Chapter 47 Language and Writing (Spring Festival Update 35)
Suddenly, the spring breeze came overnight, and thousands of pear trees blossomed. This morning, when Luo Chong came out of the cave, the first thing he saw was this scene. The open ground in front of the cave was all white, and the big trees in the jungle were also covered with snow. The long-awaited winter has arrived.
The snowflakes were still falling like goose feathers, and the sky was gloomy. No one knew when it would stop. Luo Chong practiced a set of gun skills as usual to stretch his muscles.
The tribesmen also came out to relieve themselves. The men stopped logging, and the women stopped making a fuss about gathering food. They just went to the animal pen to feed the antelopes some hay.
Rourou and Huishan didn't need to be fed. They were not tied to the barn. The two were too strong. Luo Chong was afraid that they would pull the barn down, so he didn't restrict their freedom, but they could only move around in the pen. When they were hungry, they would go to the haystack in the pen to find food.
However, the problem of drinking water needed to be solved. Luo Chong had people build an earthen stove in the animal pen and use a clay pot to boil some snow water for them to drink.
As soon as the door of the animal pen was opened in the morning, the two ran out and ran wildly in the snow. The long legs of Deinotherium were not slow at all when running in the snow. Although they did not have long hair like mammoths, their thick skin and fat could also allow them to survive the winter safely.
Rourou returned to the animal pen by himself when he was tired of running, and stayed next to the earthen stove with Huishan, where it was still warm.
It was snowing outside, and it was not possible to make bricks now. Let's wait until the snow stopped. The tribesmen were all nestled in the cave, some were in a daze, some were making people, some were polishing ornaments, and the children were watching the rabbits feeding. The 20 newborn rabbits were already one month old and grew very fast. The cave was warm, and there were people to serve them when they ate, drank, defecated and urinated. It was very comfortable.
Several girls from the Yuanshu Tribe and Xieding Tribe took the initiative to find Luo Chong to make babies. What the hell can they do? Although Luo Chong is the leader, he is only 11 years old. Although he can do that at this time, after all, primitive people are precocious, Luo Chong really doesn't have this idea now. Besides, Luo Chong doesn't like them.
So Luo Chong started his long-planned plan to popularize Mandarin and writing.
Winter is so long that we can't just waste it. We have to seize the time to learn. Communication with each other depends entirely on gestures and guessing. Luo Chong has had enough of this kind of communication. If Luo Chong didn't talk and gesture every time when communicating with others, he was worried that he might not be able to speak.
In fact, the tribesmen of the Han tribe have mastered some vocabulary now, especially Qubing. Children have the strongest learning ability. He and Luo Chong have been in contact with each other a lot, and he can now say some simple words.
And most of what ordinary tribesmen have learned are some nouns instilled by Luo Chong.
Language is actually a very simple thing. There are only a few types of language, nouns, verbs, adjectives, and abstract words.
As long as you master nouns and verbs, you can communicate simply.
This is just like a child learning to speak. First, you know the names of various things, which are nouns, and then add some verbs to form a language.
For example, "I eat meat." I is a noun representing myself, eating is a verb, and meat is the name of a kind of food, which is also a noun. These three simple words are a language composed of nouns and verbs, so as long as you master more vocabulary, it will be no problem to communicate simply.
In fact, Luo Chong usually changes them in this regard. When humans encounter new things, especially things they have never seen before, they will instinctively want to know what it is, and Luo Chong is the one who gives them the answer.
For example, when people first saw a basket, this thing was very useful, but they didn't know what it was called, so they learned the noun "basket" from Luo Chong and remembered it. The next time someone says the word basket, others will know what it means.
In fact, people have learned a lot of nouns from Luo Chong, such as basket, spear, fish, grass, car, soil, brick, antelope, tree, axe, rope, etc.
All the things they can't name can get answers from Luo Chong. Chinese has developed for thousands of years, and there is still nothing that can't be named. Everything has a corresponding language to express it. What Luo Chong wants to teach them now is how to use nouns and verbs together.
As for Chinese characters, it is not realistic to teach them to learn simplified characters now. It is too difficult to understand. The development of Chinese characters also has to go through several stages.
From the simple drawings of primitive times, that is, murals, to the oracle bone inscriptions on animal bones and tortoise shells in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, then the small seal script in the Warring States period, and then the large seal script unified by Qin Shihuang, although the large seal script is also called text, it is also called pictographic writing. The font is very complicated. If you don't look carefully, you will easily misread what is drawn. Reading the large seal script basically depends on guessing. Some people can't recognize their own writings after a few years.
In the Han Dynasty, with the official script, the writing became much more standardized. Although it is also traditional Chinese, it is very different from the "painting". At least it will not happen that you can't recognize what you wrote.
Moreover, the official script is also the latest generation of pictographic writing. You can still see a lot of shadows of pictographic writing. This point is easy for primitive people to accept. They can even find the corresponding things in the font, and it is easy to understand the meaning of the word.
Modern simplified characters are different. They have no relationship with real things. You can't find the meaning of the word in the shape of the word. If you don't learn it from childhood, it is difficult to understand.
Foreign students have the most experience in this regard. It is really difficult to learn simplified Chinese characters, but if foreigners learn pictographic characters, or even modern traditional characters, they can learn them very quickly. This is the advantage of ideographic characters
. Chinese characters are ideographic characters, which are completely different from the phonetic characters of Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States. They can even be said to be the languages of two planets. Especially English, which is a phonetic character with only 26 letters with different pronunciations, forming various words and sentences. Compared with the complexity of Chinese characters, it is simply the simplest language.
You don’t even need to know how to read an ideographic character, you can see the meaning of the character from the shape of the character, while the phonetic characters and alphabetic characters of Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States, you can only see the pronunciation from the literal meaning, but you don’t know what the meaning is at all.
Therefore, if there is an alien civilization, it is definitely more likely to use Chinese characters. Chinese characters evolved from pictures and are the only type of characters on Earth that can be understood by looking at their shapes. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are the universal characters of the universe.
Luo Chong taught them the official script. They don’t need to be able to write, but they need to recognize it. Now they focus on learning to speak, and the requirements for writing are not high.
Learning characters is a must for children, and the amount of homework is not large. It is mainly based on recognizing characters. What they learn are simple nouns that they have already mastered, which are all common characters.
Now there is no paper and pen, and there is not even a place for each person to put a sand table. It is unrealistic to let them practice writing.
Luo Chong can only use a burnt carbon stick to write on the rock wall of the cave, and let the tribesmen read after him. He checks the homework once before dinner every day. If they can't read it, the dinner will be halved. There are also rewards for those who learn well, such as the sugar-fried chestnuts that Luo Chong made with the root nodule syrup of the man-eating tree.
This greatly stimulated the students' enthusiasm for learning. After all, who has a grudge against food? They don't want to watch others eat delicious food while they are hungry.
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