1977: It all started with a wrong love

Chapter 101 Chinese characters, the most beautiful in the world

Liu Chuanzi frowned. This was not the topic he wanted to lead to!

The dialectical relationship between high-tech development and mother tongue advantage.

Why did he deliberately bring out such a point of view today?

The concept we are trying to achieve is nothing more than to build up a wide network of personal connections and find like-minded people among college students. Only when everyone's three perspectives and cognitions are similar will there be opportunities to expand cooperation in the future.

With Liu Chuanzi's current status and position, he naturally cannot accurately and timely grasp the changes in high-level policies, let alone know, as Lu Yifan did, that the conference at the end of 78 would officially set the tone for the development of economic reform and innovation...

But Liu Chuanzi is undoubtedly a super smart person.

In his own circle.

For example, some business dealings between the Institute of Computing Technology and Hong Kong.

Because of his "overseas connections", he was not well-liked by his superiors in the past and almost failed to finish college because of this.

But in recent times, he, who has overseas connections, has suddenly become popular.

Anyway, there is only one principle: as long as we can earn foreign exchange resources for the country, everything can be handled flexibly.

In the past, it was a very bad family relationship.

Now, with the new leadership team taking office, these aspects are becoming advantages.

and so.

Liu Chuanzi could vaguely sense that the country was relaxing its policies.

At the same time, the dispute between "technology, industry and trade" or "trade, industry and technology" has not yet been officially listed as a competing route within the Institute of Computing Technology.

Even Liu Chuanzi himself might not have known that five or six years later, he would become the winner of this route competition, using the 20 yuan allocated by the state and the technical resources accumulated by the entire Institute of Computing Technology over the years to establish Lianxiang, and then step by step grow into a godfather-level boss in the East China University of Technology circle, a world-class shopping mall...

Anyway, enjoying the country's most abundant resources to engage in "trade, industry and technology" was originally intended to drive the innovative development of the country's high-tech field.

As a result, only the Lianxiang family got rich.

With only "trade and industry" but no "technology", the country took a huge detour in the field of computer semiconductors and completely gave up the competition for the mainstream computer semiconductor market in the 1980s and 1990s.

"Student Lu, you have ideas and responsibilities, which is indeed a good thing!"

Liu Chuanzi was very upset that Lu Yifan kept sabotaging him, so he decided to use some ruthless tactics.
"Our country has a Super Spark Project. I believe you have all heard about it, right? In order to improve the efficiency of computer interactive input of Chinese characters, our National Institute of Computing Technology has established a project since the 1960s to tackle the problem. During this period, it can be said that computer product design experts from all over the country have been gathered, including me, Liu Chuanzi, who was once a member of the project. However, scientific and technological innovation has never relied on so-called determination and beautiful ideals, but only on solid technical theories..."

"Student Lu, you are indeed a genius, but in the field of computer products, the little knowledge you have is really not enough to help you solve the problem of Chinese character input efficiency!"

"Student Lu, good advice is hard to hear. I don't mean to discourage your scientific research and innovative spirit."

"But when it comes to high-tech innovation and research and development, the advantage of a native language will always be an insurmountable chasm!"

Lu Yifan burst into laughter.
"Liu Gong, you repeatedly emphasize the so-called advantage of the mother tongue, which is nothing more than an attempt to deny the existence value of Chinese characters in the field of high-tech innovation and development. This is just like the absurd and ridiculous arguments made by many educated people in the Republic of China in order to save the country, such as "If you want to save the country, you must first eliminate Chinese characters" and "If Chinese characters are not eliminated, China will perish." Isn't it the same old saying?"

"The facts prove that Chinese characters have not been destroyed, and China has not been destroyed."

"What does this show? This shows that when you encounter difficulties, you are the first to deny yourself and doubt the superiority of your own culture and civilization. In fact, you have the same diode thinking as those who worship foreign things and fawn on foreigners!"

"Don't deny it, Liu Gong, deep down you believe that our country will never be able to catch up with the Western European and American world in the field of high-tech innovation and development. Deep down you believe that the current Western European and American civilization is the ultimate direction of human civilization..."

Liu Chuanzi's face changed drastically. "I didn't, you're talking nonsense. Student Lu, please don't accuse me of anything. When did I ever express my tendency to worship foreigners?"

The students at the scene were also talking loudly.

Of course, apart from Senior Sister Hua and Lao Zhang, most of the other students were inclined to Liu Chuanzi, thinking that Lu Yifan was just making false accusations. After all, what Liu Chuanzi said was true.

The argument for the innovation and development of high-tech and the advantage of mother tongue.

That is indeed the reality that cannot be avoided.

Furthermore, it is an indisputable fact that advanced high-tech products such as computers are difficult to integrate with the Chinese character system.

But there are also a small number of students.

I heard Lu Yifan mention the theory of the demise of Chinese characters during the Republic of China era.

Thinking back on the past, I can't help but feel even more confused.

"Okay, okay, even if I misunderstood what you meant, Mr. Liu, you have repeatedly emphasized the development of science and technology and the advantages of the mother tongue. You have only overemphasized the simplicity and directness of English, as well as the timeliness of information input in computer human-computer interaction. But have you ever thought about one thing: is simplicity good? Especially for the written language that carries the cornerstone of human civilization development, is it true that the simpler the text, the more it can represent the future trend of human civilization development?"

Lu Yifan continued to output.

"Western documents show that in 1900, the English vocabulary was less than words. But today, guess how many words have expanded to?"

"69!"

"In just less than 80 years, the English vocabulary has more than tripled!"

"Especially when it comes to some very specialized scientific and technological fields, new English words are born almost every day, and English is expanding explosively every year. The more academic and professional the field is, the more new professional and academic English words will be generated due to scientific and technological innovation, technological iteration, and product updates..."

"And these highly professional and academic English words..."

"Guess what, for a native English-speaking student who has no professional training, does he have the so-called innate native language advantage compared to us?"

"Let me tell you another joke. There is already a huge gap between the current English-speaking population and the literary masterpieces written a hundred years ago."

“And this, is it the so-called native language advantage?”

"On the contrary, if we read the articles written by ancient people thousands of years ago, I believe that as long as one has a normal brain and normal intelligence, he or she would not think that it is such a difficult task, right?"

“So, stop talking about the inherent advantages of native English speakers in technological development and innovation!”

"They accept such statements without any self-discrimination. This shows that they are used to kneeling and have super rickets. No matter what is happening in the world, as long as it is about Western Europe and America, they will subconsciously think that it is advanced, excellent, and worth learning from, or even the ultimate direction of human civilization in the future..."

"How cheap!~~"

"Chinese characters are both phonetic and pictographic, with a dual-system structure of phonetic and semantic representation. They can be said to be the most valuable treasure left to us by our ancestors. They carry the immortal soul of the 5,000-year history of Chinese civilization!"

“Chinese characters are the most beautiful in the world.”

"Just a problem about the efficiency of Chinese character input on computers has made some of you believe in the so-called theory of the advantage of mother tongue in the development of science and technology. How stupid!"

"I, Lu Yifan, would like to set a flag in public!"

"Within a month, I will completely solve the problem of Chinese character input efficiency on computers, so that Chinese characters can be on the same starting line as English in the most basic application level of computer human-computer information interaction..."

"Liu Gong, how about we just make a bet?"

"If I perfectly solve the problem of Chinese character input efficiency in a month, how about you completely quit any computer-related work from now on?"

"Let's be honest, when it comes to high-tech innovation, the people we fear most are those with congenital rickets..."

"I feel that you, Mr. Liu, are not really suitable for this industry, especially since you are acting as a quasi-mentor at the Yanqing Second School Science Debate Conference..."

(End of this chapter)