Chinese is a key to better understand and understand China -American engineer Richard

Because of yearning, they came to China; because of their dreams, they chose to stay. When foreigners "meet China", what kind of sparks will they collide? Global Information Broadcasting in 2022 specially planned "Meeting China" and listened to the "dialogue" of foreign friends and China.

American Richard Syls has come to China for half a century. He is obsessed with Chinese characters. What kind of feelings do he feel about China's development? Today, we walked into the story of American friend Richard Sels "meet China" together.

"My English name is Richard Syls. The Chinese have often called me 'Chinese characters' uncle' in the past ten years. Many Chinese characters have something to do with ancient astronomy -Tiangan Divine Branch, 24 solar terms, and 12 zodiac signs ... So I think this is very interesting. "Richard Syls was born in Oregon, western United States, with a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in computer. He was born in science and engineering. He was interested in Chinese culture and language. In the process of studying Chinese language, Richard found that with the increasingly openness, international influence and international status of China, many countries are eager to understand and learn China better. In his opinion, Chinese is undoubtedly a key to better understand and understand China. In order to better promote Chinese language to the world, Richard spent eight years to create a database of ancient Chinese characters and created a source website. Richard said: "In recent years, China has become more and more influential. Many foreigners learn Chinese and Chinese characters. Some people are interested in Chinese culture, and some people are interested in Confucius, Lao Tzu, and Zhuangzi. Some people want to study traditional medicine, and some people have to do business ... So, within one day, the number of browsing of my website has increased from 15,000 to 600,000 in the past. Now there are almost one million yuan a month every month Views. "

Richard scan the ancient Chinese characters in the four reference books of "Specific Words", "Six Books", "Copywriting" and "Oracle", all scan into the computer. At present, the word source website covers 6,552 most commonly used word source analysis, which brings together more than 100,000 ancient Chinese characters, and users cover more than 170 countries and regions around the world. In 2019, Richard and a company in Nanjing also jointly developed a black technology Chinese enlightenment creative product that is convenient for memory and vivid image based on artificial intelligence technology. Richard explained that only need to pick up the literacy card and scan, the font will "live" in the mobile phone. As of the end of 2020, more than 180 countries and regions around the world have carried out Chinese education, and more than 70 countries have incorporated Chinese into the national education system. The number of foreign countries is more than 20 million. Richard believes that language reflects cultural heritage, historical precipitation and exchanges. China ’s development achievements are constantly attracting the attention of the world, and the world is more eager to understand the deep culture behind China’ s development. "If you want to understand the world, you must also understand the Chinese, and you must also understand Chinese characters, because Chinese culture is also the world's culture!"

In order to better explore Chinese culture, Richard also took a slow train leading to Daliangshan, Sichuan, talked to the local people, and listened to the Sister Yi to sing. All this made Richard feel both novel and interesting. As a foreigner, Richard deeply felt that he had witnessed the changes in China. "China's progress is very obvious, the United States is not as fast as China!" Basic English, some people are even very fluent in English. "Richard is 72 years old this year. Two years ago, a sudden heart disease allowed him to experience Chinese medical services in an all -round way. And Richard praised the superb medical skills of Chinese doctors and the medical security system of China: "China's medical level is as high as the United States, and the cost is very cheap. For example, the heart bridge surgery I did was 6 10,000 yuan, if you may spend 400,000 yuan in the United States. In the United States, if you have no money, they will let you die. China moved me very much. "

Richard said that every day China is changing, and these changes will inspire him to continue to study Chinese culture and share Chinese language with more people, so that more and more people know China. "Now that China has improved, there are Chinese people in the world, and Chinese and Chinese are becoming more and more important. If you find your hobbies and chase your dreams, your life will be happier!"

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