Why messaging should change

China was one of the first countries in the world to establish an organized transmission information system. As early as the Shang Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago, information transmission was recorded. Passing by horse is called a post pass, which is an early organized form of communication.

Located in the square of Jiayuguan railway station, the "post envoy" sculpture, it is taken from the Jiayuguan Wei and Jin mural tombs, the post envoy holds a simple paper, the post horse is four-legged in the air, and the speed is fast. In 1982, the First Congress of the All-China Philatelic Federation was used as a theme pattern for small stamps, which shows that Jiayuguan is one of the birthplaces of China's information culture.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, a complete set of post transmission systems was formed. Especially in the Han Dynasty, the documents transmitted were divided into grades, and the documents of different grades should be transmitted by special personnel and horses in accordance with the prescribed order and time. The sending and receiving of these documents must be registered, and the time should be indicated to clarify the responsibility.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the post industry developed unprecedentedly. The official postal transportation line of the Tang Dynasty took the capital Chang'an as the center, radiated to the four directions, and went directly to the border area, with a post station roughly 30 miles. According to the records of the Six Classics of the Tang Dynasty, there were 1,639 post stations in the country at its peak, with more than 20,000 people specializing in post services, including 17,000 post soldiers.

The post post is divided into three types: land post, water post and waterway merger, and each post station is equipped with a post house, equipped with a post horse, a post donkey, a post boat and a post field.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were also clear regulations on the itinerary of the post post, and the land post fast horse walked 6 posts a day, that is, 180 miles, and then 300 miles a day, and the fastest required 500 miles a day; Walkers travel 50 miles a day; When sailing against the current, the river travels 40 miles, the river travels 50 miles, and the other 60 miles; When going down the river, it is always 100 to 150 miles. The poet Cen Shen wrote in the poem "The Judge of the Character on the Way to Longshan at the First Stage" that "one post passes through one post, and the post rides like a stream of stars; Pingming sent Xianyang, curtain and Longshantou". Here he compares the stagecoach to a shooting star.

On November 9, the 14th year of Tianbao, An Lushan rebelled in Fanyang. At that time, Tang Xuanzong was in Huaqing Palace, and the two places were separated by three thousand miles, and Tang Xuanzong knew the news within 6 days, and the transmission speed reached 500 miles per day. It can be seen that the organization and speed of post communication in the Tang Dynasty have reached a very high level.

In the Song Dynasty, all official documents and letters were collectively referred to as "delivery", and "express delivery shops" appeared. There is a copper bell tied to the collar of the post horse of the express delivery, and when galloping on the road, the bell is ringed during the day, and the fire is raised at night, and the person who is killed is not responsible. Shop for horses, number of shops for people, rain or shine, day and night.

In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei, the anti-gold general, was forcibly recalled to Lin'an from the front line by Song Gaozong with twelve gold medals.

Era The way information is transmitted.

Appraisal Antiquity.

Word of mouth or with the help of utensils.

Information is delivered at a slow, imprecise rate.

In ancient times, it was a long journey by post office.

The speed of information transmission is slow and the form of information is single.

Modern times A postal system that relies on means of transportation.

The speed of information transmission is relatively fast, the distance is relatively slow, and the cost is high.

Modern telegraph, **.

Fast speed, single text information.

Contemporary Computer Networks.

The amount of information transmitted is large, the information is diversified, the transmission speed is extremely fast, and it is not subject to geographical barriers.

From the perspective of human communication history, the evolution of human communication methods presents the following context: visual culture, auditory culture (intuitive feeling, "the spirit of seeing"), conceptual culture ("the spirit of reading"), and a new culture of sight and hearing ("the new spirit of seeing").

Therefore, we have absolutely reason to believe that one day in the future, image information will occupy the mainstream, and literature will retreat to an extremely marginal position, replaced by a kind of multi-art that can be heard, seen and even touched and smelled. However, words will not be completely replaced by images like some people, because words are the main means of accumulating knowledge, an indispensable link for human beings to acquire abstract thinking, and an indispensable medium for human communication. From ancient times to the present, the way of information transmission has found great changes, and we can quote the poems in the text to summarize their respective characteristics, that is, - "Folding flowers and sending them to Longtou people."

The ends of the earth are like neighbors". From the long journey of the "post envoy" to the "show talent does not go out, you know the world", how much people's lifestyles have changed. This reminds me of a sentence in Du Fu's "Spring Hope":

The beacon fire lasted for three months, and the family letter was worth 10,000 dollars. "In ancient times, especially in times of war, the reason why family letters were especially valuable was how difficult it was to deliver, but in modern society, even if it is an email, it can arrive in an instant, no matter how long it is. That's time, that's speed.