Chapter 41: Eight-stroke Officials' Books (Part 2)(1/2)
The waiter stood by and watched Mo Zi draw horizontal and vertical strokes on the ground.
The text at this time was a bit distorted, and the horizontal and vertical lines were not beautiful. Even though Mozi's hands worked hard all year round, they were still a little tired when writing.
After finishing drawing a stroke, he turned around and asked, "How many kinds are there in total?"
He handed the wooden stick to Shi, and Shi lowered his head and finished the other few strokes, and replied: "Sir, there are eight strokes in total. Mr. Tang Han called them dots, horizontal, vertical, strokes, strokes, lifts, folds, and hooks."
As he said that, he wrote these eight strokes on the ground and finally turned into the word "Yong".
One word and eight strokes are all in one stroke.
Chinese characters are two-dimensional characters, and these eight strokes are the letters of Chinese characters.
However, these eight strokes of "letters" are not arranged in a straight line in one dimension, but are formed in two-dimensional characters in a square, and the pronunciation is determined by the roots formed by these strokes.
The words written at this time originated from the Qin character and were eventually evolved in the Han and Jin dynasties, and were the products of the wisdom of the Xia Dynasty for thousands of years.
When it comes to maturity, it is definitely more mature than the various seal characters and bronze inscriptions today. It is more convenient to write and easier to learn.
It is said that it was changed by one person, borrowing the most glorious name of the Han and Tang Dynasties.
But it is still shocking to be alone.
Mo Zi followed Shi's hand and wrote the eight strokes again, nodding, "Yes, it's eight strokes. Eight strokes can write ten thousand words. How many years have you used to learn so many words?"
Shi did not answer positively, but said: "Sir, I have been in the village for half a year. The smartest child has known him for 150 words and can write sixty or seventy words."
"amazing!"
Mozi praised him loudly and was not stingy.
In half a year, a smart child can actually recognize a hundred words, which is rare. It can also prove that this thing is indeed easier to learn than the words he is familiar with.
Many of the ink people have low cultural level, and it is extremely difficult to learn the characters on bamboo slips. Some people have learned for several years but still recognize more than a hundred words, and they still write incorrectly, more or less.
There is already ink at this time, but you still use dip marks to write.
Of course, the brush was not made by Meng Tian in the legend, but the earliest cultural relics unearthed also had to be in the ancient tombs in the middle and late Warring States Period. At this time, it was still two or three years before the three families divided the Jin Dynasty and the Warring States Period. The mainstream writing was still dipped.
I used to make several small brushes for rabbit hair before, which were used to teach people to write on stone slabs.
At this time, let Mo Zi wait, and went to the village room to take out the two simple shoddy brushes made of wood and rabbit fur, and took out the small flat stone slabs washed in the river to teach children to write.
After handing the stone slab and brush to Mozi, he explained it a little.
Mo Zi thought to himself: "The poem once said that you are going to prepare for the future. This is such a person. I have not seen the silk of plants and trees yet, and he has not made it. But isn't the brush he made just for the silk of plants and trees sung in "Perfect Land"?"
There is no paper at this time, but there is silk.
This brush will definitely be convenient when writing on silk.
As for those children who learn to write sixty or seventy words, it may be difficult to write on wooden slips, but since they have learned to write on stone slabs, once the grass and woods appear, they will be prepared for the future.
You can write if you have it.
As for the passage I just wrote with punctuation, Mo Zi was even more convinced that these punctuation points were also good things.
When speaking and lecture notes, the first thing to solve is how to break sentences. This is the most important part of teaching disciples, and it is also a part that requires wasting a lot of time to recite.
Now that there is such punctuation, you only need to explain clearly how punctuation is used, so those who read the text do not need someone to tell them how to break sentences.
Once this thing comes out, no one dares to make random sentences and tamper with the meaning of the text.
This is exactly what it takes to teach people a fishing net.
Thinking of what he had told him before... If all the minor officials in the world knew this word, it would be impossible to master the various skills of minor officials without learning this word, Mo Zi was relieved.
This is like driving fish for the abyss and driving birds for following.
The fish in the net had no idea that the distant surroundings were covered with nets, and they were no different from usual, and they were still playing and playing.
Those nets are far away, very far away.
It is so far away that these fish and birds cannot detect it that they do not exist at all.
But one day when those who set up the nets closed, they would regret why they did not escape from the gap when the nets were hundreds of feet away from them at the earliest.
Mo Zi pondered for a long time and asked, "All things always have names. What is this word?"
I had already thought of it.
"Sir, all characters can be written in eight strokes. Therefore, they can be called eight strokes."
"Any minor official who wants to know the will of heaven in the future must learn this word, so he can be called a letter of official letter."
"If any gangster is rich in the future, he can also learn this word, so he can be called Lishu."
"If anyone who is inferior, if he wants to be noble but not always noble, he must learn this character, and if he is good at learning, he will be an official, so he can be called a bad character."
"If all people in the world are familiar with the word "sincere", there will be no noble characters. If there is no noble, there will be no nobles. If there is no noble, there will be no nobles, so they can be called directly as characters."
"What is called is not in this word, but in this world."
Mozi is one of the few people in this era who can discuss the linear propagation of light, the necessary conditions for logic, the relative and infinite time, fixed-moving pulleys and other issues.
Therefore, a simple relative concept is not obscure to Mozi.
On the contrary, it was exactly what he said that he thought, and after a little thought, he understood the meaning of coming and going.
Nowadays, of course, it is called Babi characters to distinguish the characters of each country.
Ten years later, the name of the aspirations gradually emerged, and the minor official must learn this word, and then he may be called the official's book.
When aristocrats realize that knowledge is no longer monopolized and that the gangsters also start to learn characters, they may be angrily denounced as official script and cheap characters.
And if one day the paradise is realized and everyone loves equality, it can be called a word directly.
No more expensive, no less expensive.
Just like light and shadow.
Mozi thought to himself: "Anyone with light must have shadow. If the world has ink, there will be no more high light. Isn't this text the same? If the world is all practicing this word, why should we divide it into eight seal scripts? Why should we know the word, and those who know the word must have noble blood?"
If these words are really as stated, a child can learn sixty or seventy words in half a year, then it can be better for those who teach the ink.
Anyway, the Mo people gathered together now and had to live in Shangqiu for a long time to deal with the affairs of Qi and the aftermath of Shengchuo.
After learning these words, they will be taught to those who have not returned to Shangqiu. They will first use this words as the internal words of the ink artist, which is exactly what they want.
As for the thoughts of the minor officials in the world, Mozi was also moved.
Shi didn't say what he was going to do, but he must have differences with Mozi on some issues.
But he would not express the differences at this time. On the contrary, he would hide his true purpose and follow Mo Zi's ideas, and exert some influence on some issues that do not involve fundamental issues.
Since Mozi believed that Mo adhered to the meaning of Mo, as an official and an official, he would eventually influence the kings and princes and vassals, he could also do this in the early stage.
There are many people in the world who want to learn to be officials. After the disintegration of the well-field military system in the Spring and Autumn Period, the struggle between bureaucrats, centralization, and decentralization was the main direction of the upper-class struggle.
Moreover, the initiative is in the hands of the Mo people, and monopolizes the applicable knowledge in the new era, and can always cultivate a large number of Mo people who can become minor officials.
As for what these Mo people who are minor officials would do after Mo Zi’s death, Mo Zi didn’t think about it, and he was too lazy to think about it.
I knew clearly that the words I just wrote on the sand had proved three things.
You can write by yourself and write with punctuation marks, which is not easy to cause misreading.
He can teach characters by himself, and his teaching methods are acceptable. Even children in villages and communities can learn sixty or seventy words.
You write very quickly and very quickly. You can be a person who can record the words and deeds of the ink person or the righteousness of the ink person.
As for what happened like Gongsun Ze was like nine times, I think Mozi already knew about it.
No matter how you look at it, you are all talented at this time. It is very useful. That's how he thought.
But what he didn't expect was that his importance was heavier than he thought.
After the matter between Shengchuo and Qi, the Mo people urgently needed a model, a model that was completely opposite to Shengchuo and those who forgot the righteousness of Mo people for their salary.
What's even more rare is that this model is not a formal Mo person, but after listening to Mo Zi's words, he just adheres to the righteousness and is even more capable of being no less than others.
Although Mozi has ideals, he is not the kind of straightforward person who has no minds. It is really important for Moji at this time.
He finally asked the last question about all kinds of incredible things, as the end.
"Where are Mr. Sai and Tang Han now?"
"Both two died."
Since it is over, death is the best end.
“Where is buried?”
"They agree with the saying that Mr. Funeral is buried, and the fire burns his body and turns into mud that nourishes all things."
There are always corpses when death is gone, but after the fire is burned, nothing is gone. This is the end destination.
"Apart from you, are there any other disciples?"
"Only one elder brother is 1.3 billion times better than me, called the Republic. After hearing the learning of Mr. Tang Han and Mr. Sai, he realized that there was nothing unknown in this world, so he rode a boat to see the stars and seas, and no longer cross the shore. He knew the inevitable future, and in his eyes all things in this world had already passed, and he had no nostalgia, and only explored the stars and seas."
In Mozi's opinion, the saying of 1.3 billion must be a false reference. It is rumored that Goujian was born in the 20th year, and the men with armored men were 3,000. Mozi thought that the 1.3 billion was a use of 1.3 billion.
Even so, I heard that this person is far more talented than him, and he floated into the sea to chase the stars, and thought that such a person would stand too high and not be able to fall into this place.
To be continued...