Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 281 Great Book
"Fast forward, fast forward..." Gu Zhenduo smiled and said, "Father, there is also Xue Li, and there is someone you can't think of!"

After a few people entered the room, the master Gu Youwen also came out of his room: "Hey, Zhengping! Where's Eryi? Why didn't she come? Is she okay?"

The godfather hurriedly bowed to Gu Youwen again: "Hello Master, she is quite busy during the Spring Festival and cannot leave Jiachuan. She will still carry my work these days."

"Master, Ganniang is now the executive deputy county magistrate in charge of cultural and educational affairs in Jiachuan. She really can't leave. Let me prove it for her."

"Everyone sit down, sit down." Gu Youwen was very happy: "Xue Li went to kill a few grapefruits, my Jiachuan dialect is not wrong, right?"

"Farewell, let me come." Zhou Zhi is immune to Gu Youwen's rudeness, and it seems that this family does not have the habit of preparing new year's goods for guests: "It's not wrong, but the saying 'kill grapefruit' is now in Jiachuan. People are talking less, and have changed to the flat tone character 'open'."

"Well, the manuscript has been revised?"

"It's been corrected." Zhou Zhi took out a stack of manuscripts from Jiang Shuyi's backpack: ""Exegesis of Jiachuan Dialect", the second edition, my godfather has already reviewed it, please correct me, grandpa."

"What's wrong with the axe?" Gu Youwen chuckled, motioning for Gu Zhenduo to take over the manuscript: "Junsheng, since Zhengping has read it all, wait for Zuye to come back later, just give him the manuscript."

Junsheng is Gu Zhenduo's nickname, and Zuye is Gu Kailai's nickname. This family basically still keeps the tradition of old scholars.

"So... careless?" Zhou Zhi asked confusedly while handing over the manuscript to the master.

"Otherwise, how do you think your godfather's name came from?" Gu Zhenduo said with a smile, reaching out to take the manuscript.

"Oh..." Zhou Zhi understood: "Actually, Zhengping and Lingjun are two somewhat contradictory attributes. It's not easy to be a godfather?"

"You think too much about that elbow. As the old saying goes, there are only wrong names, not wrong nicknames." Gu Youwen laughed.

"Master, of course it's my fault for not coming to visit me for many years, but it doesn't matter if I look old when criticizing me in front of the younger generation, don't make the younger generation domineering..."

"Hehehe you..." Gu Youwen sighed after laughing: "I shouldn't have let you go back then..."

"You guys chat with me first, and then I'll bring up the New Year's goods." Zhou Zhi said.

"Don't be busy with the new year's goods." Gu Youwen said: "Junsheng, go and take out the cigarette sticks."

"Isn't that necessary? It's a big festival..." Gu Zhenduo hesitated.

"Punches never leave your mouth, tunes never leave your hands." Gu Youwen's tone was still so natural: "Learning let alone solar terms?"

"Master Zuzu, what is a piece of smoked bamboo?" Zhou Zhi was curious.

"Elbow!" The godfather's expression suddenly became serious, and he gently shook his head at him, signaling him to stop talking.

Gu Zhenduo sighed, turned around and went into Gu Youwen's study, and after a while, he took out a bamboo strip.

The bamboo strips are shiny and shiny, with a dark brown background, which can be seen to be some years old.

Taking the bamboo stick, Gu Youwen smiled and said: "Dawen, the so-called knowing is knowing and not knowing is not knowing, let me ask you again, "Shuowen Jiezi", how many times have you marked the sentence reading?"

"Father..." Gu Zhenduo was shocked: "Why..."

"Don't talk." Gu Youwen smiled unabated: "Good boy, you have one last chance, just tell the truth."

The entire small hall was silent, except for Gu Zhenduo and his godfather who knew what Gu Youwen meant, everyone else was stunned.

But even though Gu Youwen was weak and his tone was soft and kind, no one dared to speak out.

Zhou Zhi took a deep breath: "It's the fifth time to go back to Master Zuzu."

"I can prove it to Zhou Zhi." A crunchy girl followed suit: "This is the fifth time, the first time I used it for three months, and then it got faster and faster. Now it only takes a week to complete the labeling."

"Seven days!" Gu Zhenduo was stunned.

"Shuowen Jiezi", or "Shuowen" for short, is a Chinese reference book compiled by Xu Shen, a classicist and philologist in the Eastern Han Dynasty. one of the dictionaries.

When this book was compiled, it made a specific explanation for the "Six Books" for the first time.
The so-called Liushu refers to the method of concluding Chinese characters.

Xu Shen explained: "Zhou Li entered elementary school at the age of eight, and the Bao family taught the sons of the country, first with the six books.

One is to refer to things, and those who refer to things can be recognized by looking at them, and righteousness can be seen by observing them, both up and down;

The second is pictograms, pictograms are painted into their objects, and they are interspersed with the body, the sun and the moon are also true;

The third is called shape and sound, and shape and sound are named after things, and they are formed by taking analogies, just like rivers and rivers;

The fourth is knowing the mind, those who know the mind, compare the friendship with the class, use the sight to point out the false, Wu Xin is also true;

The fifth is to re-annotate, and those who re-annotate, create a class, agree to accept it, and pass the test;
The sixth is borrowing under false pretenses, those who borrow under false pretenses have no characters at all, and rely on their voices to entrust things, so it is true for the commander. "

This is a very incisive conclusion, and there has been no change for thousands of years. Even when it comes to recreating simplified Chinese characters, the "Six Books" principle is still followed.

With the "Six Books" principle, Xu Shen can set "radicals".

This book is the first to create radicals of Chinese characters, conforming to the requirements of the era of unifying and standardizing Chinese characters, according to the principle of "cluster together by like, divide things into groups, belong to the same ties, share common principles, mix but not exceed, and connect according to shape" , with the shape of the characters as the outline, and based on the shape of the training, the same characters in the Chinese characters are used as the basis for classification. It is divided into 540 radicals, with a total of 350 characters. A total of 160 characters.

The book contains fifteen volumes, of which the first fourteen volumes are commentary on characters, and the prefixes are written in small seal script.

The classics and ancient books quoted are not limited to "Poems", "Books", "Li", "Yi" and "Chunqiu", but also "Laozi", "Mozi", "Han Feizi", "Mandarin", "Yi Zhou Shu", "Chu Ci", "History" ", "Shan Hai Jing", "Sima Fa", "Tai Yi Jing", etc., involve knowledge of different subjects such as heaven and earth, ghosts and gods, mountains and rivers, vegetation, birds and beasts, insects, sundries, strange things, kingship, and etiquette.A verbatim explanation of the source of the font;

At that time, only Xu Shen had this ability.

"Book of the Later Han Dynasty Rulin Biography Xu Shen's Biography": "Small erudite classics, Ma Rong often respects them, and people at the time said: 'The Five Classics are unparalleled Xu Shuzhong.'"

The era that Xu Shen lived in was really an era when the struggle between the two schools of modern and ancient prose was fierce.

Jinwen refers to the official script, and ancient writing refers to the ancient writings of the pre-Qin six kingdoms.

Due to the different recorded texts, the ancient classics were divided into modern classics and ancient classics at that time.

This was originally just a difference in fonts, but the people who studied it formed different academic schools.

The School of Jinwen Confucianism believes that scriptures are the words of sages, and every word and every sentence contains "subtle words and great meaning", which can be applied in the world, and they often take meaning out of context and arbitrarily draw analogies.

The School of Classical Classics believes that the meaning of the scriptures should be interpreted objectively according to the meaning of the words, and the study of language should be emphasized to establish its lofty status in the study of classics.

Xu Shen was a scholar of ancient texts and classics, at a time when the school of modern classics was gradually declining and the school of ancient texts was gradually flourishing.

He could not tolerate the phenomenon of distorting characters in order to be effective in the world, so he slammed those vulgar Confucians who "play what they have learned and hide what they don't want to hear", and those who "compete to explain the scriptures and call Qin's official script Cangjie". "Book" of the "husband".

He believes that writing is "the foundation of economics and art, and the beginning of kingly government", and misinterpreting the text will inevitably tamper with "jingyi", which is not conducive to "kingly government".

In order to refute the claims of Jinwen Confucian scholars who tampered with the meaning of the scriptures, and to unify academic thinking, he determined to write this brilliant masterpiece.

(End of this chapter)