Chapter 1642 - 1073: Heroine of the Republic 47 (5000+)_2

Chapter 1642: Chapter 1073: Heroine of the Republic 47 (5000+)_2

It’s constantly correcting, yet there’s no way to explain the reason, or why pronunciation must be this way. People have been pronouncing it like this since childhood, and when you suddenly stand up and say the word should be different, there are bound to be quite a few voices of doubt!

With so many corrections and doubts, she just pretended not to notice. Otherwise, she would spend the whole class arguing over these tones.

So, before there were Pinyin letters, how did we learn pronunciation?

Actually, we used either direct phonetics or fanqie methods to annotate the pronunciation of Chinese characters.

The so-called direct phonetics is using homophones to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters. If the homophones are rare characters, even with the pronunciation noted, they cannot be pronounced correctly.

As for fanqie, it uses two Chinese characters to annotate the pronunciation of another character. The first character in fanqie has the same initial consonant as the annotated character, and the second character shares the same vowel and tone.

No matter which method it is, just listening to it feels complicated, not to mention using it; it’s simply bewildering, and it’s inconvenient to use.

The history of Chinese Pinyin’s development is very long. Simply put, the Pinyin we learn today can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. It wasn’t until the autumn of fifty-eight that it officially entered elementary school classrooms.

Here, a special example needs to be given, like the most controversial English spelling of Shanxi and Shaanxi. If it’s Henan, the English name is (henan), but the pronunciation of Shanxi and Shaanxi in Chinese Pinyin is the same, so how do we differentiate it in English?

Later, it was discovered that the official Pinyin for Shanxi is (shanxi), but Shaanxi is (shaanxi), with an extra ’a’ before the letter ’n’. Many people don’t know this common point and naturally assume it’s wrong, but it is not.

It merely applies the concept of National Romanization, which is a plan for Latinizing Chinese characters and was also the phonetic system during the period of the Republic of China. Hence, there’s a saying about the development history of Chinese Pinyin evolving from the Tang Dynasty to today, which is very lengthy and includes this National Romanization.

In modern Chinese, tone symbols are used to mark the four tones, namely yin (first tone) flat, yang (second tone) flat, rising (third tone), and departing (fourth tone), but National Romanization does not use symbols to denote tones. Instead, it directly uses letters to label them. To give a simple example, āáǎà corresponds to Romanization as a ar aa ah, so the third tone ǎ in Chinese Pinyin, which is the ǎ in shǎnxi, corresponds to aa, thus resulting in shaanxi.

Thus, even the later Pinyin is quite refined, but special cases still need special treatment.

An Yi wanted to directly teach them, but before the official documents were released, she had to endure it. Even if it means going through more troubles, she can’t blow the cover.

Previously, she revealed her cover to Anna and Angel. Perhaps within a few years, they will realize that it is a big BUG.

So when it came to An Hu, she was extremely cautious, afraid of making another mistake, even if it means going through more troubles?

In July and August, when there were the most vegetables in the field, every household began drying vegetables, such as potato, cucumber, green beans, eggplant, chili, and others. As long as it could be dried, they dried it all, so when winter came, they wouldn’t worry about having no vegetables to eat.

An Yi loved sweet potatoes and potatoes the most, steaming them, then drying them for storage; in winter, she would stew them with meat, and the taste was incredibly delicious.

Green beans are boiled and dried on a rope. Green beans are split in half and dried directly. Eggplants are dehydrated and dried. The most unique is cucumbers.

They are cut into slices, dices, and strips, mixed in clean plant ashes, and then dried. When eating, you need to wash them many times before they’re clean. Of course, the taste is excellent when eating.

In addition to these, there are dried plums, various pickled vegetables, and sauerkraut. For the lengthy winter, housewives have been busy with their hands since the vegetables began to increase.

An Yi’s home has quite a few people this year. Vegetables need to be prepared in advance. What can be bought is purchased; what can’t be bought is exchanged with goods. In conclusion, starting in July, she had already instructed An Hu to ask around from house to house in the village. Later, when some households had them, they directly brought them to their home for exchange. This year is special; the vegetables they planted were cheap for the Yi family. They’ll make do this year; next year, they won’t plant grains, but will plant all vegetables.

Hu Zi’s benefits at home are tremendous, fertilizing the potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn for the home, chopping wood in the mountains, searching for mountain goods, collecting mushrooms. Anyway, he hasn’t been idle with the village elders. He may not understand, but he knows how to get by. This kid clearly knows how to read people, working hard and being very savvy, knowing what good words people like to hear so they’ll take him, knowing who to respect so they’ll be willing to teach him. When seeing capable people in the village, he’d run over quickly. If he caught something good in the river, even if he didn’t eat it himself, he’d send it over.