Drainage Is Better Than Blockage
As a leader, Yue Yuan naturally recognized this as well.
After all, more than three thousand years ago, the First Emperor, who ended the feudal system in Huaxia and established a centralized system, had already recognized the importance of a unified language and script.
Yes, it was the First Emperor who ended the feudal system, not the First Emperor who created it.
Because as early as Yue Yuan's youth, the textbooks he studied had already redefined the feudal system based on the development of Huaxia itself.
The term "feudalism" is exactly what it sounds like: granting land and establishing states. Feudalism, like the Zhou Dynasty's system of dividing the land into various vassal states, is what we call feudalism. From the Qin Dynasty onwards, it was a centralized system, or more accurately, a system of prefectures and counties. Of course, you could call it an imperial system, but it wasn't a feudal dynasty.
In fact, if Yue Yuan hadn't frequently communicated with Yi Kai, he wouldn't have even known that in Yi Kai's time, there was such a thing as defining the more than two thousand years after the Qin Dynasty as feudalism.
Yue Yuan wasn't ignorant about history, but since he wasn't a professional history student, it was normal for him not to know this kind of thing.
According to Yi Kai, the definition at the time was actually misled by the mainstream Western academia, who blindly applied the city-state system there to themselves. Later, as Huaxia returned to its historical position, scholars who gained cultural confidence gradually gained the right to speak and then revised these ideas according to their own circumstances.
At this moment, Yue Yuan had probably browsed through the dozens of pages of the proposal and found that there seemed to be some room for improvement in the legal provisions.
So he said, "Regarding the legal provisions, you should consult legal experts. If you're going to do this, you should do it well. Language and culture are a treasure trove of Human Civilization. Their value cannot be measured by material standards. A race's language reflects the characteristics of that race. It not only contains the race's history and culture, but also contains the race's views on life, lifestyle, and way of thinking. Moreover, this work cannot be accomplished overnight. After the draft is passed, you will probably be busy for a long time."
"Don't worry, Chief of Staff, we will definitely do it well," the group said in unison.
They clearly understood Yue Yuan meant.
Yue Yuan's discourse extends beyond the Chinese language to include other languages as well.
The statement "Language and culture are the treasure trove of Human Civilization" means that they should not only do a good job in the Chinese language, but also organize the various languages of humankind in the past, because the languages and cultures of humankind in the past are all treasure troves of humankind.
Of course, compiling other languages does not mean implementing a multilingual system in future human societies, but rather compiling and storing them in Human Database.
Because language contains ways of thinking, people who speak different languages will inevitably have different ways of thinking, thus making it impossible for them to truly become one country.
Therefore, the First Emperor, more than 3,000 years ago, wanted to "standardize the written language." However, precisely because each language contains different cultural information and ways of thinking, the First Emperor could not allow the written languages of the six states to disappear.
Thus, the measure of gathering the books of the six states in the Qin Palace was taken, which was done to prevent the complete disappearance of the linguistic and cultural diversity of the six states.
Alas, the Chu people set it ablaze, leaving only scorched earth.
Actually, this was quite difficult and involved a lot of work. Because of the nature of Callisto, and because the disaster was so sudden, the base's database didn't contain much information in many languages.
These languages don't have to be learned, but we should try to include them in the database if possible, since they are all part of human cultural heritage. Besides, these things might be useful in analyzing alien languages in the future.
Seeing that the matter was temporarily resolved, Yue Yuan said, "Alright, then you should go back first and refine the proposal before the voting meeting begins!"
As he spoke, he checked the time and realized it was quite late. He had originally planned to learn about the specific details of Controlled Nuclear Fusion technology at the Physics Research Institute, but now that he had been interrupted by Lu Xiaofen and her group of language workers, it seemed he would have to postpone his trip until another day.
However, it was precisely because of this interruption that Yue Yuan realized the importance of cultural development.
Time passed day by day.
Two weeks later, the revised "Draft Proposal on Several Suggestions on the Standardization of Language and Writing" was successfully reviewed and voted on at the voting meeting, and then entered the stage of publication.
Because the majority of passengers on the Hope train are Chinese, this policy of standardizing and refining Chinese characters has received great attention and widespread support among the Hope train passengers.
Especially when they saw that all Censored words and phrases had been removed, countless people brought out their long-forgotten vintage wines to celebrate.
After getting drunk, he shouted things like "the literary inquisition is finally over."
"Hahaha, Lao Pao, you can get lost now." A netizen tagged his friend in a family chat group, happily using the word 'get lost' instead of 'get lost' as before.
"Eat shit!" The guy known as the Lao Pao " immediately replied in the group. He could now openly use the word "shit" instead of "shit".
And 'Run' and 'Xiang' have finally returned to their original meanings.
"Don't you have any culture? Can't you say anything else besides this?" The netizen immediately condemned the Lao Pao's use of the word "shit".
"Of course I can! Let me recite a poem for you: 'Stopping the carriage to admire the maple forest at dusk, the frosted leaves are redder than the flowers of February!'" Lao Pao replied with a text message.
Another group member chimed in. "You're really something!"
"I have to say, this time those language experts finally did something worthwhile. They actually realized that it's better to guide than to block. Haha, now we don't have to worry about communicating with you guys using Morse Code anymore." Another friend who had been lurking in the group for many years also popped up.
"What insight? If you ask me, they actually knew this principle a long time ago, it's just that they didn't before..."
Similar conversations abound on the Hope Network, mostly expressing personal feelings, but some go too far in venting.
These people picked up their communicators and sent a bunch of text messages to their friends of the opposite sex that could only be displayed before, in order to vent their years of resentment.
Thanks to the efforts of language workers, a wave of language enthusiasm swept through the Hope Ship.
A fictionalized account is not a fabrication, and an adaptation is not a random rewriting.
I know this is a release of pent-up frustration, but this trend is ultimately undesirable. The original intention of this proposal from language professionals was not to turn Human Civilization into an environment filled with profanity and online vulgarity.
Therefore, after this surge of interest emerged, the Propaganda Department once again leveraged its strengths and began to guide this phenomenon from a moral perspective.
The Propaganda Department was prepared, because this problem had been anticipated by relevant scholars during the proposal voting stage.
Indeed, such a proposal is a double-edged sword, but humanity has not hesitated to act against it just because it is a double-edged sword. After all, if we're talking about double-edged swords, technology is also a double-edged sword.
It's better to guide than to block.
When "mentally challenged" becomes a censored term, "wise" takes on a new meaning.
The humans on the Hope did not want things to eventually deteriorate to the point where they could only communicate secretly using Sherlock Holmes, so they chose to implement this bill.
A double-edged sword is all about how the person wielding it uses it.
Many problems are not the fault of the users, but rather the fault of the rule-makers.
In light of this feedback, linguists and those working in language-related fields subsequently produced a joint proposal as a supplement to the "Draft Suggestions on Standardizing Language and Writing." Still concerning language and writing, its main point was to revert many characters that should not have been simplified to their original forms.
For example, returning the character for "cloud" to the character for "cloud," and then digging up the character for "cloud" that had been buried in the ground for who knows how many years, means that on the Hope, the love of human writing has been restored, the dragon has become the original dragon, and the car has become a car again. According to linguists, the purpose of this change is to make Chinese characters revert to their original ideographic nature, enhance the connection between "character" and "meaning," thereby reducing the memory cost for humans and thus reducing the difficulty of learning languages.
(PS: The "." in "but before" is being watched by mythical beasts, I dare not say anything.)