202 1-08-29
Recently, I suddenly fell in love with poetry, borrowed many books about poetry, and read them one by one. The more I read, the more I like it. The more I read it, the more I want to copy poetry. So I bought a dozen notebooks and copied poems one by one. My favorites are Birds and Selected Misty Poems.
When I was copying Selected Poems, I suddenly had a special feeling. It's about Chinese characters, perhaps the reform of Chinese characters.
The Age of Awakening tells us the confusion of China people at that time: the great changes that have never happened in 3,000 years. Everyone is looking for a way out. At that time, many people were looking for their own problems, so many people demanded to abolish Chinese characters and learn this kind of pinyin similar to English letters. It seems a bit ridiculous now, but in fact, in the 20th century, especially in the 20th century, many countries in the world, many colonial countries and many beaten countries, slowly got out of the predicament through this transformation.
Of course, fortunately, we didn't carry out such a reform, because in the last year or two, I suddenly discovered the beauty of Chinese characters, but this beauty is limited to simplified characters, or those I know. I feel this way because when I copied Selected Misty Poems, there were many poems from the 1970s and 1980s, and many words are not used now. Of course, they are not traditional Chinese characters. If it's just traditional Chinese characters, I won't feel so much, because we all know that traditional Chinese characters are different. He changed the traditional Chinese characters into simplified Chinese characters, but I said simplified Chinese characters.
From traditional Chinese characters to simplified Chinese characters, it's just a simplification of a font, but the simplification of words is unbearable for me. For example, there used to be many words to express happiness, maybe dozens. Now most people express happiness, maybe only a few, maybe only a dozen, what simple words are happy, happy, crying with joy and so on.
I remember when we were studying ancient poetry, we often said that although there were only five or seven words in ancient poetry, every word in it was worthy of scrutiny. "Monks push the door under the moon" and "Monks knock on the door under the moon" are completely different, one is "knocking" and the other is "pushing". I can see that the ancients used to control these words, but what about us now? It seems that all feelings can be expressed in one word, but in fact it is not. Many words can be expressed in different degrees.
When I was copying, I felt that many of their words were new to me or used here, and I felt very different. Maybe that's why I like poetry.
But this feeling is a feeling of not knowing how to say it. I feel that many words we usually write, say and use are inaccurate, and we haven't found the right words yet. What I expressed was not what I really wanted to express, at least others didn't feel my mood at that time.
You used to write letters, so you can feel the writer's mood. But now people often say that words have no feelings, but need language expression, video display, background contrast, background music, background pictures, background pages and so on, and the feelings achieved by words no longer exist.
Perhaps because of this, I bought a modern Chinese dictionary specially. Reading a few words and the following words every day often leads to different feelings. But because it is a "modern" Chinese dictionary, many words will be written with the same name. In fact, if you think about it carefully, if you don't simplify it, how can the same feeling keep circulating? Even if there were, it wouldn't be so much!
I am so emotional because we use more than 2000 words now. Generally speaking, there are about four or five thousand words, but our Chinese characters are tens of thousands. I'm afraid that after decades or generations, our common words will be more than 2,000 words, and the words we know will be more than 2,000 words. Although our books say that we have tens of thousands of words and our dictionaries have tens of thousands of words, many words will no longer appear in our field of vision. ...
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Laugh at the past, laugh at the present, laugh at the east, laugh at the west, laugh at the south and laugh at the north,
Laughing and laughing, laughing at my ignorance.
Look at things, the sky, the earth, the sun and the moon,
From the above, there are always high and low views on others.