He took some time to read the contents of "Three Years of Talents and Five Years of Success in the Examination" in general.
Generally understandable. After all, they are all in Chinese characters. Although the mathematical language is relatively simple, you can still understand it based on the questions.
Except for because ∵, therefore ∴, greater than less than, braces, parentheses, and radicals, all the symbols related to operations are different.
But generally speaking, it is still based on Chinese characters. It doesn’t matter whether you write the plus or minus sign as +- or 丄丅, ∫ is just a few more strokes compared to He. The trouble is that when writing, you have to pay attention to the spacing of the glyphs. He should be written next to the word "HE", and then the right side should be written as beautifully and symmetrically as possible. Because the roll count counts.
What he wanted to ask most now was why Lao Shang didn't correct him. He had obviously calculated some equations in front of Old Shang, but Old Shang didn't say anything at all. He didn't go to school in Yangzhou, so he didn't know that the symbols for middle school and high school were completely different.
Fortunately it's not a big problem.
Because the mathematical language is universal, but the symbols are different. Although it does require a few more strokes, the melancholy turtle has been written, and writing ∫ Cheng He is really not a big problem.
"How about it, do you know how to count it yourself?"
"It's probably no problem." Shangluo is quite confident in his mathematics level - at least passing the test shouldn't be a big problem. He flipped through the high school exercises here and found that the difficult parts were indeed difficult. Moreover, there are some derivative problems and limit problems, and some matrix operations will also be applied.
But generally speaking, it’s not a super category for him, so it’s not a big problem.
"As long as you know the math, it's not a big problem in other classes, right?"
If two people communicate with each other, it really won't be a big problem.
Chinese classes, Chinese classes, those same things. "Pei Gong came to see King Xiang from more than a hundred horses on the first day." "There are hundreds of fish in the pond, but they are all as if they are swimming in the sky and have nothing to rely on." There is also "Pipa Xing", even the "Pipa playing techniques" are the same.
Mathematics, still mathematics.
There is no English course, but Latin is compulsory in university, and there is also a corresponding compulsory Chinese course in Rome, and it seems to be earlier.
Historiography is basically the same. Because the "Ming Dynasty" is not over yet, there is no Ming history. The period after the Hongwu Dynasty is considered modern history, and does not account for much weight. The main examination points are Shang Yang's Reform, Zhenguan's rule, and Kaiyuan's rule.
What really troubled Shangluo was the social studies and Confucian studies classes.
The social studies course is the Ming Dynasty Law, various laws and regulations, various edicts, imperial edicts, and expressions. "Dajun Tie", there are many edicts that must be recited in full, such as "Every time students listen to it: That Zongne made sacrificial wine before" and "I Han people are on the west side of the ground" are required to be recited in full. Because it is written in the vernacular of the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, it is particularly troublesome to recite.
The Confucianism course consists of the Four Books and Five Classics. However, the test is very shallow. Within the scope of the Four Books, some understanding of the meanings of the classics are required. Only the Five Classics can be memorized.
In terms of word count, "The Great Learning" of the Four Books has 1,753 words and "The Doctrine of the Mean" has 3,568 words. These two are originally excerpts from the Book of Rites. Neither the Analects of Confucius nor Mencius requires memorization to understand the full text, only excerpts, which total about 20,000 words. There are only sporadic excerpts from the Five Classics, and the total recitation is about 20,000 words. The total length is about 48,000 words.
Many parts here overlap with Chinese language classes, history classes, and social studies classes, so for the average student, there are not too many parts that really need to be memorized. It was more troublesome for Shangluo, but he had long known that he must take the imperial examination, so he had already completed the recitation of 40,000 to 50,000 words - he felt that to be honest, it was much easier than reciting the long "abandon", at least The Analects of Confucius speaks human language.
In fact, as far as the Confucian examination questions are concerned, this amount of memorization was what would have been memorized hundreds of years ago, that is, a few years after enlightenment. The content of the scholar examination is much more difficult than this. But today's scholar examination is just a "national benchmark". The content of memorizing classics is not too complicated, and it has penetrated into various cultural works. During the exam, it can be roughly written according to the context.
In addition to the natural sciences such as mathematics and physics, the general difficulty is actually not very good compared with the previous scholar examination. But from the perspective of passing rate, the passing rate of this class is much higher.
"Phew." Qi Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, "It's okay, it's okay. If there is a scholar in our class who doesn't pass the exam, it would be my fault as the class monitor. By the way, I have always been curious, is your mathematical symbol Roman? Algorithm over there. Because it’s all Latin letters.”
"It's very similar." Han Xingzhi replied, "My uncle is studying Latin, and I have read his book. There are many similarities with the Roman arithmetic symbols in it. Well, there are differences. After all, Roman Chinese characters are much better than this book. There’s more inside.”
"Wait a minute." Shangluo was stunned for a moment, "Do they use Chinese characters in Rome?"
"Well, there are a lot of Chinese words in Latin, and Latin letters are used to mark the original sounds. People who don't study Latin may not know it. I only found out after reading my uncle's Latin textbook. After all, there is a gap between us and Rome. There wasn’t much communication. They used Chinese characters as ideograms. They couldn’t pronounce the Chinese characters, but they could write them. It was very much like the Koreans did, adding a few characters to the Chinese characters. But only scholars in Rome knew how to do it. Writing it this way, writing it all in Latin will not affect the meaning. Anyway, there are a lot of borrowed words in Latin."
"Why is this happening? As far as I know, there are surprisingly few exchanges between us, right? Apart from scientific and technological exchanges, I have not seen any cultural works passed on, and nothing has been passed down."
"It seems to be because of a theory - the Romans believed that Chinese characters were 'Edenic characters', a kind of ideographic symbols rooted in the bottom layer of human history. Then they referred to the examples of Korea and Japan, and they believed that introducing Chinese characters into the symbol system did not What's the problem? So it was introduced. So the Latin we learned was also a Latin written language mixed with Chinese characters and Latin, which is actually not very convenient for reading things other than academic documents."
"So they independently decided to use Chinese characters?"
"The people in Rome will always make some very big moves based on reasons that are hard to understand at the moment. Sometimes it looks a bit strange. But in the long run, there is generally no problem. For example, both sides of us use Chinese characters for technical purposes. When making words, it is very convenient to create words. Without the help of Chinese characters, academic expressions in Latin would be several times longer than they are now. For example, telephones, electric lights, etc. "
"Well, that would be very convenient for us?"
"Indeed. The most convenient thing is actually for us. The Romans themselves are not so convenient. Oh, collect the study materials, the meal is here."
Qi Yuan put the study materials back and made room on the table.
"This is a snack for you." The waiter in an apron brought five pieces of jelly first. "I was studying before eating. I am really serious. I wish you good luck in the exam."
(End of chapter)
