Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Dictionary (Water)
What Zheng Xiong did was to pick out a thousand commonly used words and simplify them, annotate them with pinyin, and add radicals.
No matter how much I have, I haven't seen it, I don't know it, and I can't turn it over in my mind.
Zheng Xiong, who writes hard, completely ignores the changes in the outside world and immerses himself in his own world.
The pharmacy's financial bills were stacked on top of each other, and from July 15 to August 15, a whole month. Write simplified characters from traditional Chinese characters, and then start drafting, phonetic. Give the interpretation according to your own understanding, mark out the writing of traditional Chinese characters, and then write out the radicals, and finally disassemble the whole one, according to the pinyin radicals and compare the order.
After a simple sorting, I found about 2,000 commonly used traditional Chinese characters from the printing house, and at first I added my own interpretation according to my own understanding.
I have to say that whether the original body has learned it or not, the soul of modern people also seems to have a natural affinity for traditional characters, and even Meng Daichai has managed to find most of the traditional characters from the printing house.
And some of them remain the same, so they are replaced by traditional Chinese characters, and the interpretation of simplified Chinese characters is somewhat unclear after all, and the traditional Chinese characters replace Zhuyin to make the meaning of the words clearer.
And inadvertently, Zheng Xiong also used the habits of later generations, starting to write from left to right, and used punctuation marks commonly used in later generations.
Even if the label is wrong, so what, from today onwards, you are the standard, and the wrong is right.
Zheng Xiong has no intention of pretending to others, after all, there is a generation gap between the two eras, and not only will he not be able to help when the time comes, but he will be even more busy.
All in all, it took nearly a month for the first edition of the dictionary to be officially released in imitation of the modern dictionary, although a lot of paper was used and the font was very large, although there were still problems of one kind or another.
But these problems are all minor problems, compared with the Xinhua dictionary that began to be produced in 50, after several years or even decades of revision, to the current version 12.0, Zheng Xiong's dictionary stepped on the shoulders of giants, and took a lot of detours, which is very close to the Xinhua dictionary he used when he was a child.
According to scholars, there are about 5,000 Chinese characters in oracle bone inscriptions and gold inscriptions, and about 3,000 of them are known to us to have meanings.
China's earliest dictionary "Shuowen Jie Zi" contains 9,353 Chinese characters.
The Northern Song Dynasty's "Class Edition" contains as many as 33,190 Chinese characters, while the Qing Dynasty's "Kangxi Dictionary" contains 46,933 characters, which is the dictionary with the largest number of Chinese characters in ancient times.
Don't be surprised by the number, the "List of Common Chinese Characters" only has 3,500 Chinese characters, and according to the report on the living conditions of the Chinese Chinese language, 2,394 commonly used Chinese characters occupy 99% of the language space.
China has been around for 5,000 years, and the history of Chinese characters is too long, so it is difficult to say how many Chinese characters there are.
Holding the finished dictionary, Zheng Xiong breathed a long sigh of relief, took a thick stack of manuscripts to the printing house, and handed them to Wang Zheng.
Compared with the palm-sized Xinhua dictionary, Zheng Xiong's dictionary is bloated, and of course, the dictionary printed by the printing house can also be expected to be not much smaller than Zheng Xiong's.
"Draw, this one by one symbol and this left-to-right writing, I'm not used to seeing it, do you have to come like this?"
"Just follow the cat and draw the tiger, print a hundred or so copies, and don't worry about the rest."
Zheng Xiong, who had finished his retreat, had not yet begun to rest, and the marriage of the eldest Zheng Hu had also reached the stage of finally welcoming his family.
As the highest status on the face of his family, it is indispensable to welcome and send him, although the status of the guests who come and go is not high, most of them are acquaintances of their own fathers, and they dare not hold Zheng Xiong up and salute in a proper manner. As a junior, Zheng Xiong does not have the so-called body problem, and is busy with his eldest brother's marriage.
On August 18, Zheng Hu and the Qian family wearing a phoenix crown and a veil officially married, and the classic reproduction of the popular kneeling worship from the Song Dynasty, after the end of the bowing ceremony, the newcomer was sent to the cave room.
"All women in the world, regardless of whether they are rich or poor, can wear a phoenix crown when they marry a woman."
Queen Ma gave the women of the world a legal protection, but whether they had the money to wear it or not was a matter of their own family, so in ancient times, even when a poor family married a daughter, they would accumulate more than ten years of merit to accumulate a set of dowry and phoenix crown for their daughter, and then carry the sedan chair to the man's home. This phoenix crown is not as exquisite as the Nine Dragons and Four Phoenix Crowns used by the queen, but has undergone a series of changes, such as the use of dragons and phoenixes between the royal family and the ministers' wives, but the use of Guan Que instead of the phoenix.
This is especially true among folk women, it can be built in the form of a dragon and phoenix crown, and it does not have to be a real nine dragons and four phoenixes, but all of this is still called a phoenix crown. The etiquette system of the Nine Dragons and Four Phoenix Crowns is the rule of Zhu Yuanzhang's era, and the Ming Dynasty has already surpassed this range, and there are nine dragons and nine phoenixes and twelve dragons and nine phoenixes in the time of Zhu Di.
When it came to the time of the Wanli Emperor, there were even more people wearing bright yellow clothes that the emperor could wear to swagger through the market, and some people reported that they had violated the etiquette system, but at this time the Wanli Emperor just smiled and did not speak, he asked: Did he pay taxes?
Zheng Hu accompanied the guests to drink some wine, and when the banquet was over, he also walked into the cave room.
Zheng Xiong also doesn't have the habit of listening to the root of the wall, and the bachelor is looking for guilt when he listens to the root of the wall, and the sheets will get wet if he doesn't get it.
Seeing off the guests and ignoring the rest of the aftermath, Zheng Xiong returned to his room, closed his eyes, and slept until dawn.
In the early morning, the energetic Zheng Hu and the ruddy-faced Zheng Qian gave tea to their parents, and the whole family was there, but Zheng Xiong was missing. Zheng Qian was slightly curious, but didn't say much.
On the third day of the day, Zheng Xiong, who had replenished his spirit, accompanied his family to finish lunch and continued to sleep, he had already asked for leave, Zheng Yiyan was very easy to speak.
The dictionary printing work was briefly paused for two days because of punctuation problems, and then continued to outsource the punctuation of movable type, and after a few days, Zheng Xiong's dictionary was officially bound into a book.
Looking at the thick dictionary, Zheng Xiong did not have any surprised looks, as expected, after a simple search for a few words, Zheng Xiong showed a satisfied look.
It's similar to the dictionary of later generations, the rest is not in a hurry, slowly increase, version 2.0, version 3.0 just add words slowly, plus some popular words and sentences, Internet buzzwords.
Chinese characters are not static, and they evolve to a certain extent with life.
"Abert's Hungry Brother ~~"
Teaching literacy is the norm for Zheng Xiong these days, not only the doctors in the pharmacy, but also some more intelligent schoolchildren are also asked to pick them out and learn together.
Do-it-yourself, well-fed, Zheng Xiong, who didn't know where his opponent was, started a counterattack in his own way.
I have a good life and have made results, no matter what the purpose of the unknown enemy, I should continue to make moves, and think about the follow-up after detecting the clues, it is impossible to raise my hands and surrender.
(End of chapter)