After the president of Peking University mispronounced "Honghu", Tsinghua University wrote the wrong word again. Netizens commented: Does it still deserve to be called a famous school?

Tsinghua University and Peking University are both well-known first-class universities in China. They both have a century-old history. They have produced countless famous figures and cultivated many social elites. During the Republic of China, Lu Xun taught at these two famous schools. , Hu Shi and other famous cultural masters, it can be said that Tsinghua and Peking University have been closely connected with Chinese history since the late Qing Dynasty. It is no wonder that everyone yearned for Tsinghua and Peking University when they were young.

Since it is a century-old prestigious school and a first-class institution, our impression of it is naturally that "the most educated people in the country are there". Any uneducated jokes made by other schools will not attract much attention, but Tsinghua University and Peking University make cultural jokes, which can easily cause public opinion to boil.

Two years ago, Peking University President Lin Jianhua gave a speech at the 120th anniversary celebration and read "Honghu (hú) ambition" as "Honghao (hào) ambition", which instantly ignited public opinion. Unless they are illiterate and have never gone to school, most people know how to pronounce the character "鹄" in "Honghu Zhi" and also know the source of the allusion of "Honghu Zhi":

"Lu Shi Chun Qiu Shi" "Rong": "The husband's spirit of galloping and the ambition of the swan are sincere."

"Historical Records·Chen She's Family": "Wow! The sparrow knows the ambition of the swan." !"

Of course, the pronunciation of the word "鄄" is indeed more than "hú" (the same pronunciation as "fox"). According to the "Kangxi Dictionary" of the Qing Dynasty, when "鄄" is pronounced as "hú", it means "hú". Swan;

When read as "hè", it refers to crane;

When read as "gǔ (same pronunciation as ancient)", it refers to the center of the arrow target, or target or purpose;

There is also a less well-known pronunciation of "gào" (the same pronunciation as "tiao"), which is usually used in place names.

These four pronunciations do not include the "hao" pronounced by Lin Jianhua, so many netizens raised questions and said they could not understand why he, as the president of Peking University, would make such a low-level mistake in public. ? As the principal, he is a cultural business card of Peking University. It is really ridiculous that he is not even as good as a junior high school student. That same year, Lin Jianhua resigned as president of Peking University.

Coincidentally, a year later, another "typo incident" occurred in Tsinghua University, which once again aroused discussion. At the orientation event, Tsinghua University’s banner clearly read, “Relief (it should be Lie) welcomes... new students.” This is even more wrong, because the word “relief” is often used in our lives. It is used, often said, and often seen. You can’t go wrong by hanging a banner at any hotel on the roadside.

As a prestigious school with a century-old history, Tsinghua University’s teachers and students’ cultural level is not low. If the students dictated it and the advertiser who created the slogan made a mistake, wouldn’t they have checked it after receiving it? And if students write the slogans and hand them over to advertisers, the problem is even bigger. Those who got into Tsinghua University even wrote the word "zealous" and "lie" wrongly.

Taking a step back, no one noticed the mistake when the banner was put up? If you find a mistake and still don't correct it, aren't you afraid of causing bad consequences? In fact, I can understand what netizens think. The president of Peking University issued an apology statement after reading a typo, saying that he was born in science and engineering, but his level of literature and history was not enough. He sincerely apologized for the typo incident, and then changed the topic and thought that everyone should pay more attention to his philosophy:

"Anxiety and Doubts cannot create value, but will hinder our progress towards the future. What can lead us to the future is firm confidence, the courage to face reality and the action of facing the future. ”