Chapter 286 Speech (Previous)

"The Master said that the people can be used to do things but not know them. This is a sentence in "The Analects of Confucius & Taibo Chapter 8". I believe that many students from the ancient Chinese literature department know that there are great differences in the meaning of these two sentences in the academic community. Different pronunciations will cause different meanings, such as "The Master said: The people can be used to do things, but not know them." The meaning is that the common people only need to let them do things, but not tell them why they do this. Another pronunciation is: "The Master said: People can be used to make them, but not know them." The original sentence of this sentence is: "The Master said: Promote poetry, establish etiquette, and achieve joy. People can be used to make them, but not to make them know them."

"The whole sentence of Confucius means that poetry, rituals and music are the basis for educating the people. We must do it well. If the people master poetry, rituals and music, let them play freely. If the people still cannot play these things, we must educate them and let them know and understand these things."

"The current debate in the academic community on this sentence originated from Confucius' thoughts and the policies of feudal emperors. As we all know, Confucius is called an excellent educator with "teaching but not being different", so from this point of view, Confucius' meaning should be the latter. However, in order to maintain his own rule, the feudal emperors deliberately distorted the meaning of this sentence into the former... Of course, I am not a linguist, and I don't want to argue about this big issue in the academic world. After all, Confucius's sage had long passed away, and no matter how much the dispute was, this matter would never have a result.

"But based on this sentence, we can see that an ordinary sentence can express two completely opposite meanings. This is the beauty of Chinese language - fuzzy!"

"But we can also think of it this way. In Confucius' era, it was an era when the people were not civilized. At that time, there were many different opinions, like a hundred flowers blooming. The real purpose of each school of thought was to find a perfect path to govern the country. It can be said that at that time, even some sages and saints, when they looked at this world, the eyes of this society may not be as good as those of us in modern times, because we already had a set of relatively perfect basic principles."

The students below all laughed.

Han Feng continued: "But during that period, there were constant quarrels between schools, and no one could come up with a way to convince everyone. To give the simplest example, Confucianism values ​​morality, and Legalism values ​​law. Of course, there is no problem with the two schools. If all the world is saints, then the problem can be solved without the law. If the law is perfected to a certain extent, then the social stability can be maintained. But from our current perspective, law and morality can complement each other, which is the limitation of the times."

"Because of this limitation, I think...oh, let me say this, this is completely my personal understanding. If you understand it wrong, don't throw tomatoes."

Another burst of laughter.

"In my personal understanding, Confucius meant the former, for the social environment at that time, that is, not letting the people know why they should do this and just work hard. Because of the social turmoil at that time, the educational resources were much worse than that now, so if the words of universal education were mentioned at that time, they would be regarded as a psychopath." The students smiled again, and Han Feng continued: "So at that time, the truth that the people could use it, but not know it was also reasonable, and it could even be said to be very correct!"

"But with the development and progress of the times, national strength has increased, and the desire for talents and productivity has become increasingly greater. This statement is no longer possible. We should choose the second meaning, that is, to express Confucius' idea of ​​"teaching but not being different". Only by letting the people understand why they should do this and let them have knowledge, can the country be prosperous and the society be progressive! This is also our current form of education, not the policy of fooling the people in feudal society."

"A short sentence not only contains two completely opposite meanings, but these two meanings are not contradictory, but are united in opposition. This is not only the wisdom of Confucius, but also the wisdom of the Chinese people. It is also the charm of ancient Chinese language! And languages ​​of this nature are the most suitable programming language for artificial intelligence, because this language has given lifeless computers a kind of thought and a fresh thought!"

A burst of thunderous applause immediately sounded below, and many students stood up and shouted excitedly, while others shouted: "Han Feng, you are our pride!"

"Han Feng, you are the pride of Chinese people!"

I have to say that for college students, learning foreign languages ​​is really a very depressing thing. As a compulsory course now, English is a tragedy of Chinese in a sense. Even Chinese students have to prepare for the CET-4 and CET-6 exam, which is really ironic.

As the most common language in the world, English has strong status that makes people have to learn, and Han Feng actually derogated English to "innate weakness" in the field of computers, which has forced Chinese students of Everbright to be very angry.

As for foreign students, I didn’t understand Han Feng’s words very much just now, and I don’t know where to refute them.

In fact, Han Feng didn't say anything. This was an article drawn by pirates from the Internet. It said: Since ancient times, Jiuzhou in the Central Plains was the center of the world, and Cangjie created characters. This kind of characters was used by the nobles at that time. This aristocrat refers to the people of Jiuzhou. As for those barbarians who transformed from foreign countries, they did not have the qualifications to use characters, so what they learned was only "sound".

This is true for the Latin language. In a sense, there are only syllables but no words. So if this conjecture is true, then the Latin language is originally a "low-level" language.

Of course, the person who wrote this article was probably a wise angry young man, and it was okay to say this in private as a joke, but without real evidence, it would not be so appropriate to say it in front of so many people. But this also gave Han Feng an inspiration, so he secretly expressed this point from the perspective of programming.

As for how those linguists argue, let them argue!

Han Feng can predict that this is his first public explanation of intelligent programming languages. What he said today will definitely be headlines in technology newspapers and magazines tomorrow. As for what they will make arguing, Han Feng doesn’t want to worry about it. Anyway, let them make a big fuss. Anyway, my intelligent programming system has been born. Even the experts in the Pentagon in the United States can’t crack it. Are you still worried about other people?

As for the issue of state secrets, Han Feng had long said hello to the military, and the military could not hide this kind of academic issue for a long time. Moreover, the birth of the intelligent system is also a huge improvement in China's reputation.

And more importantly, the military tycoons understand that this new programming language basically does not have the risk of leaking secrets. On the contrary, Han Feng’s speeches can bring many people who covet this technology into a dead end. The other party cannot produce the finished product of the intelligent system through Han Feng’s words, otherwise wouldn’t the intelligent system be too low-level?

It seems that the manufacturing principles of atomic bombs have been written in high school physics books these days, but how many people can make a few atomic bombs based on these simple images to play with? Especially those foreigners, if you want to create an intelligent system, please pass the Chinese CET-4 and CET-6 first!

This sentence is not only what the military bosses and Han Feng think, but the students below are also yelling like this at this moment - especially the students in the Chinese department, who have been suppressed by the Foreign Language Department for a long time, so many people are discussing: How should foreigners take the CET-4 exam? Isn’t there a joke?

Classical Chinese is too simple, and you can answer the questions with a brush, which is cheap. They are angry. One person, a knife, a turtle shell, and carve oracle bone inscriptions! The title of the thesis is: On the Three Represents! When it comes to listening tests, you use Jay Chou’s songs. Listen to "Narcup" twice, and you can only listen to "Chrysanthemum Platform" once. The reading comprehension is all government work report. The composition is an essay. If you take the oral exam, you will sing Peking Opera, and if you take the experiment, you will get chopsticks!

Seeing that the lower part was getting louder and noisy, the host Zhou Ruotong had to pick up the microphone and say several words in succession: "Please be quiet, here is the time to ask questions freely."

As soon as I asked questions freely, the students' interest immediately rose. For a moment, countless people raised their hands. The cadres of the student union had to hand the microphone to the classmates next to the aisle. Coincidentally, the first person to get the microphone was a female student from the Department of Neuroscience. She pushed her glasses on her nose and said, "Hello, Han Feng, I am a junior in the Department of Neuroscience. I heard that when you first entered the school, you were in the Department of Computer Science, and you were also an excellent computer expert. This can be seen from the six-degree space you developed. So what we don't understand is why you later transferred to our Department of Neuroscience? Is this choice helpful to your research?"
Chapter completed!