I came to Xi'an 21 years ago to work, and 12 years ago I finally had my own place to live. Jia Pingwa was happy for me, and hand-wrote "Thousand Character Text" to me, a full ten banners, hanging on the wall very pompous, but I locked it in the cabinet, often secretly read it alone, very precious, I like it very much.

At that time, I was worried that I would not be able to keep it, so I took the initiative to pay some moisturizing pens. Sure enough, he liked it more, and later he wanted to pay back ten times the price, but I didn't agree.

He talked about it two or three times, and I resisted by sitting quietly with my eyes closed, and there was only one common way for subordinates to resist their superiors, which was to meditate.

"A Thousand Words" is a short article, but it is a thousand-year-old pen. Simple and large package capacity, only a thousand Chinese characters,

"From antiquity to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the entire cultural system, astronomy, geography, science, and politics, everything is told" (Mr. Nan Huaijin's words).

The most rare thing is that it is also a literacy textbook for elementary school students in the past. A thousand Chinese characters are not repeated, and if you are familiar with them and memorize them, you will not be able to use them for a lifetime.

Our Chinese characters are truly remarkable and a unique intangible cultural heritage in their own right. There are several meanings in a word, and there is a special knowledge called the study of exegesis to study the relationship between different meanings.

For example, the word spring and autumn represents two seasons, and there is another layer of deep meaning, which is another name for history.

Why call history

"Spring and autumn", not winter and summer, contains a lot of sayings. Chinese characters were used uniformly during the reign of Qin Shi Huang, but China has a wide range of people since ancient times, and the pronunciation of a character varies greatly from place to place.

For the study of pronunciation differences, there is also a special discipline called phonology. In the past, it was a very fun thing for civil officials from the north and south to communicate together, and no one could understand what they said to each other, like two mutes meeting each other, expressing their meanings by gestures and writing.

There is an old saying that literati are light, and there is a thick language fence between people, and when you hear the sound of the diaphragm, you will be annoyed first, how to be heavy?

The Chinese character package has a large capacity, strong generalization, and an interesting image, which is incomparable to foreign characters. That's why we were raised

The literary system of "in a word", no matter how big the matter, can be summed up in a few words. Like what

"Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith", these five words are the general moral principles of the daily behavior of the Chinese people, and there is no need to explain every word, and the illiterate old men in the village will do it personally.

Cao Chen, a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, compiled a book in the form of a book excerpt, called "Tongue Hualu", which is published today

The grandfather of books such as "famous sayings and aphorisms". The bibliography of "Tongue Hualu" has been reduced to ninety-nine kinds since the pre-Qin period, taking the tongue Hua, not the pen Hua.

Emphasis on history and collection, not on scripture and son, emphasis on literature rather than prestige, emphasis on wilderness rather than dynasty.

"Ancient and modern books are like cow hair, and the language of the world is like mosquitoes. "Cao Chen is a seed of reading, he can see the books accurately, and let the books he has read sprout and sprout, giving birth to a new atmosphere.

The ancients called people who read dead books bookworms, and this metaphor is very expressive, the worms eat the books, but they don't grow up.

Confucius said

"In a word". A monk said more vividly: "A sentence of conjunction, the eternal donkey pouting." "An important word can tie up thousands of people with a very strong temper.

Not to mention the distance, the examples around you are at your fingertips. More than sixty years ago, there was an important saying, called

"Power comes out of the barrel of a gun", there were two sentences more than 30 years ago, called

"Crossing the river by feeling the stones"

"Development is the last word". There were more than 10 years ago

"Three represents". I'm learning a phrase called it now

"Scientific Outlook on Development". Why did Chiang Kai-shek's regime fail back then? One of the reasons is probably the improper use of the word "conjunction".

"It's better to kill a thousand by mistake than to miss one"

"If you go outside, you must first settle inside", what you say is unreasonable and unreliable, and people laugh at it. The brutal history of the Spring and Autumn Period confirms a truth, the longer a sentence is circulated, the more lasting the charm of the classics.

Jia Pingwa's handwritten "Thousand Character Text" took a whole afternoon, and most of the night, until more than two o'clock in the night.

His wife, who was slow to write, helped pull the rice paper, and the cuffs were stained with ink. The next day, when I went to pick up the letters, he said, "You should pay for a piece of clothing." I said, "Yes, add another pair of sleeves." ”