(Second place, come on, close the distance with the first place, all the recommendation votes, please!)
Chen Ke's words were sincere. The so-called "shameful, ashamed and distressed" is also the true feeling that filled his heart...
The idea of compiling a "Dictionary" originated eight years ago when he began to contact rhyme books. A person who is accustomed to pinyin phonetic notation, when he first returns to the era of Funchie phonetic notation, must be full of discomfort and complaints.
The so-called fanqie is to combine the initial consonant of one Chinese character with the final of another Chinese character to give another Chinese character a phonetic notation. Naturally, after Chen Ke cut out the pronunciation of each character, he would easily mark it with pinyin for future use.
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After finishing studying a book of "Guangyun", he also completed the phonetic notation of all 26,194 characters. But if you want to compile a dictionary, this is only the first step. The next step is to transcribe the original characters.
The Chinese characters classified into five tones and two hundred and six rhymes are rearranged according to the phonetic order... Otherwise, it is not enough to reflect the advantages of Pinyin phonetic notation.
After completing this step, he still had to make a radical word list so that he could assemble a usable dictionary. Before doing this, Chen Ke knew that this was a complicated matter, but when he started to do it, he found that he
I still greatly underestimated the difficulty of this work. To rearrange more than 20,000 Chinese characters in phonetic order and then label them by radicals and strokes, the effort and time required are really difficult to estimate.
Anyway, Chen Ke only persisted for more than a month. After that, he spent three days fishing and two days drying nets. He was not even halfway finished in a few years. Later, when he went to the academy to attend school, he was busy with schoolwork and came to a standstill. The completion date was far away.
At this time, Su Xiaomei, who was studying poetry with the eldest daughter of the mountain, came to him to borrow "Guangyun". When she took the book back and looked at it, she found that it was filled with strange symbols. And these symbols seemed to contain
A certain pattern is definitely not something you can just draw for fun.
If she didn't understand, she naturally asked her third brother to find out. After learning that this was a phonetic symbol for Chinese characters, the younger sister was very interested and asked Chen Ke to teach her. Chen Ke didn't care about it, so he taught him everything he had.
My younger sister, Lan Xinhuizhi, is extremely smart. She learned the entire set of Weishi phonetic notation in just one day. When she looked at the symbols on the rhyme book, she suddenly felt that they were clear at a glance, like a blind person who can suddenly see, and there is no word that cannot be read.
, its euphoria is almost indescribable!
On the way to school the next day, the little girl, who was so excited that she didn't sleep all night, pestered Chen Ke and asked him, where did this magical method come from?
"It's as natural as medical skills," Chen Ke could only ignore it and laughed, "Maybe I'm really a genius."
"No, maybe, Third Brother is a genius!" The younger sister's eyes flashed with gold as she said, "If everyone in the world learns Third Brother's 'pinyin and phonetic notation', the merits will be comparable to Cangjie's creation of Chinese characters!"
"It's not that exaggerated!" Chen Ke shook his head and laughed: "But I really thought about using this method to compile a "Dictionary", but unfortunately I don't have the patience, and I haven't finished it for several years."
The little sister was very interested and asked him how he planned to write it and how much he had written. When he came home from school, he took his unfinished manuscript away.
At first, Chen Ke didn't pay attention, thinking that she was also a temporary enthusiasm, and gave up after a while. Unexpectedly, seven or eight months later, he saw the first draft compiled by his younger sister... Only then did he know that she had been studying to be a female celebrity.
Apart from that, I have been working hard on editing.
The little girl's method was very clever. She first spent two months making a "radical word checking list" according to radicals and strokes, and then began to rearrange the words in phonetic order. Each time she arranged a word, she compiled it.
Enter the serial number and mark it next to the corresponding word in the word search form. In this way, it is not too tiring to sort two to three hundred words every day and then fill them in the form. In less than half a year, Chen Ke has completed the task that has always been daunting.
Chen Ke was so impressed at that time that he picked up the little girl and spun her around several times. In his opinion, this was already very good and ready to be published. But the little girl calmly pointed out: "There should be something simple.
Note, otherwise the effect will be greatly reduced."
"Forget it, forget it," Chen Ke shook his head and said, "Let's leave this difficult job to those scholars."
The younger sister disagrees. She thinks that the most creative work has been completed, and the rest is just mechanical filling... There are annotations for every word in "Guangyun", so you can just copy it, which is just time-consuming... If this
If you don't do something yourself, won't others pick the peach?
In my opinion, dictionaries are not like other books. People only focus on practicality and don’t care who the idea comes from. Whoever compiles a perfect and practical dictionary will sell well, and all credit and praise will be given to him.
Who will it fall on?
The little girl's foresight allowed Chen Ke to avoid the tragedy of making wedding dresses for others. However, the mechanical work still took a long time... Fortunately, the little girl with a delicate mind left every word in the first draft.
It’s clear, just fill it in slowly.
At Chen Ke's insistence, the two of us took it in turns to fill it out one day at a time. When there were obvious errors or unclear words in "Guangyun", we had to refer to "Erya" and "Commentaries on the Thirteen Classics".
The authoritative book will be revised. The Su brothers and Song Duanping will also participate, not only giving opinions, but also writing for a few days, so that they can have time to rest.
To their surprise, this work took them two years, and it was only last winter that they finally completed the extensive annotation work. The younger sister took on the final inspection and revision. She said that girls are attentive.
, just right for this.
The revision also took a long time. Chen Ke originally thought that it would take a year anyway - but unexpectedly, in just three months, the little sister put the final draft in front of him.
Thinking that he had almost ignored his little sister's work in the past few months due to the boredom caused by the long-term war, Chen Ke felt ashamed, and his heart was full of love for this girl. But the words of thanks came to his lips.
, but then turned to blame: "How much less sleep and how much more effort will it take? No wonder the balance has become less and less this year, don't you want to die?!"
"I'm worried..." The younger sister was waiting to praise her, but she was scolded again. She suddenly burst into tears and said, "The third brother is not as good at poetry as my second brother. I think this "Dictionary"
, can also help you get the appreciation of those dignitaries."
In an instant, a strong feeling moved in Chen Ke's heart, shocking and warm.
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Chen Ke finally understood that it turned out that the younger sister was worried about him. Her last words could be summed up in two words - Qian Ye. Let's start from the last imperial examination. Chen Xiliang passed, but Su Xun once again
After failing the examination and being hit several times, Su Laoquan was disheartened and did not want to enter the examination room again. After traveling abroad, he returned to Qingshen County and devoted all his enthusiasm to cultivating his two sons.
In terms of academics, Er Su was already better than the old, so he didn't need to worry about it. Su Xun's energy was spent on paving the way for them to take the imperial examination. The method he adopted was to pay homage to high-ranking officials and celebrities.
The so-called "visiting" refers to scholars actively meeting famous officials and ministers to show their talents to them. Once a letter of recommendation from a big shot is obtained, a humble student can immediately become famous and be admitted even before the imperial examination is held.
Although since the first year of Qingli, all imperial examinations at all levels have adopted the system of "transferring names without naming", which has greatly curbed the trend of paying homage to Zhi. However, paying homage to famous officials and ministers is still an important way for lower-class scholars to join the ranks of scholars.
.Otherwise, even if you are full of knowledge and talent, it will only be "raised in a boudoir and unknown to others." It is rare for people to know and recognize it. Su Laoquan himself is the best example.
On the other hand, those high-ranking officials often have the status of "Wen Zong Confucian masters", and they are surrounded by many "disciples, wise scholars and officials". Being able to hang out with them often, and being influenced by them, it is natural that scholars will improve their studies.
shortcut.
Su Xun firmly believed that with his sons' true talents and learning, as long as they succeeded in paying homage, they would surely be appreciated by famous officials, become famous all over the world, and their studies would be further improved. So in the past two years, he has been paying homage everywhere, and he has indeed learned something.
Harvest... According to him, he has become a good friend with Lei Jianfu, the governor of neighboring Yazhou, and the other party promised that when the time is right, he will introduce higher-level officials on his behalf.
Chen Ke knew that Su Xun would definitely not leave him behind, so he was making careful preparations... But he never expected that there would be a girl who was silently worrying about him and trying her best to plan for him.
"Little sister, I really don't know how to thank you..." Chen Ke is a very hard-hearted person, but at this moment, he had to resist the urge to cry.
"You're welcome." Although he was clumsy at the moment, the little sister could see that Chen Ke was so moved that she felt that everything was worth it. She put her hands behind her back and said with relief: "Compared to the grace of saving my life, this
It’s nothing.”
"Little sister..." Chen Ke took a deep breath and said seriously: "Don't do such stupid things in the future. What if I get tired and sick? Don't you make me die of guilt?"
"I don't want to be so tired," the younger sister said with a cute smile, "but why is the third brother unable to write good poems?"
"Little sister, actually..." Chen Ke pondered for a moment and decided to explain to her: "You don't have to worry about this anymore. I actually have something useful."
"Dry stuff, what dry stuff?"
"It's those poems that can blind people's eyes." Chen Ke said boldly. "I hide it deeply, do you know?"
"Then why have you never heard your brother recite any good verses?" The younger sister didn't believe it. She covered her mouth and smiled and said, "I have heard a lot of crooked verses."
"Um..." Chen Ke scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "Good steel should be used on the blade. I'm afraid I won't have to use it in the future." This is the truth.
I wrote it very carefully, even physically and mentally exhausted. Everyone should vote for recommendation to comfort me. It is second in the rankings again. Who among you still has votes? We can't always be second!!!
