After the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, they began to promote Manchu culture.
In the early days, the Eight Banners disciples had already realized that it was very difficult to simply rule this vast world by force.
Therefore, some special rules, such as shaving hair and changing clothes, are mainly to be able to integrate the two ethnic groups of Manchu and Han, so that the Han people begin to manchu.
This set of logic was somewhat pathetic and even shameful among the Han people at that time, but from the perspective of the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, there seemed to be a certain degree of enforceability.
So if they have already wholesaled clothes, why did the Manchus not promote their Manchu language from beginning to end?
This matter is not as simple as we think, and there is a particularly large cat behind it.
Point 1: What makes the Manchus special
Do you know what language the Qing Dynasty people spoke?
Surely not in Chinese, right?
The language they spoke was very peculiar, more similar to what the Mongols of that era called abridged or castrated versions.
This touches on the basic common sense of language transmission.
Everyone knows that after Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, all the writings under the heavens were unified, and all the weights and measures were unified.
This is also why it has always been said that if it were not for this great initiative made by Qin Shi Huang, the unification progress of Chinese civilization may not know how long it would be delayed.
This is also basically in line with the development plan of writing and language, in principle, the language of a place may be different, but the text is generally similar.
This is also why Qin Shi Huang spent so much effort to unify the script instead of the language, because there are too many dialects in various places.
In ancient times, even in modern times, when we go to a remote place, we may say something that we can't understand at all, but the words written are the simplified characters of the Eight Classics.
So in principle, it is very meaningful to unify or strongly promote the same font.
As for language, in ancient times, there was really not such a great effort to fully promote Mandarin.
Because in ancient times, the transmission of language and language did not have an education and training system for all aspects such as telephone, mobile phone and television.
It's more of a guy on a horse, and you're counting on his pronunciation standards, or he can speak Mandarin, which is more difficult.
More importantly, it is even more difficult for you to expect him to spread this Mandarin all over the country and form a standard measure in the absolute sense.
It is a bit off-topic to say so, but we only need to remember a little bit, the reason why Qin Shi Huang was able to unify the script, the premise is that there are already words in various places, and in general, it is almost the same or the difference is not very much, and it is not so difficult to unify it.
However, there were accidents in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was the northeast of the Ming Dynasty, a place sparsely populated, and occasionally encountered a few people, or fishing and hunting.
It is precisely because this place is sparsely populated, so the people's customs are fierce, there are few people who understand words, and it is not easy to pass on the language between each other, and it is extremely difficult to expect that behind the language transmission, there can also be written records.
It is not too exaggerated to say that before the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the writing system was not sound.
However, as a unified dynasty, it is about to unify the world, if outsiders say that they do not have a unified writing system, then they must not let others laugh?
Therefore, the Manchu Qing, in desperation, relied on the writing system derived from its own language system, which was basically reverse thinking.
Because it is reverse thinking, there will be the advantages and disadvantages of reverse thinking, and the advantage is that as long as there is text, just write a little good, we have a written record.
The disadvantage is that these words and the entire grammar system have not undergone a long period of polishing, and their accuracy is really poor.
Some people say that most of the Manchu Qing script was copied from the Mongols or other places, and they were casually pieced together.
In fact, it is not very rigorous to say this, but if we start from a ridiculous point of view, this statement can also be accepted, so that in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, some emperors or princes have given up, or semi-abandoned their mother tongue.
The most typical of these is that Puyi, as the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, is also enough to see the incongruity of the development of the Manchu language to a certain extent, as well as many problems and uncontrollable factors in the later development.
Point 2: The promotion of Manchu is extremely problematic and more difficult
If we cut all the lines and everyone had to learn English from now on, and the level of English had to reach the world-class level, do you know how much turmoil it would bring?
Of course, we are just taking a simple case, taking me as an example, almost all subjects in high school are not partial, and each subject can be above 90 points, the only regret is that my English has not even passed the standard.
When I was in college, because I didn't take the exam in the fourth and sixth grades, the frequent hanging of English led to my loss of many opportunities, and I couldn't even be rated as an excellent student.
In a way, I thought I was still a small talent, that is, the Subject of English was not ideal, and it directly pulled me down.
And it is precisely because of poor English scores that there is no way to do scientific research, and even graduate students do not have to consider it, because graduate students have higher requirements for English.
Of course, this is just a simple case, so it is not difficult to find that promoting a language, even at this stage, is very difficult. And it is so difficult for highly educated talents, not to mention the promotion of Manchu to ordinary people during the feudal rule.
At that time, many ordinary people just spoke their hometown dialect, you asked him what this sentence means, or can you write this sentence in the form of words?
I'm sorry, people don't know why this sentence is said, but it is because my parents often say it, and I learned it.
They don't even have teachers, no private schools, not even the most basic education, can speak but can't read, in such a relatively strange educational atmosphere or educational environment, the promotion and popularization of Manchu is more difficult.
Point 3: The promotion of the Manchu language met with great resistance
In addition to these, the most important thing is the resistance activities of the Manchu language spontaneously organized by the non-governmental forces of the Qing Dynasty at that time.
The reason for resisting the Manchu language is that the Manchu nobles were really different in the early days, and they betrayed the trust of ordinary people in the Qing rulers again and again, so that in the later period, there was a complete bipolar situation.
In the early days, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty had already issued a number of orders, such as shaving their hair and changing clothes.
Maybe you said a casual sentence, the first day is fine, the second day was put in prison, the third day was inexplicably dead.
Another example is shaving hair and easy to wear, and at that time, there was even a saying that there was no hair left on the head, and no hair left on the head.
If you don't tidy up the hairstyle required by the Ruling Class of the Qing Dynasty, I'm sorry, you may not survive the second day.
This rough management model directly ushered in a more brutal mode of resistance, and the most fierce resistance at that time was in the South.
To be precise, it is certain cities in the Jiangnan region, such as Yangzhou City.
Do you know how many days the Qing Dynasty slaughtered the city of Yangzhou with its own machete? How chilling is the tragic situation that has been brought about?
If you are interested, you can search for it yourself, and this series of requirements has infuriated all Han Chinese.
So after that, the Manchu Qing became more difficult to change the culture or other aspects, especially in terms of language, and there was too much resistance, and it was wave after wave of resistance.
Because ordinary people have lost trust in the imperial court and have turned to extreme antagonism. At this time, if the Qing Dynasty continued to promote the Manchu language, it would only bring one result, and the Qing Dynasty would collapse since then.
The rulers of the Qing Dynasty also realized this in time, and in order to avoid greater tragedies and, more importantly, the tragedies that occurred afterwards, the Qing Dynasty had no way to control them.
Therefore, in desperation, the Qing government could only compromise again and again, and finally did not fully promote the Manchu language.
The strange thing is that because the tolerance of Han culture is too strong, and the tolerance is really too strong, the later period even began to slowly sinicize manchu culture.
The most typical is the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, if you want to become an emperor, you must learn two languages, the first is your mother tongue, that is, Manchu, which is nothing to say, and the second must be Chinese.
If you can't learn Chinese, you are not even qualified to compete for the throne.
Okay, to make a small summary, the reason why the Qing Dynasty did not promote Manchu education was because it had been promoted before, but it failed, the number of failures was more, and I felt bored.
Coupled with the scattered popularity of the people, and even many public opinions have moved towards an extreme confrontational situation, and if they continue to toss like this, the Qing Dynasty may be completely finished.
Since we can't get a good solution, we can only retreat to the second place and seek a temporary stability first.