Datang started from being a salted fish

Chapter 112 Chinese Pinyin and Dictionaries

"Brother Yin, from now on, I can't do anything from now on, and I can't find the idea to solve the problem. I hope Brother Yin can help me solve my doubts." Li Tai bit the cap of his pen and said.

"Let me take a look." Wang Yin picked up the Mathematical Olympiad book, quickly glanced at which grade's first question it was, then turned around, pretending to be thinking, and quickly flipped to the last answer page to find it. answer. . .

Made!Fortunately, my brother has this search function, otherwise it would be too realistic to pretend. . .

After reading the answer, Wang Yin secretly breathed a sigh of relief: Fortunately, it is an elementary school Mathematical Olympiad question, at least he can understand the answer himself. . .

"Ahem, this question itself is not difficult." Wang Yin handed the book to Li Tai, holding his hands behind his back, "It's all about some basic applications of formulas. As long as you find the right breakthrough, you can solve the problem." It can be easily resolved.”

"Look, draw a line here to divide the pattern into a triangle..." Wang Yin began to explain to Li Tai according to the answer.

That serious look, as if he really solved the problem by himself. . .

Following Wang Yin's explanation, Li Tai's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he nodded subconsciously.

"So it turned out to be so simple!" After Wang Yin finished explaining, Li Tai looked suddenly enlightened, and patted himself on the head: I didn't expect it to be so simple, how stupid!
Thinking of this, Li Tai thought for a while, then turned to another question, and started to calculate.

2 minutes later
Li Tai checked the answer twice, raised his head contentedly, and stretched himself.

In Wang Yin's mind, he immediately said, "Damn it": Damn, you can understand by analogy?Worthy of being a top student. . .It really is a scary creature. . .

As a prince, instead of engaging in politics, this kid started to study these things. This is obviously a mistake in the skill tree, right?

"Maybe, this Li Tai can really become the first mathematician and scientist in Datang?" Wang Yin thought to himself looking at Li Tai with a satisfied smile on his face.

Li Yuan is better, he knows what level he is, so it's not surprising that he doesn't understand, but seeing Li Tai solve the previous problem by analogy, he feels happy for a while.

Kong Yingda is a complete Sparta. . .

What did they say just now?
line segment?area?square? . . . . . .

What the hell is this?Can't understand at all?
Could it be that the math I learned before was all fake?
At this moment, Kong Yingda had deep doubts about the knowledge he was proud of. . .

"His Royal Highness, what are these so-called 'line segments', 'areas', and 'squares'?" Kong Yingda asked her doubts.

"This..." Li Tai hesitated, where should he start now?
"Uncle Kong, don't make any trouble. If you want to know, you should go back and learn from the beginning. I tell you now that you don't understand." Wang Yin rolled his eyes helplessly.

Hearing Wang Yin's words, and looking at Li Tai's hesitant and tangled expression, Kong Yingda instantly felt rejected. . .

No, are you really okay with this?
Don't the elders know?

This will make the elderly very sad!
"What do these strange characters mean?" Kong Yingda is also a practical person. Seeing that these basic knowledge could not be understood for the time being, he turned his attention to the letters.

"This thing, the letters, are for marking." Wang Yin looked at it and said.

"What is a letter?" Kong Yingda continued to ask.

"Letters are for marking." Wang Yin pointed to the dots marked by letters on the title: "Otherwise, we can't talk about the corner here and the line over there, so people won't be able to understand it."

Kong Yingda thought for a while, and found that what Wang Yin said really made sense.

With these "letters" marked, people can intuitively see the meaning of the title in an instant, which is really very convenient.

"Miaozai, Miaozai." Kong Yingda stroked his beard and nodded.

"Then how do you pronounce these letters? Are there other uses?" Kong Yingda continued to ask.

"It really does exist." Wang Yin said: "Speaking of which, the way of thinking and its use are still integrated."

Having said that, Wang Yin took the paper and pen on the table and wrote the word 'Wang', dyed red and marked it with pinyin and tones.

"Look, this is my surname, and the one on it is the pinyin made up of letters." Wang Yin pointed to the things on the paper and explained: "These four letters are wu a ne ge respectively, but the three letters a ne ge behind this are wu a ne ge. The two are to be read together, read as 'ang' and read together."

Kong Yingda thought about Wang Yin's words after hearing the words: "Wu... Ang... King?"

"Yes, but the tone needs four tones, and the slash above is the tone."

Not only Kong Yingda, but a group of people were all in the dark.

The main reason is that Wang Yin's speech was too messy, and they couldn't understand it at all when they were stuffed with so many things at once.

Wang Yin himself also discovered this problem, so he thought about it for a while, took out a new piece of draft paper, and wrote the pinyin letters on it one by one.

"These are called pinyin letters. The sounds we usually speak are composed of these." Wang Yin tapped the letters one by one with a pen, and taught them one by one: "This letter reads 'ah', and this circle reads ' The letter 'wo' is read as 'amount'..."

Wang Yin spent an hour explaining the consonants and finals to this group of people. During the period, he had to correct everyone's mispronunciation and answer some of their questions.

At this moment, Wang Yin suddenly felt like he was teaching a group of kindergarten children.

Thinking of this, Wang Yin glanced around the crowd: Yes. . .It's just that this little friend's age is a bit out of line. . .

"You can try to write your names in pinyin." Wang Yin suggested to them, and handed out a few more gel pens.

The first time they came into contact with this kind of knowledge, everyone was very curious and thought it looked very interesting, so they picked up a pen and paper and began to write and draw.

Not surprisingly, Xueba Tai was the first to complete the task satisfactorily, writing completely correctly.

The second one who got it right is Kong Yingda, um, doctor, nothing wrong~
Then. . .There's no after that. . .

Li Yuan spelled his name as 'li yan'.

Cheng Lingxue spelled out 'chen lin xe'.

Well, as expected of Cheng Yaojin's daughter. . .

As expected. . .

Wang Yin picked up a pen and revised the two papers, and finally the name was correct.

"It's okay, it's normal to learn things slowly when you're old." Wang Yin patted Li Yuan on the shoulder and comforted him.

Li Yuan just breathed a sigh of relief, and then realized something was wrong: Are you comforting someone?Haven't you seen that Kong Yingda is older than me? . .

"The genetic problem is not your fault." Wang Yin patted Cheng Lingxue's arm.

Cheng Lingxue: Genetic problem?What's the meaning?Brother Yin, do you blame me?That's not because I'm stupid.

Cheng Lingxue, who had 'figured it out', immediately became happy again: "It seems that I am still very smart!"

"From this point of view, if you master these 'pinyin letters', wouldn't everyone be able to read and write?" Li Yuan was worthy of being an emperor, and he grasped the point at once.

"That's right, that's how our kindergartens come here." Looking at their bewildered expressions, Wang Yin explained: "It's the children who have just started learning."

Everyone suddenly realized when they heard the words, and nodded secretly.

"After learning pinyin, it will be much easier to learn characters in the future. As long as you put pinyin on the characters, you can read them even if you don't know how to write them." Li Tai said while biting the cap of his pen.

Hearing Li Tai's words, Li Yuan became excited instantly.

If it is popularized according to Wang Yin's method, wouldn't the common people in the Tang Dynasty be able to read and write?
Thinking of this, Li Yuan was so happy that he almost fainted. . .

"But if you mark all the characters in the world, I'm afraid it will not be an easy task." Kong Yingda expressed his doubts: "And if you encounter a character you have never seen before, wouldn't it take a lot of time to look it up one by one? ?”

"That's why there is such a thing as a dictionary." Wang Yin said with a posses.

"What is a dictionary?" Everyone asked in unison.

"Before we talk about dictionaries, let's talk about radicals." Wang Yin said, and took out a complete book of radicals.

There is no way, pinyin can still be remembered, there are too many radicals, only ghosts can remember. . .

It doesn't matter if you can't remember, as long as you have a book. . .

Another hour later, Wang Yin explained the radicals. Unsurprisingly, Xueba Tai was still the first person to figure it out.

And what's even more frightening is that this guy copied all the radicals in the book, and marked the pronunciation in pinyin later. . .

Wang Yin looked at Li Tai again as if he saw a ghost: You are such a freak after all, even if you are a top student, your memory is so hot. . .

Wang Yin looked at Li Tai, then turned his head to look at Cheng Lingxue: There is no harm if there is no comparison. . .

"Brother Yin, what's the matter?" Cheng Lingxue couldn't help but wondered when he saw Wang Yin shaking his head at him.

"It's nothing..." Wang Yin patted her shoulder lightly: "You're fine... not bad..."

Cheng Lingxue looked at Wang Yin in bewilderment: Why do you think Brother Yin's tone is weird?Forget it, just know that he is praising me anyway!

"His Royal Highness Wei Wang, this way, it will be easier to remember." Kong Yingda patted his ass flatteringly.

Seeing his grandson giving him such a long face, Li Yuan polished his beard and showed a satisfied smile.

"If you understand the radicals, a dictionary can explain them easily." Wang Yin picked up a pen and began to write and draw on the paper.

"There are three ways to look up the dictionary..." Wang Yin explained while demonstrating on the paper.

After everyone figured out what Wang Yin meant, they were all shocked again.

"With this dictionary, there will be no illiterate people in the world!" Li Yuan said excitedly.

(End of this chapter)