Carefree Prince In Tang Dynasty

"This is a comma. It is used inside a sentence to indicate that a sentence is not over yet, but there is a pause here to indicate separation... This is a ‘period’..."

"Indicating the end of a sentence?"

"Yes."

"What about this one?"

"This is a colon, used to introduce something to be said later, generally used to indicate..."

So Li Xin and Fang Xuanling talked about the meaning and usage of punctuation in the living room. Fang Xuanling really deserves to be a great master of Confucianism and Taoism for many years. Many punctuation marks are not practical for Li Xin to explain, and he has almost understood it even with a guess. Li Xin's explanation only gives a more clear definition.

After explaining all the punctuation marks that appeared throughout the manuscript, Fang Xuanling said with emotion: "If these symbols had already existed, it would have been so good that it would save much debate and argument."

Indeed, since there are no punctuation marks in ancient books, how to break and understand many sentences has become an unanswered question. Public speaking is public and reasonable, and mother-in-law said mother-in-law is reasonable. The most terrifying thing is that many people try to lead these sentences in the direction of interpretation they need for different motives, so as to achieve their own special political goals.

For example, a politician who advocates the rule of foolish people is likely to deliberately interpret the ten words "the people can do it but not know it" as "the people can do it but cannot know it." In this way, the meaning of this sentence becomes: the people can be allowed to follow the path guided by us, and there is no need to let them know why. Confucius naturally became a spokesperson for the politics of stupid people.

And another way of saying is "the people can, let it be done; if not, let it be known." It means: if the people have mastered poetry, rituals and music, then let them play freely. If the people have not yet mastered it, then (we) have to teach them and let them know and understand these things. Merely changing the position of the punctuation marks made a huge change in the meaning of the entire sentence. Mr. Confucius instantly turned from a spokesperson of foolish politics to a model for enlightening the people.

As for Mr. Kong Zhongni's original intention? No one knows, and no one really cares.

Every year, there are countless Confucian scholars and great masters of major families who frantically talk about similar issues, and they insist on their own words, and they cannot agree. If there were punctuation marks in the world when the disciples of Confucius wrote down the book "The Analects", there would be fewer similar disputes.

Li Xin smiled and said, "It's not too late now."

"Yes." Fang Xuanling is worthy of being a great minister who once fought with Li Shimin, and has a passion that no one else has. "The past will pass. From the beginning of this dynasty, if you can fully use this set of punctuation, you can also Leave countless precious knowledge and experience to future generations. His Royal Highness, why don't you write an article to introduce it to the world?"

Li Xin smiled bitterly: "Master Fang, you don't want to make fun of the younger generation. With this little pen and ink in the stomach of the younger generation, writing an article may make people laugh to death."

"His Royal Highness is too self-effacing. Your "Teacher's Talk", the old man can still be a reporter. The writing is near and simple, but it is a rare masterpiece." Fang Xuanling praised sincerely.

Li Xin was speechless.

What else can he say? I can't say that he copied this article. He doesn't actually write any articles, right?

"The younger generation in the literary world is light-hearted, and even if they write an article, no one pays attention." Fortunately, Li Xin responded quickly and quickly found a way to respond from another angle. "If you really want to write this article, you have to be like Master Fang. It is only useful to write by seniors with identities."

Fang Xuanling shook her head and said: "This is not very good. It is obviously your credit, but I write the article, which is suspected of being greedy for merit..."

"Why does Mr. Fang stick to such a small section?" Li Xin quickly tried to persuade him, "The most important thing is to promote punctuation as soon as possible!"

Fang Xuanling heard the words and pondered for a moment before saying: "His Royal Highness is right. So, the old man will explain in the article that this object was invented by his Royal Highness of Chu, and the old man just wrote it down for everyone to understand."

Li Xin actually wanted to say: It doesn’t matter even if you directly say that you invented it, it’s even better to say that it’s better...

The credit for inventing punctuation marks is certainly great, but there is not much actual benefit behind it, but the reputation will be improved. As the saying goes, people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong. Li Xin doesn't want to improve the title too much. After all, besides being a copywriter, he is really messed up in poetry and essays. Maybe someday he will be exposed. By the way The situation is not coming to Taiwan.

If he never had a literary name, and everyone would treat him as a dude, it's okay to say that no one would care too much. But if he has an overly strong reputation in the literary world, and is promoted too high, the same thing will have completely different results. Countless people will come up and step on him.

However, Li Xin also knows that it is not easy for someone like Fang Xuanling to take credit. They are in high positions and disdain such small merits as greed. The reason why he is willing to write this article is that he really appreciates punctuation.

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