"During Emperor Chengzu Wen, the bachelor of Hanlin Academy - Shen Du's calligraphy was beautiful, elegant and round. He was awarded the title of "Xizhi of My Chao" by Emperor Wen. Later scholars rushed to imitate it and gradually became the standard style of calligraphy, called it Guange style, or Taige style!

During the Ming Dynasty, all official documents from the cabinet, six ministries, the Censorate, Dali Temple, and all provinces, prefectures, and counties must be written in the style of the museum.

The test papers for county examinations, government examinations, provincial examinations, imperial examinations, and palace examinations must also be written in the style of the museum. If a calligraphy fails, even if the article is written in a mess or the golden lotus is gushing, it will not be admitted!"

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In the small building, Li Yan was explaining while holding a wolf's brush and brushing it, and soon wrote an article "Thousand Character Text".

"Thousand Characters" is one of the enlightenment books. The sentences are plain and rhyme, and it is very easy to recite, but it is not easy to write, because none of the thousand words in it is repeated!

In other words, if a person who can write "Thousand Characters" in dictation is a literate person, there is no problem with basic text communication.

Look at the words written by Li Yan again. The plan is neat and the strokes are beautiful, just like flowing clouds and water, and it looks so comfortable!

On the other hand, Xue Yu was also writing, but he was tilted and of different sizes. Just like the words written by a five-year-old child who had just started, it was quite ugly!

A small brush weighs a thousand pounds. After only writing for a while, I felt so tired that my wrists were sore and sweat broke out on my face!

There is no way. In later generations, most of them used pencils, ballpoint pens, or fountain pens to write. There are very few people who practice brush calligraphy. Occasionally, a few practiced them, and they also regarded them as hobbies and could not be used in work!

Xue Yu has grown up so old, and it is the first time he has written a calligraphy brush. It would be strange if he doesn’t make a fool of himself!

"Brother Yu, you wrote this word, it's really... nausea! nausea!"

Looking at the words written by Xue Yu, Li Yan's little face instantly turned into pig's liver color, and his chest was fluctuating a few times, almost spitting out the milk.

I quickly slapped hard and then forced myself down. I was really disgusted!

After a few days of dating, Xue Yu gave him the feeling that he was full of knowledge and had good conversations. He should have received a profound education. Why do he write so ugly?

Could it be that his former teacher only taught him to read, but did not teach him to write?

"Don't blame me, Brother Yan, I was born in a poor family and couldn't go to a private school. I could only sit outside secretly and listen to the old scholars' lectures inside. Is this little knowledge in my stomach mostly learned it secretly!

I don’t have the money to buy a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, so I can only hold branches and stones to write on the ground. This is the first time I have this brush!"

While speaking, Xue Yu picked up a piece of graphite as a pencil and wrote a few words on rice paper. Sure enough, the structure was neat, simple and thick, which was a world of difference from the previous words!

There is no way, as a time traveler, I can’t tell anyone about it, I can only find an excuse to cover it up.

"So that's it. Brother Yu is in adversity and still has the desire to learn. He can sit outside the private school and learn a lot of knowledge, high understanding and perseverance. I admire him very much!"

Li Yan didn't know the truth and was immediately moved. He bowed and bowed, and did not dare to laugh at the words written by Xue Yu for being ugly.

At the same time, I was thinking secretly, if I was in such an environment, could I learn to learn a lot by eavesdropping, peeking, and doing so?

The answer is no.

In this way, I admire Xue Yu even more and become an idol in life!

"These words have many strokes and complex structures, which are really difficult to write. If one day, if I have the power, I will have to abolish this complex text and replace it with another simple structure, which is easy to remember and write!"

If you want to survive in this space, you must learn to use a brush and write traditional Chinese characters. Therefore, Xue Yu insists on practicing and believes that he can practice beautiful calligraphy!

But, traditional Chinese characters are too difficult to write, which reminds him of the simplified Chinese characters learned in space, and inadvertently sighed a few words!

As he spoke unintentionally, listening to intentionality, Li Yan's face changed drastically and he shook his head frequently: "Brother Yu's words are wrong. The words are created by his ancestors and passed down by his ancestors. My Chinese civilization is all contained between the lines, so how can we change it casually!"

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"Why can't the text be changed? Three generations ago, the ancients engraved letters on animal bones and tortoise shells, which can be called oracle bone inscriptions!

During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, characters cast on bronze utensils can be called inscriptions!

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the various vassal states were not unified, and the "verbal voices and characters were different". The Qin State used large seal script, and each of the six countries also had their own characters!

Oracle bone inscriptions, inscriptions, large seal scripts, and small seal scripts... are all Chinese characters, but their writing styles are very different. The number of characters has gone from small to many, while the structure has gone from complex to simple. Isn’t this just changing the ancestral text?

If the ancestors were conservative and the words remained unchanged, Yan brother would not write with a brush in his hand, but instead carved a knife on the turtle shell, and the carved like a ghost-painted talisman!

Therefore, the text is not static. As long as it is easy to remember and write, it is conducive to enlightening people's wisdom and spreading our Chinese civilization. What's the point of making changes?"

Xue Yu cannot write calligraphy in a brush, but when talking about the history of writing, he will be eloquent and talk endlessly.

These knowledge points may not be anything to later generations, but to Li Yan, it is tantamount to a spiritual earthquake!

He was stunned and his mind was blank, and then many questions arose: "Brother Yu, since the text has been simplified, why has the text after the Qin Dynasty not changed much? Simplifying the text is beneficial to the people of the world. Why hasn't the great scholar simplified the text since the Qin Dynasty?"

"Is this question more complicated? It can't be explained clearly in just a few words. Ahem... I'm really thirsty after talking for a long time!"

"Brother Yu, wait, I'll go make tea now!"

In order to satisfy his desire for knowledge, Li Yan immediately took action, lit a small red mud stove, boiled water, brewed tea, and brought it to him personally, very attentive!

Xue Yu drank three cups in a row, and then he slowly began to tell the history of simplified texts and the problems that arose in the middle...

During the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the feudal system was implemented. There were countless vassal states of all sizes on the land of China. Each country had its own customs, cultures, and its own writings!

At that time, there might be dozens of different ways of writing the same word, or even hundreds of different ways, and they didn’t recognize each other, making it very difficult to communicate.

But, there is one disadvantage, there must be one advantage!

There are many ways to write the characters, and there is a lot of room for changes. For the same character, written by different people, you may write two more strokes or fewer strokes, which leads to a new way of writing!

Anyway, there is no unified standard for text, so no one can say it. The new writing method is wrong, and we can only say that there is another writing method!

People are lazy. If you can write two fewer strokes per word, you will never write two more strokes. Therefore, as the writing method continues to change, the structure of the word is gradually simplified, and it will be easier to write.

Later, Emperor First Emperor emerged, and his troops were swallowed up the six countries, unifying the world, and then unifying the weights and measures and the words!

From then on, the people across the country, although their living customs and accents were different, they used the same text and communicated without any problem. The country then condensed into a whole, and they could not separate them even if they wanted to!

Although the First Emperor unified the writing is of great merit, there must be one advantage, and there must be one disadvantage. With unified standards for writing, its variation will be reduced.

For example, if the word "ma", the grandfather writes ten strokes, the son writes ten strokes, and the grandson will definitely write ten strokes!

If the grandson suddenly had a whim and wrote the word "Ma" twice less, it would be a typo, and he would be severely corrected by his father and grandfather. Maybe he would slap his butt a few times, and then he would be obediently restored his writing style to ten strokes!

In this way, it is difficult to change the text structure, and it is even more difficult to simplify it.

Having said that, simplification of text is an inevitable trend in the development of civilization. Although it is full of speed, it does not stop!

After the Qin and Han dynasties, people naturally simplified some words for the convenience of writing, which were called "vulgar characters!"

For example, in some stele carvings during the Six Dynasties, many common characters appeared, and more were found during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, which influenced famous calligraphers, such as Ouyang Xun and Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy works, there were many common characters!

From this we can see that the text has been simplifying, but the speed is very slow. When encountering the biggest resistance, it is either the illiterate person, but the scholars!

The reason is also very simple. For thousands of years, the writing has been in the hands of a few scholars. The social status of scholars is very high. They can become the ruler of the country through the imperial examination!

Most scholars do not want the number of similar people to increase, they only look forward to the decrease!

Because the smaller the number, the smaller the competition for the imperial examination, the greater the chance of becoming a high-ranking official!

If there are more scholars and the competition for the imperial examination becomes fierce, I may not be able to make a name for myself in my life.

In this case, if someone proposes to simplify the text comprehensively, reduce the difficulty of learning, and thus increase the number of scholars!

This person will definitely be opposed by most scholars. Without the support of scholars, how can the text be simplified in a comprehensive manner?

Qin and Han dynasties, Three Kingdoms, Two Jin dynasties, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang dynasties, Five Dynasties, Song dynasties, Yuan dynasties, Ming dynasties... In the past two thousand years, although seal script, clerical script, running script, regular script, and cursive script appeared, this is just a change in calligraphy, not a change in writing!

Therefore, the word "Ma" in the Qin Dynasty was ten strokes, and the word "Ma" in the Ming Dynasty was ten strokes, without any simplification!

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"Listen to my brother's words, I'll be more than ten years of writing. I've really been taught. If one day Brother Yu holds the power of the world and promotes simplified texts, I'm willing to help you and go through fire and water, and I'm not refusing to do anything!"

Li Yan is a very wise person. He quickly understood the relationship, and after lowering his head and pondering for a moment, he made a great wish!

"Okay, let's swear to high-fives, work together to benefit the people!"

"Ba!Ba!Ba!"

"Ha ha!"

After three high-fives, Xue Yu and Li Yan looked at each other and laughed up. It was a pleasure to have one more companion on the road of life!

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"Brother Yu, the third floor of the small building has a collection of many strange stones. I will take you to visit and explain how?"

"Explain the strange stones to me, okay!"

Li Yan was inferior in his calligraphy insights, but he was not the one who easily gave in. He led Xue Yu to the third floor, hoping to regain some face in the collection of strange stones that he was best at!
Chapter completed!