons and nine phoenixes appeared. As for the increase in number, there is no highest, only higher. It is completely Whether the emperor favors you or not depends entirely on whether you have the qualifications.
During the reign of Emperor Wanli, there were even more people wearing bright yellow clothes that could only be worn by emperors and strutting through the market. Some people reported that they violated etiquette, but at this time Emperor Wanli just smiled and said nothing. He asked: "Has he paid taxes?" ?
Zheng Hu drank some drinks with the guests, and after the banquet was over, he also entered the bridal chamber. Good times are short, and a spring night is worth a thousand dollars.
Zheng Xiong also doesn't have the habit of listening to Qiang Gen. A bachelor who listens to Qiang Gen is looking for trouble. If he doesn't do it, the sheets will get wet.
After seeing off the guests and ignoring other aftermath work, Zheng Xiong returned to his room, closed his eyes, and slept until dawn.
In the early morning, the excited Zheng Hu and the rosy-faced Zheng Qianshi served tea to their parents. The whole family was there, but Zheng Xiong was missing. Zheng Qianshi was slightly curious, but didn't say much.
At three o'clock in the morning, Zheng Xiong, who had replenished his energy, finished lunch with his family and continued to sleep. He had already asked for leave, and Zheng Yiyan was very easy to talk to.
The dictionary printing work was briefly suspended for two days due to punctuation problems, and then started again after outsourcing the movable type for punctuation. After a few days, the dictionary compiled by Zheng Xiong was officially bound into a volume.
Looking at the thick dictionary, Zheng Xiong didn't show any surprise. As expected, after simply searching a few words, Zheng Xiong showed a satisfied look.
It's similar to the dictionaries of later generations. Don't rush to add the rest slowly. For version 2.0 and version 3.0, just add words slowly, plus some popular words and phrases, Internet buzzwords, etc.
Chinese characters are not static and will evolve to a certain extent with life.
“Brother Aboci’s Hungry Fortune~~”
Teaching reading has been Zheng Xiong's normal routine these days. Not only the doctors at the pharmacy, but also some smarter schoolchildren were asked to pick them out and learn them together.
Taking matters into his own hands and having enough food and clothing, Zheng Xiong, who didn't know where his opponent was, started to fight back in his own way.
You have lived a good life and achieved results. No matter what the purpose of the unknown enemy is, you should continue to attack. After noticing the clues, you can consider the follow-up. It is impossible to surrender.
(End of chapter)
