primitive survival evolution

Chapter 228 Teaching
The autumn wind blows and the woods turn yellow.

The wind blows past, and the yellow leaves wash down.

Fallen leaves floated in the yard, and were soon trampled into the mud by passing potters.

An earthen slope arched on a flat ground, and the doorway is pitch black. This is a semi-underground kiln, which is filled with burnt pottery.

A group of workers used iron hoes to pry open the kiln door, and one worker got in. It didn't take long before he moved out pieces of pottery panels the size of a quarter of a square meter.

Li Yan took these pottery plates and inspected them one by one.

These pottery boards are about the size of a school desk, gray-black in color and rough on the surface. Li Yan took a piece of soft white mudstone and scratched on it a few times. A few Chinese characters were clearly printed on these pottery boards. Li Yan smiled with satisfaction. up.

None of the ten pottery boards were burnt out, so Li Yan ordered the potters to move these pottery boards up.

Afterwards, he led the potters out of the ceramic factory, along a flat dirt road, out of the woods, and returned to the Jiangcheng side again.

At this time, a school with a size of several hundred square meters was built on the side of Jiangcheng. In fact, it was a circle of walls about two meters high. Inside were straw sheds. Above the main entrance, there was a plaque. , engraved with six eye-catching Chinese characters of "Jiangcheng No. [-] Primary School".

Li Yan and others walked into this school. The school is very empty. So far, there are only two large classrooms and a house for the guards at the entrance.

The classrooms are very simple, with a thatched roof and separated by a brick wall, which is covered with a layer of dark pot ash as a blackboard.

Now, this elementary school has not yet opened, and there are ten girls about 14 years old in this classroom.

These women are very young, they are the daughters of the white witches of various clans. They have received the inheritance of the white witches of various clans before, and have a certain level of writing skills.

Therefore, these women became the first batch of teachers for Li Yan to set up education. As long as Li Yan taught them knowledge, and then passed them to the children of the tribe, everything would be more effective.

Li Yan ordered someone to put the slate on the wooden desk in the classroom.

The ten teachers looked at the stone slabs in front of them. Next to each slate were three small yellow stones and a piece of animal skin. The small stones could write on the slate, and the animal skin could wipe the slate clean.

In fact, Li Yan thought of many tools and methods to write to the tribal people.

Writing is a prerequisite for learning, especially literacy, and without tools to practice, it is impossible for them to learn to write.

Li Yan rested for a while, then wrote a few letters on the blackboard on the stone wall.

"a, o, e, i, u"

This is pinyin. You cannot learn characters without pinyin. Pinyin is the standard for determining the pronunciation of characters.

Chinese characters are ideographic characters, and characters mean meaning, but people from different places read them differently. Now, the place where Li Yan lives also uses pictographs, which are also ideographic characters, and the word order of people's communication language is similar to Chinese.

The corresponding pronunciation of Chinese characters is Mandarin, but in this world, only Li Yan can speak Mandarin.

It would be a huge project to force the tribe to teach Mandarin, and it might cause a language barrier between the Jiang tribe and the original tribes in this area in the future.

Therefore, Li Yan intends to preserve the existing language and promote written Chinese characters.

The pronunciation is always changing, but the meaning of the Chinese characters is basically the same. This is the superiority of Chinese characters!
In order to allow the tribe to learn Chinese characters, know the meaning and pronunciation of Chinese characters, Li Yan compiled a new pinyin alphabet in the existing language.

In this way, the current language can be preserved, and Chinese characters can be integrated into the tribe. The people who learn it will not feel strenuous, especially when they usually communicate in their own language and use Chinese characters when writing. You have to change everyone's language habits. In this day and age, this is as difficult as heaven.

Li Yan arranged thirty pinyin letters and taught them to the ten women present.

After teaching for three days, the ten girls finally recognized the thirty letters.

On the fourth day.

Li Yan wrote on the blackboard: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, these ten Chinese characters.

Then he marked the pinyin on the top of the ten Chinese characters.

Mathematics is the most widely used in daily life, Li Yan intends to start with these Chinese characters.

The ten teachers followed Li Yan to read and wrote on their ceramic boards, all of them very seriously.

"Patriarch, this one, two, three, is the same as our bone inscription, but the latter is different." A woman suddenly asked.

This Li Yan also understands that the number four in hieroglyphs is four horizontal lines, and so on.

"Our bone inscriptions have too many strokes. From now on, the characters after the four characters will be written by me. Do you understand?" Li Yan replied, "It looks simple like this."

"Yes, yes."

The woman who asked the question kept nodding, and she also asked the woman next to her, who also nodded in agreement. Everyone felt that Li Yan's writing was more convenient and quicker.

After teaching ten Chinese characters, Li Yan wrote Arabic numerals under these Chinese characters: 1, 2, 3, etc., Li Yan also taught them mathematics, and Arabic numerals are the foundation of mathematics.

In fact, Arabic numerals are more suitable for ordinary calculations, which is stronger than pure Chinese characters. Arabic numerals are simple, have fewer strokes, and are easy to see, which can improve the calculation speed. For example, 1+1 can be quickly calculated with Arabic numerals. Write it out, but with Chinese characters it is one plus one, too many strokes, and the speed of calculation will slow down.

Of course, when recording large numbers, the value of Chinese characters is also reflected. For example, ten thousand or one hundred thousand, if Arabic numerals are used, it is 10000 or 100000, and it is difficult to count by just counting 0, which is easy to be confused.

Therefore, Li Yan planned to promote Chinese characters and Arabic numerals at the same time, how convenient and quick, how come.

Before, people in the tribe have learned basic addition and subtraction, but their calculation is a bit troublesome, but it is also a decimal system, maybe the human hand has ten fingers, so people use the decimal system invariably, if they use a rope to calculate, A big knot is tied every ten. If you use strokes to calculate, you will draw ten horizontal and vertical lines on the ground to represent ten, and then keep drawing to count.

Now, Li Yan wrote the calculation process on the blackboard with Arabic numerals.

At first, it was addition and subtraction within five, and the numbers obtained were up to two digits.

These women understand, and if they don't, they will count their fingers.

Then, Li Yan taught them how to add numbers above five.

At first, they didn't understand, but then they started to understand.

After that, Li Yan taught them the calculations of more than ten, and wrote the vertical formula, and taught them to add ones, and add one if it exceeds ten.

Although it took a lot of time, they finally learned to add and subtract.

By analogy, some smart people can also calculate more than one hundred vertical calculations. In fact, these people's brain capacity and IQ are undoubtedly comparable to those of modern people. As long as they are taught the appropriate calculation methods, they can also learn.

Li Yan felt that it was like teaching a group of first-year students to learn Chinese and elementary mathematics.

(End of this chapter)