Starting from two typos in Yu's Notes on Mountain Residence

First of all, I declare that I read the original version of Mr. Yu's Notes on Mountain Residence, and there is no piracy problem. Besides, I admire Yu Xiansheng very much. I have read his works, such as Cultural Journey, Notes on Mountain Residence, A Sigh of the Millennium, and watched some of his talk shows, and I was deeply impressed by his grand view of history, profound thinking and concise and accurate writing. It is out of respect for Mr. Yu that I carefully read his masterpiece and made the following findings and thoughts. As the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle said, "I love my teacher, and I love truth more." When reading, you should have a critical eye and a questioning attitude. If we believe in all books, it is better to have no books.

Recently, in his spare time, he read an article entitled "Fragile Capital" in Notes on Mountain Residence. When talking about the prosperity of Yangzhou, Mr. Yu quoted a poem from Du Mu's "Farewell", which said, "I feel the dream of Yangzhou for ten years and get a bad life in a brothel." At first reading, I only feel that the ends of the two sentences are silent. What do you think of "unlucky life"? After a quick check, I realized that the original sentence should be "I dreamed of Yangzhou for ten years and got the name of a brothel", and misspelled the word "name" as "fate". This may be the mistake of the typesetter, or it may be that Mr. Yu didn't pay much attention because he used it frequently and was easy to read. As the saying goes, even smart people may worry a lot. For a cultural scholar like Yu, such a problem is inevitable.

Coincidentally, in the following Story of the End of the World, it is written that Su Shi, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, was relegated again and again and traveled across the ocean from the wild Huizhou to Hainan Island, where the Li people lived in compact communities. He has made a coffin and chosen a cemetery, and plans to be buried under a coconut grove after his death. Optimism and the nature of finding beauty once again make suffering a strange experience in your life. Mr. Yu quoted several poems by Su Dongpo in the article, the first of which, The Longitudinal Pen, wrote:

Silent Dongpo is a patient,

The white beard is full of frost and wind.

Children mistakenly like Zhu Yan,

I don't know. It's burgundy when you smile.

Because I have seen this poem before, I remember it is "wine red when I smile". Is it "that" or "where" I looked it up on the Internet and found that there was the word "that" in the original poem, but it does mean "that" here, which means rhetorical question and negation. In order to find out the difference between these two words, I specially searched on a poetry software, and the results showed which word appeared in the poems of three generations of poets in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and which word was useful in the Southern Song Dynasty, a little later than Su Shi's. For example, Xie Yi said in a four-line chronicle that "I don't know why flowers and trees are heartless and affect the sorrow of the Yangtze River", but Su Dongpo used that sentence in his poem, such as?

What is life like everywhere? It should be like flying in snow.

I accidentally left my fingers and claws in the mud, and Hong Fei was driving that complicated thing.

The old monk is dead and has become a new tower. There is no reason to look at the old topic with a broken wall.

Remember whether the past was rugged or not, and the long road was full of people.

The "that" here is also a rhetorical tone, so don't use it. I guess "that" was a popular word at that time, but Su Shi, as a scholar-bureaucrat, disdained to use it. After the development of Yuanqu in Ming and Qing Dynasties, the tone and negative meaning of rhetorical questions all used "which"! This is my subjective assumption about the evolution of that and that word. But what is certain is that Su Shi's poem is really "that", and Mr. Yu should respect the original work when quoting it, instead of changing it according to the current understanding. In that case, the common words in ancient books will be replaced.

This book of more than 200,000 words, this small flaw, is not worth making a fuss about. The problem of typos is even more difficult to prevent for a fool like me. I remember that some time ago, after listening to Wei Shusheng's report in Handan, I wrote an article about my experience. Because of busy work, short time and hasty writing, I almost made a joke. Actually, the topic was written as "concentrate on educating people to blossom, forget to establish static soil in scientific research". It is more fluent and more in line with Mr. Wei's original intention to regard "static soil" as "pure land" here. Writing "slack" also has the slack of "unwavering, persistent and not tossing". Thanks to my friend's generous advice, point out my mistakes and let me correct them in time. Sometimes mistakes are not terrible, but the key is our attitude towards them. The attitude of the sages is worth learning and remembering. Recently, I told a math problem to the students in class. Because I didn't judge the problem clearly and made a mistake, my classmates pointed it out to me in time. I didn't keep my dignity as a teacher and immediately criticized myself to my students. I hope students don't learn from me, but judge the problem carefully!

As long as we teach, write and do things with a rigorous attitude, even if there are some problems, we just need to seriously correct them after discovering them and not be too hard on ourselves. "Everyone makes mistakes."

But the typos in some media texts are too imprecise, and there are some impetuous things in them! Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. I read an article introducing the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival on an official WeChat account, saying that Wu Zixu was killed by Fu Cha and threw himself into the river on May 5, in which it was mentioned that Gou Jian, the king of Yue, wrote "Jian Yue"; Furthermore, an official WeChat account reported the World Cup group match in Russia: Argentina and Iceland drew with 1: 1, the whistle sounded "remember" and Messi kicked the football into the air. Maybe the editor is infected, too, and can't remember how to write the word "ring"! Hahaha!

Now all walks of life are under great pressure and have a fast pace. In order to complete the task, they have no time to proofread in detail, so mistakes are inevitable. Besides, how many people will pay attention to the right or wrong of these words now? What anyone says will be laughed at as pedantic, so why haggle over every ounce. What if it is wrong? It will not hinder social development, nor will it have a great impact on people-to-people communication. If you are wrong, I will be happy! But those big mainstream media rarely make such mistakes, which reflects a kind of responsibility and responsibility. Writing is a kind of education and inheritance, and its influence is not in the present but in the future and future generations. Chinese civilization has been handed down from generation to generation for five thousand years. I think this is inseparable from the intergenerational transmission and innovation of words and culture.

The rapid development of science and technology in modern society and the application of all kinds of intelligence have brought great convenience to people. Intelligent input method is reducing people's cognitive ability and perception level of words. Personalized input configuration will remember the user's wrong word combination, which is convenient for input and enlarges the error. These are all negative effects on Chinese characters, which are mainly composed of strokes and pictographs, so the country now puts forward very clear requirements for the writing of Chinese characters and the cultivation of calligraphy. While learning advanced, we must not forget the foundation, because words are the root of our culture and the soul of our nation!

As an educator, I will try my best to write carefully, use correct words and express accurately, and give students positive energy guidance and demonstration!