At the beginning, a blogger discovered that the famous line from "Mencius: Gaozi II" in several versions of Chinese books, "Therefore, heaven will give great responsibilities to man," seems to be different from what I learned before. In his memory, this sentence is clearly written like this:
Therefore, heaven will give great responsibilities to man. Although
has only changed one word, the meaning is the same, and it all means "this", after all, this is a textbook or an ancient text, so we must still follow the original text. Even if there are "typos" in it, we can also view it as and fake words, anyway, it cannot be changed casually.
But the problem is that whether it is people education club or some netizens, they all said very firmly: they have always been "human" rather than "this person".
As early as September 7 this year, Wen Rumin, chief editor-in-chief of the Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary schools, and professor of the Chinese Department of Peking University, had a public response: It is originally "a person".
This is the conclusion he came to after checking many books. In addition, he also believes that the selected authoritative versions of the Chinese textbooks are all authoritative versions and cannot be changed at will.
And when you open the Siku full book engraved version of "Mencius Collection Notes" and see that it is also "human".
Ming Dynasty's "Mencius Annotation and Interpretation of the Sutra" is also "this is a human".
And the Chinese textbooks of the People's Education Press are all "human".
But many netizens still expressed their disapproval. What I learned to memorize before was "this person", and this sentence is a famous sentence. Not only do you have to memorize it but also write it down to take the exam. How could you be wrong? The comments in the comment section all show that what I learned before was really "this person".
Some media conducted a survey, and the results showed that 94% of netizens who participated in the voting said that they were "this person" in their memory.
Although some netizens searched through so many versions of Chinese documents, all of which were "human".
Some people also say that this is "collective amnesia", and call this phenomenon " Mandela effect ", which means that the public's collective memory of history does not match historical facts.
But no matter how you prove that this is always "human", or someone is willing to believe their memories and says "I am always a human being when the king of heaven comes."
With this momentum, it will encourage others to believe in themselves. So some people started looking for books and found textbooks that they had learned to write about "this person". Not to mention, someone really found them.
And it is not only in textbooks, but also in other relatively authoritative files.
The evidence is conclusive. It is really not just "humans", but there are also "people". We do not have collective amnesia, but the publishers are different. Although it is just a subtle difference and the meaning is the same, it is this difference in details that makes us believe in our memories again and the books we have read.
So, are you learning "is a person" or "this person"?
