The days when I fished in Daming

Chapter 90 Dictionary (Water)
What Zheng Xiong did was to pick out a thousand frequently used characters and simplify them, add pinyin and add radicals.

No matter how many there are, I haven’t seen them, I don’t know them after I’ve seen them, and I can’t find them in my mind.

Zheng Xiong, who was writing quickly, completely ignored the changes in the outside world and was immersed in his own world.

There was a stack of financial bills from the pharmacy, from July [-]th to August [-]th, a whole month.Compare and write simplified characters from traditional characters, and then start drafting, phonetic.Give an explanation according to your own understanding, mark the writing method of traditional characters, and then write the radicals, and finally disassemble the whole thing, and compare and sort the radicals according to the pinyin.

After simple sorting, I found about [-] commonly used traditional characters from the printing factory, and began to make phonetic notation and add my own interpretation according to my own understanding.

It has to be said that no matter whether the original person has learned it or not, the soul of modern people seems to have a natural affinity for traditional characters, and even guessed most of the traditional characters found from the printing factory.

Some of them remain unchanged, so they are replaced by traditional characters. The interpretation of simplified characters is somewhat unclear after all. Adding traditional characters instead of phonetic notation can make the meaning of the characters more clear.

And inadvertently, Zheng Xiong also adopted the habit of later generations, writing from left to right, and used punctuation marks commonly used by later generations.

Even if the label is wrong, so what, from today on, I am the standard, wrong is right.

Zheng Xiong also has no plans to pretend to be someone else. After all, there is a generation gap between the two eras. Not only will they not be able to help, but they will even make them more busy.

All in all, after nearly a month, the first edition was officially released in the style of a modern dictionary, although a lot of paper was used, the font was large, and there were still problems of one kind or another.

But these problems are minor problems. Compared with the Xinhua Dictionary, which was produced in 50 years, it has been revised for several years or even decades. Up to the current version 12.0, Zheng Xiong’s dictionary has stepped on the shoulders of giants, and has avoided many detours. It is very close to the Xinhua Dictionary that I used when I was a child.

According to research by scholars, there are about 5000 Chinese characters in oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions, and about 3000 of them have known meanings.

The earliest dictionary in my country, "Shuowen Jiezi", contains 9353 Chinese characters.

The "Lei Bian" of the Northern Song Dynasty included 33190 Chinese characters, while the "Kangxi Dictionary" of the Qing Dynasty included 46933 characters, making it the dictionary with the largest number of Chinese characters in ancient times.

Don't be surprised by the number. The "List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese" only has 3500 Chinese characters, but according to the report on the living conditions of the Chinese language, 2394 commonly used Chinese characters account for 99% of the language space.

China has a history of 5000 years, and the history of Chinese characters is too long, so it is difficult to say how many Chinese characters there are.

Holding the finished dictionary, Zheng Xiong let out a long sigh of relief, took a thick stack of manuscripts to the printing factory, and handed them over to Wang Zheng.

Compared to the palm-sized Xinhua Dictionary, Zheng Xiong's dictionary is bloated. Of course, the dictionary printed by the printing factory can be expected to not be much smaller than Zheng Xiong's dictionary.

"Tiling, the one-by-one symbols and the writing from left to right, I'm not used to it, do I have to do it this way?"

"Just take pictures of cats and tigers, print a hundred or so copies, and don't worry about the rest."

Zheng Xiong, who finished the retreat, has not started to rest yet, and the marriage of the eldest brother Zheng Hu has also reached the stage of the final wedding ceremony, so Zheng Xiong continues to be busy without taking care of rest.

As the person with the highest status in his family, it is indispensable to welcome and send off. Although the status of the guests is not high, most of them are acquaintances of his father, and they dare not trust Zheng Xiong, and salute in a proper manner.As a junior, Zheng Xiong didn't have any so-called physical problems, he was busy with his elder brother's marriage.

On August [-]th, Zheng Hu and Qian Shi, who was wearing a phoenix crown and Xiapei, were officially married. The classic kneeling worship that has been popular since the Song Dynasty reappeared. After the kneeling worship was over, the couple was sent to the bridal chamber.

"All women in the world, no matter how rich or poor they are, can wear Fengguanxiapei when they marry."

Empress Ma gave women all over the world a piece of legal protection, but whether they had money to wear or not was a matter for their own family. Therefore, in ancient times, even poor families would accumulate a set of dowry and phoenix coronets for their daughters when they married their daughters, and then carried the sedan chair to the man's home.This phoenix crown is not as exquisite as the nine dragons and four phoenix crowns used by the queen, but a series of changes have taken place. For example, the dragon and phoenix are not used between the royal family and the minister's wives, but the Guan sparrow is used instead of the phoenix.

This is especially true among folk women. It can be made in the form of dragon and phoenix crowns, and it does not have to be truly nine dragons and four phoenixes, but all these are still called phoenix crowns and Xiapei.The etiquette system of nine dragons and four phoenix crowns was the rule of Zhu Yuanzhang's era. In fact, the Ming Dynasty had already surpassed this range. During Zhu Di's time, nine dragons and nine phoenixes and twelve dragons and nine phoenixes appeared.

At the time of Emperor Wanli, some people wore bright yellow clothes that only emperors could wear to flaunt themselves in the market. Some people reported that they violated the etiquette system, but at this time, Emperor Wanli just smiled and said nothing. He asked: Has he paid taxes?

Zheng Hu drank some wine with the guests, and after the banquet was over, he also entered the bridal chamber.

Zheng Xiong also didn't have the habit of listening to the wall. A bachelor would listen to the wall to make fun of him. If he didn't do it, the bed sheets would get wet.

After seeing off the guests and ignoring other aftermath tasks, Zheng Xiong went back to his room, closed his eyes, and slept until dawn.

In the early morning, the excited Zheng Hu and the ruddy Zheng Qian served tea to their parents. The whole family was present, except Zheng Xiong.Zheng Qian was a little curious, but didn't say much.

It was a long day, and Zheng Xiong, who had replenished his energy, had lunch with his family and continued to sleep. He had already asked for leave, and Zheng Yiyan was quite easy to talk to.

The dictionary printing work was temporarily suspended for two days due to the problem of punctuation marks, and then started again after outsourcing the movable type for punctuation marks. After a few days, the dictionary made by Zheng Xiong was formally bound into a book.

Looking at the thick and large dictionary, Zheng Xiong did not show any surprise. As expected, after simply searching a few words, Zheng Xiong showed a satisfied look.

It is similar to the dictionaries of the later generations, the rest is not in a hurry, just add slowly, version 2.0, version 3.0 can add words slowly, plus some popular words and phrases, Internet buzzwords and so on.

Chinese characters are not static, and will evolve to a certain extent along with life.

"Aboci's Hungry Brother~~"

Teaching literacy is Zheng Xiong's normal routine these days. Not only the doctors in the pharmacy, but also some brighter schoolchildren are also asked to pick out and learn together.

Zheng Xiong, who did it himself, had enough food and clothing, and didn't know where his opponent was, started a counterattack in his own way.

If you live well and have achieved results, no matter what the purpose of the unknown enemy is, you should continue to attack. After you notice the clues, you can consider the follow-up. It is impossible to raise your hands and surrender.

(End of this chapter)