Our culture has a long history, and Chinese characters have been developing and changing since they came into being. The earliest writing in China is Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty, which is about 3,500 to 4,500 words. Because there are some symbols in it, it is not sure whether it was written or not. The first rare word was used in the periodic table of elements, and its founder was Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Because there are too many Chinese characters. Most words in the dictionary are not commonly used. Taking the recognized Chinese dictionary as a sample, it has received more than 50,000 words. But there are not many commonly used Chinese characters. According to statistics, 3,500 commonly used words cover 99.48% of the words used in modern publications.

There are 3,300 words in Cang Xie Bo Xue Li in Qin Dynasty, 5,340 words in Xun Bian by Yang Xiong in Han Dynasty and 9,353 words in Shuo Wen Jie Zi by Xu Shen. After Jin and Song Dynasties, Chinese characters became increasingly complex.

According to the seal cutting performance of Moon Hee in Tang Dynasty, Jin wrote 12824, Wei Yang Chengqing wrote Zitong 13734 and Gu Liang wrote 169 17. Jade Piece is a supplement to Sun Qiang in Tang Dynasty, with 225,665,438+0 words. In Song Dynasty, there were as many as 3 1 and 3 19 words in Lei Pian written by Sima Guangxiu, and in Qing Dynasty, there were 47,035 words in Kangxi Dictionary.

19 15 The Chinese Dictionary written by Ouyang Bocun and others has more than 48,000 words. The Chinese Dictionary edited by Zhang Qiyun in 197 1 has 49,888 words. 1990 The Chinese Dictionary edited by Xu Zhongshu has 54,678 words.

The Sea of Chinese Characters written by Leng Yulong in 1994 has an astonishing number of words, reaching 85,000 words, but most of the Chinese characters included in this book have existed in history, but have been abandoned in today's written Chinese.

"Rare words" became popular on the Internet.

Recently, Chen Keyu, a post-90s boy from Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, wrote a song called "Rare Words", which became popular on the Internet. The lyrics of the whole song are almost all kinds of uncommon words, and netizens shouted, "After listening to this song, the language level has soared." With the popularity of this uncommon word, Chinese medicine version, Japanese version, dialect version and so on have appeared one after another.

Let's look at some lyrics:

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For example, the Chinese character "Dragon and Tiger" consists of three traditional dragon characters. Without pinyin, many people may find it difficult to understand these lyrics. However, Chen Keyu, a post-90s boy in Suzhou, wrote a song which contains more than 70 uncommon words. Speaking of his original intention, he said that he was actually inspired by Weibo.

Chen Keyu said: "I sorted out a lot of words, and then I wrote slowly according to my own ideas. For example, I think that some of the things to be tested in the college entrance examination are first and some are rhyming. "

Reasons for popularity: The more difficult it is to learn, the more people want to learn.

Some primary and secondary school teachers take learning to sing "uncommon words" as their homework, and many netizens who have graduated for many years also leave messages saying that this song has brought them back to their long-forgotten Chinese knowledge. With the popularity of this song, uncommon characters and the Chinese character culture behind them have once again become a hot topic in China.

Of course, some netizens have questioned the "uncommon words", thinking that the lyrics are just a bunch of seemingly complicated words, let alone much contribution. Regarding these questions, Chen Keyu said that as long as this song has even a little meaning, he thinks it is enough.

The popular influence of the song "Rare Words" is gradually spreading. On the one hand, the cover and re-creation of songs in China has extended to various fields. For example, The Rare Words of Traditional Chinese Medicine recently published by Shanxi Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine borrows the tune of the Rare Words and rewrites the words with the rare words involved in traditional Chinese medicine.

On the other hand, in addition to the domestic spread, the influence of the song "Rare Words" has also spread overseas. On a video website in Japan, Japanese learners of Chinese wrote a Japanese version of the song "Rare Words" called "Four-character Idioms" and made a MV to show the Japanese pronunciation of China's idioms. Foreigners with different skin colors and cultural backgrounds have also uploaded videos of their own covers of "Rare Words" on the platform.

The creator Chen Keyu hopes that this song can show the world the confident side of China culture. He said, "When I went abroad, I also saw China's Chinese characters outside. Our Chinese characters have spread all over the world. I hope this song can also convey the very strong point of China culture now. "

Refer to the above? Baidu encyclopedia-uncommon words