Yandu.
Gao Jianwu took his own simplified character plan to Professor Zhao Yuanrui, a linguist at Yanda.
According to Gao Jianwu's understanding, this Harvard graduate supports the simplification of Chinese characters and has a huge influence in the cultural world. If he can be persuaded to support it, this matter will be much easier to handle.
"Minister Gao is here as an honored guest, a rare visitor, a rare visitor! Please sit down, please sit down, the space is limited, just a cup of tea. Minister Gao, please don't dislike it." Professor Zhao Yuanrui was very familiar with Gao Jianwu's name, but he was a little surprised as to why he came to the door. Come on, after all, Gao Jianwu has been doing things in the scientific and technological field, so it seems irrelevant to give him this cultural field.
However, since he was a guest at the door, Professor Zhao enthusiastically took out a box of good tea he had collected and brewed it.
"Thank you, Professor Zhao, for being so polite. I heard that Professor Zhao has made great achievements in language research. He has learned both Chinese and Western knowledge and can be said to be one of the great masters of his generation. Mr. Gao is not very talented. He has some experience in simplifying Chinese characters. Today I brought my humble work to ask Professor Zhao to correct me. Gao Jianwu took out his plan document and handed it to Professor Zhao.
What? Did I hear it wrong? This god of war in the military and technology industry is now engaged in language research across borders?
When Professor Zhao heard Gao Jianwu's words, his heart stirred up.
However, he was still hesitant and disapproving of Gao Jianwu's results. After all, there were many people studying this topic, but there were not many achievements in simplifying Chinese characters.
This is a new word creation, and it needs to be well-founded on the basis of tradition. It is so difficult that even he himself is researching it, but there is not much progress.
Gao Jianwu actually said that he had made some achievements in this area. This was too low of an estimate of the difficulty of character creation.
However, Professor Zhao is a well-educated person. Even if Gao Jianwu's results are outrageous, he is determined not to embarrass Gao Jianwu.
Professor Zhao took Gao Jianwu's paper and opened it.
Huh? ! The contrast between the simplified and traditional Chinese characters for the first character surprised Professor Zhao at first glance. He looked at it carefully and found that Gao Jianwu's simplification made sense.
He quickly put away his contempt and carefully read word by word. After reading several pages, he found that Gao Jianwu had arranged it according to the "New Dictionary" he was familiar with. The words all corresponded to Jane. Traditional Fanqie and an English pinyin.
He flipped through it quickly, and sure enough, the new dictionary gave out the corresponding correspondence between simplified and traditional Chinese in every order. Apart from anything else, the completeness of it was simply astonishing!
Professor Zhao was so excited that his hands were trembling. He carefully placed the scroll on the table and asked Gao Jianwu excitedly: "Minister Gao, have you simplified all the words in the new dictionary?"
"Yes, most of what I think can be simplified has been simplified. A total of more than 3,000 commonly used characters have been simplified. The rest that cannot be simplified or that I think is unnecessary should be simplified in the original way."
Gao Jianwu replied succinctly.
"Then what does the pinyin of this English letter mean? Is this the pinyin of the word's pronunciation?" Professor Zhao asked, pointing to the pinyin of Gao Jianwu.
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"Yes, please note that I call this pinyin, which is composed of 26 English letters and 4 tones. I divide it into two types: initial consonants and finals. You see, this is the single vowel I defined, a, o, e goose, i clothes, u black, roundabout, the compound vowel is ai love, ei eh, uiwei, aaoao, ouou, iu excellent, ieye, eyue...
Initial consonants, b broadcast, p splash,, f fo, d de, t special,...
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Gao Jianwu turned over the last Pinyin registration form and briefly introduced the design and pronunciation of the Pinyin table to Professor Zhao. Then he took out the previous words and spelled them out. The more Professor Zhao listened, the brighter his eyes became, and he soon fell into the study of Gao Jianwu. There are many details in this simplified character design.
I grabbed Gao Jianwu and studied the simplified fonts in detail for several hours! A lot of opinions were put forward on the replacement of some fonts, and Gao Jianwu also felt that some fonts could be simplified or optimized.
Make the structure of his inheritance clearer.
While the two were discussing, Professor Zhao listened and memorized Gao Jianwu's pinyin. He almost learned Gao Jianwu's pinyin in these few hours, and started to learn the new words later without any teacher. Learn to spell new words!
I went through Gao Jianwu's entire plan word by word, and I really can't find any faults.
"Minister Gao, you are truly a gifted talent. This Chinese character simplification plan alone has surpassed the achievements of all linguists today.
I think your simplified character plan is the most perfect simplified Chinese character plan in the world. It will definitely play an epoch-making role in the development of Chinese culture, especially the improvement of folk literacy rates. Time is running out, and we must fully promote this simplified character plan. Let him become a new Chinese character standard across the country.
Your simplified design of commonly used characters has greatly reduced the difficulty of writing and recognition, and the pinyin design has also reduced the difficulty of entry-level learning. I think it will definitely be an opportunity for the re-emergence of Chinese characters in the future.
This is a major event in the cultural world. I think it is necessary to announce it immediately and call on everyone to improve this plan and then promote it to become the standard for new Chinese characters. Professor Zhao said passionately.
As one of the pioneers of Chinese character reform, Professor Zhao Yuanrui has always lacked a perfect Chinese character simplification plan. Now the plan for high-level military commanders has been come up, and the entire design logic and interpretation are very complete.
In terms of simplification, it not only follows the inheritance of traditional Chinese characters, but also considers the beauty and grandeur of new Chinese characters. Almost every simplified Chinese character is simplified with reason and is well-founded. It is also easy to understand when comparing simplified and traditional Chinese characters, so that people who are familiar with ancient Chinese and traditional Chinese can also It can be quickly transitioned. For example, Gao Jianwu's design of Yi = Yi, Yi = Yi, Pressure = Pressure, Crow = Crow, Duck = Duck. The inheritance is clear at a glance, but the complexity is reduced a lot.
"As I wish, Professor Zhao, Gao is here just for this, and I also have a merciless request. Can this design be launched in the name of Professor Zhao, so as to avoid criticism from the outside world that Gao is a layman who participates in culture? A major reform in the world has affected the implementation of this plan." Gao Jianwu requested.
He doesn't care about the false reputation at all now. He really wants to push this matter forward as soon as possible.
Gao Jianwu's suggestion made Professor Zhao feel excited for a while. This is a big event that will last forever. Gao Jianwu actually recommended him to Professor Zhao. Even though Professor Zhao was so well-educated, he couldn't help but feel a little moved at this moment.
However, Professor Zhao is an old-school person after all, and he brushed off this idea. He shook his head. "Minister Gao, this is a historic event in the cultural world. Mr. Zhao does not dare to take credit for God's work. God is watching what people do. Since our ancestors have entrusted Minister Gao to realize this important event, I believe Everything is determined somehow."
"Professor Zhao, Gao is discussing revisions with you today. Professor Zhao also made important contributions to this plan. In terms of signature, I think how about you and I co-edit it?
The main reason is that the promotion of this plan needs your authority, Professor Zhao, to proceed smoothly. Otherwise, given that Gao has no achievements in the cultural world and hastily launched this plan, I am afraid not many people will pay attention to it, which will inevitably delay the promotion. The big picture. Gao Jianwu retreated and sought the next best thing.
He is very aware of the cultural world's turbulent nature. He usually does not accept the innovative works of newcomers at first, but instead attacks them, and he is very prejudiced.
By recruiting Professor Zhao, it can be considered that this plan is from a well-known family, so the chance of being criticized is much smaller.
When Professor Zhao heard what Gao Jianwu said, he had a war between heaven and man in his heart for a long time before he slowly nodded and said: "I have taken advantage of this. This huge achievement must be signed first by you, Minister Gao. Old man I will explain to the outside world that the main contribution was made by Minister Gao. Alas, I am too old to see through fame and fortune. I am extremely ashamed of myself."
"Professor Zhao is being modest. Gao just briefly mentioned such a plan. The subsequent improvement and promotion will be largely left to Professor Zhao. How can we say that Professor Zhao, your contribution is small? This big thing is still Please Professor Zhao, please do your part."
As soon as the full text of Gao Jianwu's simplified character plan was published after being polished by Professor Zhao, it immediately caused an uproar in Yanjing's cultural circles.
For those who have long been looking forward to the major reform of Chinese characters, they are like a treasure, and they stand up clearly to support this almost perfect reform plan to simplify Chinese characters. However, more people are on the conservative side. They believe that this is a case of forgetting the original tradition. In various newspapers and periodicals in Yanjing, Gao Jianwu's simplified Chinese character plan has become the main battlefield for criticism from both sides.
Gao Jianwu had no idea that his perfect simplified character plan would lead to a great cultural collision.
Many people who attacked this plan saw that the main contributor was Gao Jianwu, who was outside the cultural circle. Due to his special official background, no one dared to point their fingers at him, but they insinuated that Professor Zhao was pulling the skin of a tiger. Professor Zhao was under tremendous pressure and could not elaborate on it one by one.
I feel aggrieved in my heart, but at the same time I cheer for this plan to simplify Chinese characters without flinching.
Seeing that public opinion was so fierce, Gao Jianwu felt that Alexander, fortunately, had not thought of doing this alone, otherwise he would not have been able to do it at all.
The cultural world of this period was a very special field. Even leaders were very wary of celebrities in the cultural world and did not dare to offend them easily, otherwise they would be criticized verbally and in writing.
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In the noisy battle of public opinion, the Brigadier and the others certainly would not sit idly by, but none of them expected that Gao Jianwu would have such an earth-shattering move.
"Jianwu, this plan to simplify Chinese characters is mainly driven by you, right?" The Grand Brigadier found Gao Jianwu and asked directly.
"Yes, Brigadier, I have considered that there are too many illiterates in our country. The original Chinese characters are complicated and difficult to learn, which is not conducive to allowing everyone to quickly understand commonly used characters in the short term. Therefore, according to the simplified Chinese character program on the market, I tried to simplify commonly used Chinese characters. Then I also designed the issue of phonetic notation.
After I drafted this plan and communicated with Professor Zhao Yuanrui, I received criticism, correction and strong support from Professor Zhao, and now this relatively complete new plan has been formed.
I think that after using this simplified plan, everyone can quickly learn more than 1,000 commonly used Chinese characters, read newspapers and periodicals, and complete most daily text communications. Gao Jianwu responded half-truthfully.
"Brigadier, although there is a big debate in the cultural circles right now, I feel that our time to eradicate illiteracy is too late. The industries we are now vigorously developing require more new generations of workers with certain cultural knowledge. We must quickly promote this plan to simplify Chinese characters. , widely promoted in newspapers, books, and daily official documents."
"Do you think your plan to simplify Chinese characters can really significantly reduce the illiteracy rate?" the brigade commander asked with some hesitation, "I looked at it for a long time and felt that the simplification of Chinese characters makes sense. After looking at it for a while, I I’ve learned a lot about it, but what’s the matter with your pinyin?”
"As for pinyin, Brigadier, you think you should learn it this way. These are the initial consonants b, p, f, f..., and these are the finals a, o, e, i, u. ,...
If you spell it out in pinyin, bo means bo, and look means kan, with the initial consonant in front and the final vowel in the back, with the tone. Most Chinese characters can correspond to this pinyin reading aid. "After Gao Jianwu took the Brigadier to learn Pinyin for a while, the Brigadier quickly got started.
"Jianwu, your pinyin is indeed a bit magical. It solves all the pronunciation and pronunciation with 26 letters. It is much simpler than the fanqie pinyin. But why don't you just use 26 letters to spell out the Chinese characters? Isn't it easier to learn?" After the Grand Brigadier tasted the benefits of Pinyin, he felt that it would be good to just use Pinyin.
"No, brigade commander, you see, if all pinyin is used, then there is no way to distinguish homophones. Among our Chinese characters, there are too many homophones. We cannot simply replace the Chinese characters with pinyin. Now we use Learning pinyin for notation of pronunciation is already a great simplification of phonetic notation." Gao Jianwu shook his head and joked, if he just left and used pinyin, he would really become a sinner who forgets his ancestors. After three or five generations, No one can even read the ancient books left by our ancestors.
Although the current simplified Chinese characters are said to have simplified many things in traditional Chinese characters, they are still very different in comparison.
Traditional Chinese characters can be learned quickly. Ordinary people can learn them for a few months at most. There is basically no big problem in understanding traditional Chinese characters.
But if you just learn to use Pinyin, it will be two completely different writing systems, completely separating the traditions. How can we continue to pass on five thousand years of cultural heritage?
"You are right. Since this plan is very helpful in eradicating illiteracy, I think there is no need to argue with those pedantic people. We can directly implement it in the base area first. Illiteracy is the biggest obstacle to the development of industry now. We must do it as soon as possible. Move this stumbling block out of the way and show off your skills.
I will personally report this matter to my superiors, and I believe there will be a conclusion soon. However, I am afraid that only you will be the first batch of teachers to conduct training. After all, this plan was mainly completed by you, and you know best. "
"Yes, Brigadier, this is my duty. I will personally train the first batch of seed teachers until they are qualified before releasing them. In addition, I also have a request. I hope to get some gramophones and make a record of my pinyin spelling method. , and then became the sound material for the seed teachers to correct the pronunciation. After all, I have a lot of work there, so I can’t spend all my time on this.”
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