Chapter 4: : Language genius

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On the third day, we camped by the river in an already dry season. They don't eat dinner, so I eat it with other people, or simply naan and noodle soup. Since I live with other maids, but the young monk is an absolute VIP treatment, and has the best private tent, so the class is set in his tent.
I froze when I walked into the tent. Jibo was shaving his head, and the fine brown hair was scattered on the white cloth around his neck. He saw me and smiled gently, let me sit next to him for a while.
While waiting, I couldn't help looking at his head carefully. His head is not like his mother was deliberately pinched, so his head shape is normal. Fortunately, the time and region they live in does not require monks to burn scars on their heads, otherwise the scars will not only suffer from skin and flesh, I am afraid his near-perfect appearance will also be destroyed.
Thinking of burning scars, he couldn't help smiling. This is a small native product of the Buddhist culture of the Han Dynasty.
In fact, Chinese monks did not burn the scars like other monks in other countries. It is said that the burning of the monks started from the emperor Liang Wu, the most avid Buddhist emperor in the Southern Dynasty. He had spent three times as a monk, and was redeemed by the minister for the temple three times. In order to quickly expand the believers, he forgave the world's death row prisoners and made him believe in Buddha as a monk. But fearing that they would escape from the monastery and commit crimes again, they took Qianqian (tattooing on their faces) as a model and burned scars on their heads for easy identification and capture.
Personally, I think that it is the ruler's need for Chinese monks to burn scars. Monks are not involved in production, do not pay taxes, and have no children. For rulers, if there are too many monks, it will have an impact on productivity. Having no children also has an impact on the ethics of "three filial pieties and no future". The several deep-seated events in the history of Buddhism are all based on the maintenance of economy and moral ethics. But religion is essential and can help rulers stabilize society. Therefore, the monks all have an official record, and the government strictly controls the number of monks. The external distinction is based on the scarring, only shaving a bald head to pretend to be a monk will reveal the filling if there is no scar on the head. Fortunately, this practice was abolished after liberation, but I heard that there are still temples holding burning ceremonies...
"Ai Qing!"
I jerked back and saw him standing in front of me with radiance. He has shaved his head, and the whole person looks clean and fresh. Looking around, Ji Bo has gone out, and I actually thought so enthralled that I didn't even know when she would leave. With his tongue out, he hurried to a few cases and started the first day of teaching.
First he taught me to spit Rowan. Although he spoke very carefully and patiently, after all, the Chinese level was limited, and the Tyrannosaurus letters were hard to remember. I was more painful than learning German. I was desperately scratching my head, and a few small acne broke out on my forehead. An hour later, I got down and lay down on several cases to ask for a rest. mine
The first spitting Luo Wen class ended so painfully.
Take a break for me to teach him. During the summer vacation, I volunteered as a language teacher in a literacy class. I still have some experience in elementary Chinese teaching. Getting started with Chinese characters is actually not difficult. It all starts with looking at pictures and talking. The difficulty is that it is difficult to remember pronunciation in ancient times without pinyin.
The ancient pronunciation method is called anti-cutting. It is to use two words to annotate the sound of a word, take the initial of the previous word, the final and the tone of the latter word. For example, Xiuzi can be said to be Xiyouqie, that is, the initials of Western characters, the finals and tones of young characters are taken. There is a special word list called "Guang Yun". But I'm not an ancient person after all, naturally I can't recite this anti-cut list, and I dare not invent pinyin more than two thousand years in advance, so I can only make him memorize it.
I took out my sketchbook and pencil and talked while drawing. He was very curious about my novel writing tool and kept asking me how to make this smooth paper and hard-end pen. I had to daringly tell him that this was given by a strange person. This is the only one in the world, and I don't know how to make it. Then set out the teacher's spectrum, let him concentrate on listening, do not ask questions.
The sun, the moon, the water, the fire, the earth, the golden fungus talk. I practiced traditional Chinese characters for a year in order to cross, but I thought Qin Xiaozhuan's scalp was numb. Xiaozhuan, I can only read and not write, I hope there will be no historical misalignment. Fortunately, he is in the Western Regions and is unlikely to go to Central Plains.
He has a basic Chinese foundation, and some words can be recognized. But he still learned very seriously, his eyes fixed on my sketchbook nodded from time to time, came a good smell of sandalwood next to me.
The next day we continued on our way, and the communication between Chumo Ruojibo and I was smoother. He can imitate me very quickly. I only have to say it once. When he understands the meaning, next time I speak the same word again, he will not ask again. Moreover, he can adjust the original subject and predicate object according to Chinese grammar.
If I were to speak to the Han people at this time, it would be a series of classical Chinese. But to him, I spoke as usual in the 21st century. Because he is a foreigner, I have no psychological barriers, and I am not afraid that he thinks that my speech is abnormal. He likes to ask me about the humanities, customs, geography and history of the Central Plains, and I will recall the historical books I read to him. I feel more and more that this little monk is not so clever, has superb memory, and seems to have a super talent for language.
I asked him why he was traveling with the army, but he actually wanted to inquire about their identity. He said that they have been traveling in various countries for four years and have traveled a lot. However, from one country to another, there are hundreds of miles of waterless and grassless deserts, and these places are "three indifferent" areas that are not under the jurisdiction of people. They often encounter thieves. They carry a lot of precious Buddhist scriptures and relics to prevent being robbed, so they have their own armed forces.
I remembered that Xuanzang's westward journey also often experienced thieves, so I couldn't help but agree on the importance of armed forces. However, they still didn't detect their identities. They only knew that this armed force was brought out from Guizi four years ago, and it was a regular army. Well, the national machine can be used as a bodyguard, these two men must be related to the royal family.
Jibo listened to us quietly after us. The expression on her face was always calm, and occasionally spoke a few words to her son. Although I couldn't understand it, her voice was soft and should not be a blame. She has always been gentle and elegant, and she can see that she loves her son very much, but there is no ordinary mother's intimacy with her son, which may be related to the entrance of Buddhism.
But when she was reading the Scriptures, she was very strict, her expression was solemn and pious, her eyes and noses were meticulous, and she carefully murmured with her son. At this time, the two were just like the outsiders who put aside all the transcendental reincarnations of the world, and the sound of the scriptures hit the depths of the heart. For the first time, I felt the power of religious soul-shaking, leaning on the tent mouth, I also listened to idiot.
Continue teaching in the evening. I recalled hard, but still uttered my tongue and stretched out my palm to reach him.
"What is this for?" He kept practicing modern spoken language with me, so what he said was not so classical.
"It's thugs," I said with a hippy smile. "Our Chinese teacher, if the students are not good at learning, use the ruler to beat the palms. Look at how consciously my student admits mistakes."
"What did you do wrong?" His light gray eyes were bright enough to shine in people's hearts and looked at me in a blink.
"I don't remember the spitfire alphabet you taught me yesterday, so what, the language is in Turtle language." I stretched my face bitterly, always called spitfire Luowen.
He smiled, so pure, his eyes bright as stars.
"That's because I didn't teach well. How can I punish you?" He spread his left hand, grabbed my hand with his right, and punched him in the palm. Although not heavy, this contact suddenly made me a little bit confused.
"It's me who should fight. If you forget tomorrow, just hit my palm."
I withdrew my hand violently, and there was a trace of inexplicable throbbing in my heart. He leaned his head and concentrated on the letters in front of him.
This time I learned better than yesterday because he explained Chinese in-depth. Finally learned all the letters. Every time I hear the pronunciation of a letter, I put a phonetic transcription next to it so that I won’t forget how to read it when I go back.
He was very curious to see the phonetic symbols, but I couldn't help but explain to him the rules of the phonetic symbols. His eyes grew brighter and he shouted a good idea. I had to beg him not to tell others, or history would be messed up.
"Why? Did you make it?"
I cannot admit it or deny it. Vaguely said: "Han people don't like women's talents, so if you tell others this method, I will be burned on the fire as a witch." Borrow the story of Joan of Arc.
"Han shouldn't be like this."
He was silent for a moment, thought for a while, and said very seriously: "Everyone is the same, regardless of men and women. Women are equally wise." He then spoke a series of spitting Luoluo language, probably his current Chinese vocabulary is not yet Can let him express his feelings completely.
Ha ha, I smiled. The serious look of this teenager really made me feel warm. However, this topic has to be pulled apart, and I don’t know how to lie.
"Just know it. Well, it's time for me to teach you. We have a great educator in ancient times, Confucius said: knowing new things when you are old. It means reviewing what you have learned and getting new knowledge from it. So now I want to Test the words you learned yesterday."
Put the sketchbook and pencil in front of him: "Come on, write silently! If you make a mistake, you need to hit your palm."
He glanced at me, his eyes full of laughs. After taking over the book and pencil, the posture of holding the pen is a little rusty, but it looks a bit different. I watched the square characters appear one by one from his pen, he actually wrote all the words I taught yesterday silently!
After stunned for ten seconds, I lifted my chin back and gave you a difficult one, to see if you would give me a cup of tea. "Come, read every word."
He looked at me and still smiled warmly. For more than thirty pictographs, he read them one by one, and my jaw dropped by inches. Although it has an accent, it is a correct word! Didn’t I teach him pinyin yesterday? How high is this guy's IQ?
"I served YOU!" I was shocked by only this sentence, of course I said it in my heart.
I continue to teach, after the pictograms are taught, I teach the transliteration, and then teach the simple words. I thought sadly, why is the gap not so big when learning languages ​​as well? If you go on like this, his Chinese can write essays, and my Turro language is probably still memorizing words. What makes me even more depressed is that he actually marked the Chinese characters with the phonetic symbols he just learned. Although he is not as precise as Pinyin, he can pronounce it in all directions.
Depressedly thinking: Will my teacher be laid off soon?
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You may ask: Now that we all know how the ancients spelled the pinyin, and there are anti-cut words written by the ancients, then we can restore the ancient Chinese pronunciation. I thought the same way at first, and I checked the information again, and was speechless again. The point is: you have to know how to pronounce those anti-cut words. It is like the ancient book records that the word "xiu" is "Xi Youqie", but how do you pronounce "xi" and "you"? After further investigation and repetition, it is still impossible to make an ancient sound accurately. It's like having an ancient pipa score, and we can't recover ancient music. Because there is no final tone on the Guqin score, what F major, E minor, etc. Without knowing what the reference sound is, the same score can make a completely different sound because of the different fundamental sounds.
For information on restoring ancient music, you can go to the fourth episode of CCTV10's "Discovery" series "The Lost Oasis." There is a story about finding an ancient pipa sheet music in Dunhuang, but it is impossible to restore the ancient pipa music. An example is: let the piano player change the key to play "Our Good Place in Xinjiang", and I can't hear the music that is so familiar and familiar. The pronunciation of ancient Chinese cannot be completely restored, which should be the same as this.