At this time, people learned literacy by rote.
In the memory of the original owner, the old county magistrate made a sand table, so he used a wooden stick to teach him to write in the sand table over and over again.
But even if you have a good teacher, in this era, if you want to understand all the words, it will take at least three to five years.
What's more, how can ordinary people have so much money?
For children to learn to write, even if they have money, they must have perseverance and perseverance.
Various reasons led to a high illiteracy rate in ancient times.
If the government issues documents to various places, if the people want to know about them, they must not only post them, but also have officials preach them.
Thinking about future generations, children who have just entered school must learn Pinyin, because as long as they learn Pinyin, they can recognize any word with phonetic symbols.
Yu Tiance took up writing and wrote a policy paper on pinyin literacy, citing the writing style of this era.
After an hour, Yu Tiance put down his pencil and stretched his arms after finishing writing the policy essay eloquently.
I was so absorbed in writing just now that I didn't notice that Zeng Yu stood behind him, looking at the paper on the table in a trance.
"Tiance, did you come up with this?"
Um!
Yu Tiance stood up and bowed: "Sir, I once had a dream and went to a highly developed country. There was almost no illiteracy there and everyone was literate. This is the method used by children there when they first learned to read. Moreover, with cooperation Simplify Chinese characters, have a dictionary, and can read any book.”
Hahaha!
Unexpectedly, Yu Tiance's words would cause the whole room to burst into laughter.
It's just a smile...
Liang Yuan was even more disdainful and stepped forward to accuse: "You, a rookie, are bragging in front of adults?"
Jiang Nan and Wang Min could not say anything before, but when the opportunity came, they stepped forward and bowed.
"Sir, Yu Tiance is lying to you!"
"Sir, he has loved bragging since he was a child!"
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However, Zeng Yu raised his hand and interrupted everyone.
Staring at the paper, his lips trembled.
"Where did you hear the word Pinyin?"
"Sir, have you heard of Pinyin?"
When Zeng Yu asked, the other students all looked over.
Um!
Zeng Yu nodded.
Then, Zeng Yu patted Yu Tiance's shoulder and signaled him to stop talking. He picked up the policy theory on the table, folded it and put it in his cuffs.
"Tiance, I'm going to sleep at your house tonight while we talk about this matter."
"Understood, sir!"
Several government servants came forward, took away the strategies of all the scholars on the table, pasted their names on white paper, and handed them all to the county magistrate.
Zeng Yu spoke again, encouraging the scholars to study hard in the county school, and helped clean the place by the way. Then he took Yu Tiance and left Wenqu Pavilion first.
Yufu, guest room.
Zeng Yu sat cross-legged on the kang, talking to Yu Tiance about what Lu Yuan had told him.
After he passed the tribute examination, he did not choose to take the palace examination, so he never entered the palace.
Because the imperial examination was conducted by the emperor and there was no chance for re-examination, Zeng Yu thought that the time was not ripe yet and was unwilling to waste the opportunity, so he did not sign up.
I heard from Lu Yuan that there is a heavenly book in the imperial garden, which was written by Taizu Li Longwu in his later years. It records his life and what he said to the people of later generations.
That style of writing is called pinyin.
But who would have expected that Li Longwu died suddenly before the book was completed, and the pinyin he wrote became an eternal secret with his death.
For hundreds of years, when envoys from any country come to Dayu to pay tribute, the emperor will send the Minister of Rites to ask the envoys to see if they can recognize the pinyin.
And for many years, no one from the East, Korea, Siam, Champa, and even the blond and blue-eyed envoys of Britain could understand what was written in the article.
Gradually, the royal family stopped caring, and no one mentioned the word Pinyin.
I never thought that a hundred years later, a twenty-year-old boy would actually say the word Pinyin again!
"Tiance, if the pinyin you mentioned is the same as the pinyin mentioned by Taizu, the emperor will definitely remember your name! Maybe you can be appointed as an official without taking the imperial examination!"
oh?
Yu Tiance licked his lips.
As the old saying goes, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. He didn't want to be an official next to the emperor.
What he was thinking about was how to become a county magistrate, build his own county, and live his own happy life.
If I had known this, I would never have used Pinyin as a policy!
"Sir, I..."
However, just as Yu Tiance was about to explain, he was interrupted by Zeng Yu: "Tiance, tell me, what is the general meaning of Pinyin? In three days, can you come up with a simple dictionary? This is what you wrote in your policy statement!"
Three days?
How could it be done?
If you let him think about words alone, how can he think so comprehensively?
After listening to Yu Tiance's explanation and the difficulties, Zeng Yu smiled and said, "Tomorrow, I will send the teacher to get a vocabulary book, and you can directly mark the pinyin on it, which will make it much faster."
In the history of the original time and space, Zihui is the oldest known dictionary in China, written by Mei Yingzuo, a native of Xuancheng, Anhui.
It was written in the 43rd year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty. It has 14 volumes and contains 33,179 Chinese characters. It is an important academic work.
In addition to the original edition, "Cihui" has also appeared in multiple block editions, such as the Dunhuatang blockbuster, Lujiaoshanfang blockbuster, etc.
Likewise, this time and space also has a vocabulary.
The book was written forty years ago. The author's name is Li Tianxiang, who is from Qian'an, Hebei Province.
However, if there is no teacher to teach it, it is also a sacred book.
Even people who have read books still have to work hard to understand the pronunciation of each word.
Seeing that Yu Tiance's expression was a little tangled, Zeng Yu smiled and patted Yu Tiance's shoulder: "That's it. Bring me the dictionary from the county study room in three days!"
Yu Tiance was speechless, completely speechless.
Why did I suddenly come up with the idea of writing Pinyin? Even if I brought it up, I never thought that Li Longwu had also mentioned it!
It's over. I'm going to have sleepless nights for the next two days.
Early the next morning, Zeng Yu walked out of the room tiredly.
He didn't fall asleep until four o'clock in the morning.
Chen Qing lives next door to him, and his snoring is so loud that he will never come again!
After sending Zeng Yu away, not long after, the imperial edict sent an official to deliver a copied copy of "Cihui".
But this book can only be said to be for reference only.
Moreover, it is a bit tasteless.
Not only are the fonts densely packed, there are no pauses, no punctuation breaks, and there is no regular ordering, you can only start writing again.
In this way, it is simply impossible to write a dictionary in two days, with only phonetic symbols according to what Zeng Yu said.
But how can we not do what the county magistrate arranged?
There was no other way, so Yu Tiance could only shut himself in the room. He first took out a large piece of white paper, put together the finals, initials, etc., and made a pinyin table.
Then, I took out a stack of white paper and started writing word by word, starting from a.
