【故國神遊】Pre-Qin Twitter 先秦時代的推特

In terms of public discourse, the pre-Qin period was all about letting a hundred schools of thought contend. It generated light, big time. But it generated heat, big time too. Does it sound like today's social media? You bet. Pre-Qin social media was as much a debate hall as a popularity-contest arena. Debaters could be rational to a fault. They could also be irrational to a tee. They targeted the powers that be. They never quite forgot the mass, though. How did they get their messages across? They tweeted. What they tweeted on were bamboo slips 薄竹簡. They didn't have to worry about Big Tech censorship.


A bamboo slip carried words, elegantly written. It made a point, designed to be remembered and recited. It was slim in shape and light in weight, being conveniently passed around for messaging. In every town square, bamboo slip messengers would likely attract people's attention. A marketplace could easily turn into a media outlet broadcasting news and comments. Literate or illiterate, folks could have their share of what the hundred schools of thought had to say, until everyone was silenced by the First Emperor.


Speaking of the First Emperor, Qin's book-burning business was NOT a spectacular success. For one thing, a book made of bamboo slips could often be put together or put apart at short notice. This flexibility gave the banned books a new lease on life. 


Author: renqiulan 

 

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• Enjoy reading your prose, especially its flow and rhythm -顫音- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 20:34:58

• Thank you so much! Yes, I am a prose person. -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 20:41:17

• When it comes to English, I am not a poetry person. -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 20:54:38

• so rare a person can focus and excel on different forms -顫音- ♂ (100 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 21:07:53

• I just happen to be bilingual. -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 21:15:17

• +100 -shuier- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 21:06:28

• Advising you not to blame Qin Emperior the First, -王武- ♂ (127 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 20:46:10

• Please bring him up here and let me debate him. Hahaha! -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 20:53:21

• You have a good sense of humor. -shuier- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 21:07:01

• 啊，水兒說的是秋蘭吧：） -王武- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 22:44:48

• 水兒是向王武先生說的。她不愛讚我的，哈。 -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/13/2023 postreply 06:42:42

• 對呀，王武先生風趣幽默。 -shuier- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/13/2023 postreply 16:23:22

• Wow! It would take ages for me to tweet you this way. -shuier- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 21:08:08

• Would you like to write something on a bamboo slip? -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 21:16:46

• With a brush? -shuier- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 21:18:20

• How about a carving knife? -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 21:20:13

• Carving a bamboo slip? You must be kidding me. -shuier- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 21:22:37

• inconvenient truth :-) -顫音- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 21:25:35

• I am serious. -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 21:26:03

• OK. Send me a blank bamboo slip. -shuier- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 21:37:04

• You just called my bluff. OK. You win. -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 21:48:49

• So much for carving a bamboo slip. Hahahahahaha -shuier- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/12/2023 postreply 21:49:35

• sonething and haha on my bamboo and show up here.... -AP33912- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/13/2023 postreply 03:20:00

• i think rasier ti carve 中文 ，英文has more curves, harder to carve. -AP33912- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/13/2023 postreply 03:23:00

• easier to carve chinese. -AP33912- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/13/2023 postreply 03:25:00

• as shown here-- easier to get english typo. -AP33912- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/13/2023 postreply 03:28:00

• That's an excellent point. Thanks, AP! -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/13/2023 postreply 06:28:02

• i got hundreds of bamboo growing in my yards, I may carve 江水蘭som -AP33912- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/13/2023 postreply 03:19:00

• Good idea! Pls tweet me with all the bamboo slips. Thanks! -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/13/2023 postreply 06:26:05

• 以前的竹簡書，都得用牛車來運。 -lovecat08- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/13/2023 postreply 03:40:10

• 秦的宰相創造了篆體，書在竹簡上分享，珍貴。 -lovecat08- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/13/2023 postreply 03:42:56

• 商晚期的甲骨文，更是珍貴。商代文字上承原始刻符號，下啟西周文字，是漢字發展的關鍵形態 -lovecat08- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/13/2023 postreply 04:59:09

• 貓姐早安！對。書寫文字一路簡化。 -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/13/2023 postreply 06:30:30

• 小R總有獨特視角，學習了！ -花似鹿蔥- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/13/2023 postreply 05:02:34

• 花姐早安！先秦時代哪來推特？隻想強調百家爭鳴，勢必帶動文字交往，因而也推動信息傳播科技。 -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/13/2023 postreply 06:34:24

• 秋蘭，標題黨。秦的推特，也把秦始皇的帳戶3了，他進不去推特了。哈！ -lovecat08- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/13/2023 postreply 06:45:18

• 有一位主席給秦皇大讚特讚呢。魯迅也為秦皇說過好話。我則認為中國皇帝統一江山，曆來都是無所不用其極的。話說回來，滅秦者秦也 -renqiulan- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/13/2023 postreply 07:02:25