Chapter 31: Vernacular Writing
"What is good at the top will be very bad at the bottom. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info", "The king of Chu has a thin waist, and Gong'e is starving to death. Chen Xin heard a lot of allusions and so on.
Before the crossing, this allusion was just to add some jokes and talking points for everyone.
By the way, when the national leaders led some fashions, they ridiculed and joked.
However, when Chen Xin crossed over and established his power, he knew the power of these allusions.
And after Chen Xin established his own country, the term "leading and exemplary role", which was often used as a ridicule in the past, let Chen Xin know that his words and deeds would inadvertently have a drastic impact on the entire country.
As a king, Chen Xin is cautious when dealing with outsiders every day, and always pays attention to his words and deeds.
This is also the reason why Chen Xin arranged several cyborgs as personal attendants by his side, while the attendants composed of other ordinary people all lived on the first floor, and were not summoned and were not allowed to go upstairs.
This fashion, which has never changed since ancient times, gave Chen Xin the confidence to expand the sports he wanted to promote, but also limited Chen Xin's hands and feet, so that he did not dare to relax the development of other forms of entertainment.
Chen Xin is sometimes in YY, and wants to take the beautiful maids to play poker, mahjong, and do some presumptuous things in his spare time.
However, these things can only be thought about.
As long as he still has a sense of royal responsibility, even if he really has such presumptuous thoughts, he can't show it, let alone let the people until.
As I said before, the current United Kingdom of China can be said to be enemies on all sides.
Although the Netherlands have been reconciled and the two sides have started business, the threat of the slave tribe of the Houjin is still there.
Not to mention Huang Taiji north of the Yalu River, that is, to the south, An Buyang and Suke Saha in Shangjing are two big troubles.
Further south, there was the Kingdom of Korea, although the guerrilla detachments had largely taken control of the court of the Kingdom of Korea.
But before the country was completely paralyzed, Chen Xin didn't dare to be careless at all, and he couldn't tell when he would let the Korean kingdom turn the tables upside down.
In the direction of Kyushu, there is also the threat of the Wa Kingdom.
The kingdom has occupied Kyushu, one of the four major islands of the Japanese country, and these little Japanese are not reconciled, and they are also ready to find an opportunity to find a place at any time.
In such a situation, it is very beneficial to maintain the positive and diligent work attitude of the people.
Therefore, it is not yet time to promote mahjong, a big killer.
Mahjong is a thing that does not need Chen Xin to take the lead to form a huge effect, and he is very aware of this.
If Chen Xin takes the lead in engaging in these things, then I am afraid that the whole country will become a mahjong country.
In this situation where children are used as adults, women are used as men, and men are used as animals, mahjong and other things are really not the time to promote and advocate.
It is an entertainment killer that can at least wait until the surrounding area is a little more stable and the international environment is a little safer before it can be put on display to pass the leisure time of the people.
Of course, Chen Xin is not only promoting rugby, such as badminton, table tennis and other sports that can be played by two people, but also in the sequence of promotion, slowly developing in the army.
In addition, stage plays and operas with the main theme are also being promoted.
The song is a big killer, and Chen Xin has not forgotten it.
In fact, the folk oral Chinese communication of this era was very close to the vernacular of later generations.
Coupled with the government's literacy classes for every new immigrant, as well as schools and other institutions that are gradually opening, the spread of the "Chinese language", all people who have lived in the United Kingdom of China for one year can basically understand the vernacular.
To understand is to understand, but if you want to hear clearly, speak clearly and fluently, it is not something that can be solved overnight.
And songs with standard "Chinese" pronunciation are the best medium for vernacular language transmission.
People like to pursue beauty, singing, in the tradition of the Chinese nation, is a very beautiful thing.
In all parts of China, you can find your own local folk songs, which are sung among the people for thousands of years.
Since you have such a good habit, you naturally have to keep it.
Vernacular songs, as long as they are made up and catchy, can be accepted by the people, and naturally they can be sung among the people.
That is, it enriches the entertainment and spreads the language, how could Chen Xin miss this item?
The main theme of stage plays, operas and other projects should be promoted a little later.
Because these need to be done by professional personnel, personnel training is a long time work.
However, singing, it is much simpler, and now it is not a competition, as long as you can sing the right tone and the rabbit is clear, then everything is fine, anyone can sing.
Chen Xin's promotion of vernacular Chinese actually hoped that the people could cooperate with the government to break the shackles of classical Chinese and liberate the monopoly of knowledge among readers.
Classical Chinese was originally a summary of the spoken language of ancient people, which appeared as early as the pre-Qin period.
By the Western Han Dynasty, the feudal rulers respected Confucianism alone, and the classical Chinese that recorded these classics became an unchangeable model for the ages.
In later generations, the distance between classical Chinese and the actual spoken language became.
This situation is not adapted to social and linguistic development.
The Great Chinese Cultural Circle in the feudal era paid attention to the fact that "the people can make it, but they can't know it." ”
This is not something that was changed by the small means of changing the meaning after punctuation was added in later generations.
Since the Tang and Song dynasties, the vernacular has gradually flourished.
First, the Buddhist teachings were disseminated in the form of "variations" and "quotations", which were relatively close to the spoken language, and later, with the germination of capitalist factors and the rise of the burghers, the Ming and Qing Zhanghui novels written in the colloquial language of the time appeared.
However, until the end of the Qing Dynasty, vernacular Chinese was still limited to the scope of popular literature, and failed to change the situation of the monopoly of classical Chinese as a common written language.
In order to make the written language accessible to more people, many scholars throughout the ages have advocated that the written language should be consistent with the spoken language.
However, these are not systematic, and in the upper strata of feudal rule, classical Chinese is the means by which they rule, and it is a high-voltage line that cannot be moved.
What Chen Xin wants to do is to mobilize the administrative force to promote the vernacular language at the same time, try to find a way to let the people also spontaneously change this cultural monopoly.
This has certain similarities with the vernacular literary movement in later generations.
In 1861, on the timeline of Chen Xin's arrival, Hong Renji (1822~1864) promulgated the "Edict on Qusitting Floating Texts and Clever Words" according to Hong Xiuquan's instructions, and put forward the policy of reforming the style: "There is no need for classical words", "It must always be practical and clear, so that people can understand it at a glance".
After another twenty or thirty years, the bourgeois reformists advocated vernacular writing in order to propagate the reform of the law and develop the wisdom of the people.
For example, Huang Zunxian (1848~1905) quoted a colloquial saying into his poems, declaring that "I write by hand and I speak" ("Miscellaneous Feelings"); Qiu Tingliang (1857~1943) believed that "the vernacular is the foundation of the Restoration" and issued the slogan of "respecting the vernacular and abolishing the literary language"; Chen Ronggong was the first to explicitly advocate that newspapers should switch to the vernacular; Wang Zhao even stated that the official alphabet he formulated only spelled "Beiren Vulgar Language", not Wenyan.
At the same time, they are also active in writing articles that are plain and simple.
Liang Qichao (1873~1929) was the first to challenge the ancient literature of the Tongcheng School, which dominated the literary world, and created a "new style", although it is still in literary language, it is easy to understand, mixed with slang, rhyme and foreign Chinese, and has taken the first step towards vernacular literature.
Then vernacular books and newspapers sprung up in various places, and there were more than 10 kinds of vernacular newspapers, more than 50 kinds of vernacular textbooks, and more than 1,500 kinds of vernacular novels.
Although these things were not included in the vernacular movement, it was precisely because of the efforts of these pioneers that the vernacular was slowly accepted and laid the foundation for the later vernacular movement.
Although the later vernacular literary movement brought many benefits, it also brought a lot of negative effects to the industry.
As the New Culture Movement advocated the overthrow of Confucian Shops, it completely denied traditional Chinese culture, which led to the neglect of Sinology and the decline of Sinology.
Even later, under the erosion of Western culture, the dignified Chinese cultural circle did not have the slightest ability to resist.
East Asia, which was originally a radiating country in the Chinese cultural sphere, has continuously abolished Chinese, leaving China isolated.
Even the cultural circles of later generations have become the enemy's position, and a large number of public knowledge and cents have become the vanguard of the enemy's erosion of China.
Chen Xin, who came from the rise of New China in later generations, naturally did not completely overthrow Chinese culture.
Moreover, at this time, China has not yet experienced a hundred years of humiliation in later generations, and the spirit of the people is still at its peak, that is, the era of the truly strong who are inclusive and virtuous.
Even if Chen Xin wants to completely smash down the so-called "Confucian shop", it will not be possible.
I am afraid that once Chen Xin does this, in the entire Chinese cultural circle now, he will instantly become a real "lonely person", and no one will be willing to follow him except for Hu Ben.
Therefore, Chen Xin could not be as radical as the New Culture Movement.
In the form of songs and government encouragement, the people were tempted to spontaneously form the habit of speaking and writing vernacular texts, breaking the Confucian monopoly on knowledge, even if they achieved their own goals.
Therefore, Chen Xin also made certain requirements for the songs to be sung, which must be in the vernacular, and the more straightforward the better, and it is best to express positive emotions.
Now, there are a group of folk composers who are carrying out research in this area according to Chen Xin's requirements.
It is believed that in the near future, vernacular songs will become a unique feature of the United Kingdom of China, and with the strength of the country, it will slowly radiate and affect all the surrounding countries in this era.
The vernacular-based "Chinese" will also become the international lingua franca.
Chen Xin is convinced of this.