Chapter 352: The Great Zhou Dictionary and the Foreign Language Academy

Wilson's affair, though it caused a momentary unpleasantness, passed quickly.

After Wilson left, the scene naturally became lively again.

For three days in a row, the palace was full of laughter and laughter.

But no matter how lively the scene is, there will be an end to the day after all.

Three days later, life returned to normal, and Zhang Lingyang still went to the court every day, handled government affairs, worried about industrial construction, and was very busy every day.

Within a few days, Zhou Chang, Li Tai, and Zhu Yang, who had already received the order, rushed to the capital.

Although Zhang Lingyang very much needed open-minded people to assist him, he did not arrange for the three to join the company as soon as the three entered Beijing, but let Zhou Chang and the three of them go to the Great Zhou Royal Academy to study for a few months, and then arrange their work after a period of time.

For Zhou Chang and the others, Zhang Lingyang naturally would not ask them to do the same as he asked the students of the Great Zhou Royal Academy, but just let them understand some necessary scientific knowledge and change their own ideas.

At the same time, the first batch of students of the Great Zhou Royal Academy also reached the time of graduation.

Except for the students who were assigned to work as technicians in the factory, the remaining half of the students were designated by Zhang Lingyang as teachers in primary and secondary schools in various places in the future.

Now that there are teachers and schools are in full swing in various places, the compilation of teaching materials for primary and secondary schools is naturally on the agenda.

At present, the Great Zhou Royal Academy is mainly aimed at science and technology, and the requirements for the level of literature are not high, and only the students are required to be able to read and hyphenate at that time.

Therefore, when compiling textbooks, textbooks mainly on geography and science have naturally become the top priority.

Of course, literacy is a prerequisite for learning other subjects.

How to make students who have just entered the primary school classroom understand and hyphenate as soon as possible has become the first headache for teachers who have not yet joined the school.

In this regard, Zhang Lingyang directly used the doctrine of taking, and first selected a group of students with relatively good knowledge from Guozijian to compile a "Great Zhou Dictionary".

Similar to the Xinhua dictionary of later generations, the Da Zhou dictionary is consulted in the situation of pinyin and radicals.

In this regard, the students of Guozijian are very excited, after all, this is a rare cultural event, and others may not be able to participate in this event even if they squeeze their heads, such a good thing actually fell on their heads like pie in the sky, so where will there be opinions?

It's good to summarize the side and the like.,The only problem is that basically no one understands this pinyin.。

Can this be difficult to stop Zhang Lingyang?

Taught Xiaofuzi for a few days, and then let Xiaofuzi personally go to Guozijian to teach those students, in less than half a month, those students all learned the method of pinyin.

In this way, things went smoothly.

And at the Great Zhou Royal Academy, there is another great event going on.

In addition to compiling textbooks for primary and secondary schools, some students are also working on the translation of scientific works under the leadership of experts and scholars.

As mentioned before, as early as the establishment of the Great Zhou Royal Academy, some scientific works had been translated, but that was only a drop in the bucket.

Nowadays, most of the experts and scholars from Europe are proficient in Chinese, and large-scale translation work is naturally on the agenda.

With the help of the students, there is a growing competition for translated books.

By the end of the fifth year of Tai'an, more than 200 scientific documents had been translated into Chinese.

Zhang Lingyang has also read some of those translated documents, but he always feels that something is missing.

At first, Zhang Lingyang didn't think of what was missing, but after thinking about it carefully, Zhang Lingyang finally reacted, these translated scientific documents lacked some vitality, and the articles were a little obscure to read.

At this time, Zhang Lingyang also understood that none of these experts, scholars and students were professional translators, and he did not know that sometimes translating a book is not only a simple translation of the meaning of the text, but also the translation of the central idea of the book.

In three years, it is already rare for these scholars to be able to communicate with experts and scholars on a daily basis, but where do they understand other things?

Therefore, in order to be able to translate books more reasonably in the future, and to understand the meaning of books more simply, Zhang Lingyang ordered that in the spring of next year, each branch of the Great Zhou Royal Academy will set up a foreign language college to specialize in learning foreign languages.

The purpose of the establishment of the School of Foreign Languages is not only for the translation of these documents, but also for the future Dazhou to be able to communicate with Europe more quickly and concisely.

It's like setting up an embassy in Europe in the future, and the embassy staff can't even speak French, English, Russian and other European languages!

However, unlike other colleges, the foreign language college does not admit too many students, because during the big week, most people still refuse to learn foreign languages.

This is related to the closed environment of the Great Zhou, and it is also related to the ideology of the Great Zhou.

For thousands of years, the people of the land of the Great Zhou have been accustomed to being masters, at least in East Asia.

What's more, it is now Europe that has a request for the Great Zhou, not for the Great Zhou, at least on the surface.

Just like in Europe now, universities in many countries have established Chinese language colleges, which is convenient for future contacts with Da Zhou.

This has nothing to do with the level of science and technology, nor does it have anything to do with national strength, it is the inevitable development of supply and demand.

Now, Europe is more in urgent need of the market and commodities of the Great Zhou, on the other hand, in addition to the purchase of some machinery and equipment, the rest of the industrial products, the Great Zhou is basically not purchased.

Since you Europe is begging me for the Great Zhou, then you naturally have to follow the rules of my Great Zhou, so language has become the biggest obstacle among them.

Through the letters of those experts and scholars who went to the Great Zhou, the Great Zhou is now a paradise on earth in the minds of Europeans, where there are gorgeous silks, delicious food, elegant manners, and a large amount of wealth, all of which make the adventurous European people full of yearning for the Great Zhou.

If a businessman wants to go to Da Zhou to make money, he naturally has to learn Chinese.

Experts and scholars who want to go to the Great Zhou for development naturally need to learn Chinese.

The people yearn for the life of the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty and want to immigrate to the Great Zhou, so they naturally need to learn Chinese even more.

So unconsciously, Europe has set off a Chinese language craze.

If Zhang Lingyang knew about this situation, he would definitely laugh.

In fact, in the final analysis, the life of the people at the bottom of any country will not be easy, but how can Europeans know what life the people at the bottom of the Great Zhou are living?

Now those European merchants, experts, and scholars who went to the Great Zhou have been envoys, either in the coastal areas, or in the rich Jiangnan and the capital of the first good place, these places are the rich places of the Great Zhou, where they naturally can't see what kind of life the people of the Great Zhou lived......