Coming out of Han Xianru's house, Jiang Shuiyuan was holding a bunch of essays by famous scholars such as Wang Guowei and Fu Sinian in his arms, and he had a strange feeling in his heart: Obviously he came to ask Mr. Han for advice on the manuscript, but why did he come out with a bunch of bad materials?

According to the previous assumption, the so-called "consultation" does not mean to end. If Mr. Han says "very good" and "okay", then the manuscript of the book is worth a good toss, and after revision, see if it can be printed by a publishing house -- although this hope is very slim; if Mr. Han says "we still need to work hard", then throw the manuscript aside, anyway, I took the opportunity to write the book to clarify my thinking, and by the way, I also learned a lot of knowledge that I have never been exposed to, and it is worth it! Of course, it is also a very good choice to print out a few copies, one to put in the reference room of the Kodansha of Chinese Studies, and one to keep as a souvenir.

Unexpectedly, this matter was not finished, and Mr. Han sent him a new task and stuffed so many books. Wang Guowei said, "There are only regrets in life, and only doubts are gained when knowledge increases", the first half of the sentence does not have much understanding of Jiang Shuiyuan, but the second half of the sentence is deeply touched. At first, I read "Introduction to Chinese Studies" and "Summary of the Four Libraries of the Whole Book" to increase my posture, and I felt that my eyes were wide open.

Another example is studying mathematics, after preparing for high school courses, I felt that I was very good, but Ge Juntian first threw a copy of "Hilbert's Problem and Research Progress", shattered his confidence, and threw a copy of "Complex Analysis: Visualization Methods" to let himself read the first three chapters. I just finished reading the first three chapters, and I asked to read the whole book, and I also added a copy of "Introduction to Algebra".

Another example is now.

Jiang Shuiyuan feels that it is not that the more you read the book, the thinner and thinner the knowledge, but the thicker the book. The more you look at it, the more questions you have. Every time he heard the math teacher say on the podium that "the sum of the inner angles of a triangle is 180 degrees", he couldn't help but add in his heart "in Euclidean geometry" (because in Lobachevsky geometry, the sum of internal angles is less than 180 degrees; in Riemannian geometry, the sum of internal angles is greater than 180 degrees); every time he saw the Chinese teacher writing "Ouyang Xiu" on the blackboard, Jiang Shuiyuan couldn't help but want to go up and change it to "Ouyang Xu" (Ouyang Xuan himself, his contemporaries, until the Ming Dynasty engraved books were "Ouyang Xu"). "Ouyang Xiu" was changed indiscriminately after the middle of the Ming Dynasty; and the meanings of the words "Xiu" and "脩" are not the same).

Of course, Mr. Han Xianru's guidance also benefited Jiang Shuiyuan a lot. Before this, Jiang Shuiyuan didn't know how to write a paper, and he didn't even think about it, but now Mr. Han asked Jiang Shuiyuan to write two or three papers on his own manuscript, and pointed out the difference between papers and manuscripts, suggesting that the core of the paper is "new", rather than the "self-contained system" of the manuscript, which made Jiang Shuiyuan complete the three-step leap of "learning knowledge, building a knowledge system, and innovating knowledge" in a short period of time.

Although for the fifteen-year-old Jiang Shuiyuan. It's a bit difficult to innovate knowledge, but at least a seed has been planted in his heart, and maybe when the child will take root and sprout, blossom and bear fruit. You must know that Pascal had already written about the relationship between vibration and sound at the age of 11, independently proved that the sum of the angles of a triangle was equal to 180 degrees at the age of 12, and discovered the famous Pascal hexagonal theorem at the age of 16.

Besides, who can say for sure about innovation? It has nothing to do with intelligence and flashes of inspiration, and it doesn't seem to have much to do with age.

Jiang Shuiyuan returned home. If you have nothing to do, pick up the "Kingdom Dimension Collection" first. casually opened one of the "Qin County Examinations" and read it. If you want to talk about Qin County, the water source of the river is not unfamiliar. He has read the "Historical Records", which clearly says that in the 26th year of the first emperor, "the world is divided into 36 counties", and Pei Qiu's "Historical Records Collection" in the Tang Dynasty clearly lists what the 36 counties are, what is there to test?

However, Wang Guowei was able to raise doubts where ordinary people did not doubt them, and he also cited the chronicles, biographies and geographical chronicles of the "Historical Records" and the "Book of Han". It is concluded that "Qin is the king of water, so the number is six for the record." Twenty-six years, the world was divided into thirty-six counties, thirty-six, and the self-multiplier of six was also. The second time to add Yan and Qi six counties is forty-two. Forty-two. Six times seven times also. By the 33rd year, Nanhai, Guilin, and Xiang counties were placed in the south, and Jiuyuan was placed in the north, and the two counties of Chen and Donghai were divided into two counties in the interior, making a total of 48 counties. Forty-eight, six and eight times. Qin Zhiran also".

After reading it, Jiang Shuiyuan couldn't help but think for a long time.

I have read the "Records of the Historians" and the "Book of Han" myself, and not only have read them, but I can also recite them casually, and the various historical materials cited by Wang Guowei are completely at my fingertips, but why can't I think of this problem myself? Even if we can think of this problem, can we rise to the height of "Qin is the king of Shuide, so the number is based on six"? Although it has been clearly stated in the "Records of the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty" that "the number is based on six, the number is six inches, and the number of symbols and crowns is six inches, and the public opinion is six feet, and six feet is the step, and six horses are taken."

It can be imagined that the possession of information is only the first step in learning, and whether the information can be used and used to bring forth the new, and then bring forth the new is the fundamental purpose of possession of information. Possession of information for the sake of possession, that is a two-legged bookcase like Lu Cheng!

By analogy, how much of the "Difficult Historical Tales of Chinese Studies" written by oneself is a compilation of pure materials, and how many of these creations are worthy of scrutiny and examination? Originally, I thought that it would be easy to extract some materials from the 300,000-word manuscript and write two or three papers, but now it seems that it is really worth a big discussion whether the remaining part of the selected paper can support two or three papers!

Jiang Shuiyuan stood up suddenly, came to the computer and began to re-read the manuscript of "The Difficult History of Chinese Studies", and all the texts that were in the nature of a compilation of materials were deleted, leaving only the part that he played for himself. Two hours have passed, and the original manuscript of 300,000 words has not survived, and only 20,000 or 30,000 words of fragmented arguments remain, without a certain theme, just like the broken pottery pieces in the ancient ruins, which can't be put together, and it looks a bit like Wang Guowei's "Words in the World". However, how much of this is correct and valuable, Jiang Shuiyuan has no bottom in his heart.

But these few tens of thousands of words are the fruits of his continuous struggle for three or four months, which may be tangerines or bitter plums. However, no matter how it tastes, the water source is treasured. Maybe this is the so-called self-cherishing of the broom, right?

In the following days, as long as he has time, Jiang Shuiyuan will carefully think about every point in the abridged draft against the difficult materials collected before, and record the shining points of the collision of ideas at any time. Occasionally, he would flip through the collections of essays by Wang Guowei, Fu Sinian and others to see how others wrote their papers.

In the past, when I wrote "Difficult Historical Tales of Chinese Studies", I felt very painful, I needed to find materials everywhere, watch videos, I needed to think hard, and I had to squeeze out time to write everything I saw and thought. I didn't expect that writing a paper of a few thousand words is more painful than writing a large manuscript, not only the opinions and argumentation process have to be carefully pondered, but I am afraid that others have already said it, and even every sentence said has to be said several times in my heart, and there is really a feeling of "no word and no place".

After nearly a month of hard work, it was not until the end of the summer vacation that Jiang Shuiyuan finally wrote the first paper entitled "A Brief Discussion on the Changes in the Arguments Cited by the Debaters of the National Sinology Difficult Contest in the Past 50 Years". Although the article is only four or five thousand words, it has been tempered a lot, and it can be said that every word seems to be blood, and half a year of hard work is unusual.

Then he came to the outside of the old house in the staff dormitory area of Huai'an Normal School again, and respectfully handed over his homework to Mr. Han. (To be continued......)