<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > review</h1>
As the origin of civilization in the four ancient countries, Chinese culture has been passed down for thousands of years without interruption, and we can even trace back to the origin of Chinese characters.
Since its development, Chinese characters have become an officially recognized script and popularized by the people of the whole country.
But did you know that in the 1930s, Chinese characters were almost changed to Latin Pinyin?
The master of linguistics, Zhao Yuanren, used only one pronunciation and wrote a text of nearly 100 words. It is this article that convinces those who propose it, and also allows Chinese characters to get rid of the fate of abandonment.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > Chinese characters are not easy to come by</h1>
The fact that Chinese characters have evolved into the regular and square form they are today has undergone many changes.
From the ancient knotted rope chronicles, derived to some simple lines, to later hieroglyphs.
These ancient ways of remembering are not only the treasures left by the ancestors for us, let us understand the evolution process of Chinese characters, but also let us deeply understand the hard-won Chinese characters.
And the shape of each word is actually meaningful, because it is slowly changed according to the shape of the word meaning.
Chinese culture is broad and profound, in contrast to the Western text English, they are composed of different letters combined into words to express a meaning. In terms of morphological meaning, in fact, it has little to do with the meaning expressed by the word itself, but is just a way of communicating.
However, because of the different ways in which they are formed, the nature of the two is also different. English can pronounce the word according to its spelling, but Chinese does not fall into this category.
You can guess the meaning of a single word through Chinese characters, but you can't know how to pronounce the word.
Of course, writing is a way for human beings to communicate, but people use oral conversation more often, but China's territory is wide and the accent is very different, so at this time, a standard pronunciation is needed as a bridge for communication in various places.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" > the pinyin symbols of Chinese characters</h1>
In ancient times, Chinese characters used "straight tone" and "reverse cut", two pronunciations of Chinese characters, which were very unfriendly to those who were new to writing and illiterate people.
It was not until 1913 that China made a set of "National Alphabets", which were separately Zhuyin for Chinese characters. With a total of 39 letters, this is also a leap forward, but there are also some areas that need to be improved.
At that time, we were in the era of cultural integration, the rise of Western culture, and we learned a lot of Western language, technology and culture.
After the founding of New China, in order to conform to international customs, the central government decided to adopt zhuyin symbols and modify them again. With the efforts of several linguists, the Chinese scheme of using the Latin alphabet as a pronunciation label for Chinese characters was successfully passed and fully promoted, which led to the pinyin of Chinese characters.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > characters are Latinized, and Chinese characters are in jeopardy</h1>
Maybe it's because the Latin alphabet is faster than Chinese characters, and the Latin alphabet is finite, while Chinese characters are endless.
Not only that, at that time, Chinese characters were still traditional characters, the level of cultural knowledge in China was generally not high, many people were illiterate, and the strokes of Chinese characters were so cumbersome and complex, which further increased the difficulty of their learning. Moreover, for the literati, traditional characters are also inconvenient to write.
In addition, the people at that time were tormented by foreign aggression, and China's backwardness made some patriotic activists think about ways to rise.
At that time, there was a part of the vernacular movement, and they advocated writing articles in fresh and understandable languages, so that even illiterate people could understand them, culture could be communicated, and their cries could be heard by the broad masses of the people.
In addition, there is a faction in the literary circles that believe that the "backward" Chinese characters have created the backwardness of people's thinking, which has also caused the backwardness of China.
The promotion of this novelty and simplicity of the Latin alphabet gave a glimmer of hope to a group of distressed people. So they launched a "Chinese campaign" to get people to abandon writing Chinese characters and use the Latin alphabet instead.
This battle between pinyin and Chinese characters attracted widespread attention, and even figures like Lu Xun, who stood at the forefront of advanced cultural trends, believed that Chinese characters needed to be Romanized
Square Chinese characters are really a sharp weapon of the policy of fooling the people, not only the toiling masses have no possibility of learning and learning, but also the privileged class with money and power, which takes one or two decades, and finally can not learn a lot.
During the May Fourth Movement, the literati also spread slogans such as "Chinese characters do not perish, China will perish." One of the most prominent representatives is Qu Qiubai, the founder of the New Latinization Movement, who even believes that if China is to be ideologically advanced, it must be Westernized.
In February 1929, he wrote a Draft of the Chinese Latin Alphabet. It was officially published the following year, which caused great repercussions, and a series of masters such as Lu Xun, who had a very influential position in literature, all sided with the Latinization of Chinese characters.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="30" > Zhao Yuanren turned the tide</h1>
The status of Chinese characters was crumbling, and it was at this time that the publication of an article entitled "The History of Shi's Lion Eater" caused a huge discussion.
Shi Shi, a poet of the stone chamber, loves lions and swears to eat ten lions. Shi Shi 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. Shi Shi regarded it as the Ten Lions, and the Ten Lions died. 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, Shi Shi's first trial food is the corpse of ten lions. When eating, the first consciousness is the corpse of ten lions, and the corpse of ten stones of lions. Trial release is a thing.
Extreme thoughts should be treated with extreme words.
This article is short 96 words, and only the homophone of shi is used throughout. These Chinese characters are even connected to form a complete meaning. A person surnamed Shi liked to eat lions very much, and almost ate lions made of stone.
Although the article does not contain any deep meaning, and even the content is more funny and absurd, it can hit the face of those who want to Latinize Chinese.
The author of this article is Zhao Yuanren, the "father of modern Chinese language and literature". It is precisely because he is proficient in Japanese, French, German, English and other national dialects, and he is also familiar with the different dialects of various regions of the country. It is because of such an understanding of language that he is so determined to regain the status of Chinese characters.
There are so many Homophones of Chinese characters that a single pronunciation can have dozens of very different meanings, not to mention how many ambiguities it will bring to the reader if you write it down in a single sentence using Latin Pinyin.
This article made those who opposed it begin to think, and the battle between Chinese characters and Latin pinyin did not stop there, at least The Chinese characters stood in an invincible position.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="38" > summary</h1>
The battle continued for decades, until the proposal to simplify Chinese characters was proposed to solve these problems.
Although the old script was more cumbersome and the text was more obscure, this does not mean that we can completely deny the existence of Chinese characters. Chinese characters are things handed down from the ancestors, and we can't help but know how to be grateful and leave them behind. The so-called "take the essence of its essence and remove its dross", we actually have many ways to leave these cultures behind and solve real problems.
We would like to thank those predecessors who fought for Chinese culture, without whom perhaps our lives would be very different today.
We will not see that because of today's Chinese influence, so many foreigners are willing to take the initiative to learn complex Chinese characters, and we have less of an emotion of pride because of the breadth and depth of Chinese characters.