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"Mr. Chen, I and several teachers from Qiushi Academy have begun to estimate. I am afraid that it will be impossible to learn all the basic things in four years!" Ning Shuyu said.

Chen Fei immediately frowned again and asked, "Why? Is four years not enough? Isn't thousands of commonly used words enough for them to learn in a few years?"

Chen Fei just didn't understand. Even if he learned new characters in elementary school in later generations, he only studied three grades. After learning three grades, he would basically be able to learn all new characters. So four years is not enough for these students to learn thousands of commonly used characters?

"No, it's because the font is too complicated. Each word has dozens of strokes, so it may be difficult for children to remember it. If it weren't for seven or eight years, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to remember thousands of commonly used words!" Ning Shuyu said.

Chen Fei then remembered that traditional Chinese characters were used in ancient times, and traditional Chinese characters were not easy to learn! When Chen Fei just came here, because he was traveling through the body, he didn't know too many traditional Chinese characters. Chen Fei could only roughly recognize traditional Chinese characters. After solving life problems, Chen Fei immediately searched for comparison tables of simplified Chinese characters and traditional Chinese characters on the Internet of later generations. Even until now, Chen Fei has not been able to remember all traditional Chinese characters. Sometimes he has to turn on his mobile phone to find out how to write traditional Chinese characters. Of course, this is definitely not told to others, otherwise a person who passes the imperial examination will not recognize commonly used Chinese characters, which is definitely a cheating thing.

Ning Shuyu continued: "Most Chinese characters are stroked above the strokes, so it is impossible to remember without days of study. So we say that it is already very normal to learn literacy for seven or eight years. So we cannot shorten it, otherwise we will never have to finish it."

"Then what you mean is to study for seven or eight years, so we have to invest so much?" Chen Fei snorted.

Chen Fei sneered at the fact that he had to use seven or eight years to read. If it took seven or eight years to read, would he learn something else? So Chen Fei would never allow his students to study for seven or eight years. After all, such a long learning cycle is probably no one can bear it. Education is actually just an assembly line. Once the cycle of this "assembly line" is too long, it will not only cost high, but also greatly reduce efficiency. So Chen Fei of course hopes to shorten the length of this "assembly line", so that more students can graduate as soon as possible and then free up teachers to teach the next group of students.

"Even Confucian classics can save time, but this literacy cannot be saved. Recognizing words is the most basic thing in reading. If you don't even recognize fonts, how can you learn good books? As long as you recognize words, you can learn any Confucian classics yourself next, and you don't necessarily need a tutor. However, literacy requires a tutor, and it is absolutely impossible to save time, otherwise we will not be able to teach people." Ning Shuyu said.

Chen Fei finally became overwhelmed and finally wanted to run a college, but all kinds of problems arose. These problems are all about the cost of students' education and students cannot afford it. The time and material costs of various education are much higher than those of later generations. In ancient times, it was extremely difficult to run education.

"How do we use simplified Chinese?" Chen Fei asked.

"Simplified Chinese characters?" Ning Shuyu didn't understand what it meant.

Chen Fei immediately took out a comparison of the simplified traditional Chinese written by Chen Fei and handed it to Ning Shuyu. Ning Shuyu was shocked when he saw Chen Fei's comparison of the simplified traditional Chinese characters! Not to mention the difference between this simplified Chinese character and traditional Chinese character, it was not easy to say that it is not easy to simplify a traditional Chinese character to such a simple one.

Don’t think that simplifying fonts is easy. Font simplification is a very complex project. Chinese characters can evolve from pictograms, and the font at the beginning was from simplified to traditional. Then again from traditional to simple. The fonts in the primitive period were not complicated at the beginning, and the fonts were only dozens. However, more and more things were expressed, and more fonts were created. In the end, it became more and more complicated.

If you want to simplify Chinese characters, you can't just remove a few strokes directly, and not only have to retain the basic meaning of the character, after all, you can't replace pictograms with other irrelevant things. Every Chinese character represents Chinese culture. If you remove any stroke at will, if some of the structure or something else is not perfect and not pictogram enough, then in the end, you will not be able to draw a tiger or a dog. Therefore, simplification of Chinese characters is not so easy to do, and this simplified Chinese character in later generations also took many experts and scholars decades to complete. It started from the Republic of China period, and it was only decades after the founding of New China. It can be imagined that it is very difficult to simplify Chinese characters.

As an educator, Ning Shuyu certainly knew how difficult it was to simplify Chinese characters, so when she saw Chen Fei simplifying so many Chinese characters, it was simply amazing!

"Mr. Chen County Magistrate, if I can teach students these simplified characters, it will take less than three years or two years to teach those students how to learn thousands of commonly used characters." Ning Shuyu said.

The effect of simplifying Chinese characters is that the cost of learning is greatly reduced. It does not take the past seven or eight years to reach the point of literacy. It only takes one or two years to understand thousands of Chinese characters. If you are a genius, you can even do it within one year. So simplified Chinese characters are very beneficial and of course worth promoting.

"But, will other literati object?" Chen Fei asked.

"This, probably!" Ning Shuyu said.

Even in later generations, many people opposed simplified characters, let alone in ancient times? Therefore, Ning Shuyu couldn't guarantee whether this simplified character would be opposed. If the central government of the country does not support the implementation of this simplified character, then simplified characters will not be popular.

"Mr. Chen County Magistrate, if you really want to promote this simplified Chinese character, you might as well find a real scholar and a person with a deep background. It might be much easier for him to come forward!" Ning Shuyu said.

"Academic masters with deep backgrounds? This is a bit difficult!" Chen Fei began to think about which academic master he knew and also had a deep background.

If the background is not deep enough, it may be "sprayed" to death. If the academic achievements are not high enough, the promotion of simplified Chinese cannot be convincing.

"Well, then try it. I wonder if he will support me, a person who only meets for one time!" Chen Fei thought to himself. (My novel "The Tang Dynasty Politician" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there is also a 100% lottery gift for everyone! Open WeChat now, click the "+" sign in the upper right to "Add Friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow it, hurry up!) (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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