Why is it so easy to read?

First, the state of the world has changed, the folk customs and literary styles are evolving, and people's living habits, including the way they speak, the way they use sentences, are quite different from before. The second is the change of Chinese characters themselves, our Chinese characters are an independent life, have a lifespan, are still in use, that is, they are alive, and some are no longer used, such as some words and words in the articles of the pre-Qin Zhuzi. When a person dies and wants to go to the police station to cancel his hukou, the words that are no longer used are those who have had his hukou cancelled. The third is the change of the meaning of words, some of which are changed to enrichment, and the meaning is value-added, such as the words "say" and "dao", before the Qin and Han dynasties, only referred to "doctrine" and "daoyuan", but today the meaning has been many yuan. Another example is "three and four at dusk", today's meaning does not need to be said, the original meaning of this word refers to the difficulty of changing habits, exemplified Zhuangzi's "Theory of Things", a monkey keeper fed the monkey "Qi" (a kind of dried fruit), the habit is to feed four in the morning, three in the evening, one day suddenly announced to change, "said: three and Mo (twilight) four, all snipers (monkeys) are angry." Said: Then the four and Mo (twilight) three, all snipers are happy". The word "芧" in the story of the three days and the fourth day is no longer used today. There are also words in the Chinese language that are "tailor-made" for a particular person or event, and the value of the meaning of the word ceases as the matter passes. Not to mention, just list the terms of recent years, such as "***" and "educated youth", as well as the popular word "SARS" in previous years.

Some of the changes in style caused by living habits are slow, while others are abrupt. After the invention of the telephone, the style of "ruler" began to decline, mobile phones were widely used, and the new style of "text messaging" was booming. A writing instrument is more than just a tool, it involves the way and the way of thinking. From the brush to the fountain pen is a new change, the popularization of the computer is a newer change, the unbridled and vivid network language is an all-round activation of the dull modern Chinese written language, and it awakens a trend of innovation in the language structure.

The name of the unit of the book is called "volume", "volume" and "page", and the article is called "chapter", which originates from the historical origin of "book" and "text", and is the name given to the book and article "when I was a child". The first text was engraved on tortoise shells and animal bones, and later developed into bamboo slips, which were placed next to the bookcase or on the back of a donkey. Reading 10,000 books and traveling 10,000 miles is the self-satisfaction and self-encouragement of those who used to read. In the past, the text of the book was arranged vertically, and the left and right branches were divided for the convenience of engraving and dressing. The human eye is a left and right device, and it is scientific and practical to read books in horizontal rows and lines, but after the invention of papermaking and printing, it was still printed vertically for more than a thousand years. After 1950, the state made the principle of horizontal arrangement of Chinese books and magazines, but until September 1956, "there were 214 kinds of magazines at the central level, of which 187 were horizontally, accounting for 86%", and as of today, the printed matter in ** and Taiwan is still vertical, which shows how difficult it is to change the habit of reading.

The foundation of the folk style is deposited by the way the people live, but the foundation of the literary style is not in the people, but is promoted by "official articles". Whether the style of writing of an era is luxurious or simple, "attributed" to the best documents and documents. In the past, the emperor's edicts and decrees were mostly short, and one of the important reasons was that they were handwritten by ministers and could not be written by secretaries. The pen is a brush, the ink should be sharpened, and there are objective reasons for the condensation and compactness of classical Chinese. If the old practice is still followed today, the official documents of ** are stipulated to be written by the "ministers" with a brush, it will certainly not be so verbose, and the "ministers" themselves will delete those nonsense clichés and scenes. In the past, the external manifestation of the level of officials was to write documents, but now the world has changed, the stars have changed, and there are wastes and prosperity, and today it is reading documents.

The original intention of the ancient literature movement in the Tang Dynasty was not in the literary sense, but in response to the popular habits of Kumon at that time, advocating the removal of the "pun wen" tone of rhetoric since the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and advocating the simple literary style of the pre-Qin and Han dynasties. From today's point of view, these propositions are still a little bit pertinent.

Imagine that in a hundred years, what kind of eyes will future generations use to look at our documents and official documents today?