"Please advise Mr. Fang. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Zeng Yuan completely lost the momentum of arguing with Fang Yun before.

Fang Yundao: "Everything has a core. When ordinary people buy a house, their core needs are different, some people want to buy a house surrounded by green trees, some people want to buy a house in the city center, some people want to buy a cheap house, and some people want to buy a street shop for rent. For example, the core of the spear is to kill enemies, the core of the shield is to protect, and so on. So, what do you think is the core of words?"

Zeng Yuan's momentum had already been beaten down by Fang Yun's previous words, he hesitated for a long time, and said, "The student's understanding of the core may be different from yours. In the student's view, the most important thing in a text is to express meaning. ”

Fang Yun nodded and said, "What you said is good, but to put it in a more comprehensive way, the core of words is instrumentality. Terrans have language first, and then writing. Language is a tool in its own right, the most basic tool for communication. Words, on the other hand, are also a tool that carries information and allows us to communicate accurately. However, in addition to the instrumentality of words, there is also artistry, such as calligraphy, which can show the ultimate beauty of words. It's just that artistry is only a secondary feature of words, far less than the core, can you understand?"

"Students understand. Zeng Yuan said.

"The development of the Terran script has been enhancing its instrumentality. For example, Zhong Dingwen is very simple, but because it is too simple to carry effective information, the human race constantly complicates it and has a big seal. In the Qin Dynasty, in order to facilitate the human race to learn writing, in order to be more practical, the Qin Emperor and Li Si simplified the big seal and created the small seal. Then, the human race continued to strengthen the instrumentality of the small seal, but the small seal was inconvenient to write and the glyphs were complex, so there was an official script that was easier to write. It is difficult to find out where the official script came from, but there is a historical record that the real implementation of the official script was the official officials who often used the written word, and they had to write a large number of characters every day, and they knew the advantages and disadvantages of the two scripts best. ”

"After the little seal was replaced by the official book, did it completely disappear? Did the human race create the official book to destroy the small seal? No. This is the uniqueness of Chinese characters, which is not only instrumental, but also artistic. Although the small seal is a tool that has been eliminated, it has beautiful writing and is deeply loved by calligraphers, so the core of the small seal has been transformed from instrumental to artistic, and it is more suitable for calligraphy works or seals than for communicating information. Therefore, the current small seal, not so much a tool to carry information, but a tool to carry beauty, has no need for the general public to grasp, only those who like calligraphy seals, it is necessary to master. ”

"Knowing what to give up, what to change, and what to accept, in order to progress, and the beings who rest on their laurels will surely be eliminated by all worlds, and the transposition of the Lord of all worlds is the best example. ”

"Students are taught. Zeng Yuan said.

Fang Yun continued: "Why was the official script replaced by regular script? It is generally accepted that the writing of the official script is flawed, and the strokes lack coherence, which affects the fluency of the writing, which is very fatal to the core of the instrumental text, so the regular script with more reasonable strokes is replaced. What's more, the artistry of Lishu is also flawed, that is, the text structure is too simple, while the regular script is more square and more in line with the aesthetics and concepts of the human race. ”

"The small seal is inconvenient, and the Terrans are gradually inclined to official scripts; And now, there is an irreversible trend in the Shengyuan Continent, that is, the clerks and scribes in various parts of the human race have begun to use vulgar characters derived from calligraphy works or created by predecessors. For no other reason, many vulgar characters have the advantages of orthographic characters, but they are simpler and easier to write, and can often double the writing efficiency of clerks and scribes! I just ask, now that the human race is in crisis, in order to disseminate information faster, do you think it is more reasonable to use complicated orthographic characters, or is it more reasonable to use simple vulgar characters?

Zeng Yuan smiled helplessly and said: "I do prefer orthographic characters in Xia, but since the times need it, it is naturally more reasonable to use vulgar characters, although I am stubborn in Xia, I am not stupid." ”

"Easy to write quickly is not the biggest advantage of vulgar characters, the biggest advantage of vulgar characters is that they are easy to learn!"

Fang Yun's tone was very flat, but Zeng Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then his complexion changed slightly.

Fang Yun smiled slightly and said, "It seems that you have understood the reason why I compared you to Lu Zhan before. Human abilities are limited, time is limited, and energy is limited. I will take Lu Zhan as an example, Lu Zhan's body and mind are not as good as you, the study time is not as good as yours, and the energy is even worse than you, in a more intuitive way, Lu Zhan went to Mengxue, studied a lot of poems and articles, and when the accumulation of orthographic characters reached 5,000, at least five years passed. And you, at most three years of study, can accumulate 5,000 orthography characters. In other words, in the first stage of Mongolian learning, the gap between you is two years. There's nothing wrong with that, right?"

Zeng Yuan nodded slightly.

"However, vulgar characters are different, and vulgar characters have simple strokes, are easy to remember, and easy to write, which greatly reduces the learning time. If Lu Zhan has been studying poems and articles in vulgar characters, when the number of vulgar characters he knows accumulates to 5,000, I am afraid that only four years have passed. And for you, is there a difference between vulgar characters and orthographic characters?"

Zeng Yuan said: "There is indeed no difference. I'll give you the simplest example. It took three days for Lu Zhan to completely memorize a hundred orthography. It takes about two days to memorize a hundred vulgar characters completely. And if a person who has never forgotten remembers a hundred orthographic characters, it only takes a hundred breaths to remember one word per breath. And when you memorize 100 vulgar characters, it takes about 100 breaths to memorize one word. Changing from orthographic characters to vulgar characters, the gap between Lu Zhan and those who have never forgotten will be significantly narrowed. ”

Fang Yun said: "Vulgar characters are easier to write and memorize than regular characters, and at the same time, there is another point, which is easier to recognize and read faster. The simpler the word, the less energy it spends, and the more complex the word, the more experience it takes. The difference between a regular character and a vulgar character is very small, but in the decades of life, these gaps will accumulate and will be very huge. ”

Zeng Yuan continued to nod.

"You also know that as long as the human race reads and learns, even if it has no talent, even if it does not have a literary degree, after death, it will radiate its strength because of what it learned during his lifetime, so that the vitality of the Shengyuan Continent will be stronger, and the Saint Yuan will be more talented, so that it will be easier for later scholars to master the talent. The talent and power that escapes after death will not increase because of the knowledge of vulgar characters rather than regular characters, but it will increase because of the knowledge mastered. ”

Zeng Yuan still nodded.

Then, if a person learns to use vulgar characters, the learning time is shorter, the writing speed is faster, and the reading speed is faster, and the knowledge obtained is naturally more than the use of orthographic characters, and the contribution to the human race is naturally greater in the end. And most of the vulgar characters have not departed from the orthographic characters, but have made the orthographic characters simple and easy to use, and the core tools are stronger, so why don't we use the vulgar characters and continue to use the current orthographic characters?"

. (To be continued.) )