Whenever there is a great change in China, it is the time when the culture of a hundred schools is colorful, before there was a spring and autumn hundred schools of contention, there was a Wei and Jin style, and now there are masters of the Republic of China triumphantly singing. In the Republic of China, there were many literary masters, and Lu Xun, Hu Shi, Xu Zhimo, and so on, which we are familiar with, are among them.
For modern China, which was at the intersection of Chinese and Western cultures a hundred years ago, in addition to the many masterpieces in literature, it is also indispensable for the promotion and reform of traditional culture, especially in the field of writing; and when it comes to the pioneer of modern culture and the leader of character reform, Qian Xuantong must definitely be counted as one.
Who is Qian Xuantong? China's modern and contemporary ideological educator, writer, advocate of the new cultural movement, and the father of Qian Sanqiang, the "founder of the two bombs". Even Mr. Zhou said: "Without the perseverance of Qian Xuan and his predecessors, perhaps we would not have the opportunity to enjoy the grace of Hanyu Pinyin and punctuation today." Unlike the "old pedantry" in everyone's impression, although Qian Xuantong is engaged in learning, he is usually very funny and humorous in both life and teaching.
Mr. Qian Xuantong was born into a family, and his ancestor was Qian Biao, the king of South Vietnam. Although he was born in the thirteenth year of Guangxu (1887 AD), he was also able to understand the new spirit in time, so in the thirtieth year of Guangxu (1904 AD), the eighteen-year-old had already cut off his braids in Hubei before the Qing Dynasty had even fallen.
In addition, he also founded the Huzhou Vernacular Newspaper with friends, opposing the old-fashioned language model of "ZhiHu Zhi Ye", emphasizing the universality of the vernacular, and only writing "Jia Chen Nian" in the newspaper instead of Guangxu Thirty Years, which also showed to a certain extent that Qian Xuantong and his partners did not obey the Qing Dynasty.
Later, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Qian Xuantong began to teach at the Beijing Higher Normal School in 1913 and has been teaching for more than 20 years, and his classes are basically based on phonology, although such courses may seem boring, but in his classrooms are interesting.
Qian Xuantong is quick-witted, funny and humorous, so that he is very popular with students, and now the popular display of Qian Xuantong's humorous story is the "opening tone" and "closed accent", and use the Beijing Jingyun drum actor's lack of front teeth as an example, which makes the students laugh at the same time can also quickly "open tone" and "closed accent" problems in class, the class is called "talk show conference".
The actress was very beautiful, but for some reason she was missing two front teeth, so it was very uncomfortable to sit among the guests when she went to the banquet to accompany the wine, and whenever the guests chatted, he always did not open his mouth, unless he asked her, in order to avoid the guests seeing the defects of her teeth missing, so she always used a "closed accent" to answer the guests' questions.
What is a "closed accent"? For example, a guest asks "What is the last name?" "How old is it?" She replied "surname Wu" and "fifteen" so that she could not show her teeth. When she pressed her dentures and talked to the guests, she could not care about these things, and began to use "open-mouth tones", and when the guests asked her the above two questions, she began to answer "surname Lee" and "seventeen", so that her teeth could be exposed.
After Qian Xuantong finished this small example, the students in the class laughed heartily, and Qian Xuantong was also called "professor of humor".
In addition to humor, Qian Xuantong also had great respect for the master, Qian Xuantong was a disciple of Zhang Taiyan, when Zhang Taiyan came to Beijing to give a lecture, Qian Xuantong was already a well-known professor at that time, but he had always been around Zhang Taiyan to perform disciple ceremonies. Because Zhang Taiyan was a southerner, it was difficult for his northern classmates to understand what he was saying, and at this time Qian Xuantong became Zhang Taiyan's "translator".
In addition to respecting the teacher, Zhang Taiyan was also a supporter of monogamy, in the era when Qian Xuantong was born, it was normal for women to wrap their feet and men to have three wives and four concubines, but Qian Xuantong never took concubines, even his wife advised him to take concubines, he strictly refused, and he also advocated monogamy in "New Youth".
In addition, he never arranged the marriage of his children, but let the children fall in love freely, his sons are married to their favorite people, and at the engagement ceremony of his eldest son, Mr. Qian Xuantong also shouted "against arranged marriage".
In fact, there can also be shortcomings in becoming a master of the Republic of China, such as Xu Zhimo's inattentiveness and Guo Moruo's unscrupulousness, but Qian Xuantong's body has not had those shortcomings, he seems to be like a perfect teacher, a perfect student, a perfect husband, and a perfect father, Qian Xuantong can definitely be called a generation of masters.