#头条创作挑战赛 #
If you want to say that the hottest topic in these two days at the end of October must be reduced to the debate of "whether it is a person" or "a Si people" in a few days.
This sentence comes from an argumentative essay written by Mencius, "Born in Trouble, Died in Happiness", which borrows the experience of ancient sages such as Shun and Fu Shuo in lifting their spirits and working hard in difficult situations, and finally making great achievements, and then argues that the core idea of personal mission and even the survival of the country --- "be prepared for danger in times of peace".
This text has always been a key textbook in middle school Chinese textbooks, and when I think back to school, the teacher not only asked everyone to memorize it well, but also to write it word for word.
In other words, every word in the article is clearly remembered by everyone here.
Before this matter came out, many netizens were also convinced of the content of the paragraph "the sky will come down to the great responsibility", thinking that those words were written like this, until one day, someone turned over a bunch of dusty materials...
Has your memory been tampered with?
Recently, a netizen posted a "shock" article on the Internet--- "Something big happened, the timeline of our time and space seems to have been moved!" 》
According to his narration in the article, when he was in school, the textbook "Born in trouble, died in happiness" clearly wrote the sentence "Therefore, the heavens will come down to the people of Si".
However, when he looked at the current Chinese textbook, he found that this sentence had been written as "Therefore, the heavens will come down to the great responsibility of the people." Now he was dumbfounded, and quickly went back to flip through the Chinese textbooks of more than ten years ago.
The result surprised him, whether it was the 10s edition, the 00s edition, or even the 80s and 90s editions of the 80s and 90s versions of the textbooks, all of the texts were written "is a person".
After this matter was spread on the Internet, it soon caused an uproar, and many people exclaimed: Obviously, what I studied is "Si Ren Ye"!
In order to help the people seek verification, on October 26, a reporter from Upstream News made a special trip to the Chinese editorial office of the middle school of the People's Education Publishing House, and it was learned that since the publishing house included Mencius's "Born in Trouble, Died in Happiness" in 1961, the textbook articles have always been "so the heavens will come down to the people", and there has never been "the heavens will come down to the people".
Similarly, Wen Rumin, chief editor of primary and secondary school language textbooks compiled by the Ministry of Education and professor of the Department of Chinese of Peking University, told media reporters that the text was selected from the "Mencius Translation Notes" of the China Book Company, and the content of the paper was not changed, and it was originally "a person".
However, a poll on the Internet shows that 94% of netizens think that they remember "Si Ren Ye", but 5% are Ren Ye, and the remaining 1% say they can't remember clearly.
The opinion of the people is diametrically opposed to that of the Ministry of Education, and it feels strange.
However, the people at the publishing house also emphasized that in fact, whether it is "Si people" or "is a person", both refer to "this person", which means exactly the same.
Although everyone says that the meaning is the same, but in the face of this mismatch in memory cognition, everyone's desire for knowledge is very strong, and they all want to find out what is going on.
But with the deepening of the exploration of events, the existence of many answers has backfired on what everyone thinks, and people's reactions are even more uncalm.
For a time, this topic caused a heated discussion about collective memory among the whole Internet, and in the face of the contradiction between facts and memory, some people even had to use the "Mandela effect" to explain all this.
The "Mandela effect" is a collective manifestation of the mismatch between the public's collective memory of history and historical facts, which originated from the belief that former South African President Nelson Mandela had died in prison in the 80s of the 20th century.
Before 2010, someone suggested that he clearly remembered Mandela dying in prison in the 80s, and the person recounted the reports he had seen, the TV clips of the funeral, and even the tearful speech of Mandela's widow.
But Mandela proved to have lived until 2013 before he actually left, a far cry from what many had previously believed.
By the way, Beyond wrote their masterpiece "Glory Days" for Mandela in 1990, and he himself burst into tears after listening to this song, which was mentioned by CCTV5 channel at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
If Mandela had indeed died in prison, where did this tearful story of the glorious years come from? So the "Mandela effect" spread.
In the face of such a mysterious phenomenon, many people interpret it as "collective modified memory", or "collective travel through parallel universes" and come to the space where the corresponding things are modified.
In fact, the Mandela effect can be said to be everywhere, and many of the things we have learned have diverged, and these differences have also strengthened this "science fiction" identification, allowing more people to launch "Something Happened, the timeline of our time and space seems to have been moved!" This article.
For example, in the song "Love Me China", we all thought that the lyrics at the beginning were "fifty-six nationalities, fifty-six flowers", but the lyrics written on the paper were "fifty-six constellations, fifty-six flowers".
Is the sentence at the end of "Mulan Dictionary" "An can tell me if I am male and female" or "An can tell if I am male and female"?
The three Chinese characters of true, gu, and straight, when we practiced writing as children, were all plus two horizontals in the middle, but some people suddenly discovered that these three characters were actually three horizontal in the middle.
For example, the ending problem of "Rubik's Cube Mansion" that was said some time ago, this domestic animation originally scheduled for 26 episodes, was finally cut to the current 10 episodes because of the dark and profound meaning of the painting style, and those cut plots can not be found on the Internet now, even screenshots can not be found.
In a sense, it can basically be concluded that "Rubik's Cube Mansion" has not broadcast the finale, but intriguingly, to this day, many netizens still vow to emphasize that they have seen the ending, and can also depict the ending scene in a similar way: the protagonist Leck came out of the Rubik's Cube world, found that only a few minutes had passed, and then hugged his mother and cried while saying that he would not be naughty in the future.
Such phenomena make many people think that someone has secretly tampered with their memories, why do those common sense passed down by word of mouth become different from what they think?
However, some experts have their own unique views on this kind of problem, one of which is more straightforward: human beings are inherently misremembered creatures.
The brain also lies to itself?
According to some scientific explanations on the Internet, the memory system of the human brain is not as accurate as we think, on the contrary, it is very chaotic, disorderly, and even produces some strange content, thus forming a certain false memory.
People have been convinced since ancient times that their brains will not deceive themselves, after all, they can't even believe themselves, what else can be believed, right?
But the theory is that the human brain is not good at recording details, but all phenomena related to the Mandela effect are reflected in details, such as time, fonts, names, and so on.
Just like the words "Si people" and "are people" obviously have the same meaning, but different forms of expression, this is the difference in details.
In fact, regarding whether this "Si Ren Ye" really exists, on the 28th, after many investigations, a media reporter found that at least three teaching materials belonged to the "Si Ren Ye" version.
These include the compulsory education textbook "Chinese" (second volume of grade 9) published by Beijing Publishing House in 2019, the Chinese textbook for primary schools published by Jijiao Edition (second volume of grade 5), and "University Language" published by Wuhan University Press.
So, is there a reasonable basis for the emergence of these two claims? Of course there is, and that is the change and habit of the meaning of popular language.
Lu Wei, senior editor of Zhejiang Ancient Books Publishing House, has put forward the theory of "convention", "is" as the meaning of "this" is rarely used in modern Chinese, and the public is relatively unfamiliar with this usage.
At the same time, in some local dialects, people have a non-standard pronunciation of flat tongue sounds, and it is easy to pronounce the "yes" of the tongue upturned into a faster and better pronounced flat tongue "si".
More importantly, the word "Si people" appears in many famous poems, and the commonly used expressions of "Si people have passed away" in life make us more familiar with the word "Si people", and more in line with our understanding of the temperament of ancient literati, so the impression of "Si people" is also deeper.
Professor Wang Qiming, director of the Bashu Dialect and Literature Research Center, also said in a relevant interview not long ago that in ancient documents, both uses are available, mainly because before the invention of woodblock printing in the Tang Dynasty, documents were in handwritten form, and different versions were easy to appear in a hurry in the process of copying.
In addition, there is no modern finalization in ancient times, and after a long time, it will naturally "spread falsehoods" or even "replace" the original.
The oral transmission of the ancients, as well as some common impressions of modern people on history and culture, make people's brains naturally tend to the possibility they think, as well as some details and incomplete memory, under the combined action of multiple factors, the original communicator will have an understanding bias in the original correct answer.
In the absence of timely correction, after a long time, it will be thought that the original correct answer is like this, and then spread through the way of passing ten or ten to hundred, thus laying the groundwork for the subsequent "Mandela effect".
In the end, when we encounter the Mandela effect, there is no need to talk about the tampering of memories by supernatural forces or great god civilizations, because these explanations are not so much explanations as they lead to bigger problems.
Because you have to first argue that this series of powerful forces and civilizations are real, otherwise you can only fall into the laughing stock of "indecision, quantum mechanics". In the end, human memory is not strong enough and is too easily influenced by other information--- such as the news that an entertainment star "died" every one or two years, which is the best evidence that human memory is not credible.
epilogue
The topic is related to this, I personally think that whether it is "Si people" or "is people", there is no need to argue about which one is correct, it is best to coexist with both usages.
As experts say, these two usages have been around since ancient times, and both have long formed a long-term cultural environment, and I don't think it makes much sense to correct and emphasize them now.
Once the convention is changed, the people are not used to it in the short term, and it is difficult to change it, it is better to let both expressions be allowed to be used, "Si people" can be said smoothly "Si people", "is people" is the same, anyway, the meaning of both is the same.