Dressed as a peasant mother-in-law, I support my family by opening a shop

Chapter 142 Lessons

"I'm just a wandering idler, I've read some books, and I usually know a few words.

Before I give you a lecture, let me tell you a story.

Everyone knows a man named Cang Jie. "

Everyone was stunned when they heard about this person. They had never heard of who this person was.

"Who is this man, have you heard of it?"

"No! Who is this man named Cang Jie?"

"never heard of that."

Looking at the bewildered people below, Master He was not angry and continued talking.

"Cangjie is a character in ancient legends. He was an official under the Yellow Emperor. The Yellow Emperor asked him to manage things like livestock and food. But at that time, writing was not popular in ancient times, and there was no way to record it. It was quite troublesome to manage. What should we do to record these things at this time? Please think about it.”

The people at the bottom lowered their heads and began to think. After thinking for a long time, they couldn't come up with it, and their faces were still flushed.

Finally someone said: "You can count! Wouldn't it be all right?"

The woman next to him pushed him and said, "Didn't you just hear the master say that writing was not popular at that time, so what to count, how to count."

That man thought of what Mr. He said just now, lowered his head and said, "Yes! Then what should we do?"

Mrs. He laughed a few times and said: "This little lady is right. Writing is not popular and cannot be recorded. But Erlang next to you thinks actively and bravely puts forward his own opinions. This is a commendable thing for learning." thing."

The man laughed like a fool when he heard his master praise him.

The little lady boldly introduced to the master: "Master, this is my man named Ning Zhuzi. The day he was born happened to be full of bamboo, so he was named that."

Ning Zhuzi blushed and felt embarrassed when his daughter-in-law said his name.

"Haha, good. Bamboo is good. Bamboo has the quality of being tenacious rather than bent."

Hearing his master's praise, Ning Zhuzi rubbed his head and laughed.

"Okay, let's continue the story of Cangjie. After thinking day and night, Cangjie finally came up with a counting method like tying knots. One knot is tied for one animal, five knots are tied for five animals, and five knots are tied for one thousand animals. Just tie a thousand knots."

When everyone heard that a thousand animals had to be tied with a thousand knots, they looked incredulous, how long would it take to tie it!
"It's not that Cangjie is too careful! If there is one knot for each animal, then if there are too many animals, I will keep knotting. How long will it take?"

"That's right, and there are so many animals, how does he know which animal the knot he tied represents? Shouldn't there be divisions? This is not a good idea."

He Fuzi continued to speak vividly: "This brother is right, Cangjie also thought of this, so he started to have a headache again, what should we do?

So one day when he was on his way home, he saw three people arguing in front of him, and Cangjie went over to ask them why they were arguing.

The three men told Cangjie that they were hunters, and they were talking about the prey on the three roads. The hunter on the left said that there were deer on the left road, the hunter in the middle said that there were tigers on the middle road, and the hunter on the right said that there were wild boars on the right road.

After hearing what these three people said, Cangjie was very curious, why did they know the prey on each road?
After asking the hunters, they found out that they judged the prey according to the footprints of animals on each road. Cangjie was inspired by this, so he drew some things to represent things.

Sheep is a drawing method, cow is a drawing method, the sun, the moon, mountains, seas, trees, sky, earth, etc. all have their drawing methods. These symbols are popularized in various tribes, and everyone starts to use these symbols , which is the origin of the first generation of characters.

Slowly, later generations began to evolve oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal script, official script, and regular script based on these characters. "

When the villagers heard the stories about Cang Jie, they felt that he was a very powerful man. It turned out that he invented the characters that the scholars could read.

"Then today I will teach you a word mouth, which is the mouth we speak."

He Fuzi took out a pen and paper from his bookcase, and wrote the pictographic character "口" on the paper.

He Fuzi picked up the piece of paper and held it to the side of his face.

"Look at this symbol, isn't it very similar to my mouth?"

The villagers all squeezed their heads to go to the front to watch the excitement, and moved forward with all their strength.

"It's a bit like it! You say it is."

"Well, it's kind of like it."

"You said that it really looks like that mouth, but why are there two small claws on this mouth!"

"Yeah, what is this little guy!"

"Hey, don't speculate. Can you still be more knowledgeable than the master? Just wait for the master to tell you."

After the villagers had read it carefully, He Fuzi put down the paper and said, "This mouth character is a pictographic character. Its oracle bone inscriptions resemble an upward mouth shape, and the upper part has the meaning of coming out, so it is mostly used to refer to pronunciation.

Later, due to the needs of writing and the use of spoken characters, it evolved into the spoken characters we are learning now. "

He Fuzi wrote the word "mouth" on the paper again.

"Look, this character is the oral character we are learning now."

He Fuzi also explained the evolution and writing of the word "kou" from oracle bone inscriptions to regular script. The language is easy to understand and suitable for all ages.

"Now everyone read the mouth with me."

The villagers didn't know what was wrong, and followed Dr. He to read "mouth, mouth, mouth" as if they were possessed by an evil spirit.

When everyone finished reading, Master He put away the paper and said, "Then please use your hands to draw the characters we just learned."

The villagers all started gesturing with their hands the characters they had just learned, and they were startled when they didn't know how to gesticulate.

"Oh! I can read, oh my mother, I can write."

"Auntie Da Niu, not only you, but I also know how to read and write this character."

"Oh, my mother, I didn't expect that an old man like me would be able to read and write one day! Oh, that's great."

"Yes! Yes! I can also read."

"Grandma, I can also read."

"Me too."

The little radishheads in the village have been listening to He Fuzi's stories all the time, and they are fascinated by them, and they are also good at gesticulating. Now almost everyone knows the word.

Seeing the happy faces of the villagers, Master He took out the paper again and asked, "Everyone, what word is this?"

The villagers looked at the words on the paper and said in unison: "Mouth."

"Well, since everyone knows how to read, we should not only recognize this word, but also know its meaning. Let's think about what other meanings this word has in our lives?"

The big guys all started to hold their heads and think hard.

The first one is Ning Zhuzi's words: "Mouth means mouth."

The villagers were not convinced when they heard what he said: "Who doesn't know what this means! You just snatched it away."

Ning Zhuzi's daughter-in-law Zhu Xiang'er said proudly: "Whoever made you slow down, you can think about other things."

After speaking, she turned her head and acted like a baby to Ning Zhuzi: "Master, you are really amazing."

(End of this chapter)