Thinking about this book, this book is just a literacy book, and all officials are much more at ease.

But then again, this thing doesn't seem that simple.

Someone asked Your Majesty what is magical about this book being used to read.

Although the officials' thoughts were jingling, they were all worried.

After all, since it is of great importance, you have to pay for something if you want to get something... at least your IQ is.

Then, Li Er smiled and said.

"Where is this booklet, you can actually see the paintings in this booklet. Isn't it very good? Haha..."

"This painting is not used for anything else, but for guessing riddles. As for the answer to the riddle...that is the word below!"

"Guess the riddle?!"

"What is the guessing riddle?..."

"Your Majesty, what is the meaning of this riddle? We are really a bit..."

The officials below were stunned again for a moment, Damn...

Everyone knows every word and word that Li Er said, but how it is combined is so abstract...

Why did I suddenly guess the riddle again?

However, while these ordinary officials looked at each other, Xiao Yu's face changed drastically.

Unlike the officials who rely on entrepreneurship, Xiao Yu, who can get through it, usually has some real skills. Although he is definitely inferior to Wei Zheng and others, his IQ response is also very good. He immediately understood.

This booklet...

The picture above is a puzzle, while the characters below seem to be matched with the name of the painting are the answer. The combination of these two means not to guess riddles or something. Li Er’s solemn act of summoning ministers in the Lizheng Hall would not be for such boring things.

The meaning of riddles and answers is that the meaning of the picture and the characters are related, that is, the pictures are used to illustrate the meaning of the characters, and can also be regarded as the names of the pictures and paintings.

However, since ancient times, paintings have to be drawn by famous artists on important occasions, and then written poems and stamped to be considered formal works. Where can I book a book like this?

But once Xiao Yu understood this matter at this moment, he suddenly felt enlightened.

Yes... The first reason why Thousand Characters can become such an important thing at the beginning of culture and education is that it contains a lot of words, and there are really a thousand different words - after verification, it is actually 999, but this does not affect it.

Second, this thousand words were written into an article, and the upper and lower parts were related.

For example, the first sentence "Heaven and Earth are mysterious and yellow" refers to the two concepts that the people of China most often hear, namely the heaven and earth.

If you only say the word "天" and learners may forget it after saying it, but if it is in the catchy sentence "天天神未分类", it will be much easier to understand and remember!

Invisibly, the efficiency of literacy is improved.

If this efficiency needs to be further improved, then we can only reduce the repeated words in such sentences.

In the Thousand Characters text... there is only one duplicate word in the whole book, and the other 999 characters are not repeated.

This shows how powerful Zhou Xingsi is!

In order to minimize repeated words, he has achieved the ultimate goal, and his efficiency is naturally the highest among the countless elementary school books used in ancient and modern times.

But at this moment, the situation is different.

Single-word organization idioms can strengthen the impression of words in people's minds, so what about pictures? It's also OK.

And what's scary is that if the efficiency improvement of Thousand Characters is calculated as 5, then this picture album...it is probably at least one hundred!

The efficiency gap between this is tens of times.

Why hasn't anyone used this method since the invention of paper in the Eastern Han Dynasty?

...In fact, the reason is simple.

Before the invention of paper, bamboo slips were used in China.

The bamboo slips are always not enough to record information, so most of the texts in the bamboo slips era are all kinds of argumentative essays, and there is another point in addition to this.

You cannot draw on bamboo slips, and you can only draw on cloth.

Until industrialization, things like cloth were hard currency everywhere, very expensive, and they were not a joke.

At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the most advanced talents and the most keen capital chose the textile industry to make a fortune. There is no reason for this.

In short, it can be imagined that most people have absolutely no conditions to practice painting with precious cloth. Even if they are a powerful character like Qin Xiaogong who is hardworking and thrifty, even the concubines in the palace will not have such a chance.

In other words, the true art of painting was actually born after the invention of paper. Moreover, Luoyang’s paper is expensive. In the hundreds of years when Luoyang was the capital of China, the long-term economic difficulties brought about by war and decline also made ordinary people not have the opportunity to obtain paper.

In other words, the art of painting has always been a very luxurious thing, and very few people can draw.

In fact, it can be seen that from the invention of paper in the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, so many years have passed down from the level of later generations. The first one is Wu Daozi of the Tang Dynasty. As for the hundreds of years that have been counted forward, many literary masterpieces in Jian'an literature have been circulated, which can even be said to have laid the foundation for the prosperity of Tang poetry, but there are really no painters.

In other words, through the corresponding characters of pictures and characters, this more intuitive method is to teach people to recognize words than Chinese. It is not that no one has ever thought about it, but...

The ability to draw has become a big problem. Where can I find such a painting master to draw hundreds or thousands of Chinese characters...

This idea can only be stuck here and is difficult to implement.

But now, the situation is different.

Someone really puts pictures on hundreds of Chinese characters...

Looking at the page numbers in this book, it is estimated that there are more than 500 pages.

No matter how you think about this amount, it's so amazing...

The key is that since ancient times, it is often difficult to paint vividly, so in the end, the art of ink painting is mostly about freehand painting and spiritual transmission.

Even scholars may not be able to see what the painting is, but ordinary people cannot see it and it is even more difficult to implement.

But the paintings on this book are different. You can tell at a glance what they were drawn, and it is exactly the same.

The details are extremely restored, the key is that there is a strange feeling, as if the painting is still alive, just like there are really peaches and plums on the paper.

This painting technique is very impressive. The key is that it is similar in shape and is also very vivid.

Now... the idea that has not been realized for hundreds of years since the invention of paper has been realized.

You said this, this is still possible...

This time, Xiao Yu suddenly understood what Li Er was going to do.

Other officials were still wondering how this book was used for.

Li Er smiled, while Wei Zheng and others on the side had almost burst out laughing, and they were full of smiles.

Fang Xuanling was very excited and immediately stepped out, "Your Majesty, this book is so wonderful, so wonderful!"
Chapter completed!