Yandu.

Gao Jianwu took his simplified character scheme and found Professor Zhao Yuanrui, a linguist at Yan University.

According to Gao Jianwu's understanding, this person who graduated from Harvard University supports the simplification of Chinese characters and has a huge influence in the cultural world.

"The high-ranking guest is here, rare guest, rare guest! Please sit, please sit, the conditions are limited, a cup of tea, and please don't dislike Minister Gao." Professor Zhao Yuanrui is very familiar with Gao Jianwu's name, but he is a little strange why he came to the door, after all, Gao Jianwu has been doing things in the scientific and technological world, and it seems irrelevant to him in the cultural world.

However, Professor Zhao still enthusiastically took out a box of good tea from his treasure and brewed it.

"Thank you, Professor Chiu is very kind, I have heard that Professor Chiu has been very effective in language research, and he has studied both Chinese and Western languages. Gao is not talented, and he has a little experience in simplifying Chinese characters, so today I will bring my clumsy work and ask Professor Zhao to correct it one or two." Gao Jianwu took out his plan and handed it to Professor Zhao.

What? Did I hear it wrong? This military god of war and the elder of science and technology is now actually engaged in cross-border language research?

When Professor Zhao heard Gao Jianwu's words, his heart stirred.

However, he was still skeptical, and he was very dissatisfied with Gao Jianwu's achievements, after all, there are many people who have studied this topic, but now there are few achievements in simplifying Chinese characters.

This is a reinvention of words, and it has to be justified on the basis of tradition, how difficult it is, even if he himself is studying, but the progress is not great.

Gao Jianwu actually said that he had made achievements in this area, which was too low to think about the difficulty of making words.

However, Professor Zhao is a person from the city government, even if Gao Jianwu's achievements are outrageous, he has made up his mind not to embarrass Gao Jianwu.

Professor Zhao took Gao Jianwu's paper and opened it.

Hey?! The comparison of the first word between simplified and traditional made Professor Zhao a little surprised at a glance, and he looked at it carefully, as if Gao Jianwu's simplification was very reasonable.

He quickly put away his contempt in his heart, carefully read it word by word, read several pages, and found that Gao Jianwu was arranged according to the "new dictionary" he was familiar with, and the words corresponded to the simplified and complex and an English collage.

He took a quick look at it, and sure enough, according to the order of the new dictionary, he gave a correspondence between simplified and traditional without missing anything, not to mention anything else, just talking about this degree of completeness, it was simply amazing!

Professor Zhao's hands trembled a little with excitement, he carefully placed the scroll on the table, and asked Gao Jianwu excitedly, "Minister Gao, have you simplified all the words in the new dictionary?"

"Yes, I think most of the things that can be simplified have been simplified, a total of more than 3,000 commonly used words have been simplified, and the rest are inconvenient to simplify or I don't think necessary to simplify, or the original way."

Gao Jianwu replied succinctly.

"And what does the spelling of this English letter mean, is this the pronunciation of the characters?" Professor Zhao asked, pointing to Gao Jianwu's pinyin.

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"Yes, this note I call pinyin, is composed of 26 English letters and 4 tones, I divide this into initials and finals, you see this is my definition of single finals, a ah, o oh, e goose, i clothes, u wu, roundabout, compound rhyme ai love, ei 欸, ui wei, ao boil, ou ou, iu you, ie yes, e about...

Initials, b broadcast, p splash, f Buddha, d de, t special ,...

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Gao Jianwu overturned the last pinyin registration form, gave Professor Zhao a brief introduction to the pinyin table design and pronunciation, and then took out the previous words out of the spelling, Professor Zhao's eyes brightened the more he listened, and soon fell into the study of many details of Gao Jianwu's simplified character design.

Grabbing Gao Jianwu, he has been studying the simplified font in detail for several hours! A lot of opinions were put forward on the replacement of some of these fonts, which made Gao Jianwu also feel that the simplification of some fonts could be optimized.

Make his lineage structure clearer.

While the two discussed, Professor Zhao listened and memorized Gao Jianwu's phonics, and he almost learned Gao Jianwu's pinyin spelling method in these few hours.

I went through Gao Jianwu's entire plan word after word, and I really couldn't find anything wrong.

"Minister Gao, you are really a genius, and this single Chinese character simplification scheme alone has surpassed the achievements of all linguists today.

I think your simplified character scheme is the most perfect simplified Chinese character scheme in the world, it will certainly play an epoch-making role in the development of Chinese culture, especially the improvement of folk literacy.

Your simplified design in terms of commonly used characters greatly reduces the difficulty of writing and recognition, and the design of pinyin reduces the difficulty of getting started, and I think the future will definitely become an opportunity for Chinese characters to rise again.

This is a major event in the cultural world, and I think it is necessary to publish it immediately, and call on everyone to improve this plan and then promote it to become the standard for new Chinese characters." Professor Zhao said passionately.

As one of the pioneers of Chinese character reform, Professor Zhao Yuanrui has always lacked a perfect scheme for simplifying Chinese characters. Now the high-level military has come up with this plan, and the entire design logic and reading are very complete.

In terms of simplification, it not only follows the inheritance of traditional Chinese characters, but also considers the beautiful atmosphere of new Chinese characters, almost every simplified Chinese character is justified, and it is easy to understand the comparison between simplified and traditional Chinese, so that people who are familiar with ancient Chinese and traditional Chinese can also quickly transition, such as Gao Jianwu's design of medicine = medicine, instrument = instrument, pressure = pressure, crow = crow, duck = duck, the inheritance is clear at a glance, but the complexity is reduced a lot.

"I would like to do it, Professor Zhao, Gao is here for this, and there is a reluctant request, can this design be launched in the name of Professor Zhao, so as not to be criticized by the outside world for Gao a layman, participating in a major reform in the cultural sector and affecting the implementation of this plan." Gao Jianwu pleaded.

He didn't look at the false name at all now, he really wanted to make this matter push forward as soon as possible.

Gao Jianwu's suggestion made Professor Zhao's heart fluctuate for a while. This is a big thing that will go down in the ages, Gao Jianwu actually pushed him to Professor Zhao. Rao is Professor Zhao's cultivation is extraordinary, and he can't help but feel a little moved at this moment.

However, Professor Zhao is an old-fashioned person after all, and this idea flashed in a flash. He shook his head. "Minister Gao, this is a historic event in the cultural world. Zhao someone doesn't dare to be greedy for the merits of the sky, people are watching the sky, since the ancestor has fallen on the body of Minister Gao to realize this big thing, I believe that everything is a certainty in the dark."

"Professor Zhao, today Gao discussed with you about revision, Professor Zhao also has an important contribution to this plan, in terms of signature, I think you and I jointly compiled it?

The main thing is the promotion of this plan, and it is only with your authority Professor Zhao that it can be smoothly promoted, otherwise Gao has no achievements in the cultural circles and rashly launches this plan, I am afraid that not many people will pay attention to it, so it is inevitable that the overall situation of promotion will be delayed." Gao Jianwu retreated and sought the next way.

He is well aware of the urine nature of the cultural world, and the innovative works of newcomers are usually not accepted at first, but attacked aggressively, and the door is quite deep.

Bringing in Professor Zhao can be regarded as a well-known plan, so the chance of being criticized is much smaller.

Professor Zhao heard Gao Jianwu say this, and after a long time of fighting between heaven and man in his heart, he slowly nodded and said: "Old decay, this is considered to be a stain, this huge achievement, the first signature must be led by Minister Gao, and the old decay will explain to the outside world that the main contributions are put forward by Minister Gao, alas, when you are old, you can't see through fame and fortune, and you are also extremely ashamed."

"Professor Zhao is modest, Gao only made such a plan, and the next improvement and promotion will be handed over to Professor Zhao to complete, how can you say that Professor Zhao's contribution is small, and Professor Zhao can be responsible for this important matter."

As soon as the full text of Gao Jianwu's simplified character plan was published after Professor Zhao's editing, it immediately caused an uproar in the Yanjing cultural circles.

For those who have been looking forward to the great reform of Chinese characters for a long time, they have simply won a treasure, and they have clearly stood up to support this almost perfect reform plan for the simplification of Chinese characters. But more people stand on the side of the old-fashioned, they think that this is the number of classics, Yanjing various newspapers and periodicals, Gao Jianwu's simplified word scheme has become the main battlefield of the two sides to breathe and attack.

Gao Jianwu didn't expect that his perfect simplified word scheme would form a cultural collision.

Many people who attacked this plan saw that the main contributor was Gao Jianwu outside the cultural circle, and because of his special official background, no one dared to point at him and scold, but insinuated that Professor Zhao was doing things with a tiger skin, which put Professor Zhao under great pressure and couldn't go into details.

In my heart, I was both aggrieved and unflinching, and I did not flinch to drum and cheer for this simplified scheme of Chinese characters.

Seeing that public opinion was so turbulent, Gao Jianwu felt that Alexander, fortunately, had never thought of doing this alone, otherwise he would not have been able to do it at all.

The cultural circle of this period is a very special field, even the leaders are afraid of the cultural circles, and they dare not offend easily, otherwise they will be criticized endlessly.

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In the noisy public opinion debate, of course the brigade commander would not sit idly by, but none of them thought that Gao Jianwu would have such an earth-shattering move.

"Jianwu, this plan to simplify Chinese characters is mainly what you are promoting, right?" The Grand Brigade Commander found Gao Jianwu and asked bluntly.

"Yes, Brigadier Commander, I am considering that there are too many illiterates in our country, and the original Chinese characters are complicated and difficult to learn, which is not conducive to making everyone quickly understand the commonly used characters in the short term. Therefore, according to the simplified Chinese character scheme on the market, try to simplify the commonly used Chinese characters. Then I designed the problem of Zhuyin as well.

After I communicated with Professor Zhao Yuanrui, I received criticism and strong support from Professor Zhao, and formed a relatively complete new plan.

I think that with this simplified solution, you can quickly learn more than 1,000 commonly used Chinese characters, read newspapers and periodicals, and complete most of your daily text communication." Gao Jianwu responded half-truthfully.

"Brigade Commander, although there is a lot of debate in the cultural circles now, I feel that we cannot wait for the work of eradicating illiteracy, and the industry we are developing vigorously now needs more new generation workers with a certain degree of literacy, and we must quickly promote this scheme of simplifying Chinese characters and promote it on a large scale in newspapers, periodicals, books and daily official documents."

"Do you think your plan to simplify Chinese characters can really greatly reduce the illiteracy rate?" The brigade commander asked with some disbelief, "I've been reading it for a long time, and I feel that the simplification of Chinese characters is very reasonable.

"Pinyin, brigade commander, you think it should be learned like this, this is the initial b broadcast, p splash, f Buddha..., this is the vowel a, o oh, e goose, i clothes, u wu,...

If you read it in phonics, the wave is bo, the look is kan, the initials are in front, and the finals are in the back, so with tones, most of the Chinese characters can correspond to the reading aid of this pinyin." After Gao Jianwu took the brigade commander to learn pinyin for a while, sure enough, the brigade commander quickly got started.

"Jianwu, your pinyin is really a bit magical, and you use 26 letters to solve all the pronunciation and phonics, which is much simpler than reverse pinyin, but why don't you just use 26 letters to replace Chinese characters, isn't it easier to learn?" After the brigade commander tasted the benefits of pinyin, he felt that it seemed good to use only pinyin.

"No, brigade commander, you see, if all of them are in pinyin, then there is no way to distinguish homophones, in the middle of our Chinese characters, there are too many homophones, we can't use pinyin to simply replace Chinese characters, and now we use pinyin to mark and learn pronunciation, which is already a great simplification of Zhuyin." Gao Jianwu shook his head, joking, just leave it in pinyin, then he will really become a sinner who forgets his ancestors, three or five generations later, even the ancient books left by the ancestors are not read.

Although the current simplified Chinese characters are said to have simplified a lot of things in traditional Chinese characters, they are very contrasting

You can learn traditional Chinese characters quickly, and ordinary people can learn them for a month at most, and there is basically no big problem in understanding traditional Chinese characters.

But if you just learn to use pinyin, it is completely two different writing systems, completely separating the tradition. How can we continue to pass on the 5,000-year-old cultural heritage?

"You are right, since this plan is very beneficial to the eradication of illiteracy, I don't think there is any need to argue with those pedantic people, and it should be implemented directly in the base areas first.

I will personally report this matter to my superiors, and I believe that it will be decided soon, but I am afraid that you are the only one to train the first batch of teachers, after all, this plan is mainly completed by you, and you know best."

"Yes, Brigade Commander, I have an unshirkable responsibility for this matter, I personally trained the first batch of seed teachers until they are qualified, and I also have a request, I hope to get some gramophones to make my pinyin phonics method into a record, and then become the sound material for the seed teachers to correct the pronunciation, after all, I have a lot of work over there, and I can't waste all my time on this matter."

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