Speaking of Zhou Zhongji, he is quite famous in Hong Kong.
Looking back 1950, Hong Kong was in full swing after the war. Several young people from Shanghai came here with strong business plans. After several struggles, he became a pioneer in Hong Kong's textile industry and co-founded Nanlian Enterprise Co., Ltd., a large Asian textile and garment joint venture. Among these young people in Shanghai are Zhou Wenxuan and Zhou Zhongji.
Zhou Zhongji has won the attention of Hong Kong people with persistent pursuit, unremitting struggle and impressive business performance.
However, as the years passed, the Zhou brothers were not satisfied with their achievements. They have found a new way to explore new fields and create more useful wealth for mankind.
In the 1980s, it was very difficult for people in China to use computers. Inspired by the "four-corner number search method", Zhou Zhongji decided to study and create a simple, easy-to-learn, convenient and fast computer Chinese character input method.
Since then, Zhou Zhongji has compiled the codebooks of 6763 national standard Chinese characters and 10000 popular traditional Chinese characters in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In order to make it easier for the public to master and use it, Zhou Zhongji decided to simply use the numeric keypad to input, and selected the 10 number keys from 0 to 9 to represent all Chinese character codes.
The coding work is very complicated, but someone asked how long it took Zhou Zhongji to code. He smiled and replied, "I don't know!" "This" don't know "is more of an incalculable meaning. It is conceivable that Zhou Zhongji, who was over 60 years old at that time, was completely immersed in the research and creation of "vertical and horizontal codes".
1992, with the support of Zhou Zhongji, Suzhou University established the information technology laboratory of vertical and horizontal Chinese characters, which later developed into a research institute. This is Zhou Zhongji's first R&D base in cooperation with Suzhou University.
1993, the first set of "vertical and horizontal Chinese character input software" came out. Its coding system is divided into four categories: radical, font, no radical and pen shape; Code selection principles are divided into single-word code selection and phrase code selection. In order to memorize the pen code conveniently, Zhou Zhongji chose the coding formula: one horizontal, two vertical, three point four forks, five squares, six corners, eight hundred and eighty-nine small, and all left hooks are zero. At the same time, in order to reduce duplicate codes, the methods of "radical, secondary radical" and complement code are adopted. After this software came out, it attracted people's attention.
Vertical and horizontal code is an innovation in coding concept, which combines numbers with shape codes and operates with one hand on the numeric keyboard. For beginners, you only need to remember the four formulas of pen code, plus the code selection rules of words and phrases. Generally, they only need to study for two hours to master the essentials.
Vertical and horizontal codes are not only easy to learn, but also fast to input. In the inter-school Chinese input competition for primary and middle school students held by the Hong Kong Computer Education Society in 2003, the "Final Speed Award" and the first, second and third place in the "full-court finals" for primary and junior high schools were won by the players of "Vertical and Horizontal Input Method".
For more than ten years, vertical and horizontal codes have been applied and popularized in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. According to incomplete statistics, by the end of 200 1, Suzhou, Nanjing, Changzhou, Yangzhou, Nantong and other places had held the1/vertical and horizontal input method competition and held three large-scale seminars.
Ningbo is an area where vertical and horizontal codes were popularized earlier. Since 1997, six large-scale vertical and horizontal input method competitions have been held with Ningbo University as the main organizer.
1996165438+1October 10, Shanghai Zongheng Computer Education Fund Council and Shanghai University Zongheng Computer Education Center were established. By June 5438+ 10, 2003, Shanghai had held 15 training courses and organized two city-wide vertical and horizontal input method competitions.
The application of vertical and horizontal codes in Hong Kong began at 1999. At present, 280 schools have used the vertical and horizontal input method.
In Macao, 22 primary and secondary schools have installed vertical and horizontal input methods.
At the same time, after several generations of development and update, the vertical and horizontal code software has developed into a simplified version in 2002, and its functions are more perfect than before.
Mr. Zhou Zhongji, Managing Director of Hong Kong Nanlian Industry and Honorary President of Hong Kong Jiangsu and Zhejiang Hometown Association, devoted decades of efforts to inventing the vertical and horizontal Chinese character input method (referred to as vertical and horizontal code) with the concept of "computerization of Chinese and computerization of culture". Vertical and horizontal codes have reached the leading level at home and abroad, and are widely used in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai ports, Beijing, Shandong and other places, and spread to the Chinese world in Canada, Australia and Singapore. The vertical and horizontal Chinese character input code invented by him divides strokes into 10 categories, which are represented by 10 numbers from "0" to "9" respectively. The relationship between the stroke shape and the number code is memorized by the formula of "one horizontal, two vertical, three points and four horizontal, five square, six seven angles, eight hundred and eighty-nine, and the left hook is all zeros". The maximum length of a word is 4 yards, and the maximum length of a phrase is 6 yards. The software stores more than 20,000 words and 250,000 phrases. It is easy to learn, versatile, rich in phrases and powerful.
1June, 1996, the information processing system of vertical and horizontal Chinese characters won the second prize of excellent software in Jiangsu Province and the first prize of scientific and technological achievements of Jiangsu Education Commission. 199865438+In February, the appraisal committee composed of computer doctoral supervisors from six universities, including Tsinghua, Southeast, Zhejiang University and Jiaotong University, agreed that "the WINDOWS suite of vertical and horizontal Chinese characters has reached the leading level at home and abroad as a whole". Looking back on the development and popularization of vertical and horizontal codes in the past 20 years, Mr. Zhou Zhongji has always put vertical and horizontal codes into it as a social undertaking. As early as the early 1980s, Mr. Zhou became interested in computers. An Zijie, an old friend who went to Hong Kong with Mr. Zhou from Shanghai, gave him a Chinese typewriter he invented. At that time, the concept of "one country, two systems" had been put forward for two years, and exchanges between Hong Kong and the mainland of China had also been strengthened. At the same time, China, which is going to the world, urgently needs computerized Chinese and culture.
At that time, there were more than 200 ways to input Chinese into computers, such as Pinyin, Wu Bi Font and Cang Xie, but after many experiments, there were many inconveniences. Mr. Zhou has been thinking about how to simplify Chinese character input method. One day, when he looked up the dictionary, he was inspired by the four-corner number retrieval method proposed by Wang (1888-1979)1935, so he began to explore and think for five years. He compiled a simplified code book of vertical and horizontal Chinese character input method, with the help of a dean of Malaysia University of Science and Technology, in 1989. However, it is not easy to further test and popularize. Mr. Zhou adopted the strategy of "combining distance and blooming everywhere". Go to Suzhou, which is far away from Hong Kong, to find partners, take Suzhou as the base to drive Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, guide them to Hong Kong, and then expand at home and abroad.
1In September, 1992, Mr. Zhou Zhongji, as the leader of the delegation of international entrepreneurs, received strong support from Chairman Ge Jinde of Suzhou Computer Teaching Foundation during his visit to Suzhou. During this year, Mr. Zhou visited Suzhou four times and visited Nanjing and other places to carry out promotion work. 1June, 1993, Suzhou university institute of information technology of vertical and horizontal Chinese characters was established. In June 5438+10 in the same year, the institute made the first set of vertical and horizontal code teaching software and used it in various computer rooms. They set up training courses for teachers of vertical and horizontal codes. By the end of 200 1, Suzhou, Nanjing, Changzhou, Yangzhou, Nantong and Danyang had held 1 1 municipal and provincial horizontal and vertical code competitions. At three seminars, 133 papers summarizing teaching experience were exchanged; Three monographic collections, Vertical and Horizontal Chinese Character System and Vertical and Horizontal Code Teaching Research and Exploration, were published by Tsinghua University and Soochow University Press respectively.
The CD-ROMs "Simplified Vertical and Horizontal Input Method 2000A Edition", "Vertical and Horizontal Chinese Input Method 2000A Traditional Edition" and "Vertical and Horizontal Input Method 2002 Simplified Edition" developed by the Institute of Chinese Character Information Technology of Soochow University were distributed and applied in the Mainland and Hong Kong respectively. There are hundreds of thousands of people studying and applying vertical and horizontal codes in Jiangsu province.
With the support of Mr. Zhou Zhongji, the promotion work in Shanghai began immediately. 1996165438+1October 10, Shanghai Zongheng Computer Education Fund Council and Shanghai University Zongheng Computer Education Center were announced, with Xie Lijuan, vice chairman of Shanghai CPPCC, as the chairman. Mr. Zhou and Shanghai dignitaries attended the inauguration ceremony. He also went to large and medium-sized schools to conduct on-site inspection and guidance and provide help. Up to June 2003, Shanghai has held 15 training courses. Taking the "Big Five" (namely, Shanghai University, Jiaotong University, Finance University, Polytechnic University and Shanghai Normal University) and the "Fifth Middle School" (Nanyang Model School, Yanji School, Fenghua School, Feng Fan School and Yangpu School) as positions, many teachers and students, laid-off workers, street cadres, retirees and old journalists have been trained. Shanghai organized two city-wide vertical and horizontal Chinese character input competitions; Three groups of players went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to participate in the competition and achieved excellent results; We also organized school-running personnel to participate in the exchange meeting on the teaching experience of vertical and horizontal codes held in Suzhou on Wednesday, and submitted 16 papers, which won the first prize and the second prize 1 paper respectively. The news media also actively supported it, and the old journalists who participated in the training course of vertical and horizontal codes in Shanghai University wrote articles in succession, which were reported by Jiefang Daily, Xinmin Evening News, Lianhe Times, Shanghai Old Annual Report and China Old Annual Report. On the other hand, Shanghai Education TV Station regularly broadcasts the teaching film "Simplified Chinese Character Input Method 2002", and its audience is expanding day by day.
The promotion of vertical and horizontal codes in Zhejiang is led by Ningbo University. Under the guidance of Mr. Zhou Zhongji, the CKC East China Grand Prix held there had a far-reaching impact.
In order to introduce the vertical and horizontal Chinese character input method into Hong Kong, Mr. Zhou organized Hong Kong people to visit and study on the spot in the name of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Association. In Hong Kong, Mr. Zhou organized many live performances and competitions. In August 2000, at the Hong Kong International Vocational Education Conference, Mr. Zhou invited mainland coding experts to perform live in Hong Kong. Sammul Chan typed 999 Chinese characters in five minutes. Sammul Chan also scored a score of one minute 150 words in the random article presentation. The Hong Kong reporters at the scene were amazed. In the 20 days of the exhibition, more than 700 sets of vertical and horizontal input method software were sold at once.
In Hong Kong, Mr. Zhou Zhongji relied on social forces and made various efforts to make people know more about "vertical and horizontal", love it more and more, and use it more and more. According to Mr. Zhou, at present, the Hong Kong government, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, customs, libraries and other places are using vertical and horizontal codes, and senior officials in Hong Kong are also learning to use them.
The successful promotion of vertical and horizontal codes in Hong Kong and the Mainland has attracted worldwide attention. In February, 2002 and June, 2003, 5438+ 10, several vice ministers of the Ministry of Education of China led the Minister of Education and university presidents to visit Jiangsu and Zhejiang public schools in Hong Kong, and the students' performance of inputting Chinese characters vertically and horizontally won great interest, indicating that they would take it home for promotion.
Today, Beijing has begun to promote vertical and horizontal codes. The spread of news media such as Ta Kung Pao, Wen Wei Po and Computer Plaza in Hong Kong attracts overseas Chinese like magnets. The student chairman of the University of Melbourne in Australia made a special trip to Hong Kong to ask Mr. Zhou for help. At present, more than 400 Australian Chinese have learned vertical and horizontal codes. Chinese people all over the world often ask for software, which has been enthusiastically supported by Teacher Zhou.