"Every Chinese character has a life trajectory"
After 95, she let Oracle out of the circle, the "most unpopular professional on the whole network"
Recently, Li Ying, a post-95 girl who studies and studies the direction of oracle, accidentally became popular because of a video complaining about the professional "unpopular", and many netizens urged them online, hoping to understand the story behind the text by learning Oracle.
How "cold" is this "most unpopular major on the whole network"? And how is the obscure oracle bone text interpreted?
In the video, the short-haired girl used a healing smile to tell everyone about the original boring and obscure Oracle knowledge such as "a car accident 3,000 years ago" and "a thousand years of love recorded by Oracle".
The most "unpopular" professions attract attention and discussion
In February this year, Li Ying released a short video with the theme of "What is the experience of graduating from Oracle Direction", which attracted attention with a witty and humorous tone.
In the video, she told everyone about the origin of popular oracle bones, the use of learning oracle bones, and said that "the reason why each Chinese character has become what we see now, there is a life trajectory of its own behind it".
The video was widely spread on the Internet, and this most "unpopular" profession gradually attracted attention and discussion, and Li Ying was full of surprises and surprises: "I never expected that so many people would be interested in Oracle!" There are many parents and teachers who leave messages hoping to learn about Chinese culture by learning Oracle. ”
The process was painful, but the result was cool
Li Ying, 27 years old this year, graduated from Zhejiang Normal University. When she was an undergraduate, she was deeply attracted by oracle bone writing when she first came into contact with philology, so she chose the Oracle bone research direction of ancient Chinese major in Chinese language and philology during graduate school.
"There were four people in my class who majored in ancient Chinese, but I was the only one who studied oracle bones. The school did not arrange special classrooms, so I studied with my brothers and sisters in the tutor's house. "Li Ying revealed in the video released that the tutor will retire this year, and if the school has not been able to recruit teachers who study Oracle, this professional direction can only be suspended." My research direction is really 'unpopular'. ”
After graduating from graduate school, Li Ying could hardly find a job related to Oracle, so she decided to open a video account and became a knowledge-sharing blogger.
Finding topics and writing scripts, Li Ying set up a simple shooting location at home. Once, when she was chatting with a friend about her major and direction, she realized that there were many people who were interested in Oracle.
As the video continues to become popular, Li Ying has gradually found a career direction: to spread the words she loves in another way. "This era needs more people to understand Oracle and understand the origin of Chinese civilization, and I want to inherit ancient culture in this way."
In order to explore the fun contained in Oracle, Li Ying will deliberately find the "word" with the story behind it, and then combine it with Internet hotspots to make popular science interesting. She believes that fun and professionalism are at the heart of video production.
After that, Li Ying successively released a number of issues: "The secret of hunting hundreds of heads at a time for the people of the Shang Dynasty", "Watching the sunset in the grass, I made a word by the way", "What kind of love letters from oracle bones"...
Li Ying said frankly that "Shizi" is like the police solving a case, first of all, we must read the oracle bones, consult various ancient books, take solid theory as the foundation, and then look for various clues to connect in series. "The hardest step is to organize the various clues together to argue. The process was painful, but the results were cool! ”
How can "cold" majors become "hot"?
"A small office is full of books", "A person, a room, a lifetime", "99% of useless work in exchange for 1% breakthrough" ... In Li Ying's eyes, oracle bone writers are doing exactly what they are studying. Behind every word being deciphered, there is an unknown loneliness and persistence.
In fact, Li Ying is not the only one who adheres to the "hot" mentality and constantly inherits and works hard for the "cold" major.
Qin Yue, who studied the "unpopular major" of cultural relics, spent half a year copying the 2.1-meter-high Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes Cave 159 "Puxian Change" to become popular on the Internet. She said she hopes to continue to use new media to bring the beauty of tradition to life.
The documentary "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City" focuses on the stories behind cultural relics by focusing on the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage.
With the continuous development of new technologies and platforms, ancient culture has been gradually given new vitality. Researchers in related professions are using their own strength to let more people see the "hot" charm and true value behind "cold" majors.
According to CCTV news
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It is a romance that transcends time and space
On March 3, a reporter from Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News had a conversation with blogger "Li Youxi". Her real name is Li Ying. She said that she chose this unpopular research direction because of her interest, and did not think much about employment at the time, "but I consider myself lucky to be able to turn my hobby into a job." For her, studying Oracle is a romantic thing, and making popular science Oracle videos is also a very meaningful thing, which can be used as a bridge to pass on the knowledge she loves to more people.
Interests conflict with "bread" How to be self-consistent?
Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News: Why did you choose Oracle as a graduate student? Was the issue of employment considered at that time?
Li Ying: Actually, because of interest, I had plans to go to graduate school and do research when I first entered university, and the first time I came into contact with philology was to listen to the teacher talk about the evolution and history of each Chinese character. At that time, Mr. Yin Xiaojie, who taught ancient Chinese, gave a very interesting lecture, and under his influence, I followed my heart when I was in graduate school and applied for the philology. Later, he chose the Oracle direction and did not think too much about the issue of employment. Some of my classmates went on to work as Chinese teachers, some went to work in newspapers, some went to take public exams, or went on to study for a PhD.
Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News: What is the daily life of taking classes in "unpopular majors"?
Li Ying: Because there are few people and there is no class, I usually go to the house of Tutor Chen Nianfu once a week with my junior sisters, and in the afternoon, I sit on the sofa at his house and drink the tea he brews. Most of the time is self-study, reading books recommended by the tutor, and going to the teacher's house every week with the same door to communicate, report, and seminar, which is quite special in retrospect. Maybe compared with students in other majors, we don't have so much competitive pressure, only some academic pressure, and the pressure of issuing papers.
Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News: What kind of experience have you had since graduation?
Li Ying: After graduating, I found that there was no corresponding job, and for a moment I felt as if I was going to graduate school to mix a degree, and the things I learned seemed to be of little use for employment.
I thought about it, or used my hobby as a way to forget about work and cultivate my emotions in my spare time, but maybe by luck, I got into a new media related job after graduation. I have been interning in an Internet factory for a while, and I have been engaged in this industry since graduation, working in an MCN company, doing some writing and polishing work, and then I suddenly thought, anyway, it's all writing, compared to working for others, why not do the content yourself?
Chengdu Business News-Red Star News: Why did you think of making Oracle-related videos?
Li Ying: Actually, when I first posted videos on the platform, I had some ideas about generating income, and I made a video similar to a book review, which caught fire after it was released, which gave me a lot of encouragement. I thought again, can I also talk about Oracle-related things on some platforms, and the students around me are also very curious about this, so I tried to post it.
After posting the first video about Oracle, the attention was suddenly very high, and I found that many people were interested in this, maybe everyone's enthusiasm aroused a little sense of responsibility. In fact, in addition to researchers, ordinary people really know very little about Oracle, even if they are interested, it is difficult to get started, and there is a lack of a bridge to pass on knowledge to everyone.
I think making videos is a good opportunity to popularize Oracle, because my mentor has always wanted to do Oracle-related science popularization, and we also did public accounts during graduate school, but we didn't do it. My mentor was also very supportive, he brushed my video and told me that he hoped I could stick to it and help me review the manuscript.
It's been almost two years since I left school, and recently I made videos and looked up a lot of materials, and it seems that I have returned to the days of graduate school, although some of the memorized knowledge has faded, but the research method is always remembered.
It's been more than a month since I posted a video about Oracle, and I consider myself lucky to have turned my hobby into work and some income generation.
Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News: What is the process of making videos? Experiencing difficulties?
Li Ying: I am responsible for writing the manuscript and appearing on the camera, and my friends will shoot and edit. The main difficulty, on the one hand, is the topic selection, how to find dry content, now there are more than a thousand words released, but not every word has a vivid and interesting story behind it, I need to consult a large number of materials to find a suitable theme, how to find an interesting entry point to tell the word.
In addition, consider how to make it easy to understand and attract everyone. When I made a video for the first time, my friend read my manuscript and said, it's too professional to understand, and then we changed the manuscript together for several hours, trying to make it understandable to the general public. Combined with my previous work experience, I will pay special attention to carefully polishing the title and opening part to enhance the attractiveness of the video.
"I'm not a researcher yet, I'm just a promoter, and I strive to become a researcher in the future."
Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News: "One person, one room, thirty years", what kind of belief is this?
Li Ying: My mentor is like this, and I really admire him. In fact, I think that doing academic research requires 1% hope, if you feel that 1% hope, you may be willing to give 99% of the time, you need you to see a little way out, you are willing to keep moving forward, can study that one thing every day. But in academia, most of the time I don't see the 1%, I had a period of confusion during my graduate school, I would feel that I could not make any research results, I would not be able to stick to it during that time.
But lay a good foundation, after that bottleneck period, there will be more and more positive feedback, you will find that it is not so difficult to make results, and the belief in "one person, one room, thirty years" is getting stronger and stronger. If I had read a Ph.D., I might have been willing to do the same.
Chengdu Business News-Red Star News: What is the significance of research on such an ancient text as oracle bone?
Li Ying: Chinese characters themselves, it is very meaningful, especially oracle bones, it is the oldest Chinese character, studying oracle bones can understand the source of our Chinese civilization, and people who study history also rely on words, we study oracle bone characters, they can further study the history and culture of the Yin Shang period, some records on Bu Zhi, for us to understand the origin of the Shang Dynasty is very meaningful.
In fact, the country has paid more and more attention to Oracle, Oracle has entered many primary and secondary schools, when reading early, I will read Oracle, textbooks have Oracle topics, to a large extent, studying Oracle can enrich our cultural confidence. For me personally, studying a subject that I really like makes me more calm, not impetuous, and in itself is a very meaningful and romantic thing. I am not a researcher yet, but a promoter, and strive to become a researcher in the future.
Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News Reporter Li Yida Lan Jing Intern Chen Heting