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Some friends mistakenly believe that simplified characters only existed after 1949, and before 1949, there were no simplified characters in China.
Fact, is this really the case?
The answer is: non-also. In fact, simplified chinese has long existed in China.
Yes, human nature is inclined to be lazy, Chinese is no exception, so, in ancient times, simplified characters have long appeared, and appeared very early, Lao Feng gave some examples to open your eyes:
Example 1: In the work of the Qing Dynasty calligrapher Su Tingyu, simplified characters appear, as shown in the following figure:
This "chaotic" character in this Su Tingyu calligraphy work of the Qing Dynasty is a simplified character, and its traditional version should be "亂".
It should be noted that the era of Su Tingyu's life is more than 170 years ago.
Example 2: In the work "Seventeen Theses" by the calligrapher Wang Xizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, simplified characters such as "Dong" and "Ma" also appear (the corresponding traditional characters should be "東" and "馬"):
You know, the era in which Wang Xizhi lived was already 1800 years ago.
Example 3: The following picture is the Qing Dynasty's "Dream of the Red Chamber Manuscript", which appears "too", "bad", "this", "persuasion", "listen", "body" and a large number of simplified characters (corresponding to traditional: "too much", "bad", "this", "勸", "listening", "body"):
It can be seen how lazy our scribes at that time of the Qing Dynasty loved to be lazy.
Example 4: What is even more shocking is that in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Forbidden City of the Qing Empire that year, the waist plates they used also used the simplified character "務", and its corresponding traditional character should be "務". The attached picture is one of the waist plaque cultural relics at that time:
It can be seen that the great emperor of the Qing Empire at that time, the internal affairs personnel of their family, even casting a waist card, were lazily scribbling on the words.
yes. Laziness is a common humanity. Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, nothing is true.
In fact, most of the simplified characters we use now have existed for a long time before 1949, and have been used for hundreds of thousands of years, and it is only after 1949 that the use of these simplified characters has been officially recognized as legal, nothing more.
This is the truth of simplified characters.
Reading this, you may ask: Why did we promote simplified characters after 1949?
The answer is simple: because of literacy.
Yes, in 1949, China's literacy rate was less than 20%, that is to say, there were 8 illiterate people in the 10 Chinese at that time, yes, you read it right, the illiteracy rate at that time was as high as 80%, so at that time, our country was very anxious, saying that it was necessary to change this situation in the short term, so, to promote simplified characters, because it is the easiest to write, it is not difficult to learn, and it turns out that the effect of literacy in simplified characters is very good.
It's more interesting to say: In fact, English also has simplified characters, and I'll give you a few examples:
Example 1: The word OK is actually a simplified word for OK.
Example 2: The word USA is a simplified word for United States of America.
Example 3: PRC is the simplified character for People's Republic of China.
Therefore, this kind of thing is actually regardless of borders, and the East and the West are the same.
There is a more interesting thing, whether people realize that in fact, the text used by our ancestors is essentially a shorthand.
Yes, wen yanwen is also the product of written expression of the need for simplicity, generally believed that in history, because bamboo is expensive and bulky, so, with the use of literary notes, the minimum number of words, the consumption of bamboo is the least, the most economical, the most cost-effective, but also the most efficient. Let me give you a few specific examples:
Example 1: "If you can even endure this, then what else in the world can't stand it?" There are 21 words in total, but if you express it in words: "Is it tolerable or intolerable", only 7 words are enough, and even the comma is omitted.
Example 2: "Give an example to illustrate other situations", this sentence has a total of 16 words, but in the language of words: "one example and three", just 4 words to solve.
Example 3: "It is like this", a total of 4 words, but in the language of expression, only one "ran" word is needed.
Example 4: There is also "you can rest assured, wrapped in me", a total of 8 words, but in the text, only one "promise" word is needed to express clearly.
If you think about it, in the words of the text, for many years, how much bamboo can be saved.
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We all remember the martyr Huang Jiguang who stood up on the Korean battlefield to block the eye of the machine gun.
However, it is surprising that in our history, the first person to stand up to block the gun was not the Sichuan martyr Huang Jiguang, but a Hunan man named Ma Yifu, and Ma Yifu's age was twenty-four years earlier than Huang Jiguang.
Ma Yifu was a squad leader of the 31st Regiment of the Red Fourth Army, and on June 23, 1928, during the Battle of New Qixiling (Ji'an, Jiangxi), Ma Yifu blocked the enemy's machine gun hole with his body, winning a crucial time for the troops to charge.
Bronze statue of Ma Yifu in the Jinggangshan Revolution Museum
However, when Ma Yifu blocked the gun hole, no one saw it, and the comrades were very surprised to find ma Yifu's body thrown into the machine gun hole after the victory of the battle, and ten fingers were deeply inserted into the dirt.
At this time, the Thirty-first Regiment of the Red Fourth Army knew that it turned out that Ma Yifu had blocked the machine gun hole with his body during the battle, without anyone seeing.
Its magnificence is astonishing.
Later, the troops checked Ma Yifu's personal information, and his comrades-in-arms only knew that Ma Yifu had followed the autumn harvest uprising troops up the mountain and was a Hunan person, but the specific people in Hunan were people, and the comrades-in-arms all said: It is not clear.
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We have some articles and film and television dramas that like to call Genghis Khan Chinese.
Can this statement be true?
In fact, it is more far-fetched.
We know that the Mongol cavalry entered the Central Plains and established the Yuan Dynasty.
But we need to know, in what year was the Yuan Dynasty established?
The answer is: 1271 AD.
What year did Genghis Khan die? The answer is: 1227.
That is to say, the Yuan Dynasty was established 44 years after Genghis Khan's death. Genghis Khan was neither a subject of the Yuan Dynasty nor a subject of the Song Dynasty.
In fact, Genghis Khan is not a person in this part of Inner Mongolia in China today, Genghis Khan (Temujin) was born in the desert steppe, that is to say, north of the Gobi Desert, is the place of today's Mongolia (Outer Mongolia), to put it more clearly, if we talk about the place of birth, then Genghis Khan belongs to this place in Mongolia.
Genghis Khan was born, started a business, and founded a state, mainly concentrated in the area of today's Mongolia
Moreover, in 1206, Genghis Khan established the Great Mongolian State at the banks of the Nan river, which is the junction of today's Mongolia and Russia, nor in Inner Mongolia.
Map of the location of the Nan River, where Genghis Khan called the founding of the empire
In short, the main deeds of Genghis Khan's birth, struggle, and founding of the country are concentrated in the place of today's Mongolia, and because Mongolia has established itself independently, it is actually more far-fetched to say that Genghis Khan is Chinese.
However, if Outer Mongolia were still within the territory of our country today, it would be different, and if that were the case, it might still be possible to argue that Genghis Khan was a Chinese.
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Welcome to buy Feng Xuerong's anthology
Lao Feng's electronic collection of essays, each episode is about 200 pages, each episode contains about 30 articles, PDF format, the following is the book list:
"Feng Xuerong on Economic Knowledge"
"Feng Xuerong Says the Great World" is a set of five volumes
"Feng Xuerong's Collection of Fine Prose" is a set of four volumes
"The Truth Of the World Is Actually Interesting"
"Feng Xuerong's Miscellaneous Essays" is a set of two volumes
"Feng Xuerong on History" is a set of five volumes
Why Japan Invaded China
"The Truth You Can't Bear to Face"
"Hidden Dynamics"
"Feng Xuerong on Wealth, Three Views and Freedom"
Experience The Beiyang: From Republican to Civil War
The Side of Chinese History II
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