Emperor of the Tang Dynasty

Li You nodded and said: "Okay, then it's settled, see you in ten days!"

Kong Yingda: "..."

You two... no one cares about my opinion! ?

Chapter 453 "Dictionary"!

But to be honest, Kong Yingda was also interested in being able to personally participate in this competition that was closely related to his position, so he did not shirk any more and agreed directly.

So, the vigorous teaching competition began!

I just want Kong Yingda to teach students, and Kong Yingda must be able to pinyin himself. Fortunately, for a smart person like Kong Yingda who is full of poetry and books, Li You feels that it does not take long to teach him.

"This is... the pinyin that His Highness said?"

Kong Yingda looked at the rice paper with 60 characters written in front of her, and a hint of doubt flashed in her heart.

It should be noted that the difficulty of learning Chinese characters is that they need to be memorized. So many new words can’t be memorized. It takes more energy to memorize these 60 characters. Is it really useful?

No wonder Kong Yingda was so puzzled, after all, he was one of the members who stood up to refute Li You on the court.

This has nothing to do with the relationship between Kong Yingda and Li You, but because Kong Yingda, as the sacrificial wine of the Imperial College, is also an old school, with a common problem that old masters have, that is, a stubborn belief in self-awareness. suspect.

They are confident that what they have learned is the best, and of course they are skeptical about the unheard-of way of pinyin.

"Exactly." Li You nodded, "Just memorizing the pronunciation of these 60 pinyin, shouldn't it take Master Kong how long?"

Kong Yingda nodded and said: "Although this old man is not as good as His Highness's ability to remember, but he has been praised for his talent and intelligence in the past. This mere 60 pinyin can be mastered in just half a day."

Li You nodded. In fact, the pinyin currently placed here was compared and optimized by Li You after spending an evening relying on his memory. After all, the pronunciation of the Tang Dynasty was not very similar to that of modern times.

"Then the king will start," Li You began to explain, "First of all, let me tell you the role of this tone..."

After half an hour, Kong Yingda was stunned.

He kept his eyes wide open and his mouth open. He didn't even notice that the brush in his hand fell to the ground. He was obviously thinking about something with all his energy.

After a while, Kong Yingda jumped three feet high!

"Wonderful!"

Seeing this, Li You wiped his sweat and said, "Master Kong, don't be so excited, you seem to be jumping higher than those young people, but don't hurt your body."

"Those are trivial matters!" Kong Yingda ran over excitedly, almost holding Li You's hand, "His Royal Highness King Chu, do you know that this is the same as your previous movable type printing technique, which simply benefits the whole world. The great virtue of a reader!"

Li You nodded and said, "I know, of course I know."

Kong Yingda was stunned for a while, shouldn't you be humble at this time?

However, His Royal Highness the King of Chu has never played cards according to common sense, and Kong Yingda has gradually become accustomed to it. He skipped this topic and asked: "But I still have a question, how should this method of pinyin be used after it is popularized?"

However, His Royal Highness the King of Chu has never played cards according to common sense, and Kong Yingda has gradually become accustomed to it. He skipped this topic and asked: "But I still have a question, how should this method of pinyin be used after it is popularized?"

"what you mean?"

Kong Yingda gave an example: "For example, if I see a word but don't know how to read it, or I know how to read a word but don't know how to write it, I think all of these can be related to each other using pinyin, but there seems to be a lack of one. The method of contact."

After listening to Kong Yingda's words, Li You looked at Kong Yingda with a little surprise.

Sure enough, none of the officials who could become famous officials in the early Tang Dynasty were sloppy. Kong Yingda had only been exposed to Pinyin for only an hour, and he could immediately think of an idea that was infinitely close to a dictionary!

"Don't panic, Master Kong, I already have a plan for this king."

Kong Yingda's eyes lit up: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu, please speak!"

He is no longer as dismissive of pinyin as he used to be. Kong Yingda just discovered that this pinyin is a treasure trove!

Therefore, Kong Yingda attaches more importance to Li You who proposed the method of pinyin, and he will think carefully about any ideas that Li You proposes next!

"The method is very simple, that is, you two compile a thing called "Dictionary" together." Li You said.

""dictionary"?"

Kong Yingda was stunned when she heard the words, with a confused look on her face.

Li You immediately explained: "This "Dictionary", as the name suggests, is a classic of new words. It contains all-encompassing characters in the world, with relevant pronunciations and explanations, and even example sentences!"

As soon as Li You's words fell, Kong Yingda fell into deep contemplation. With the thinking of a literati, he felt that there was a lot of potential in this, but he was vaguely unable to grasp the point.

"However, Your Highness... There are so many new words in the world, plus what you said, there is no doubt that this "Dictionary" alone will be thicker than any book. What will 140 people do then? To find the new word you want?"

Kong Yingda asked the key point all at once. If you searched page by page, it would take most of a day just to find a word, which is really worth the loss.

"It's very simple," Li You raised two fingers, "this involves the two situations that Master Kong just mentioned."

"The first case is that you only know the pronunciation but not the words, so Master Kong has also learned Pinyin, so it should be very clear, we can completely find the relevant catalogue of homophones according to the combination of Pinyin, and look for it that way. It's a lot faster to start writing!"

"Oh!" Kong Yingda became excited as if he had obtained nectar, "This is indeed a wonderful idea! What about the second situation? How to solve it?"

Seeing that Kong Yingda was so impatient, Li You smiled and said, "Speaking of the second case, that is the radical."

"Take the word 'gong' as an example, its radical is 'gong', which is three strokes in terms of strokes, then we can start from the radical of the three strokes, and after finding 'gong', follow the same method. Look for 'force', so that you can directly combine the position of the word!"

Chapter 454 The chance to pass on the name through the ages

Next, in order to explain in more detail, Li You carefully talked about the relevant knowledge of this radical.

Although the concept of radicals was proposed by Xu Shen in the Eastern Han Dynasty, his related work "Shuowen Jiezi" was lost in the Tang Dynasty, so the radicals were also buried.