Chapter 282 Masterpiece
"Quick forward, fast forward..." Gu Zhenduo smiled and said: "Father, there is Xue Li, and there is someone you can't think of!"
Wait until a few people entered. In the room, Master Gu Youwen also came out of his room: "Hey, Zhengping! Where is Eryi? Why didn't she come? Is she okay?"
The godfather quickly bowed to Gu Youwen again: "Hello, Master, she is very busy during the Spring Festival and cannot leave Jiachuan. She is still shouldering my workload these days."
"Master "My godmother is now the executive deputy county magistrate in charge of cultural and educational affairs in Jiachuan. She really cannot leave. I will prove it for her."
"Everyone, sit down." Gu Youwen was very happy: "Xue Li went to kill a few grapefruits. Is my Sichuan dialect correct?"
"I'll do it anyway." Zhou Zhi said to Gu Youwen is already immune to this kind of unceremoniousness What’s more, this family doesn’t have the habit of preparing New Year’s goods to entertain guests: “It’s not wrong, but people in Jiachuan don’t use the expression ‘killing grapefruit’ now, and they use the flat-tone word ‘open’ instead.”< br>
“Well, the manuscripts are all Has it been revised?"
"It has been revised." Zhou Zhi took out a stack of manuscripts from the backpack carried by Jiang Shuyi: "The second edition of "Jiachuan Dialect Exegesis" has been reviewed by my godfather. , Master, Grandpa, please correct me. "
"What's the point?" Gu Youwen chuckled and motioned for Gu Zhenduo to take the manuscript: "Junsheng, since Zhengping has read it, just wait for Zuye to come back later and give it to him."
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Junsheng is the cousin of Gu Zhenduo, and Zuye is the cousin of Gu Kailai. The family basically adheres to the tradition of old scholars.
"So... hasty?" Zhou Zhi asked in confusion while handing the manuscript to his master.
“Otherwise, how do you think your godfather’s cousin name came about?” Gu Zhenduo said with a smile, reaching out to take the manuscript.
"Oh..." Zhou Zhi understood: "Actually, Zhengping and Lingjun are two contradictory attributes. Is it not easy for a godfather to combine them into one?"
"That elbow is overthinking. As the old saying goes, there is only a wrong nickname, but not a wrong nickname." Gu Youwen laughed.
"Master, it's certainly my fault for not visiting you for so many years, but it doesn't matter if I look old when you criticize me in front of the juniors. Don't make the juniors domineering..."
"Hahaha you..." Gu Youwen laughed. Finally, he sighed again: "I shouldn't have let you go back then..."
"You guys chat with me first and then go bring up the New Year's goods." Zhou Zhi said.
"Don't be busy with New Year's goods." Gu Youwen said: "Junsheng, go and take out the pieces of smoke strips."
"Isn't this necessary? This is a big festival..." Gu Zhenduo Some hesitation.
"Fists never leave the mouth, music never leaves the hands." Gu Youwen's tone was still so natural: "Learning is not a matter of solar terms?"
"Master Zuzu, what is a piece of smoke?" Zhou Zhi was curious.
“Elbow!” The godfather’s expression suddenly became serious, and he gently shook his head to signal him to stop talking.
Gu Zhenduo sighed, turned around and entered Gu Youwen's study. After a while, he took out a bamboo strip.
The bamboo strips are shiny and have a dark brown background, which shows their age at first glance.
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, in "Shuowen Jiezi", how many times have you marked the sentences to read?"
"Father..." Gu Zhenduo was shocked: "How..."
“Don’t talk.” The smile on Gu Youwen’s face did not diminish: “Good boy, if you have one last chance, just tell the truth.”
The entire small hall was silent, except for Gu Zhenduo and his godfather Knowing what Gu Youwen meant, everyone else was confused.
However, although Gu Youwen was helpless and his tone was soft and kind, no one dared to speak out loud.
Zhou Zhi took a deep breath: "Returning to the words of Master, it's the fifth time." "I can prove it to Zhou Zhi." A crispy girl followed up: "It's the fifth time, the first time I used three Then it became faster and faster, and now it only takes a week to complete the marking."
"Seven days!" Gu Zhenduo was shocked.
Shuowen Jiezi, or "Shuowen" for short, is a Chinese language reference book compiled by Xu Shen, a classical scholar and philologist of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is the earliest Chinese language work that systematically analyzes the glyphs of Chinese characters and studies the origins of Chinese characters. The dictionary is also one of the earliest dictionaries in the world.
When this book was compiled, it was the first time to give a specific explanation of the "Six Books",
The so-called six books refer to the knotting method of Chinese characters.
Xu Shen's explanation is: "Zhou Li entered primary school at the age of eight, and Bao Shi taught Guozi, first with the Six Books.
One is to refer to things, and those who refer to things can be recognized and observed by sight. And seeing righteousness means up and down;
The second is pictographic, pictographic, the object is drawn according to the body, such as the sun and the moon;
The third is pictographic, the pictographic is named after the thing, and the analogy is used to complement each other, such as rivers. Yes;
The fourth is to understand the meaning, and those who understand are to compare the analogy with each other, so as to see the falsification, and Wu Xin is also;
The fifth is to transfer the annotation, the person who transfers the annotation, build a similar poem, agree to accept each other, and test the old truth;
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The sixth one is borrowing under false pretenses. Those who borrow under false pretenses do not have their own words at all. They rely on the voice to entrust things, and the commander-in-chief is so. ”
This is a very insightful conclusion, and it has not been changed for thousands of years. Even when it comes to recreating and simplifying Chinese characters, the "Six Books" principle is still followed.
There is With the "six books" rule, Xu Shen can set "radicals"
This book is the first to create radicals for Chinese characters, which complies with the requirements of the times for unifying and standardizing Chinese characters. It is based on the principle of "similar things are grouped together, things are divided into groups, they are related to each other, they share the same rationale, they are mixed but not transcendent, and they are connected according to their shapes" , taking the shape of the font as the key link, and establishing training based on the shape. , using the same shapes and radicals in Chinese characters as the basis for classification, it is divided into 540 radicals, with 9353 characters, and "Chongwen", that is, 1163 variant characters. , a total of 10,516 words.
The book contains a total of fifteen volumes, of which the first fourteen volumes are text explanations, with the prefixes written in small seal script.
The classics and ancient books cited are not only limited to "Poetry", "Book", "Li", "Yi" and "Spring and Autumn", but also "Laozi", "Mozi", "Han Feizi", "Guoyu", "Yi Zhou Shu" "Chu Ci", "Historical Pian", "Shan Hai Jing", "Sima Fa", "Tai Yi Jing", etc., involving knowledge of different subjects such as heaven and earth, ghosts and gods, mountains and rivers, vegetation, birds and beasts, insects, sundries, strange things, kingship, etiquette and so on. Explain the source of the font word by word;
At that time, it was true that only Xu Shen had this ability.
"The Book of the Later Han Dynasty·The Scholars·The Biography of Xu Shen": "Ma Rong often praised and respected Shao Er for his erudite classics. People at the time said: 'The Five Classics are unparalleled by Xu Shuzhong.'"
Xu Shen lived in an era where the struggle between the two major schools of modern and classical literature was intense.
Jinwen refers to the official script, and ancient script refers to the ancient texts of the Six Kingdoms of Pre-Qin.
Due to the different recorded texts, ancient classics were divided into modern classics and ancient classics at that time.
This was originally just a difference in fonts, but the researchers formed different academic factions.
The Jinwen Jing School believes that the scriptures are the words of saints, and every word and sentence contains "little words and great meanings" that can be applied in the world. They often quote them out of context and make arbitrary extensions and comparisons.
The Ancient Classics School believes that the meaning of scriptures should be interpreted objectively based on the meaning of the words, and the study of language and characters should be valued to establish its lofty status in the study of classics.
Xu Shen was a scholar of ancient classics, at a time when the modern classics school was gradually declining and the ancient classics school was gradually flourishing.
He could not tolerate the distortion of words in order to apply them to the world, so he lashed out at those vulgar Confucians who "played with what they were accustomed to and concealed what they hoped to hear", as well as those who "competed with each other to explain the scriptures and made noisy claims." The official script of Qin is the "mean man" of Cangjie Shishu.
He believes that writing is "the foundation of classics and art and the beginning of royal government". Misinterpreting writing will inevitably tamper with "classical art" and is not conducive to "royal government".
In order to refute the claim that modern classics scholars have tampered with the meaning of the classics and unify academic thinking, I determined to write this magnificent masterpiece.
(End of this chapter)