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  Chapter 332 330 [Datong Zhengyin] (addition for Shangxian Qitian)

  Qian Qianyi was afraid that Zhao Han might misunderstand something, so he went to the General Military Mansion the next day to ask for an interview.

  He was taken into a courtyard in a daze, but saw that the courtyard was full of people. In addition to Zhao Han, Pang Chunlai, Li Banghua and others, there are also Chen Maosheng, Liu Rushi and many celebrities, and even famous actors and actresses from all over the world.

   "Mr. Yu Shan came just in time, let's sit down and discuss business together." Zhao Han smiled.

  The personal guard moved a stool, and Qian Qianyi sat down in front of him, not knowing what meeting he was having today.

  Zhao Han explained: "I want to standardize the languages ​​of various places, what method can Mr. Yu Shan implement?"

  Qian Qianyi replied: "Call together scholars and revise the rhyme."

  Zhao Han shook his head and said: "It's not about correct pronunciation and elegant words, but for scholars to communicate with the head of Guizhou and all provinces."

"That's impossible!"

  Qian Qianyi was so frightened that he stood up immediately, cupped his hands and said, "General Town, doing this is tantamount to eradicating common sayings in various places. Forcible promotion may cause big trouble."

"Ugh!"

  Zhao Han sighed.

  Zhao Han has long been working on the matter of standardizing the languages ​​of various regions, but the more he understands it, the less he dares to issue orders.

  Forcibly promoting the language of a certain place as "Mandarin" is not only eliminating dialects in various places, but also overturning the phonological rules of thousands of years in China.

   This is doing right with the scholars all over the world!

  In ancient China, there has always been "Mandarin", namely: Yayan, Zhengyin, and Guanhua.

  The orthodoxy of the past dynasties is the same, and they are all the reading sounds of Luoyang Taixue.

  Luoyang Taixue reading sound, also known as Zhongyuan Yayan.

  It is not a Henan dialect, but a set of pronunciation rules, which regulates pronunciation through Fanqie.

  As long as you have learned this set of rules, no matter you are from Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, or Kunming, no matter your dialect has four tones, five tones, six tones, or seven tones, everyone can communicate very smoothly!

   This set of rules only restricts the sound category, not the sound value.

   Therefore, the pronunciation of reading in each place will be very different, but they are common to each other.

   This set of pronunciation rules has been an important factor in maintaining the unification of China for two thousand years, and its great role is not inferior to the unification of writing. It can integrate various dialects into the same system. In the ancient society without radio and television, this is the most convenient and effective means of phonetic notation.

   What Zhao Han has to do now is to break it!

   Having said so much, you may not understand it, so it must be more intuitive.

  Modern Chinese is a secondary institution: Putonghua—Dialect.

  In ancient times, it belonged to a three-level structure: Yayan rules—local reading sounds—local dialects.

  Chen Maosheng said suddenly: "It's not impossible to force promotion, don't we sing operas remember it?"

   "Not bad." The famous opera actors present echoed.

  Regardless of the difference between the north and the south, all the operas in the country are spoken in authentic Mandarin.

  Zhao Han asked with a smile: "If it is forced to promote, should the correct pronunciation be based on the elegant dialect of the Central Plains, or the old dialect of Jiangzuo?"

   "It doesn't matter." Everyone laughed.

   There were two authoritative works in the Ming Dynasty, one was called "Hongwu Zhengyun" and the other was called "Jiaotai Yun".

  Due to the different authors, "Hongwu Zhengyun" is biased towards Jianghuai dialect, and "Jiaotai Yun" is biased towards the Central Plains.

   Li Banghua suddenly said: "Let's take "Hongwu Zhengyun" as the standard. In the early Ming Dynasty, the fields were farmed in various places, and Jianghuai dialect was used in a wider area."

   "Really want to do this?" Qian Qianyi was horrified.

   Zhao Han said: "I am not trying to abolish Yayan, but to use Jianghuai dialect as the criterion so that people everywhere can communicate in language."

  Qian Qianyi said: "The general town will carry out three-year education. From now on, there will be scholars everywhere. Everyone can understand the pronunciation of reading, and naturally everyone can communicate without hindrance. Why force the promotion of Jianghuai dialect?"

  Zhao Han explained: "I plan to compile a dictionary and remake the method of Qieyin (Pinyin). In this way, children can cut the sound by themselves in two or three months, and learn new words by flipping through the dictionary."

   "How can there be such an easy method in the world?" Qian Qianyi couldn't imagine it at all.

  Zhao Han said with a smile: "How will you know if you don't try it? First determine the model tone, how many tones should it be? Do you want to keep the incoming tone?"

  This question stunned everyone.

  Qian Qianyi bit the bullet and said: "Seven tones, as for the entrance tones, you should keep it."

  Zhao Han teased: "Did Emperor Chongzhen speak with a voice?"

   "No." Li Banghua and Qian Qianyi shook their heads at the same time.

   "Then keep the voice." Zhao Han said with a smile.

   It has nothing to do with the emperor to keep the entering tone, but except for some areas in the north, there are entering sounds in dialects all over the country at this time.

  Mandarin of later generations is silent.

  Mandarin has four tones, and the "Zhengyin" promulgated by Zhao Han in the future may have seven tones.

  Zhao Han can't promote it according to the Mandarin of later generations, because no one can speak that stuff except him.

  Zhao Han asked: "Who wants to be the editor-in-chief of 'Datong Zhengyin'?"

   No answer.

  This thing is too nonsense, everyone has no idea, and dare not take on the porcelain work easily.

  Liu Rushi suddenly raised his hand and said, "How about... I will be the president?"

  Zhao Han smiled and looked at Qian Qianyi: "What do you think, Mr. Yu Shan?"

  Qian Qianyi knew that he couldn't run away, and he wanted to cry without tears: "Then I will recommend myself."

Zhao Han explained to Liu Rushi: "I don't despise women, nor do I despise Liu Jun's talent and learning. But to forcefully promote Datong Zhengyin, there will be a lot of resistance. If a woman is the president, those who resist will have something to say Mr. Yu Shan is different, he is a master of literature and a leader of scholars, presumably the scholars of the world are convinced."

  Qian Qianyi wanted to scold her mother very much.

  Scholars in the world are so convinced, this set of positive pronunciation is forced to promote, and I don’t know how many people will scold it.

  Everyone will not hate Zhao Han, the anger will be directed at Qian Qianyi!

  Different dialects are like different systems.

  Traditional Yayan is to formulate a set of rules to make these dialect systems compatible, but they must be converted into corresponding reading sounds.

  The Datong Zhengyin that Zhao Han plans to implement is based on one dialect system and covers all other dialect systems.

  The third-level language structure is simplified to the second-level language structure.

   Not only can people from all over the world use a unified language, but it can also double the learning speed of children.

   Apart from being depressed, Qian Qianyi was a little excited.

  As the editor-in-chief of Datong Zhengyin, he will definitely be scolded **** in this life. But if it can be successfully promoted, after a hundred years, he will leave his name in history and be hailed as the master of Zhengyin by later generations!

   Infamy in front of you, good reputation in death.

Zhao Han said with a smile: "Mr. Yushan, I will give you 50 pieces of plaques, and you can recruit 50 great Confucian scholars, preferably those who are proficient in phonology. Together, you can compile the correct pronunciation of Datong. Remember, each province must choose a few. , can’t be limited to Jiangnan, otherwise it will be the Zhengyin of Jiangnan.”

   Qian Qianyi wanted to die when he heard this. He said with a bitter face: "The tone of each province is different, so we must fight!"

  Zhao Han said with a smile: "If you can't fight, just use "Hongwu Zhengyun" as the criterion, take the Jianghuai dialect as the model, and just follow the elegant words of the Central Plains."

   "Follow... order." Qian Qianyi was weak.

  A piece of toilet paper is useful, so Qian Qianyi found it useful?

  Zhao Han looked at Liu Rushi: "Do you want to compose Datong Zhengyin?"

  Liu Rushi replied: "I am also familiar with opera, and the correct pronunciation is not behind others."

  Zhao Han said to several famous opera actors: "After Mr. Yu Shan has compiled the correct pronunciation, you will sing the opera against it. If you feel something is wrong, just say it and let them revise the compilation again."

"yes!"

  The famous opera actors were very happy, they never thought that they would be able to participate in such a big event.

  Zhao Han said: "Everyone else should step down, Qian Qianyi and Liu Yin don't leave for now."

  Everyone bowed and bid farewell.

There were only three people left in the yard. Zhao Han said to Qian Qianyi and Liu Rushi: "The achievements of the Emperor Qin are the first to promote the same text. What you have to do is to speak with the same voice. You should understand how important it is? A hundred years later, all the famous scholars and scholars have passed away, but the two of you have left your name in history."

   "Dedicate yourself to yourselves, and die!"

  Liu Rushi's blood boiled with enthusiasm. As a woman, she was finally able to do great things.

  Qian Qianyi said: "We will definitely do our best."

  Zhao Han smiled and waved: "Come, come, let me show you some letters."

   Qian Qianyi and Liu Rushi walked over, Zhao Han untied the white cloth on the blackboard, only to see some messy symbols written on it.

  Latin alphabet.

  The method of pinyin must be implemented, and original symbols can be used. In the late Qing Dynasty, some people created their own symbols to create pinyin.

  However, the Chinese create their own symbols, which are inevitably born out of radicals, which can easily lead to some misleading.

  Therefore, mainland China uses the Latin alphabet for pinyin, and Taiwan uses imitation of Japanese kana for pinyin. In fact, both of them use the same principle.

   And this principle, derived from the traditional Yayan, is the set of reading pronunciation rules that are compatible with various dialects.

  Zhao Han pointed to the blackboard: "These are initials, and these are finals."

  Those who have learned the punctuation method of Yayan can understand it as soon as they hear it. Qian Qianyi and Liu Rushi immediately understand what those letters are for.

   Even Zhao Han didn't need to explain the meaning of the two words initials and finals.

  Sound, rhyme, and mother are phonological terms in themselves.

  When Zhao Han saw their reactions, he was even happier. It was easy for the scholars to accept, all they had to do was forcefully memorize the pronunciation of the letters.

   "Read it yourself." Zhao Han said.

  Beside each Latin letter, there are Chinese phonetic notation. Zhao Han also wrote several examples of the combination of sounds and vowels.

  The two looked at the Chinese phonetic notation for a while, and Zhao Han wrote the four tones of modern Chinese: "Here are the tones. I created four by myself, and you created the remaining three."

Qian Qianyi randomly selected a few Chinese characters, tried to use the pinyin method to cut the sound, and suddenly sighed: "Although it is superficial, it is indeed easy for Mongolian children to learn. But it has deviated from the method of correct rhyme. Once this correct pronunciation is popularized, in time, local dialects around the world will learn it." perish."

Zhao Han said: "Language, like characters, has been changing since ancient times, and the direction of change is from complex to simple. I not only want to simplify the phonetic rhythm, but also simplify Chinese characters. If there are multiple ways of writing, choose the simplest and most reasonable one. .”

  Qian Qianyi said with emotion: "The ambition of the general town can only be glimpsed today."

  Zhao Han does not engage in forced simplification, but just chooses simple characters as standard characters.

  For example, "wu" and "wu" have been in common use for hundreds of years, with exactly the same meaning and usage, why not use "wu" as a standard glyph?

   Liu Rushi looked at Zhao Han's leaving voice, and said to himself: "A really great man!"

   Qian Qianyi pretended not to hear, he didn't dare to provoke this strange woman again, and he was even more afraid of offending that great man just now.

  (end of this chapter)