At the end of December, Lin Zixuan received an invitation.

He was asked to attend the National Chinese Conference on January 1, 1926, which was to be held simultaneously in Beiping and Shanghai.

This is actually a propaganda campaign for the popularization of the Chinese language.

Chinese, also known as Modern Standard Chinese, is a lingua franca implemented throughout the country by a government decree issued by the state.

In ancient times, it was called Mandarin, and in later generations, it was called Mandarin.

In a situation where local dialects do not speak to each other in China, it is extremely necessary to implement the Chinese language in order to communicate smoothly.

In this way, it is necessary to unify the issue of Chinese pronunciation first.

In 1909, the Qing government established the "Chinese Editorial Review Committee", and officially named the official language commonly used at that time as Chinese.

In 1911, after the establishment of the government of the Republic of China, the "Chinese Pronunciation Unification Association" formulated the national pronunciation system known as the old national sound, and determined the national pronunciation with "Beijing pronunciation as the mainstay, taking into account the north and south".

On April 21, 1919, the Beiyang government established the "Preparatory Committee for the Unification of the Chinese Language" to be responsible for this matter.

There are the "Provincial Committee of Chinese Characters", "Chinese Romaji Pinyin Research Committee", "Pronunciation Committee", "Chinese Dictionary Committee" and "Chinese Dictionary Compilation Office".

It can be said that all matters related to the Chinese language are the responsibility of this institution, including the Chinese teaching materials in schools.

Over the years, all parties have been in trouble over the issue of Chinese phonetics.

This involved the issue of phonetic teaching in primary schools, and in 1920, less than two years after the introduction of the Chinese language, a controversy broke out called the "Jingguo Dispute", that is, the similarities and differences between the Beijing dialect and the Chinese phonetics.

Finally, the phonetic scheme based on the Beijing dialect was confirmed.

But that's not all, the last thing that is lacking in this era is innovators. They came up with various schemes for Chinese phonetics.

Some people even made up their own phonetic schemes.

In China, if you want to get something done, you have to hold a meeting to discuss it.

This discussion has been going on for a few years. The parties are still arguing, and these people are all linguists. They are very arrogant, and they all think that their plan is the best.

Although there is no final result, some progress has been made, many papers have been published, and a lot of manuscript fees have been earned.

Lin Zixuan didn't pay much attention to this, and he didn't even remember that he had also written a book "Lin's Hanyu Pinyin Scheme".

At that time, in order to go to the United States to fight a lawsuit, he hurriedly copied out the primary school Chinese textbooks of later generations and formulated a set of Chinese pinyin schemes.

However, the Chinese pinyin scheme he wrote was the crystallization of the wisdom of countless linguists in later generations.

Don't look at it as an elementary school textbook. How can it be simple to promote primary school textbooks throughout the country, this is the foundation of a country's education, and it is definitely the result of countless discussions and research.

Therefore, his plan is the most mature and perfect plan.

It's just that Lin Zixuan is usually relatively low-key, and he forgot about it after the lawsuit ended, unlike others who went around promoting and peddling their own phonetic schemes.

In this way, the "Lin's Hanyu Pinyin Scheme" has not received enough attention.

This time, Lin Zixuan went to Europe and the United States and other countries, which attracted the attention of domestic media. even discussed when Lin Zixuan won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Some people remember that Lin Zixuan is also a linguist and wrote a book "Lin's Chinese Pinyin Scheme".

When this pinyin scheme was submitted to the preparatory committee for the unification of the Chinese language, those linguists discovered the simplicity and convenience of this pinyin scheme, and even the tone was marked.

It's easy to understand. Both for school teaching and promotion, it is much better than their immature program.

That's not to say that these linguists don't have real skills, they're also talented.

However, the study and evolution of Chinese phonetics takes time, and the scheme proposed by Lin Zixuan comes from later generations. It is on the basis of the research of these people that it has been improved.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and many scholars deliberately find fault with this "Lin's Chinese Pinyin Scheme". Indicate deficiencies.

After all, this is a thing that can leave a name in history, the founder of Hanyu Pinyin. Who doesn't want to be this kind of name.

Education is a matter of merit in the present and in the future, every Chinese must learn Hanyu Pinyin, and when it comes to Hanyu Pinyin in the future, it will be said that it was invented by whoever invented it, which is to leave a name in history.

This is also the reason why these people are fighting around.

Of course, they are contributing to Chinese culture, but they will also have a heart for fame and fortune.

However, those people are a minority after all, and most linguists are still fair, and they recognize Lin Zixuan's pinyin scheme, and feel that this scheme can be used in comparison with the current "Zhuyin Alphabet" and gradually promoted.

The Preparatory Committee for the Unification of the Chinese Language is preparing to submit this proposal to the Ministry of Education and publish it in the "Chinese Monthly" to vigorously publicize it.

At that time, Lin Zixuan was still abroad and his whereabouts were uncertain, so no one informed him.

After solving the Chinese phonetics, another problem plagued these linguists, that is, the promotion of vernacular Chinese.

Although vernacular writing has been promoted for so many years, most writers still have sentences like "Zhihu Zhiye" in their articles, even people like Lu Xun and Hu Shi are no exception.

Their generation received private school education when they were young, and they can't break this habit in their bones.

Lu Xun studied in Japan, and sometimes Japanese-style syntax appeared in the article, which is the influence of education.

At this time, many people found that Lin Zixuan's popular novels were skillfully used in the vernacular, and there was no problem of mixing literary and vernacular, and his martial arts novels played a great role in the promotion of vernacular literature.

The people like to read Lin Zixuan's martial arts novels, which is equivalent to promoting vernacular literature.

Some people were quite puzzled by this, and only after inquiring did they know that Lin Zixuan had not received a private school education.

He received his early education at the Hongkou Aiguo Primary School in the concession, so it is no wonder that he writes without literary language.

But it is precisely such a person with an educational background who has written such majestic ancient words as "Spring Snow in Qinyuan".

In the end, they reluctantly came to the conclusion that they are really capable of anything!

To be honest, in the past, the popular novels written by Lin Zixuan were criticized as having no literary brilliance and were full of vernacular, but now they are respected and considered to have contributed to the promotion of vernacular literature.

The fundamental reason why there is such a big contrast between before and after is because Lin Zixuan's status in the literary world has improved, and he has become an authority.

If it was Lin Zixuan, who had just crossed that meeting, even if he wrote "Lin's Chinese Pinyin Scheme" brilliantly, it would not attract attention, and would even be criticized.

Just as a large number of people attacked his novels at that time.

After becoming an authority, he has an aura, like a god in a temple, and is admired.

That's the reality.

However, in any case, the "Lin's Hanyu Pinyin Scheme" is about to become a textbook for primary schools across the country, and the name of the founder of Hanyu Pinyin cannot be escaped.

Coupled with the founder of new poetry and the founder of pop songs, this is the third founder.

Lin Zixuan will go further and further on the road of the founder. (To be continued.) )