Recently, the changes in the use of Chinese textbooks have caused heated discussions among netizens. Whether it is "Heaven will give great responsibilities to this man" or "Heaven will give great responsibilities to this man" has not stopped a debate. Another controversial point

"The Direct Interpretation of Chu Ci" is "The Road Manman is Flexible" (Data Photo)

Yangcheng Evening News reporter Chen Liang

Recently, the changes in the use of Chinese textbooks have caused heated discussions among netizens. "Therefore, heaven will give great responsibilities to this man" or "Therefore, heaven will give great responsibilities to this man" are still debated, and another controversial point of "to interrogate" memory appears again - a third-year Chinese teacher in Hangzhou found that Chinese textbooks quoted the famous ancient Chinese line "The Road Manman is Flexible, I will search up and down" in the comprehensive learning content, which is different from the "The Road Manman is Flexible" in the memory of most netizens. Should it be "man" or "man"?

More than one version of ancient books and textbooks are "Manman"

. For this reason, a reporter from Yangcheng Evening News also read multiple versions of ancient books and Chinese textbooks. "The Direct Interpretation of Chu Ci" is written as "Lu Manman is so far away", and the notes are attached to "Man Man Man's work in "Explanation""; the first volume of the first volume of the liberal arts textbook "Selected Chinese Literary Works" of colleges and universities is compiled as "Lu Manman is so far away", and the annotation is "Manman" as "Far-looking"; and the online screenshot sentences are from the comprehensive learning materials for students in the second unit of the ninth grade volume of the textbook "Chinese" in the ninth grade volume of the textbook "Chinese" in the second unit of the "Gentleman is so far away", which is used here: "Lu Manman is so far away".

reporter also noticed that multiple versions of Chinese textbooks have contents of Qu Yuan or " Lisao ". However, there is no content in the text text that "the road is long and arduous" or "the road is long and arduous". For example, the second volume of the unified textbook "Chinese" high school is "Li Sao" (excerpt), and the fifth textbook "Chinese" in the fifth volume of the second volume of the unified textbook "Chinese" has the script "Qu Yuan" (excerpt). The third volume of the high school people's education edition in 2000 is "Li Sao" (excerpt), and the sixth volume contains " Biography of Qu Yuan " (excerpt). The People's Education Press version of the 2004 edition includes "Li Sao" (excerpt), and the Guangdong Education Press version includes "Li Sao" (excerpt). The above version of the Chinese textbook does not use the paragraph where "The road is long and the distance is long" is located.

Philology research expert: Both can be

A senior Chinese teacher in Guangzhou, Teacher Li, told reporters that Guangzhou has been using the Guangdong Education Edition textbook in the first year of high school since 2005. There is "Li Sao" (excerpt), but there is no "long road" part. In 2020, I started using the new textbooks compiled by the Ministry in the first year of high school, but I also did not choose the paragraph where this sentence is located. "I usually talk about 'roads are long'. I have never heard of 'Lu Manman' before, but in classical Chinese, this version is very common, and sometimes the meaning will change, not to mention 'Lu Manman' means the same." Teacher Li said.

Ancient characters research scholar and professor of the School of Humanities of Guangzhou University 未分类文文 believes that according to the information such as " Shuowen Jiezi ", "Man" has a long meaning, and "man" means "water vast". The word "man" seems to have not been seen in documents unearthed in pre-Qin, and it appeared later. As a pre-Qin work, the original text may be "Manman". "Man" should be the breeding and differentiation of "Man". It will not be too late to use "long" to express the "long-term road". Later, the different texts in "Li Sao" were formed. The phenomenon of replacing the original ancient characters with the word "breeding and differentiating" is not uncommon in literature. "Because it means a broad and long-term meaning, 'Man' is not commonly used, and 'Man' is more commonly used, which may have affected the impression of more people. It is believed that the original text of "Li Sao" is "Manman". "

As for which version of the textbook should be used, Xiong Jiancong pointed out that since "Chu Ci" has been passed down, there are two versions, and the pronunciation and meaning of the two versions are similar, and there is no substantial difference. Just follow the contemporary textbooks. Both "man" and "man" are correct. You don't have to follow an earlier version. It is better to mark the source of the cited version if necessary. "It is said that we need to trace back to the earlier appearance. In fact, many ancient books have been compiled by and 4 people in the Han Dynasty. Some of them have newly discovered and unearthed documents. The use of characters is quite different from that in the past. It is not easy to explain which one is the earliest." said Xu Jiancong. In addition, it is quite interesting if the teacher can briefly extend the situation in the classroom based on the different texts and talk about the phenomenon of breeding and differentiation of Chinese characters.

Source: Yangcheng Evening News