After the Ma Hualong uprising, there were few Hui people in Shaanxi, except for Xi'an. Now there is some restoration, so there are mosques and Muslim unions.

After Shaanxi was brought under the Wuhan government, the government provided enough food for the poor through work-for-relief. Agrarian reform and agricultural innovation have brought the prestige of the government to unprecedented heights. To a certain extent, the role of Islam has been weakened.

Of course, the biggest conflict is between Northwest University and rural basic education, not only Han education, but science is anti-religious to a certain extent. This caused resistance among religious people. Religious figures continue to protest in front of the provincial government.

Consciously, Qian Xuanran, who advocated the abolition of Chinese characters, went to Xi'an to boycott Chinese education with these religious figures.

Zhou Shuren also mentioned the abolition of Chinese characters or the simplification of Chinese characters. However, it was not mentioned later, because the education for the whole people implemented since the central Hubei period showed that the various vices of the old script were related to the class and ideology that mastered the script, and had no essential relationship with the script itself.

Wang Guowei's research shows that although Chinese characters have been simplifying and evolving, Chinese characters have their own unique functions and meanings, and have their own evolutionary history. Not comparable to Western writing. So simplification is a historical trend, but the abolition of writing is extreme.

It's just that although Xinmin Daily has some articles on these studies, they are not very critical and aggressive, and they are more academic.

Regarding Qian Xuantong's eloquence, Yu Youren has no choice.

When Zhang Chun arrived in Xi'an, he also had to meet with the protesters.

It just so happened that the students of Xinmin University made an animated slideshow about words, so they went to the academic hall of Northwest University together.

The speaker was Shen Donghua, a lecturer in the Department of Paleography and Linguistics.

Shen Donghua started with the oracle bone inscription. The evolution of words, the evolution of glyphs, the evolution of writing. It also talks about the general context of the evolution of the world's writing.

The final conclusion is the evolution of Chinese writing. is a characterization evolution that combines hieroglyphs. Although there are many strokes in a single Chinese character, there are also many meanings. The combination of Chinese characters can accurately and vividly locate the meaning of our language. Because Chinese characters not only represent pronunciation, but more importantly, ideographic. It is the result of the integrated thinking of the human brain.

Western writing, on the other hand, is all the result of the phonetic expression of sound. Individual glyphs do not convey any meaning, and the letter combinations themselves do not convey any meaning. It is only when a word is completed that the same pronunciation takes on a meaning similar to that of a Chinese character. And you can only tell by pronunciation. This is already weaker than the comprehensive expression ability of Chinese characters.

In other words, the strokes are comparable to those of Chinese characters compared to Western letters. Words are equivalent to Chinese characters. Western characters are linear. And Chinese is a surface, even a space.

When we want to express very complex meanings, we often use a few Chinese characters. Western scripts, on the other hand, use a long list of phonetic characters. It is clear which script is more advanced.

Another lecturer from the physics department took the stage to complement Einstein's quantum theory.

He believed that Western writing was only the equivalent of atoms and elementary particles. Western scholarship believes that all matter is composed of elementary particles. There's nothing wrong with that in itself.

But can our world think so? This is not the case. For example, a water molecule is made up of one oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms. This structure is called a molecule. Our world is actually made up of countless similar molecules.

But that must be the whole explanation. Because, many basic molecules make up polymers, which make up cells. Finally all things are composed.

Chinese is like a human body. You have to use atomic expressions. I'm sorry, that would be an astronomical chain of atoms, and you won't be able to write it all yet. Einstein's quantum doctrine can be said to be that our world is made up of groups that can be summarized into some of the same properties.

Chinese characters belong to a relatively high level of quantum. The Western alphabet is a relatively low-level quantum. Another example is the relevant attributes of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth in our traditional theory, which is only a quantity for us to evaluate and understand the world, but this quantity is more complicated.

The presentations and graphics-based slides clearly conveyed the opinions of the two lecturers. Of course, this is not the thought of the two of them, but the crystallization of a collective thought. Everyone was stunned.

Finally, Zhang Chun came to the stage and said: "I know that Mr. Qian's biggest problem is that although this high-level text is good. But it's useless if it can't be popularized. Is it true that we can't popularize it? Is such a text destined to decay by being controlled by a rotten ruling class? I don't think so, it depends on whether we are ruthless in carrying out basic education for all. Basic education for all has been in place for nearly 30 years in central Hubei Province, and the illiteracy rate has dropped to less than 10 percent. It has been almost a decade since Hubei implemented universal education, and the illiteracy rate has dropped to less than 30 percent. Shaanxi is implementing education for all. That's why education is fundamental. It has little to do with whether it is Chinese or Western, traditional or simplified. On the contrary, we can see that our technology is developing, society is developing, and the higher the level of society, the more high-level writing is needed.

So I hope that everyone will support Chinese education and not the other way around. Don't choke on food.

China's development has a history of 5,000 years, and it has accumulated countless historical experiences, all of which have been passed down in this kind of writing, and have never been interrupted, so why is it not as advanced as the West? On the other hand, the history of the West is shorter than ours, so is there really no historical record of the so-called dark period? I'm afraid there is, and they can't read it, because people don't use the language, and people who come after them can't interpret it. They are also less populous than we are. Whether it is Britain or the United States, the number of people who make up their country is only tens of millions, but we reached 20,000 in the Han Dynasty, 40,000 in the Tang Dynasty, and 60,000 even in the corrupt Qing government. It is very clear to everyone which is more difficult to rule a county or a province. And ruling a province is even more incomparable than ruling a country. China has nearly 2,000 years of ruling experience, and the West does not have it at all, and even now, Europe is only the equivalent of our Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. So don't be presumptuous. It is all the more impossible to ignore the historical experience of our country, and it is absurd to think that it is a matter of words just from the current state of affairs. ”

"Why is our country poor and weak, but the West strong?"

A bunch of people below asked.

"Is the West strong? I don't think so. At least we're all standing here talking. Why, because we have a sense that the country is in danger, and each of us wants to make the country strong. It is impossible for the West to defeat us, at most it will help us eradicate the dead branches and leaves. That's fine, because we're getting rid of the dead branches and leaves, and we're able to rejuvenate ourselves. Western societies are based on bandit logic, and their industrial civilization is based on the consumption and plundering of resources. And our civilization is a civilization that nurtures and develops together. In China's thousands of years of history, who of you has ever seen a robber not be annihilated by justice? No. Our country is now weakened because we are sick. Whether I am terminally ill or not depends on whether I, who are dedicated to the country, are dead. ”

All the students of Xinmin University and Northwest University stood up and applauded desperately.

And Qian Xuantong and those people were also applauding. But there was a look of horror on his face.

End of speech.

Zhang Chun, Mao Shishan, Yu Youren, and Feng Yuxiang held talks with these representatives.

"The simplification of the text is still necessary, the Kangxi dictionary includes so many words, and there are many words or variants that have been simplified among the people. Historically, simplification has been the general direction. But there is no standard word that does not work. The Wuhan government can set up a standard character committee to unify some characters with the same or similar meanings but different shapes. It is necessary to examine all the simplified characters that have appeared throughout the country. Give up what should be given, but keep what makes sense. Try to lean on the simplified word. to meet the needs of easy writing. If Mr. Qian is interested, he can participate, and we also welcome writing experts from all over the country to participate. ”

Shen Donghua said: "I think it is necessary to include the history of writing in textbooks, because it can enable students to understand and use words correctly. without misusing words. ”

Zhang Chun nodded: "In the long run, Chinese characters are the most efficient characters. If China wants to solve the situation of poverty and weakness, education and science and technology are imperative. I hope you will be able to support you. We should not let some small details affect the general policy. For specific methods, you should consult with the Ministry of Education, such as how some of your previous educational institutions dealt with the problem. Instead of protesting and shouting slogans, it is better to solve some practical problems. ”

"What is your attitude on religious issues?"

Zhang Chun smiled: "I don't have an attitude for the time being, let's do the things in front of me first, and then I can find a way to find it in the actual implementation process." Problems or controversies have been put aside for the time being, and I believe that the wisdom of our people and students, that is, our next generation, is sufficient to solve these problems. (To be continued......)