The National Chinese Conference is a publicity campaign launched to showcase new cultural achievements and promote the Chinese language.

Beiping was presided over by Cai Yuanbao and Hu Shi, and Shanghai was handed over to Lin Zixuan.

They were going to issue a declaration at the conference, and Lin Zixuan received the content of the declaration.

The Declaration begins: "This common language is not man-made, but one of the languages of nature; I don't regard the 'official dialect' spread by novels and operas over the past few hundred years as satisfaction, but also have to adopt a dialect of modern society, that is, the dialect of Beijing. ”

When introducing the new Zhuyin standard, it was pointed out that this Zhuyin standard was improved on the basis of the Lin's Hanyu Pinyin Scheme, and was the result of the joint efforts of many linguists.

The final name is "Chinese Romaji Pinyin French".

This was the result of a compromise, and the linguists had been busy for several years and had to keep their names behind.

Lin Zixuan didn't care, he didn't care about this false name anymore.

In order to promote the Chinese language, the Preparatory Committee for the Unification of the Chinese Language is preparing to set up Chinese language training centers in major cities across the country.

It is not enough to have the Chinese language, but also to have the pronunciation and grammar of the Chinese language, which requires the compilation of dictionaries and dictionaries, and after these foundations, there must be literature in the Chinese language.

In this way, a language is formed, and it takes a lot of work.

Lin Zixuan wanted to copy out the "Xinhua Dictionary" of later generations, but then he gave up, and he must know how to be restrained.

Let's leave a way for those linguists to survive, and if they finish all the work, they will be embarrassed by others.

All he had to do was write novels and create literature in the Chinese language.

One more thing is about language textbooks.

Warlords in this era are in turmoil. There is no unified textbook for primary and secondary schools across the country, and most of them are compiled by local educational institutions. There are also publishers who ask someone to write it.

For example, the Chinese textbooks of Peking University have articles by Lu Xun and Hu Shi.

If you want to promote vernacular Chinese, you must start with primary and secondary schools. This involves the content of language textbooks.

The content of the textbook should be mainly in the vernacular, and those articles that are skillful in the use of vernacular and have far-reaching ideas and educational significance should be selected from the many books of the new literature.

Lu Xun's novels, Hu Shi's speeches, Lin Zixuan's poems, Zhou Zuoren's essays, and so on.

It's just that these scholars who compile Chinese textbooks find that Lin Zixuan's articles account for a large proportion of the selected texts.

This is related to the fact that Lin Zixuan writes manuscripts for "Vientiane Magazine" from time to time, which are known as "chicken soup for the soul" in later generations, with the theme of warmth and fraternity. Very popular with readers.

Some people realize that whether it is Chinese phonetic or Chinese literature, Lin Zixuan is a threshold that cannot be crossed.

It is conceivable that when these articles are selected into Chinese textbooks, students will learn Lin Zixuan's articles since childhood, which is similar to studying the Four Books and Five Classics in a private school, and Lin Zixuan may become a new idol.

Lin Zixuan disagreed with this, thinking that those people were purely unfounded.

The new education is different from the old education, and the more subjects students are exposed to, the broader their horizons become. There are also various doctrines from the West, and the world is huge.

It is not like in ancient times when only the Four Books and Five Classics were studied, so no one can become another Confucius.

And. The name "forest" is also too ugly to hear, and it will make people think of the phrase "when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds".

He was more concerned with the issue of universal education, and the literacy rate of people in this era was too low.

It's okay in a big city. Ordinary citizens can almost read newspapers and know a lot of words. In small cities, only wealthy families have access to literacy, while in rural areas they are largely illiterate.

No better textbook is compiled. In the end, it is necessary to rely on the establishment of more schools and universal education to play a role.

As a result, Lin Zixuan put forward the concepts of "compulsory education" and "hope project" in the newspaper.

Compulsory education is free of charge for primary and secondary education through state administrative intervention, so that more children can read and write, and the Hope Project is to give full play to the power of society and pool funds to build schools in rural areas and popularize education.

He put forward the slogan "no matter how hard you are, you can't be miserable for children, and no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education".

Children are the future and hope of the country, and they must not be left behind in education.

These two concepts have been endorsed and supported by people in the education circles led by Cai Yuanyuan, and a bill has been submitted to the Beiyang government, hoping that the government's finances can be tilted towards the education field.

According to Lin Zixuan's suggestion, the Hope Project needs to set up a foundation, which will be composed of celebrities in the education sector to form a fund committee to use the funds raised from all walks of life for the education of rural children.

He led by example by donating 50,000 yuan, which became the first donation to the Project Hope Foundation.

He knew that the "Hope Project" in this era was more meaningful than practical, and the results might not be ideal.

But as long as you keep going, do your best, and build a few more schools in the countryside so that more children can read and write, it will be worth it.

Because of this incident, Lin Zixuan became famous in the education industry and won praise from all walks of life.

In order to promote the Chinese language, various newspapers in Shanghai began to publish special or special issues of the Chinese language, introducing the ins and outs of the Chinese language, especially focusing on Lin Zixuan's pinyin scheme.

After all, Lin Zixuan is a celebrity in Shanghai, and the media in Shanghai naturally spare no effort to praise him at this time.

Lin Zixuan took this opportunity to unite a number of bookstores in Shanghai to launch a price reduction promotion.

In the first month of 1926, all Chinese books, newspapers and magazines were sold at half price.

This is not only to promote the Chinese language, but also to compete for readers and fight a price war.

Small-scale bookstores publish limited books and magazines, and the loss from price reduction promotions is not large, but once the big bookstores do this, the loss is not half a star.

This move is aimed at the Commercial Press.

The Commercial Press is the largest publishing house in the country, with many magazines and Chinese books published every month, and if it is sold at half price, it will not only make no money, but also lose money.

Lin Zixuan can even extend the half-price sale to three months to fight a protracted price war.

Vientiane Bookstore and the other six medium-sized bookstores jointly issued a price reduction statement, and the Commercial Press and Chung Hwa Book Company were not to be outdone, and immediately announced half-price sales.

This has sparked a price war in China's publishing industry.

This is not good for the publisher, but it is good for the readers.

Lin Zixuan's practice of killing 1,000 enemies and self-inflicting 800 seems to be a bit presumptuous, but there are also a lot of benefits.

Since the bookstore was unblocked, the operation of Vientiane Bookstore has been a bit sluggish, after all, it has not published newspapers and magazines for three months, which has caused a lot of impact and lost a large number of readers.

It is just taking this opportunity to vigorously promote and let readers see a brand new Vientiane Bookstore.

He also seized the opportunity to recruit translators and carry out a cultural exchange program between China and the West, so as to promote traditional Chinese culture through this exchange program.

The main thing, of course, is that he wants to vent.

For the Commercial Press, Lin Zixuan has no better way at present, but he can't make the Commercial Press better, this is a long-term competition. (To be continued.) )