? 6? Why is Confucius the ancestor of Weibo?

Up to now, the development of Weibo is unknown to everyone, but it is almost the same. So why is Weibo popular on the Internet? One of the important reasons is that each blog post is limited to 140 words. In fact, there is still a lot of knowledge after this rule. Scientists have found that human cognition is limited, and only a certain amount of information can be processed at a time. Once a mathematician calculated that the number was 140 words, but the limited number of words actually stimulated people's imagination, but this advanced concept is gone now.

Ancient scholars studied the four books and five classics, and the Analects was the earliest one. The full text of The Analects of Confucius is 20 articles, 15900 words, which is actually only equivalent to the capacity of a newspaper today. This is a collection of essays that records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples. Coincidentally, the longest passage of Confucius in The Analects of Confucius is only 1 18, and the shortest sentence is only 65438+.

When we open the history books, we can know that in the Spring and Autumn Period when Confucius and The Analects lived, Cai Lun was not born yet, so there was no paper. As a tool for writing quotations at that time, the historical book Mu Zhuan also recorded that the bamboo slips for writing books were 56 cm long, one bamboo slip was written with 40 words, and the weight of a bamboo slip into a book was at least 120 kg. At that time, Confucius and his disciples traveled around the world, and there were not many bamboo slips on the road, so they simplified the records and made them easy to carry. Secondly, Confucius was a cautious man. He made suggestions and learned from his Analects. You can know from the past that you must keep your mouth shut before you say anything. Simplicity has always been his goal.

The Analects of Confucius and Weibo seem to be an amazing coincidence that has gone through 2500 years. In fact, the law of communication has always been included in the biographies of poems and books.