Liu Che took Ji An through the palace palaces and arrived at Shiqu Pavilion, which was in full swing to expand the venue and set up a viewing platform and various seats.
Looking at the venue that gradually revealed its scale, Liu Che said with some pride: "All the heroes in the world are at my disposal!"
This sentence is not wrong.
This time the Shiquge Conference will gather almost all the current mainstream schools of thought in the Han family.
It is a prosperous era of diversity, not a one-man show of a certain faction or several gangs.
At the same time, it will formulate a feasible and desirable game rule for future generations.
But Ji An, who knew the inside story of this Shiqu Pavilion meeting, looked at something at the meeting with deep worries in his heart.
"Can your Majesty really convince all the disciples to follow this path?" Ji An felt a little unsure and uneasy in his heart.
Because of this Shiqu Pavilion meeting, the emperor wants to play a big game.
How big is it?
In Ji An's eyes, the world should be turned upside down, the stars should be turned upside down...
Basically, it is just a matter of reversing yin and yang, reestablishing earth, water, wind, and fire, and creating a new avenue.
At this moment, a high platform stood in the middle of the venue.
There is a stone tablet on the high platform.
On the stone tablet, there are inscriptions, a small edition and another font, a font from the prison, which together write the word "Han".
Today, people want to use the latter to completely replace the currently popular Xiaozhu!
This plan can be said to be the most drastic change in the literary world since Qin Shihuang wrote Tongwen.
Words will be unrecognizable from now on.
Because that font is called "official script".
Compared with the current official text compilation, it is simply a heresy.
It uses strokes and radicals to replace the pictographic method of small editions.
Especially today, the brand new ‘Han Li’ writing reform system has been developed in recent years.
The strokes are neat and the font is flat, very beautiful and pleasing to the eye.
And it's easier to write and easier to understand.
but……
In this world, not only good things can be recognized by people.
Think about it, how many people did Qin Shihuang kill in order to have the same text in his books and the same text in his cars? How many classics were destroyed? It was through violence that Xiaobian became the only written text that was popular and widely accepted in the world.
Today, people want to rely on a Shiquge meeting to accomplish the transformation of the two writing systems.
is it possible?
Not to mention, for many people, official script is a trample on the past kings and three generations.
This is an even more intolerable heresy than Xiaozhan!
At the very least, the small edition still retains the essence of the ancient kings when they created characters. It is a hieroglyphic character, and the drawn objects follow the body.
What about the official script?
The Book of Prisoners is inherently despicable.
Not to mention that it completely destroys the artistic conception left behind by the previous kings when they created words.
It is no longer hieroglyphics, but instead uses radicals of strokes to replace the images of objects.
Those who accept it will naturally be able to accept it, and those who cannot accept it may have to hesitate!
After all, even if it is a small compilation, many celebrities, including Confucian and Huang-Lao sects, vigorously criticized it, believing that it destroyed the way of the ancestors and caused the rebellion of Jie and Zhou!
If everyone hadn't been accustomed to using it, they would have definitely smashed this product of the violent Qin Dynasty and restored the writing to the inscriptions of the previous generations, at least to the Great Compilation Period.
Liu Che naturally knew the difficulty of what he had to do.
But it doesn't matter, there is a challenge only if it is difficult.
and……
As an emperor and a time traveler, Liu Che knew very well that today, when paper appeared and woodblock printing became popular.
In fact, a new writing revolution is imminent.
The replacement of official script with small editions is an inevitable development of history, as well as the development of Chinese culture and civilization.
Rather than passively waiting for the popular official script to flourish and force the official to reform the script, it is better to take a preemptive strike and be the leader of this revolution.
The general trend of the world, those who follow it will prosper, and those who go against it will perish.
This has been true since ancient times!
Not to mention, official script is far more advanced than Xiaozhuan.
Since Cangjie created characters, the five emperors used rituals, and the three kings ruled the world.
Chinese writing has gone through a long development journey of thousands of years.
Liu Che knew that the most testable writing system known to date lies in the oracle bone inscriptions that are still buried deep in Anyang.
Then there is Zong Zhou’s inscription.
Next, after the Spring and Autumn Period, there are various words used by each other within each country.
When Qin Shihuang unified the world, Zulong, a man of great talent and strategy, resolutely used violence to promote the same writing on the same track and the same text.
A small compilation was used to comprehensively review the various variants of writing in various countries.
It’s impossible not to replace it!
Before Qin Shihuang wrote Tongwen, there were more than 20 ways to write the word "sheep" at that time.
If those writings were preserved, it would be impossible for China to maintain a unified empire.
Sooner or later, it will become a vassal kingdom that is independent and divided like the barbarians in Europe.
However, as history develops to this day, paper has completely replaced bamboo slips as the carrier of writing.
This writing method of Xiaozhuan obviously does not meet the needs of the development of the times and the needs of history.
It is even more unable to meet the requirements for the further development of Zhuxia civilization in the future.
Because the higher the level of civilization, the simpler the fonts will be.
The reason is simple. A more advanced civilization requires more intellectuals and cultural people, as well as philosophers, physicists, chemists, and even astronomers.
This inevitably requires that the civilization must have a large enough literate and educated population base to produce elite talents who are in increasing demand.
Naturally, this requires that the text must be concise and must not cause difficulties in understanding and writing for children and teenagers.
The current small compilation is the end of ancient prose.
It comes from ancient times and carries the thoughts of the ancestors kings and people, as well as the crystallization of the civilization of the Xia Dynasty.
It passes on the wisdom of the ancestors and ancestors to this day.
But now, its historical mission has ended.
If the Zhu Xia civilization wants to go further and ignite the fire of higher civilization, it will inevitably need a more concise writing, easier to understand and simpler writing.
The official script is the inevitable choice of history.
It is a revolutionary font format, and it is also a type of text created by the people for convenience and convenience.
Just like the simplified Chinese characters of later generations, this is an inevitable result of historical development and civilizational progress.
This revolutionary font is very suitable for writing on paper.
It has a beautiful structure, is easy to understand, and is easy for people to accept.
Even if Liu Che doesn't stand up, promote it, popularize it, hold it on the altar, and ignite the divine fire.
As long as it continues to develop, within ten years it will naturally take over the mainstream and become a recognized written language.
There is no other reason.
Just because it is simple, well-crafted, easy to write, and suitable for communication and education.
This is enough!
As for the objections and doubts.
This is definitely going to happen, and it will definitely happen.
However, Liu Che believes that there will be more people who welcome and support him.
Chinese civilization has always been forward-looking.
Which of the hundreds of schools of thought is not the product of reverence for the late kings and sages and looking toward the future?
Yi said: Make it smooth and make the people not tired.
The poem says: Nine changes and restoration, knowing the choice of words.
That’s the truth!
Looking at the situation at the venue, Liu Che picked up the ribbon and took Ji An to the main building of Shiqu Pavilion, and said hello to Sima Ji Zhu and others who were nervously calculating the new calendar with Sima Tan and others.
Just like writing, the current Zhuanxu calendar is no longer suitable for continued use as the Chinese calendar.
Things that are no longer useful should be discarded.
Of course, like Xiaozhan, Liu Che was an emperor who cherished and respected the wisdom and cultural crystallization of his ancestors and ancestors.
New products replace old products, which is the inevitable development of the times.
But the old characters and the old calendar are not to be thrown away as they are no longer useful.
Rather, it should be preserved for future generations to see and know how difficult it was for our ancestors and forefathers to face the difficult road ahead.
Let future generations know their origins and the history of their nation.
This is the best patriotic material and the best archive for future generations to study.
Therefore, Liu Che will protect them all, compile them into volumes, and store them in the royal archives.
Not only Zhuan Xu's calendar and small compilations, Liu Che even ordered to recruit a large number of scholars who knew inscriptions and large compilations.
Now, there are still people in the intellectual and cultural circles who understand them, as well as their development history and the stories behind them.
Record them in written form forever.
This is what a true emperor of the Xia Dynasty should do.
Learn from the old to learn from the new.
While remembering and respecting our ancestors, we should stand on the shoulders of our ancestors and ancestors, summarize the wisdom and experience of our ancestors, combine it with the current situation, continue to move forward, and continuously improve our own civilization.
Until the end of the world, until the future of the stars and the sea.
Therefore, in fact, at this moment, Sima Jizhu and others have already completed the calculation of the new calendar, and they only need to review and deliberate.
What they are doing now is actually sorting out Zhuanxu's calendar.
This agricultural textbook, which has accompanied the Zhu Xia civilization for hundreds of years and guided the Chinese people for hundreds of years, has been re-edited.
From historical records, we can deduce the path this calendar has taken and restore its original appearance and evolution over the past hundreds of years.
Seeing Liu Che's arrival, Sima Tan and Sima Ji both stood up slightly to show their respect.
Liu Che looked at the two of them, smiled slightly, and said, "Thank you for your hard work, dear ladies!"
Sima Tan and Sima Ji both shook their heads and said with a smile: "It's not hard work!"
How can we complain about making calendars, resetting the paths of the stars, the sun and the moon, and calculating the time of day?
This is a great pleasure!
Even if they die on the job, they will die with a smile on their face.
Because this is the highest dream and ultimate ideal of every scholar-official and scholar.
As Confucius said: If you hear the Tao in the morning, you will die in the evening.
In Chinese culture, death is never a terrible thing.
What is really terrible is humiliating the previous king, desecrating the great road, and being despised by all generations.
The morality of benevolence and righteousness has never been the exclusive preserve of Confucianism.
Just like the term "Great Unification" is not a term invented by Confucianism, just like "even if there are thousands of people, I will go" is not a unique momentum of Confucianism.
The fact is that these things are common to all schools of thought.
It’s just that in later generations, Confucians put it on their heads and told the world: These are all mine! (~^~)
