History of Shishi’s Lion Eater
Mr. Zhao Yuanren’s “History of Shishishishishishishi” was written in the 1930s. It restricts the use of a set of Chinese characters with the same pronunciation but different glyphs. It is used to explain the function of Chinese characters and Chinese written language - expressing meaning through form. This short passage can only be explained clearly in written language. Spoken language cannot directly and accurately express the meaning of this homophone sentence.
Original article Shishi, a poet in a stone chamber, was fond of lions and vowed to eat ten lions. Shi Shi always looks at the lion in the market. At ten o'clock, ten lions are in the market. It's time for Shi Shi to be in the market. He regarded them as ten lions and relied on the power of his arrows to cause them to die. His collection contains the corpses of ten lions, suitable for the stone chamber. The stone chamber was wet, and the clan's envoys wiped the stone chamber. After wiping the stone chamber, Shi began to taste the corpses of ten lions. While eating, he realized that they were ten lion corpses, which were actually ten stone lion corpses. It is a matter of trial and error.
Vernacular and Problem Solving A poet named Shi lives in a house made of stone. He likes lions and vows to eat ten lions. Mr. Shi often went to the market to see lions. At ten o'clock, ten lions came to the market. At this time, Shi (also) happened to come to the market. The man named (Shi) looked at these ten lions and relied on the power of arrows to kill these ten lions. The man named Shi took the ten lions to the stone house. The stone room was damp, so Shi ordered the waiter to wipe the stone room. The stone house was wiped clean, and the man named Shi began to try to eat the ten lions. While eating, I realized that these ten lions were actually the carcasses of ten stone lions. Try to explain this.
In the late 1980s, a Wangma computer typing textbook once included the full text of Mr. Zhao's "History of Shi's Food Lion" for typing practice. Obviously, using Wangma to input Zhao text into the computer is more convenient than using Pinyin to input. But Zhao Wen is just a special case, both in terms of linguistics and computer input methods.
Based on the newly formed environmental awareness in society, the author drafted a separate draft according to Zhao Wen's ideas, added two characters, and drafted "Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi", the key is as follows.
"The Shi family in Shishi is fond of lions, knows the lion's power, and writes poems about lions; the Shi family in Shishi City is a stone master, and likes to eat lions. Depending on the time, he swears to eat ten lions depending on the situation. The Shi family drives to the market and knows the lions At that time Shi Shi saw the market, and it was the time for ten lions to eat. Shi Shi showed him ten lions, and Shi Shi looked at the lions. It was like eating ten lions, but actually ten stone lions. This is what Shi Shi explained: The lion is lost, the world is gone, the world is gone. The Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shishi.
Explanation of "Shishi's Interpretation of Shishi": Mr. Shi, who lives in a stone house, likes lions very much. Not only is he familiar with the shape and ecology of lions, but he has also written many poems describing and praising lions. In Shishi City (Quanzhou, Fujian Province, which was famous during the reform and opening up), there was a Mr. Shi who was a stonemason artist who liked to eat lion meat. He regarded this preference as a fashion and planned to rely on his stone carving talents to make Eat the meat of ten lions. (On this day,) Mr. Shi drove to the market to look for lions. It happened that Mr. Shi was also wandering around the market. What happened was that ten lions were sent to the food street. Mr. Shi told Mr. Shi that there were ten lions and asked him to watch them. Mr. Shi took an arrow and teased the lions. The ten lions that looked almost real and could be eaten were actually ten stone lions. Mr. Shi told Mr. Shi about eating wild animals: If lions become extinct, some people’s hobby of eating wild animals will also die out, and human society will also die (due to ecological imbalance). So Mr. Shi decided to get rid of the bad habit of eating lions and set out to use the ten stone lions on the food street as a model for artistic reference.
Ten new stone lion sculptures were completed and arranged spectacularly. Lamenting the erosion and damage caused by acid rain to the stone sculptures, Mr. Shi, a stonemason artist from Shishi City, moved the ten stone lions to Mr. Shi's stone house for placement.