Chapter 54: Describe Yellow to a Born Blind Man

When she first entered Sofinci High School, everything in front of her made Li Jiayao full of curiosity.

The fresh scent of sandalwood, the elegant cello, the sound of drawing on the paper.

There are no boring exam papers, no endless homework questions, no mean teachers, just a unique artistic atmosphere.

Li Jiayao could feel the thoughts flying in her mind just by walking here.

It is not an exaggeration to say that this is a temple of art.

According to the time of the interview notice, Lu Yunfeng accompanied her here and found the corresponding interview test center for the art major.

After staying for a while, the candidates who passed the recommendation arrived one after another. Li Jiayao is in a relatively low position, so she has enough time to prepare and see what the state of others will look like after the exam.

"Don't be nervous, just listen to my brother and say what you want to say." After Lu Yunfeng explained to him one last time, he was arranged to wait in the rest area. So in the exam preparation classroom, she was the only one left.

"Candidate No. 1, Wu Bo starts the interview."

"Candidate No. 2, waiting for Leng Xue."

The person in charge of the examination room notified each candidate one by one of the start and preparation of the exam, while Li Jiayao sat in the seat and observed what the candidates said after the exam.

"I felt that the answer was not bad, I used the theory of 'signifier' and 'signified' in linguistics, and those examiners were stunned."

"It's a color-related question, I can't say specifically, the examiner requires honesty to be the first element of life, so the question must be kept confidential."

"It's okay to be normal, and it's not a difficult problem."

"The examiners inside are all amiable, don't be too restrained, relax."

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Judging from the reactions of the candidates, everyone seems to be quite satisfied with the exam questions and find it not difficult. But it is this effect that makes Li Jiayao feel worried, if the question is difficult, then the gradient of the candidates will be easily separated. On the other hand, if it is simple, then everyone behaves similarly, and it is difficult to distinguish the characteristics of each person.

The reason why the interview exists is to distinguish the differences between each person, Li Jiayao thought.

Although this exam is only a symbolic meeting of these recommended students, and it should not eliminate many people, she is still nervous in her heart.

After a while, it was her turn. The person in charge of the examination room shouted her name and said, "Candidate No. 18, Li Jiayao starts the interview." ”

"Okay!" Li Jiayao got up and walked into the examination room.

There was a long table in the center of the examination room, and behind it sat two men and one woman, three examiners, namely Ling Xiaoqing, the head of the art department of Sofinch High School, Hou Ye, a teacher, and Zhang Xiong, the director of the visual laboratory.

As described in the previous exam, these candidates all had the same smile on their faces, and they were not serious at all. On the contrary, the nervousness on Li Jiayao's face seemed a little restrained.

"Candidate No. 18, named Li Jiayao, was recommended by Zhang Yun from the Music Department?" Ling Xiaoqing, who was sitting in the middle, looked at the information sheet and said kindly.

"Yes."

"Okay, I'll ask you a few questions next, you don't have to be nervous. We are holding this interview to meet with you, and we will not weed out any students. ”

Li Jiayao's complexion has slowed down a bit, and she will not be eliminated, so she will have no worries.

"Then I'm relieved."

In a word, the three examiners in the interview room all laughed heartily, thinking that this little girl was very cute.

Hou Ye said: "The first question, do you think I'm better looking or Director Xiong is good-looking?" ”

After hearing the question, Li Jiayao couldn't help but look at Hou Ye and Zhang Xiong. The former has flaxen-colored hair and a good-looking shape, a bit like Japanese actor Tomohisa Yamashita, who is completely an idol. Look at the latter again, with a beard, long hair, and black frames, full of artistic bacteria, and a stable and powerful faction.

Lu Yunfeng told him to follow the answer in his heart, she thought for a while and said, "Brother who asked this question, you are good-looking. ”

Hou Ye listened, raised his head, and his face was full of meaning. Li Jiayao's intuition told her that this thing was definitely a Leo.

But Zhang Xiong was buried for no reason and was not to be outdone, so he said: "Little sister, do you think I am taller or Teacher Hou Ye is higher?" ”

Li Jiayao's face was gloomy, huh? What is the problem? Why do you seem to sow discord......

Although Hou Ye is handsome, he is a head shorter than Zhang Xiong just by sitting, let alone standing up. And after hearing this question, Hou Ye was obviously not very happy.

"I think...... I think Mr. Zhang Xiong is relatively tall. ”

"Little sister, your eyes are bright." Zhang Xiong praised.

The atmosphere at the interview scene was very weird, and Li Jiayao felt that she had been deceived. What is normal and relaxed, not at all.

In fact, Zhang Xiong and Hou Ye are just trying to test what kind of character Li Jiayao is, whether they are exaggerated or honest, cautious or innocent, you can easily see through these conversations. After getting a general idea of the candidate's personality, it's time to ask the final question.

"The two questions just now are just a joke, and now let's move on to our official exam questions today." Ling Xiaoqing took out a question board that read: How to describe yellow to a naturally blind person? "Little sister, if it were you, how would you describe it?"

After seeing the problem, Li Jiayao suddenly realized that this is what those candidates call the color problem and signifier.

Any noun has two sides, the so-called signifier and signifier, which is an intuitive concept and a derivative concept of matter. For example, if you look at a tree, it refers to just a tree, but the signifier is nature, oxygen, green, and so on, because when we see a tree, we associate many derived concepts, the so-called signifiers. From this, we can see that the red signifier is danger and passion, the black signifier is deep and nothing, and so on.

This concept was first proposed by the linguist Saussure and written in "General Linguistics", so the previous candidates were proud to have mastered knowledge that children of the same age had never heard of.

And Li Jiayao knew the content of this part in the "Encyclopedia" before, but she didn't expect it to be equally useful in this world. It's no wonder that although time and space have changed, language has not changed. So according to this theoretical reasoning, the signifier of yellow is warmth and sunshine. The blind man loses the intuitive signifier of sight, and can only use the concept of signifier to elaborate like him.

However, just when Li Jiayao wanted to say the answer, Lu Yunfeng's words suddenly echoed in her mind.

"Follow Your Heart's Feelings......"

If she was blind, born blind, would she know what kind of existence "yellow" is?