Shi Shi, a poet of the stone chamber, loves lions and swears to eat ten lions. The clan is always suitable for the city to see the lion. At ten o'clock, suitable for ten lions suitable for the city. It is time to adapt to the city of Shi Shi. The clan sees the ten lions, and the bully is that the ten lions die. The clan is a corpse of ten lions, a suitable stone chamber. The stone chamber is wet, and the clan makes the stone chamber. Stone chamber swab, clan first tried to eat ten lion corpses. When eating, the ten lion corpses are recognized, and the ten stone lion corpses are realized. Trial release is a thing.
This is the famous "Shi's History of Eating Lions", the whole text only uses "shi" a sound, written out, we can understand, but it is too difficult to read. You might be thinking: Oh my God! Who wrote this tongue twister, and if you use it to test Mandarin, won't you stop cooking?
No wonder you think so, this tongue twister is made up by the linguist Zhao Yuanren, who is known as the "father of chinese Chinese dialects", and when asked about his original intention of studying linguistics, he replied that "it is just play".
Young Zhao Yuanren
It is said that he is familiar with the dialects of 33 places in China, and once performed the ventriloquist "national travel", that is, from Beijing to the south along the Jinghan Road, through Hebei to Shanxi and Shaanxi, out of Tongguan, from Henan into the two lakes, Sichuan, Yungui, and then from the two Guangzhou around Jiangxi, Fujian to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, from Shandong across the Bohai Bay into the three eastern provinces, and finally into shanhai customs back to Beijing, "walking" through most of China, every "to" a place, in the local dialect of the vernacular, to introduce scenic spots and local specialties.
Zhao Yuanren is not only fluent in Chinese dialects, but also foreign Chinese dialects, and he can also communicate with locals in local dialects. It is said that he went to Berlin, Germany, and chatted with the locals in German with a Berlin accent. An old neighbor said to him, "God bless you, you escaped this disaster and came back safely." ”
Middle-aged Zhao Yuanren
Relying on this skill, Zhao Yuanren went anywhere in the world, and the locals all competed with him to climb the hometown, which was a very happy thing!
Of course, Zhao Yuanren has a talent for language, not only a showmanship, he has also made great contributions to the science of Chinese and Chinese dialects, and has been called "the father of Chinese Chinese dialects" by Wang Li, Lü Shuxiang and others, while his peers have compared him to a parrot who can learn to speak, jokingly calling him "Starling".
In his later years, Zhao Yuanren
He used to record Chinese phonograph to promote Mandarin, and there's an interesting story here. In 1925, Zhao Yuanren passed through Hong Kong and wanted to buy two pairs of white leather shoes, which was his shopping habit. He said that Chinese, the clerk could not understand how, and finally the clerk advised Zhao Yuanren: "You should buy a phonograph to learn Chinese." Zhao Yuanren asked, "Who is good to listen to?" The clerk said that of course, he listened to Zhao Yuanren, and all of China listened to him. Yang Buwei, who was beside him, smiled, pointed at his husband and said, "He is Zhao Yuanren." The clerk looked at it, shook his head, and said, "Don't joke, his Chinese so bad, how can it be Zhao Yuanren?" ”
Zhao Yuanren and his wife
Zhao Yuanren's achievements are not limited to linguistics, he is also a pioneer of modern Chinese musicology, translating Alice in Wonderland in 1922 and composing and singing "Teach Me How not to Miss Her".
Zhao Yuanren "loves to play" and is an interesting person. In 1971, he married his wife Yang Buwei, who wrote a poem: "After fifty years of quarrel and quarrel, everyone said that marriage was good." Yuan Ren owes me this life karma, inverting yin and yang and reuniting. In this regard, Zhao Yuanren deeply agreed, and he even had a good name for his next life: Concubine.
Zhao Yuanren and his wife, four daughters and son-in-law
Conclusion: Zhao Yuanren, as a chinese Chinese dialectician, with his own language talent, can communicate with people in the local dialect, making people and disputes as fellow countrymen, which is enviable! He can also use his strengths to promote Chinese and contribute to the study of Chinese and Chinese dialects. Life is still an interesting person, with mrs. white head and old age, talking and laughing.