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Hunmin Chŏngŭm Post script, Contents - Coggle Diagram
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Introduction
If there are sounds that are natural to heaven and earth, there will surely be writing that is natural to heaven and earth. Therefore, the people from antiquity made characters based on the sounds, through them they communicate the essence of everything and record the ways of heaven, earth and humans. It is something the future generation cannot change.
However the circumstances of each country in all areas are different and naturally the sounds are different. The languages of countries other than China have only their sounds, but not letters, so they borrow China's characters for their use, it’s like fitting a square stick into a round hole, they don't fit together, how can they communicate well and not get lost?
To sum up, we can only make it convenient for every place, we cannot force it to be the same.
Our countries music and literature is equal to China’s but it is just the words of our language and customs are not the same. Because of this, those who learn writings are worried of the difficulty to understand the meaning, and those how enforce the criminal justice system think they suffer from the difficulties of communicating the complexities.
In the past Shilla’s Sŏl Ch’ong first made Idu and it is still used up to today by the government offices and among the public, but it is all using borrowed Chinese characters, so sometimes are difficult to understand or awkward, they are not only lowly and are unreasonable, in relation to speaking it cannot even communicate one out of 10,000 properly.
In the winter of Gyehae year, hi majesty created 28 charters and then concisely showed examples, this was called the Hunmin Chŏngŭm. The letters are made to emulate the shape of things, so the characters are like the old seal scripts. Based on the pronunciation the sounds fit the seven tones. The righteous of heaven, earn and humans and the mystery of yin and yang all couldn't not be included.
There are 28 characters, and the combinations are endless, it is concise yet essential, precise and universally transmitted.
Therefore, a wise man can understand it before they finish their breakfast, and even a fool can learnt it in 10 days.
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