This sentence comes from an argumentative classical Chinese written by Mencius , "Born in distress, die in peace and happiness", the article borrows the experience of ancient sages such as Shun and Fu Shuo , who cheer up their spirits and work hard in difficulties and finally make great achievements, and then demonstrates the core idea of personal mission and even the survival of the country - "Beware of danger in times of peace".
This text has always been a key textbook in middle school Chinese textbooks. When I was in school, the teacher not only asked everyone to memorize it thoroughly, but also wrote it word for word.
In other words, everyone here remembers clearly every word in the article.
Before this incident came out, many netizens also believed in the content of the passage "Heaven will give great responsibility" and believed that those words were written like this. Until one day, someone found a pile of dusty information...
Your memory was tampered with?
Recently, a netizen posted a "shocking" article online-- "What happened? The timeline of our time and space seems to be moved by people! 》
According to his account in the article, when he was in school, the article "Born in distress, die in peace" in the textbook clearly stated that "Therefore, God will give great responsibilities to this person."
However, when he looked through the current Chinese textbook, he found that this sentence was written as "Therefore, God will give great responsibilities to , which is human ." He was stunned and hurried back and looked through the Chinese textbooks from more than ten years ago.
The result surprised him. Whether it was the 1910s, 2000s, or even the People's Education Press textbooks in the 1980s and 1990s, all of the texts written in the article are "man". After the incident of
was spread online, it quickly caused an uproar, and many people exclaimed: obviously I learned "this person"!
In order to help the people verify, on October 26, reporters from Upstream News visited the Chinese editorial department of the People's Education Press Middle School. It is learned that since the publisher included Mencius's "Born in Worry, Died in Happiness" text in 1961, the textbook articles have always been "Therefore, the heaven will give great responsibilities to , and it has never been said that "Therefore, the heaven will give great responsibilities to , and the human ".
Similarly, the chief editor-in-chief of the Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary schools of the Ministry of Education and professor of the Chinese Department of Peking University Wen Rumin told the media reporter that the text was selected from the "Mencius Translation and Notes" of Zhonghua Book Company , and has not revised the content of the paper, and it was originally "a person".
However, online voting surveys showed that 94% of netizens believed that what they remember was "this person", but 5% were human, and the remaining 1% meant they could not remember clearly.
The people's views are completely opposite to those of the Ministry of Education, and they feel a little incredible.
However, the publisher also emphasized that whether it is "this person" or "a person", both refer to "this person", and the meaning is exactly the same.
Although people say that the meaning is the same, in the face of this mismatch in memory and cognition, everyone has a strong desire for knowledge and wants to figure out what is going on.
But as the exploration of the incident deepened, many answers were contrary to what everyone thought, and people's reactions became even more uneasy.
For a while, this topic caused heated discussions among the people on the Internet about collective memory. Faced with the phenomenon of contradictory facts and memory, some people even had to use " Mandela effect " to explain all this.
"Mandela Effect" is a collective expression, which means that the public's collective memory of history is inconsistent with historical facts. The origin of this statement is that many people in the world believe that former South African president Nelson Mandela has died in prison in the 1980s.
Before 2010, someone suggested that he clearly remembered that Mandela had passed away in prison in the 1980s. The man stated that he had watched the reports, the TV clips of the funeral, and even the speech of Mandela's widow making tears. After the statement spread, it received a large number of netizens responded to it, saying that he had the same memory.
But facts have proved that Mandela lived until 2013 to truly leave, which is completely different from what many people thought before.
By the way, Beyond band created his representative work "Glorious Years" for Mandela in 1990, and he himself burst into tears after listening to this song. This deed was also mentioned by CCTV5 channel in 010 South Africa World Cup .
If Mandela had really died in prison at that time, where did this tearful deed from hearing the glorious years come from? So the saying of "Mandela Effect" spread.
. Faced with such a mysterious phenomenon, many people interpret it as "collectively modified memory", or "collectively traveled through the parallel universe of " and came to the space where the corresponding thing was modified.
In fact, the Mandela effect can be said to be everywhere. Many things we have learned have had differences. At the same time, these differences have also strengthened this "science fiction" recognition, allowing more people to forward "What a big thing happens, the timeline of our time and space seems to be moved! 》This article.
For example, in the song "Love Me China", we all think that the lyrics at the beginning are " Fifty-six Ethnicities , Fifty-six Flowers", while the lyrics written on the paper are "Fifty-six Zodiac signs, Fifty-six Flowers".
Is the end of "Mulan Ci" "Is it "How can I tell whether I am male or female" or "How can I tell whether I am male or female"?
The three Chinese characters "true, qualities, and straight" were used to add two horizontal lines in the middle when we practiced writing, but some people suddenly found that the middle of these three characters was actually three horizontal lines.
is also the ending issue of " Rubik's Cube Building " mentioned some time ago. This domestic animation, originally scheduled to be 26 episodes, was finally cut into the current 10 episodes because of the dark style and profound meaning. At the same time, those cut plots are now nowhere to be found on the Internet, and even screenshots cannot be found.
In a sense, it can be basically concluded that "Rude Cube Building" has not aired the finale, but it is interesting that until today, many netizens still swear to emphasize that they have seen the ending and can still describe the ending scene in a very good way: the protagonist of came out of the Rubik's Cube world and found that it only took a few minutes. Then, he hugged his mother and cried and said that he would not be naughty in the future.
and other phenomena make many people think that someone has secretly tampered with his memory, and why do those common sense passed down from what he thinks are different?
However, some experts have their own unique insights on this issue. One of the more blunt statements is: humans are creatures that are easy to remember incorrectly.
The brain will also deceive itself?
According to some scientific explanations on the Internet, the memory system of the human brain is not as accurate as we think it is. On the contrary, it is very chaotic and orderly, and even produces some strange content, thus forming a certain false memory.
People have believed since ancient times that their brains will not deceive themselves. After all, they can't even believe themselves. There is something else that can be believed, right?
But the theory suggests that the human brain is not good at recording things in details, but all phenomena related to the Mandela effect are reflected in details, such as time, font, name, etc.
Just like the two words "Shiren" and "is human" clearly have the same meaning, but they have different expressions, which is the difference in details.
In fact, regarding whether this "Shirenya" really exists, a media reporter conducted multiple investigations on the 28th and found that at least three types of textbooks belong to the "Shirenya" version.
includes compulsory education textbook "Chinese" (9th grade 2 volume), Hebei Education Edition Primary School Chinese Textbook (5th grade 2 volume), and "University Chinese" published by Wuhan University Press , etc.
So, is there a more reasonable basis for the emergence of these two statements? Of course there is, that is, the changes and habits of the meaning of popular language.
Zhejiang Ancient Books Publishing House senior editor Lu Wei proposed the theory of "conventionality". "Yes" as the meaning of "this" is rarely used in modern Chinese , and the public is relatively unfamiliar with this usage.
At the same time, in some dialects, people's pronunciation of flat tongue is not standard, and it is easy to pronounce the "yes" of 's "正" into a faster and better pronunciation of flat tongue.
More importantly, the word "Shiren" appears in many famous poems, and the commonly used expressions of "Shiren is gone" in life make us more familiar with the word "Shiren" and more in line with our understanding of the temperament of ancient literati, so we have a deeper impression of "Shiren".
Director of the Bashu Dialect and Literature Research Center Wang Qiming also said in a recent interview that in ancient literature, both usages were used. The main reason was that before invented the woodblock printing in the Tang Dynasty, the literature was handwritten, and different versions were prone to appear in a hurry during the copying process.
plus a fixed version that had no modern meaning in ancient times. Over time, it will naturally "transmit rumors" or even "replace" the original version.
The word-of-mouth passed down by the ancients and some common impressions of history and culture by modern people, make people's brains naturally tend to the possibility they think, as well as the incompleteness of some details and memory. Under the combined action of multiple factors, the original communicator will have a deviation in understanding the original correct answer.
without prompt correction, over time, you will think that the original correct answer is like this, and then spread through one passing through ten or ten passing through hundreds, thus laying the groundwork for the subsequent "Mandela effect".
After all, when we encounter the Mandela effect, we don’t have to mention supernatural forces or the great civilization’s tampering with memory, because these explanations are not so much explanations as to lead to bigger problems.
Because you have to first prove that this series of powerful forces and civilizations are real, otherwise you will have to end up with the laughing stock of "indecision when encountering things, quantum mechanics ". After all, it is because human memory is not solid enough and is too easily affected by other information - For example, every one or two years, there will be news that an entertainment star is "dead". This is the best evidence that human memory is not credible.
Conclusion
Topic comes to this point, I personally think that whether it is "this person" or "it is human", there is actually no need to argue which one is correct. It is best if both usages coexist.
As experts say, these two usages have existed since ancient times, and have long formed a long-term cultural environment. I don’t think it’s important to correct and emphasize it now.
Convention is that once it is changed, it will be difficult for people to change their words in the short term. It is better to let both statements be allowed to be used. "This person is" casually speaking, "This person is" and "It is a person". The same is true. Anyway, the meaning of both is the same.
