Along with the comprehensive rollout of new education, there is also the popularization of simplified Chinese characters and Chinese pinyin. Neither of these is new.

The former existed as early as China, and the Chinese characters changed from oracle bone inscription and golden script to seal script, and then to official script and regular script. Regular script began to appear in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and the subtractive characters in regular script have been seen in the inscriptions of the Northern and Southern Dynasties (4th-6th centuries), and gradually increased in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Liu Xian knows very well how difficult traditional Chinese characters can be, and that complex strokes can be written with a brush, which can kill people. The most vivid example of this is himself, who became a semi-literate person directly after crossing over. The calligraphy on one hand is the same as that of a turtle. After two or three years, all the documents are ghostwritten by Fan Debang. His own correspondence in the barracks was a simple pencil made of graphite that he had specially recruited.

Simplified Chinese characters are much easier than traditional Chinese characters. The only disadvantage may be that the calligraphy is beautiful, or some words can really be seen and interpreted as cultural inheritance. But these benefits are nothing compared to the literacy campaign of the people and the learning of students. Simplified Chinese characters make these more efficient than traditional Chinese characters. With this effect alone, the battle between simple and complex is decided.

However, there are still major obstacles to implementation. After all, successful people in today's society are all adults with traditional Chinese characters written on them.

In a public primary school in Jinan, Shandong Province, a teacher is writing simplified Chinese characters on the blackboard, introducing simplified Chinese characters to his students as he writes: "Students, in the future, '上課' and '上學' can be written as 'class' and 'going to school'." Look, isn't it a lot simpler? The students' eyes lit up and they applauded with joy.

"From now on. If we write again, we will write words like this. The imperial court issued a decree. Simplify font strokes, everyone. In the future, it will be easier for you to learn and write. ”

"Now the teacher will copy the "Simplified Character List" on the blackboard, and the students will also copy a copy of the ...... each."

In the whole process of simplifying Chinese characters, it was relatively easy in the north and southwest, but it was very difficult in Guangdong, Huguang and Jiangnan. The difficulty made Liu Xian feel like he was fighting, although it was indeed a 'war of cultures'.

Many literati and Confucian scholars in these places were not interested in simplifying Chinese characters. They believe that traditional Chinese characters are the essence of thousands of years accumulated by Chinese ancestors, and that each character is created with great thought, so every character has a meaning, and when simplifying Chinese characters. There is no point in simplifying some meaningful traditional Chinese characters. Therefore, the promotion of simplified Chinese characters in these local schools is limited, let alone in the newspapers. The newspaper industry is about efficiency, and they dare not support the country's call at the risk of a sharp drop in sales and a collapse in their influence. On the contrary, the 'no-bourgeoisie' in Shanghai, Guangzhou, and other coastal areas has truly maintained its advanced nature. In a night school in Pudong, Shanghai, a class full of workers and masters who were participating in a literacy cram school said that this simplified Chinese characters were simplified, and more than one worker master stood up and happily praised the simplified characters. One of them gave an example, saying: "The words 'body, celebration, 巖, guan, 盡, and side' I can't remember it after studying for half a year, but now it's simplified into 'body, celebration, rock, opening, end, and edge', and I can easily remember it. ”

"No, I was so happy that I only learned ten words in one night. It's only been an hour now. I've memorized twenty of them! A young man also said happily to the instructor.

These working people who work and eat do not talk about the essence of culture and traditions, they talk about practical results. That kind of word can make them learn and use it the fastest. That's what they're supporting.

But the influence of these people on the whole of China is still very small. even became a half-public and half-civilian workers' union. With the enactment of policies and laws on the welfare, injuries, and protection of workers, child laborers, and women workers in recent years, the power of the bourgeoisie has grown rapidly. With the tightness and strength of the government institutions, there is no longer the majesty of the previous time.

Liu Xian's prestige in the whole country may really not be inferior to that of Taizu of the Red Dynasty, but the prestige and credibility of the entire court and the entire government are much worse than those of the founding period of the Red Dynasty. There is still time to be used in the promotion of simplified characters.

On the contrary, the popularization of Hanyu Pinyin and Putonghua has been carried out very well. Hanyu Pinyin, which has been 20 years younger, has already proved its 'ability' with facts - children who learn pinyin first can know more than 1,000 Chinese characters a year, and children who learn pinyin later can only know more than 600, and children who do not learn Hanyu Pinyin can write two or three hundred Chinese characters a year. It's almost half and half downward differences.

There are also those extracurricular reading books marked with pinyin, and in a year, children who learn pinyin can read 50,000 words outside of class, while children who do not learn pinyin only have 10,000 to 15,000 words.

The benefits of pinyin are obvious.

At the same time, libraries in various parts of the country have also adopted the ordering and retrieval methods of pinyin, and the work efficiency has been greatly improved. It's much better than the radicals and strokes. It is the most popular retrieval method among readers. According to the statistics of one library, under the same proficiency conditions, in the past, when 1,000 bookmarks were arranged according to Chinese character strokes, 3,500 bookmarks could be arranged according to pinyin letters; In the past, when 200 titles were searched by strokes, 700-750 titles could be searched in alphabetical order. Overall, bookmarking and using bookmarks are at least three times more efficient. Moreover, due to the strong regularity of the pinyin alphabet and the difficulty of troubleshooting, the error rate of orchestration can be reduced by 70-80% when the personnel of the same proficiency level operate.

It was the "Xinhua Dictionary" published in 1885, which added the Chinese pinyin character checking method for the first time, and was well received. Many literati and writers in the south of the Yangtze River did not mutter about this, and the reason Liu Xian was very clear. Hanyu Pinyin is equivalent to Mandarin, the official dialect advocated by the imperial court today.

The new Qin of the Liu family does not have any southern and northern direct affiliations, and there is no Nanjing official dialect as Chinese, and everything is based on Mandarin. And for many literati and writers, it is a shame not to be able to speak fluent and standard official language. Therefore, Hanyu Pinyin has spread rapidly in the south, and simplified characters have been relatively slow.

Liu Xian was not ready to use strong measures, so he only came a little bit. At most, when the next cabinet is in office, the press law will be amended to stipulate that all published books, newspapers, periodicals, writings, and so on must standardize the use of words. Yes, the standard wording!

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Under the Kyrgyz mountains.

A new county was established only last summer, a county with a population of less than 50,000 people.

It's a brand new county, but it's also a complex county. Because the inhabitants here come from far and wide. With a population of 50,000, there are local Kyrgyz natives, some Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Chinese people from southern Xinjiang, Han people who account for nearly 40% of the total population, and tens of thousands of bannermen and former traitors who came out of the construction corps, and now they are classified as Manchus. A hundred years ago, there was a big saying about being able to become a Manchu in the Qing Dynasty, and that was called raising the flag! It is the glory of a people. But now, that just shows that they don't deserve to be Han anymore.

Then there were thousands of people who had traveled thousands of miles from the Han Dynasty in the east. He - This is the name of the ethnic group recognized by the New Qin Empire for those Japanese who were willing to naturalize in the country. I was going to call the Japanese people, and Liu Xian also planned to name it as such, but was dissuaded by his subordinates. Although the word '倭' is an old name in Little Japan, it is really not good to listen to, and the meaning of the text is not good. Such an order would be a humiliation for the Japanese, and China did not need to do this, nor should it do it. These people who are willing to naturalize and the clansmen have all made meritorious contributions and worked hard for the new Qin.

Liu Xian thought about it, although he was in his heart, but the truth was indeed the truth. No matter how much hatred and murderous intent he had for Japan in his previous life [look at those photos left back then], the Japanese in this life have done nothing wrong to China.

China's opponent has long been no longer a little devil, but the entire Western world. Japan was completely trampled underfoot, and Liu Xianruo has always been haunted by the plot of his previous life, which not only seems very unreasonable in the eyes of outsiders, but he himself also feels that it is not good to do this - he takes little Japan too seriously.

In the eyes of outsiders, Liu Xian is so 'obsessed' with Japan that he really looks up to Japan too much. Therefore, the Japanese people became the He people.

At present, there are about 400,000 naturalized Chinese He, almost all of whom are soldiers and their families. In addition, there were about 100,000 Japanese in Nanyang and Hawaii who were taken over by China. This does not include the number of Japanese who work and study in China. The number of these Japanese is not too many, but they are the essence of Japan.

The land under the Kyrgyz Mountains is a fertile land with abundant water. Every spring and summer, the snow melts from the mountains and moistens the land. It was originally a pasture. But in the eyes of the Chinese who occupy this land, it is too much of a loss for such a good place to be ranched.

That's why the Chinese government has set up counties here, so this 50,000 people, who are a few talents, are divided into so many ethnic groups.

Therefore, this place, which was named Akashi Prefecture, needed to start from scratch and start building everything blankly.

On the edge of a big river in Akashi County, the county magistrate was mobilizing in front of a group of ordinary people, and he stood on a stone and said to the villagers gathered here with the most sincere feelings: "Folks, don't say that there is subsidized money and grain every day for work, even if there is no subsidized money and food, everyone must go up!" Everyone goes to the construction site, everyone does it together! Well done! Well done, happy days are not far away.

This repaired the dam, and it is we who benefit!

We don't work for others, we do it for ourselves.

Everyone's land is on the edge of this river. This year's spring flood and summer flood, everyone has seen that if this dam is not built, the life of the villagers will not be easy. Let's heal the river, and we'll be well in the days to come......" (To be continued......