"The superiors said that this is a big debate, and we need to see the relatively unified opinions of the academic community before implementing it. The leaders said that education is a century-old foundation, and any major changes need to be cautious. Your plan to simplify Chinese characters will have to wait for the time being." The brigade commander who went there came back a little frustrated, obviously not expecting that this great thing would not get support.
"Brigadier, this matter is not urgent. Educational matters must be considered in the long term and cannot be rushed." Gao Jianwu was also a little disappointed, but this result was what he expected.
The fact that there are more people in the cultural circles in newspapers and magazines criticizing this plan than supporting it shows that on this issue, the conservative traditionalists are still the main force.
Even within the Eighth Route Army, there are probably many people who stick to tradition.
"How can I not be in a hurry? This is obviously a good way to reduce illiteracy in our country. As long as they are arguing, we may have eliminated more than half of the illiteracy." The brigade commander looked a little bit away from his usual gentleness. indignant.
"I've almost learned half of this thing. The difficulty of learning is much smaller than when I was in enlightenment. From my point of view, even an illiterate person can learn this simplified character plan after more than 100 hours of study. Commonly used words.
No, we can't just sit around and do nothing. They didn't agree, so we started to do it secretly ourselves. "The more the Brigadier talked, the more he couldn't sit still. He is a very independent person. Once he makes up his mind about many things, he dares to think and do it!
Thinking of this, the brigade commander stared at Gao Jianwu with sharp eyes, "Let's start with this teacher. How about you do it first and train our first batch of simplified character teachers?"
"It's okay for me to be a teacher, but is it really okay to do this? There is no final conclusion from above. Does it violate the policy of the above if we do it secretly?" Gao Jianwu said hesitantly.
"We'll just do it on our own one-third of an acre of land, just think of it as a pilot project. It's no big deal if we give it a try. If it doesn't work, the impact won't be big." The brigade commander waved his hand and settled the matter. Come down.
With the active support of the brigade commander, Gao Jianwu's first simplified character training class was quickly organized. but.
First, he completely took out the simplified Chinese characters and created a separate concise dictionary of simplified and traditional Chinese, and had 200 mimeographed copies produced as the first batch of student manuals.
This is a manual with simplified characters printed directly in Gao Jianwu's handwriting. Fortunately, Gao Jianwu's handwriting is quite neat. There are about a hundred characters on each page, and all of Gao Jianwu's simplified characters are printed on it in more than 30 pages. As for pinyin, there are 2 pages appended at the back.
The first generation of high-end simplified Chinese character textbooks were produced in this way, which seemed a bit hasty.
The brigade commander found teachers from several schools close to each other in the base area and gathered almost a hundred teachers. Then he selected uneducated and illiterate soldiers from the brigade headquarters and a group of soldiers. There were more than 150 people in total, and they were at the headquarters of the base area. I found a yard and held the first simplified Chinese character training class.
Those uneducated and illiterate people, of course, were chosen by the brigade commander to be the guinea pigs. Let’s see what level they will be in after they go to school with this training class. Let’s do a comparative test. What’s rare is that, The Grand Brigadier said that he would often come to listen to lectures when he had time, and wanted to learn all the simplified Chinese characters created by Gao Jianwu.
first day.
Gao Jianwu stood in front of the first row of blackboards in the yard, looking at the crowd of more than a hundred people below. Except for a few people, most of them looked at him blankly.
When they were recruited, they were just told that they were here to study. When they came here, one person was given a simplified and traditional Chinese dictionary, and everyone was a little dumbfounded.
Seeing Gao Jianwu, even if some people didn't know him, more people knew Gao Jianwu. Soon everyone in the audience knew that today's teacher was Gao Jianwu.
Therefore, everyone looked very energetic while sitting on the pony. No matter what Gao Jianwu said, this was a rare experience.
In the first class, the brigade commander took a break from his busy schedule and found a little Maza to sit in front of him. He looked at Gao Jianwu with a smile. He didn't prepare to speak at the beginning of the class, so he just left it to Gao Jianwu to handle it himself.
Gao Jianwu looked at the brigade commander looking like he was laughing, shook his head slightly and cleared his throat.
"Comrades, from today on, I will tell you what Pinyin is and how to simplify the spelling of Chinese characters."
"First of all, let's take a look at this character, Yi - Yi. The character in front of you is what I call a simplified Chinese character. The meaning of this instrument is "yi". Compared with the traditional "yi", the new simplified character is greatly reduced. Reducing the number of writing strokes should greatly reduce the difficulty of learning for beginners. This is to simplify Chinese characters.
I call the new simplified Chinese characters Simplified Chinese characters, and the traditional Chinese characters I call Traditional Chinese characters. "
Gao Jianwu briefly talked about the origin of simplified characters.
The illiterate soldiers in the yard didn't feel anything, but the teachers heard it and their heads were about to explode.
"Minister Gao, what you are telling us today are the simplified Chinese characters that are controversial in newspapers and periodicals?" A teacher asked tremblingly. In fact, when he got the simplified and traditional Chinese dictionary, he had questions and guesses. At this moment, listening to Gao Jianwu made it clear at the outset and finally confirmed it.
This is the biggest issue in the cultural world at the moment. Although the information here in the base area is not very well-informed, most newspapers and periodicals from a week ago are still available, so many teachers are also aware of this dispute. However, because the specific plan has not been announced in the publications, everyone has You may not be able to see it. What you see are some parts, and it is not as complete as Gao Jianwu.
"Yes, starting today, what we are going to learn is this simplified character." Gao Jianwu did not hide it.
"While everyone is learning, they will also give feedback on which simplifications in this plan are obviously inappropriate. Next, we will start by learning Pinyin and spelling."
The teachers below confirmed what was to be done, and everyone was a little excited. Among these people, there were actually some teachers who did not agree with the alienation of Chinese characters, especially the older teachers who had gone to private schools to become scholars.
It's just that everyone here in the base area is more disciplined. The brigade commander is still sitting on the side. Even if the teacher has objections in his heart, he does not jump out to object because of the commotion.
Regardless of what they thought, Gao Jianwu started teaching Pinyin to everyone at his own pace. It took him one day to teach Pinyin through it all, which was completely different from traditional preschool and primary school learning.
In Gao Jianwu's view, it is enough for everyone to have a general understanding of Pinyin for one day, and there is no need to master it immediately before proceeding to the next step.
Because the pinyin pronunciation will be used repeatedly in the following courses, everyone can learn to pronounce more than 3,000 simplified Chinese characters, and naturally they are almost familiar with pinyin.
The pinyin rules are simple, and the number is relatively small. Compared with the pronunciation marked by Gao Jianwu in Chinese characters, many teachers read it several times under the guidance of Gao Jianwu, and soon had some feeling for the pronunciation of these initial consonants and finals, which made them younger. People can already follow the Chinese characters and learn all the pronunciations.
This wonderful experience also made some older teachers feel a little bit. They felt that using Gao Jianwu's method for spelling seemed to be much simpler than the traditional Fanqie spelling. At least the rules seemed to be much simpler.
Regardless of whether they have a basic knowledge of English or not, this step is not difficult for most people who are literate. Gao Jianwu marked the pronunciation in both simplified and traditional Chinese, which made it very convenient for the teachers below to master the pronunciation of Pinyin initials and finals. At the same time, I also had an intuitive impression of these twenty-odd simplified Chinese characters.
"Jianwu, I finally figured it out. In your spelling, the so-called initial consonants are placed in front, and the finals are placed in the back. Wo me, ni you, ta him. The two are spelled together to make it catchy. It is indeed a good idea. The annotation method is better than the traditional method. I have benefited a lot from listening to it today. I have figured out the basic way of spelling. In fact, I can learn the simplified Chinese characters by myself. I just need to remember them. It's just a glyph." When the day's class was over, the Grand Brigadier was a little excited after hearing this.
The Grand Brigadier was already extremely talented, and it was not difficult to learn this thing at all. He mastered the essence of Gao Jianwu's pinyin in one day. Even if he could not remember the combination of initial consonants and finals, on paper, the Grand Brigadier had already mastered it. You can try to spell any word.
The brigade commander is like this. For the teachers with cultural background and the staff at the brigade headquarters in the base area, everyone is almost the same. Most of them have basically mastered the pronunciation and spelling rules of Pinyin. Now looking at the textbook, it is completely You can pronounce the complete consonants and consonants of Pinyin.
As for the illiterate soldiers, although they had no foundation, they memorized the pronunciation of each word after looking at the teachings of Gao Jian Wushu. Even the pronunciation of the words was not recognized. However, they relied on rote memorization, and now they are very powerful. Tactics can also pronounce more than ten initial consonants and finals.
The progress is pretty good, but of course it cannot be compared with that group of educated teachers.
Since it was a comparison, Gao Jianwu did not stop and wait for the illiterate soldiers. According to his own pace, he started to get straight to the point the next day and began to practice spelling and writing the one hundred simplified Chinese characters on the first page.
On a blackboard, Gao Jianwu neatly wrote out a hundred words with chalk, marked with pinyin and traditional Chinese characters, and taught pinyin to the students below one by one. He stood in front of the blackboard in front of the yard and taught. The students took He held a branch on the ground and wrote along. He spent ten minutes repeating the spelling and writing training for each simplified Chinese character. He talked about all the words on the page before the day's class ended.
Pinyin repeated the Pinyin rules and pronunciation again. The teacher who struggled with Pinyin's initials and rhymes yesterday was able to pass the pronunciation section at the end of the day. Even the illiterate group who faced it, at the end of the day, I also became familiar with the pronunciation of several initials and vowels.
As for the writing memory of simplified characters, the difference between the teacher group and the illiterate soldier group suddenly widened, but this is normal. Illiterate people who have never written any words have no concept of strokes, but under Gao Jianwu's step-by-step demonstration , even the illiterate group, they have learned to write at least ten words.
After class, the soldiers in the illiterate group spontaneously stayed to study without asking the people around them or the teachers who were training with them. They were eager to learn and had never thought about these things in Gao Jian Martial Arts. There is no official promotion instructions at all. .
The next day, when Gao Jianwu heard that the illiterate control group could spell the words spoken the previous day relatively standardly, Gao Jianwu was touched.
To be honest, in order to get a real data comparison, he had the courage to put the teachers and the control group together and teach them equally, just to see how difficult it is for illiterate people to learn simplified characters in this era.
Can this be fully extended to the entire base area, and even other base areas? It is not just empty talk, but to see the real effect of actual combat.
The course went on day by day, and after more than a month, by the time they had finished learning more than 3,000 simplified Chinese characters created by Gao Jianwu, even the soldiers in the illiterate group were familiar with Pinyin, and there was no need to read the Pinyin page of the dictionary. As for the teachers, they can already train others one by one!
"Minister Gao, I'm convinced. This simplified Chinese character seems to have lost many radicals of traditional Chinese characters, but we can still see the inheritance of traditional Chinese characters, and there is no danger of cutting off the roots of our culture." A passage from the old era. The scholarly old teacher said with emotion.
"Based on our experience of learning more than 3,000 simplified Chinese characters, we can learn them in about a month, and we can read and write them, which is basically equivalent to the Chinese cultural level of a high school graduate. These are quite impressive.
Before the training, Lao Chan was not immune to the influence of those conservatives, who believed that simplifying Chinese characters was a bit forgetful of ancestors and cut off the traditional cultural lineage. But I want to say that if most people are illiterate, it is almost enough to continue the blood of traditional culture.
With these simplified Chinese characters that are convenient and easy to learn, only if all the people become literate and learn to read can our culture be truly passed down from generation to generation.
The old man hopes that Minister Gao and the brigade commander can vigorously promote this matter in the base area. With Minister Gao's simplified Chinese characters and pinyin, most people will basically learn more than 1,000 common words in a month, and they can also Learn how to pronounce Pinyin, and then learn more words by yourself.
Therefore, promoting simplified Chinese characters as soon as possible is a major matter that will serve the present and benefit the future. "
Seeing that the most stubborn old gentleman all agreed with Gao Jianwu's plan to simplify Chinese characters, the brigade commander was relieved. This pilot project he carried out despite the wind can be regarded as a complete success today.
Even the soldiers in the illiterate control group have learned at least more than a thousand words and can read newspapers and periodicals.
The smarter soldiers knew almost 2,000 words. Although their writing was not satisfactory and their writing was a bit sloppy, they were still illiterate and could write relatively simple letters.
This is an important reason for the unified change in the attitude of teachers.
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