Ancient officials adjusted the southern dialect to the north, could the emperor understand? In fact, there was also "Mandarin" at that time.

Due to the large territory of China, it belongs to the birthplace of multiple civilizations, coupled with the inconvenience of transportation in ancient times, many places have been closed for a long time, so most of the people at that time spoke in the south and the north. People born in different places have a hard time understanding each other. In fact, don't say ancient times, even now, the traffic has been very developed, the information has been very smooth, people in different dialects speak, it is not easy to understand each other. For example, people in the northeast are not easy to understand Cantonese people, and Cantonese people are not easy to understand Shanghainese. Even if Sichuan and Hubei are neighboring provinces, it is difficult for Sichuanese to understand what Hubei people are saying. Even in the same province, different cities, the dialect difference between each other is also very large, for example, the Jingshan people can not understand the Xianning people speak.

In short, dialects have caused great trouble to each other.

In order to solve this problem, after liberation, our country vigorously promoted Mandarin. If you can't understand each other, everyone will speak Mandarin, and as soon as they speak Mandarin, they will understand. Now the children in the school start speaking Mandarin as soon as they go to school, and some families, even as soon as the child is born, consciously speak Mandarin with the child. Over time, more and more Mandarin speakers will be spoken, and the problem of language communication barriers will not exist.

Not to mention the children, the leading cadres now are also very different from the leading cadres who were just liberated. Leading cadres in the period of liberation were all talking in a southern and northern manner. But today's leading cadres almost all speak in Mandarin. As soon as the leading cadres advocated speaking in Mandarin, their subordinates also spoke in Mandarin. Even if the speech is not standard, it does not dare not look at the leader.

However, ancient times were different, ancient times were more closed, and mandarin was not promoted. Therefore, there was a problem here for candidates from all over the country when they were titled in the gold list, became an official in the imperial court, and spoke to the emperor. How could the emperor understand the dialects they spoke?

In fact, although this is one of our worries, this worry is unnecessary. The communication between the emperor and the minister in ancient times should be without any problems. Why?

First, most of the people who can serve as officials in the imperial court are the children of princes and nobles.

Imperial examinations began during the Sui Dynasty. Before the Sui Dynasty, it was divided into two stages. The first stage was before the Han Dynasty. Before the Han Dynasty, those who could become officials could only be the descendants of princes and nobles. At that time, a system of succession was implemented, with titles and lands, both inherited by father and son. Those nobles, if their ancestors had no problem communicating with the monarch when they were officials, then their descendants had no problem communicating with the monarch.

The second stage was after the Han Dynasty to before the Sui Dynasty. At this time, it had entered the feudal society. At that time, the system of selecting and promoting talents successively had a system of inspection and examination and a system of nine products. However, whether it is the inspection system or the Nine Pins Zhongzheng system, most of the talents recommended are the children of princes and nobles, or the children of officials and eunuchs. Although these people do not have a father and a son, this way of selecting talents, in fact, does not change the soup and does not change the medicine, and the children of the princes and nobles and the children of the officials and eunuchs can still get the opportunity to continue to be officials. It's just that those who should have succeeded their ancestors as officials have gone to other places to become officials instead. The fundamental inheritance system of the whole society has not changed much.

After the Sui Dynasty, the imperial examination was implemented. The children of poor families also had the opportunity to pass the imperial examination to enter the official field, and even to become a Beijing official and enter the imperial court to meet the emperor. But in fact, the possibility that the children of poor families will eventually become high officials is actually extremely small.

For example, those students in the Sui and Tang dynasties, in addition to taking the imperial examination, they also had to submit a certificate and had to be recommended by acquaintances. If you are a child of a poor family, it is difficult to get a recommendation. For example, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the imperial examination implemented the eight-strand literary system, and it was difficult for ordinary children to understand these things.

In short, even if the imperial examination is carried out, those who can become officials in the official field and can mix well are mainly the children of those officials and eunuchs, who are familiar with the language of the official field. Since they were people who knew the language of the officialdom, they naturally did not have too many problems when communicating with the emperor.

Second, there is actually a popular language in the official field, that is, the official language.

If we talk about a person speaking officially and playing official language now, most of them are satirizing this person, satirizing him for engaging in bureaucracy and being divorced from the common people.

In fact, in ancient society, official dialect was actually a popular language of the officialdom. If a certain official does not speak official language or play official language in the official field, it is a very disrespectful performance.

Ancient times were ceremonial societies, and observance of etiquette was very important. If a person loses his manners, he loses his basic qualifications to be an official, and he cannot continue to mix in the official arena.

During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the children of every prince and nobleman, as soon as they were born, had to learn various rituals, such as the "Six Arts" and so on. And learn how to speak in the imperial court? Say what? Speak in what format? Speak in what tone? All of this requires rigorous training. Confucius said, "If you don't study poetry, you can't say anything." "What we are talking about here is to learn to use the official language, learn to use the official language, and learn to play the official language.

After the establishment of the imperial society, although the social form has changed greatly, the nobles are no longer the same as in the Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou dynasties, but they will still carry out etiquette training.

It can be said that when the ancients walked into the imperial court and faced the emperor to speak, they had already undergone very strict training, and they knew how to speak, and there would be no problem.

The tone and language of the ancients did not remain, but they left behind the folds.

When we look at the folds that the ancients gave to the emperor, they were very standardized, even written in chinese. It also gives us a rough idea of how the chancellor spoke to the emperor. Although it is impossible to follow exactly the words on the fold, it will not change much.

Not to mention the officials in the ancient imperial court, even the current enterprises, also need to undergo training to take up posts. These employees in the enterprise, in the face of the service target, what to say, how to speak, and what tone to use, are very standardized. For example, when you buy something to find customer service, their words are stylized.

From this small matter, we can also conclude that in ancient times, the Beijing officials who were able to go to the imperial court to become officials did not go through very strict training and did not dare to open their mouths in front of the emperor at all.

Third, in ancient times, there were actually "Mandarin".

What does this sentence mean?

That is to say, although there was no introduction of a certain Mandarin in ancient times, in fact, there was no Mandarin, there was a Mandarin. This Mandarin is the language spoken in that part of the capital.

For example, when Chang'an was the capital of the country, the people of Chang'an spoke Mandarin. Students across the country, if they want to make a living in the capital, must learn to speak Chang'an dialect. If they had learned to speak Chang'an and communicate with the emperor, there would be no obstacles.

When the Han Dynasty was founded, Liu Bang, the founding emperor, was not a native of Chang'an, so what he said must have the dialect of Chudi. But by the time of Emperor Wen of Han, Emperor Jing of Han, and Emperor Wu of Han, the words spoken by the people in the imperial family were already completely Chang'an dialect. Naturally, students from all over the world go to Chang'an to seek employment, but if they don't learn The Chang'an dialect, how can they find a job? For example, when Emperor Wudi of Han was emperor, many people wanted to be summoned by emperor Wudi of Han and get an official position, and they would generally wait at the bus office first. While they waited there, and did not change their dialect tone, could they be summoned by Emperor Wu of Han? Dongfang Shuo stayed there for a long time and never been summoned by Emperor Wu of Han, so he spoke to scare the dwarfs of Emperor Wu of Han and asked them to go to Emperor Wu of Han to file a complaint, so he had the opportunity to see Emperor Wu of Han. Dongfang Shuo can be said to have worked hard to see Emperor Wu of Han, and in front of Emperor Wu of Han, he still spoke in a southern and northern tone, was that not self-pleading?

As for ordinary people, he did not have to go to the imperial court to become an official, and it was likely that he would not be able to walk out of his little ravine in his lifetime, so it did not matter what they said.

In short, we don't have to worry at all that they don't understand what the emperor is talking about. Learning to speak is the simplest, but it is necessary to have superb knowledge, which is not something that can be achieved in a day or two.