The Preparatory Discussion Meeting for the Establishment of the Chinese Chinese Dialect and Writing Society was held at the National Central University in Nanjing. Many linguists, including Zhao Yuanren, Qian Xuantong, Wang Guowei, Wu Zhihui, Li Hongxi, Chen Maozhi, Shen Jishi, Huang Kan, etc., were invited to discuss the development of Chinese characters.

The meeting was led by the Ministry of Education, and the standard Chinese pinyin list (Romaji Pinyin) has been developed and will soon be finalized and then released to the whole society. There were two main topics on the agenda of the meeting: one was to promote the standard Chinese language, and the other was to discuss the simplification of Chinese characters.

There is no objection to the promotion of the standard Chinese, after all, too many dialects are not conducive to communication, but on the issue of simplifying Chinese characters, everyone is particularly fiercely debated. It is roughly divided into three schools: one is more conservative and believes that traditional Chinese characters do not need to be changed; One faction advocates reform and calls for the promotion of simplified characters; The last group was extremely radical and believed that Chinese characters should be abolished in favor of Latin scripts.

The abolition of the Chinese character faction was rather nonsense and unoperable, and their proposal was quickly ruled out.

The rest is the battle between traditional and simplified Chinese......

Qian Xuantong took out a stack of manuscripts and said: "This is the first batch of simplified characters I formulated five years ago, which contains more than 2,000 simplified characters. These abbreviated characters were not created by me, they are all taken from existing ancient books, and there is no difficulty in promoting them. I believe that Chinese characters must be simplified in order to facilitate printing, publishing, learning and dissemination. Not only that, but I think the Ministry of Education should issue a document advocating the use of new punctuation, Arabic numerals, the Common Era, and horizontal writing in Chinese characters. For example, many newspapers and periodicals are still using vertical writing, which is very inconvenient and makes a wrong example to the public. I suggest that the government should decree that all newspapers and periodicals must be printed horizontally! ”

Jiang Menglin stepped down from the post of education minister some time ago, and this position is temporarily vacant. Duan Xipeng, vice minister of education, said: "We will discuss the promotion of new punctuation and horizontal writing later. I think it is still necessary to simplify the word, but whether it can be approved by the Ministry of Education or not must be decided by the Ministry of Education Conference. The main issues we are discussing today are the promotion of standard Chinese and Chinese characters, and the preparation for the establishment of the Chinese Chinese Language and Writing Society. If you have any good suggestions, please feel free to speak. ”

Zhao Yuanren raised his hand and said, "To promote the standard Chinese, I think we should start from two aspects. The first is radio, which has a large number of listeners, but the announcer's Chinese pronunciation is very problematic. Take Central Radio, for example, which is a direct radio station of the central government, but the Chinese language is still bad. ”

Duan Xipeng nodded and said, "I will communicate with CCTV, Professor Zhao, please continue." ”

Zhao Yuanren also said: "The second is records, the Ministry of Education can record Chinese records, and recite poetry, prose and in standard Chinese. These recordings should be procured by the Ministry of Education and distributed to universities and secondary schools. It can also be provided to radio stations and broadcast on the radio. It is also available in the market for those who want to learn Chinese. ”

"Well, good idea," Duan Xipeng said with a smile, he turned his head to look at Zhou Hexuan, "Mr. Zhou hasn't spoken, do you have any good suggestions?" ”

Zhou Hexuan was too lazy to speak, and with Zhao Yuanren, Qian Xuantong and other linguists present, he didn't have to express his views at all.

As for the promotion of modern Chinese pinyin, Zhou Hexuan didn't even think about it. Qian Xuantong and Wu Zhihui worked hard for more than ten years, and the Nanjing government organized manpower and material resources for more than two years, and finally came up with a romanization scheme and dictionary, how could it be overturned and abandoned?

In particular, the "Guoyin Dictionary" was compiled by Wu Zhihui, one of the "Four Elders of the Kuomintang", and all of them used romanized pinyin. If anyone dares to propose another pinyin scheme, it is estimated that Wu Zhihui will jump in anger - isn't his hard work in vain?

Seeing the name of the vice minister of education, Zhou Hexuan smiled and said: "Then I will express my opinion, I support the promotion of standard Chinese, and also support the implementation of simplified Chinese characters." In terms of Chinese promotion, Professor Zhao said very reasonably, and I will only add that in addition to radio and records, movies can also be used. ”

"Movies?" Duan Xipeng was puzzled, "Now Chinese movies are all silent films, and they don't speak at all." ”

Zhou Hexuan said: "China's first sound film has been produced, and it may be released in another half a month, and there will be more and more sound films in the future." The Ministry of Education may work with the publishing department to formulate regulations that Chinese sound films must be in the Chinese language, and that dialect films must not be screened. ”

"Yes, I'll take care of it." Duan Xipeng nodded and said.

Next, everyone began to discuss the constitution structure of the Chinese Chinese Language and Writing Society, and while talking, somehow turned to the controversy between simplified and traditional Chinese.

"Chinese characters are the most beautiful characters in the world, traditional Chinese characters are orthodox, once simplified, they become remnants, and I am against simplifying Chinese characters." Huang Kan said resolutely.

Qian Xuantong said: "Simplified Chinese characters have existed in ancient times, and they existed in the Tang and Song dynasties, but they regressed in the Republic of China?" ”

Dai Jitao, the dean of the exam, slammed the table: "Whoever wants to simplify Chinese characters, I have simplified him!" Chinese characters are traditional Chinese characters, traditional Chinese characters are Chinese characters, and every stroke is indispensable! ”

Wu Zhihui laughed: "Don't fight, if you want me to see it, it's convenient to directly abolish Chinese characters." ”

Yes, a group of immortals fight.

Huang Kan won't talk about it, a madman, who bites whom, but he is a small role in this meeting.

The scary thing is that Dai Jitao and Wu Zhihui are both Chang Kaishen's masters, but their views are just opposite.

Dai Jitao advocated the retention of traditional Chinese characters, and in history, Chang Kaishen implemented simplified characters in the 30s, and Dai Jitao was the most fiercely opposed, and even did not participate in the Kuomintang meeting for three months, forcing Chang Kaishen to cancel the simplified Chinese character promotion plan.

Wu Zhihui was even more radical, calling for the abolition of Chinese characters and the Latinization of Chinese. This guy is also a madman, nicknamed "Mad Dog Master", and he started a fire to even scold himself.

Dissatisfied with Chang Kaishen's practice of excluding dissidents, Wu Zhihui went to see Chang Kaishen with lanterns in broad daylight. Chang Kaishen asked him: "Zhihui Gong, what are you doing with a lantern for a meeting in broad daylight?" Wu Zhihui learned the Ningbo dialect and said: "Niang Xipi, it's too dark here, it's too dark!" ”

Last year, Chang Kaishen asked Wu Zhihui to invite Li Jishen, but as soon as Li Jishen came to Nanjing, he was directly detained by Chang Kaishen. Wu Zhihui was so angry that he stomped his feet and asked the captain of the guard to tell Chang Kaishen: "You were raised by a (harmony)!" Chang Kaishen made a special trip to visit Wu Zhihui, Wu Zhihui pushed open the window and shouted: "Wu Zhihui is not at home!" ”

Now that the two grumpy people are in trouble, Dai Jitao said without concession: "The surname Wu, if you want to abolish Chinese characters, you are forgetting your ancestors!" ”

"You are still holding on to the defects, why don't you keep using the old one? The 30-year-old night pot is the most fragrant! Wu Zhihui laughed and scolded.

Qian Xuantong had a headache and said: "Take a step back, take a step back." It is too troublesome to abolish Chinese characters, and government documents, newspapers, magazines, and scientific books must all be abolished, and the gains outweigh the losses. But traditional Chinese characters are indeed not conducive to communication, let's take it step by step, the best way is to implement simplified characters. Saying that, Qian Xuantong said to Zhou Hexuan, "Mr. Zhou, you can say a few words!" ”

"Why did you get involved with me again?" Zhou Hexuan sweated wildly.

Qian Xuantong said: "I heard that the manuscripts of Mr. Zhou's articles and the lecture notes used to give lectures at Tsinghua University are all simplified characters. Tell us about your experience in using simplified words. ”

"Me," Zhou Hexuan said with a smile, "It's convenient for me to use simplified words, and no one has dyslexia yet, and I can even know it." ”

Dai Jitao patted the table and said: "Do government documents and legal terms also rely on guessing?" ”

Zhou Hexuan rolled his eyes, too lazy to talk nonsense. Chang Kaishen ordered the implementation of simplified characters, and he had to be scolded back by Dai Jitao, not to mention that he was white.

Obviously, this discussion on the development of Chinese characters is unlikely to be fruitful.