Riding the wind of rebirth

For Zhou Zhi, this is his old business, starting with the Gao Hanwen large character library. His talent and practical level in software engineering management have surprised many officials and scholars, and even led him to write a textbook on "Information Engineering Management". This textbook fills a certain gap at a time when the country needs to vigorously develop the information industry, and it has been quite popular since its publication.

Therefore, this kind of work is not a big deal for Zhou Zhi. To him, reviewing dialect recordings of college students from all over the country and guiding programmers on how to distinguish various acoustic knowledge is a big job.

For example, the differences in the pronunciation position and method of the initial consonants, whether the vocal cords vibrate, the strength of the airflow, etc.

For example, when pronouncing zcs, the tip of the tongue gently presses against the edge of the lower front teeth. In the pinyin system, this is called a tip-front sound. However, in many areas, when pronouncing it, the tip of the tongue is extended and placed between the upper and lower teeth. This is called an interdental sound.

As for zh, ch, and sh, which are called tip-of-the-tongue sounds in the pinyin system, some dialect areas will bring the front edge of the tongue into contact with the alveolar gums of the upper teeth, with the tip of the tongue separated from the hard palate, the front part of the tongue lifted up and close to the hard palate, the tongue surface concave to form a small hole, and the lips protrude slightly forward. The sound produced in this way is called a "tongue-leaf sound."

To write a phonetic analysis program, you must of course first understand these phonetic principles, so that you can analyze the characteristics from the sound and archive and use them as data tags.

This is much more tiring than managing software engineering. Programmers are often from the north. Even if they know the concepts of Ping, Shang, Qu and Ru, they often can't really distinguish them when applying them. If you tell them that a Ping tone starts with an upward tail tone, it's Ping; or a Ping tone starts with a downward tail tone, it's Ru, they will just see stars. They are not as good as students in Guangdong Province and Hakka areas of Fujian who can understand it as soon as they hear it.

People who understand the principles of prosody and can write programs are called "comprehensive talents" in this working group. They are very rare, so these key tasks often require Zhou Zhi to do them personally.

But it's just a small job that I have to do myself. If you still complain about being tired even with such a small job, it would be really outrageous.

Therefore, Zhou Zhi now has plenty of time to conduct field surveys with Lao Chi Ri, collect and classify information, and compile the large amount of information provided by Lao Chi Ri into an outline of literary and historical works, and then hand it over to the Yi history compilation team of the autonomous prefecture.

For Zhou Zhi, this kind of field research is often considered a scenic tour. He lets the horse carry a SLR camera, a video recorder, an MP3, various batteries, a laptop, and most importantly, bean feed for the horse. The father and son are often away for two or three days, visiting the Bimos in some villages in the mountains.

This also provides Zhouzhi with an opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of the "Bimo society". The inheritance of Bimo knowledge, the application of knowledge, the formation of authority, the formation of status, the methods and means of managing rural society, the influence in social life, the guarantees formed in customs, etc., have already constituted the content of a sociological study.

This kind of content actually satisfies the curiosity of ordinary people. People tend to like reading it, and it even has the chance to become a bestseller.

And these things often have a great influence and even affect people's three views.

For example, the large-scale cultural documentary "Blood Veins Rivers" recently broadcast on CCTV has aroused unparalleled cultural identity and national pride across the country.

"Blood Veins of Rivers" uses rivers as a link and a large number of the latest archaeological findings to tell the origin, development and integration of Chinese civilization. The documentary begins with the civilization sites along the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, one episode per day, from the Paleolithic Age, the Neolithic Age, to the beginning of the Bronze Age.

Ultimately, these civilizations connected the two major regional civilizations on the Chinese land, the Yellow River Civilization and the Yangtze River Civilization.

About three thousand years ago, the two civilizations resumed communication and integration. In the east, the two civilizations found many paths to cross the barrier of Taihang Mountains; in the central part, they found the ancient Jialing River Road that entered the Hanzhong Plain and reached the Three Gorges area along the Jialing River; and the most important channel was the "Minjiang Cultural Belt" that went through the Minjiang River to the eastern foot of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and then along the Helan Mountains into the Jingwei River Basin, where it intersected with the Yellow River civilization.

On the tributaries of the two great rivers, from Fujian and Guangdong in the south, Yunnan and Guizhou in the north to Inner Mongolia and Gansu, many splendid cultures have been nurtured.

In addition, there are some civilizations formed in large independent water system areas, including the remains of civilizations along the Lancang River, Pearl River, Heilongjiang River, Tarim River, and Kongque River.

The people living on these civilization relics gradually formed the ethnic diversity and cultural pluralism on the land of China, and finally merged into a large ethnic family with many members and independent and integrated civilization characteristics.

This documentary, with a comprehensive perspective, new archaeological findings, and new sociological research results, combines the development of civilization, historical changes, and sociological research surveys to fundamentally explain why the Chinese nation has always stood tall among the nations of the world, and why only China can form such a unified country composed of multiple ethnic groups. It refutes the West's crude definition of civilization and the ridiculous argument that the so-called yellow civilization is inferior to the blue civilization. It is reasonable, well-founded, and well-documented, and is very solid and almost irrefutable.

Especially at the end of the documentary, it combines cultural changes with the Chinese people's tireless efforts in water conservancy and canal construction for thousands of years, from the earliest Yu the Great's flood control, to the later Lingqu Canal and Dujiangyan, and then to the Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which illustrates the subjective initiative of the Chinese nation in pursuing national and cultural integration.

This also fully proves that civilization can develop without relying on external plunder and relying on its own internal strength. It also refutes the arguments described by classical public intellectuals that the Great Wall represents a lack of ambition, Zheng He's voyages to the West were just to show off his wealth, and the Chinese invented gunpowder but only used it to make fireworks.

In the eyes of those people, it became a crime that their ancestors were not barbaric enough, did not expand wantonly, and only focused on the creation, improvement, and protection of civilization; while the West's brutal plundering, killing of Indians, and selling of African blacks became a tribute to civilization.

This is undoubtedly a very ridiculous point of view. This large-scale documentary has played the role of "setting things right" in society.

The response was explosive. Even when Zhou Zhi was at the base, he could hear his classmates discussing the contents of the documentary enthusiastically.

There are heated debates in the forums of major universities. Students are relatively radical online. They were just confused before, but now with the large amount of historical evidence provided by "Blood Veins Rivers", some people have begun to dig deeper along the outline of the documentary.

Three types of posts began to become popular on the forum. (End of this chapter)