The second volume is full of glory and splendor in the capital, and the spirit is full of vitality in the foggy city. Chapter 197: Vernacular (Part 2)
Subtitle of this chapter: National Standard, the Master’s Ambition!
"Brother Hongjian, you have a serious problem..."
"first……"
"Secondly..."
"at last……"
"In short, Chinese should look like Chinese!"
Mr. Lu Xun, who is as famous as Mr. Hongjian, once said that in China, even if you move a table or an incense burner, you will get your head broken and bloodied. And even if you get your head broken and bloodied, you still can't move it..
If our Mr. Hongjian didn't have the Master Ball, a crappy system, he would definitely have smashed and burned the dilapidated and termite-infested mahogany furniture with the descendants of Tianmo and replaced it with a set of Russian-style IKEA furniture.
He could not , but he still showed his abilities in the cultural field. He was a leader and even the chief commander of the New Culture Movement who kicked away the broken incense burner.
Of course, as the leader of the New Culture Movement, the Xueheng School was naturally his first opponent on his way forward.
However, as a good student of the descendant of the Heavenly Demon, Master Yuan still has to try to "turn enemies into friends" with Masters Wu and Chen, so that he can make more friends and fewer enemies.
However, he lacked self-awareness despite his beautiful thoughts, and he also forgot one thing: his broken mouth could never "turn an enemy into a friend", it could only "turn an enemy into an enemy" and "turn a girl into that friend".
“Snap!”
After Chen Yinke finished his lengthy speech citing classics, Yuan Yan suddenly lit a cigar out of habit, then sneered, "Brother Heshou, you said so much, but it all comes down to just four words..."
"selfish departmentalism!"
Without waiting for the other party to refute, he quickened his pace and said, "Chinese should behave like Chinese?!"
"If you say so, brother, then why should we copy Yan, Liu, Ou, and Zhao (the four masters of regular script), imitate Su, Huang, Mi, and Cai (the four masters of Song Dynasty calligraphy), learn Ming and Qing Dynasty official script, Song thin script, Tang cursive script, Wei stele, Han official script, small seal script, bronze inscription, bird script, stone drum script..."
"Wouldn't it be better if we all wrote the oracle bone script together?"
At this time, oracle bone inscriptions had already reappeared in the world. In 1903, Liu E, the author of "The Travels of Lao Can", published "Tieyun Canggui", which was the first record of oracle bone .
Yuan Yan suddenly added, "By the way, oracle bone inscriptions aren't old enough. They should be recorded using knotted cords like in ancient times."
"Humph!" Master Chen was not to be refuted by such words. He snorted coldly and said, "Brother Hongjian, starting with what you said about knotting ropes to record events, haven't we Chinese always written from top to bottom since ancient times?"
He said sarcastically, "You're not going to tell me that we Orientals read from top to bottom and back again, so it's a nodding culture. And Westerners read from left to right and back again, so it's a shaking head culture?"
Once cultural self-confidence is lost, strange ideas of reverse racism will emerge. Not to mention the nodding and shaking culture, there were also "ugly Chinese", "He Shangliu" and "Wolf Totem".
"Hahaha..." Master Yuan chuckled a few times and said, "If changing vertical to horizontal text is really enough to transform our Chinese culture, then I won't argue with you about it. I will go bankrupt to make this happen! But..."
He changed the subject and said, "But, brother, don't tell me that the laws of our ancestors cannot be changed. We have even changed our clothes and hairstyles to Western styles, and we are all living well. What's the harm in changing the text layout? Besides..."
He couldn't help but reveal a haughty look and said, "Besides, a liberal arts student like has never been exposed to real Western science. Can you write the formulas and equations of Western mathematics, physics, chemistry, and the economics I studied from top to bottom?"
"Brother Heshou, why don't you write one for me?"
This is the good thing about studying economics. You can switch between science and liberal arts at any time, and choose whichever one is beneficial. It's really BAT MAN.
"you……"
Seeing the tense atmosphere between the two, someone jumped out to smooth things over.
Wu Mi coughed heavily and said, "Brother Hongjian, we, the scholars studying in the United States, studied different subjects and returned to China with different intentions. We cannot generalize."
"Hmm..." Yuan Yan suddenly remembered that he wanted to "turn enemies into friends", so he nodded immediately and said, "Brother Yu Seng, what you said is correct. It was I who made the mistake."
He clasped his fists towards Chen Yinke and said, "Brother Heshou, I take back what I said."
After he apologized, the atmosphere in the venue became a little more relaxed.
Master Wu saw that this young Yuan was quite able to correct his mistakes and could not help but say, "Brother Hongjian, we all know that you have a sincere heart to serve the country and a strong desire to reform the people. However..."
He picked up the book in his hand and shook it, saying, "Your masterpiece is written in pure vernacular, and the words used are completely vulgar..."
"Wait a minute!" Master Yuan could not stand hearing the three words "vulgar characters" in his life.
Oh, the simplified characters used in the continent of Ala are vernacular characters, so aren't the traditional characters used in those former colonies the standard characters?
"Brother Yuseng, this is not a common character, but..."
Well, he actually doesn’t even like to hear the simplified characters because the name is so bad .
I think that a certain big country in the East is the orthodox Chinese nation and the Chinese characters are authentic. If we change it, what can others do? How can we admit that we have simplified it?
This name is so unassuming and unpretentious. He doesn't like using it, so he chose a name that's both incredibly domineering and incredibly pretentious...
“National standard Chinese characters!”
"National Standard Chinese Characters?" Wu Mi asked, laughing and crying. "Brother Hongjian, how did this vernacular Chinese character become the national standard?"
"Brother Yuseng, you are wrong!"
Yuan Yan suddenly raised her head at a 45-degree angle to look at the rooftop and said calmly, "Yuan is using international standard Chinese characters, or national standard Chinese characters for short!"
To be a time traveler, one must naturally be one with an international perspective. Not only does he want to promote simplified...standard Chinese characters in Seris, he also plans to make at least all countries in the Greater China cultural circle use standard Chinese characters.
Even if Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau cannot be recovered for the time being, we must not allow future generations to experience a situation where their languages and scripts are different. Tolerating this situation would be like going against the First Emperor.
The two Han or three Han should stop using Hangul. In fact, this is also for the sake of the Korean people... well, the people. Later, the Korean people could not even read the Chinese history books written by their ancestors, but they became a superpower in the universe. This is too embarrassing.
Don't use the word Nom to refer to Vietnam or North and South Vietnam. They are Chinese dialects. Why use Latin Nom? Nonsense. If the two Koreas were to become the Three Koreas, then one Vietnam would naturally become two Vietnams.
Japan... that's too difficult, so let's put it aside for now. However, in the original timeline, Japan had a group of talented students who were descendants of the Heavenly Demon. They actually wanted to turn Japan into a province of China. So, in this timeline, there might not be a group of talented students of Mr. Hongjian.
Of course, there are also the Southeast Asian Chinese countries that he longed to establish.
Anyway, our Master Yuan will do his best to create an international standard Chinese character circle!
