See how Zhong Yongning finds Luo Mingjian

"Before Matteo Ricci, there was an Italian event in Zhaoqing. His name was Luo Mingjian, and I was going to write him."

◎ He Yanping

◎ Editor in this article 玉 Jiang Yu

Whether it is scholars or writers or artists, his monument can always be his work (research or creative results), not anything else. Seeing Mr. Zhong Yongning looking for Luo Mingjian, I strengthened this judgment.

About seven or eight years ago, I returned to the Guangdong People's Publishing House tea and took a seat. The chief editor, Mr. Zhong Yongning, immediately pulled the chair and sat next to me.

After chatting for a while, he said, "Do you know Matteo Ricci?"

"Of course I know Matteo Ricci, I'm from Zhaoqing!"

At this time, he seemed a little excited: "Before Matteo Ricci, there was an Italian event in Zhaoqing. His name was Luo Mingjian, and I was going to write him."

"You write, speak with a work!"

"I also need to collect a lot of information, digestion and research, and do field surveys. Recently, some new materials in the West have been released ..."

Since then, every time I see him, I always say that: "Did you write it?"

He always played in Guangzhou with a ravioli: "It's easy (not so easy)!" "Hey (not so fast)!"

Ten years of grinding swords, once out of the sheath, with light.

On May 10, 2022, I finally received the "Disappeared Powder -Luo Mingjian and the First China West" sent by Zhong Yongning and published by the Chinese Book Company. Atmospheric decoration design, exquisite printing, dense footnotes, "main references" of 12 pages are heavy.

I immediately closed the door to read.

Two days and one night, I live in the book. When I finished reading the last word of the book, I immediately sent a WeChat to Zhong Yongning: "It's not easy, you are fierce (too powerful)!"

The book is magnetic and very attractive!

Well, I traveled through time and space, and came to Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the late Huaxia land four or five hundred years ago.

I witnessed that the Portuguese possess a bomb -jumpboard in Macau.

I was shocked. There was a Canton Fair more than 400 years ago in Guangzhou, and it was also twice a year.

I was ashamed, under the western Chongxi Pagoda, Zhaoqing people in Jiuju (honest and honest) were thundered by the three prism. As for the mechanical clock, they were even more dazzling.

In the book, the old streets of Guangzhou; Mei Yan in Zhaoqing, Songcheng Wall, Beautiful Chongxi Tower, and Xijiang, who loves the disaster, I am familiar and kind!

Of course, what surprised me the most was that the Italian Jesuit Luo Mingjian -his double doctoral background, proficient in multiple languages.

His language talent is as sharp as his ability to live in exotic!

He knelt and scratched Chinese officials.

He learned to march into Chinese language!

For a few years, he would sing with Chinese officials with Wu Jue and Seven Monsters. I'm stunned!

Relief Luo Mingjian, he created six or seven "firsts":

—— The first school to establish the first foreigners of Chinese institutions in the late Ming Dynasty to learn Chinese language;

- Written the first Hanwai Dictionary (Portuguese Dictionary);

—The first translation of Confucian Mongolian classic "Three Characters" into Western languages;

- Write the first Chinese book "God's Record" of Westerners;

- Compiled the first instrument of the West;

- The first time I translated the Confucian classic "Four Books" with Spanish and Latin;

... ...

He effectively opened the cultural initial understanding and interaction of the two civilized worlds of China and the West.

He was another giant Matteo Ricci who was in Chinese and Western cultural exchanges at that time to learn Chinese language and attract people entering China.

Zhong Yongning's painstaking loneliness in the layout and writing of the article made the book be the beginning and fascinating.

Luo Mingjian came to Macau in 1579 and entered the mainland of China in 1583. In 1588, he was arranged back to Europe and disappeared from China. Later, because of the tall figure of Matteo Ricci, he disappeared from the vision of most historical narratives.

The first seven chapters of the book describe Luo Mingjian's background and process in and out of China; the last chapter specifically judges the value of historical facts and historical figures.

The vast history of the sea, hooking the Xuanxuan, exploring the beads, deepening, the weightlifting is light. Evaluate with such words, although old, it is accurate. Look at the official, think about it, it is very difficult to do this: All the descriptions in the book are of the same, the source, and there must be no half -sentence letter.

Finally, I want to mention the language style of the book: fresh, borrowing, slightly historic smoke and dust, which is fresh and interesting.

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