Qian Qianyi was afraid that Zhao Han would misunderstand something, so he went to the General Military Mansion the next day to ask for a meeting.

He was taken into a courtyard in a daze, only to see 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 from all over the world.

"Mr. Yu Shan came just in time, and sat down to discuss it together." Zhao Han smiled.

The guards brought a stool, and Qian Qianyi sat down in front of him, not figuring out what meeting was going on today.

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

Qian Qianyi replied: "Gather scholars and revise the rhyme." ”

Zhao Han shook his head and said: "It's not Zhengyin Yayan, but to let the scholars and the heads of Qian, and the provinces can communicate with each other." ”

"That can't be!"

Qian Qianyi was so frightened that he immediately stood up and said: "General Town, this practice is tantamount to eliminating local colloquialisms, and forcibly promoting it may cause a big mess." ”

"Alas!"

Zhao Han sighed.

Zhao Han has been working on the matter of standardizing languages in various places for a long time, but the more he understands it, the more he does not dare to issue orders.

Forcibly promoting a local language as "Mandarin" will not only eliminate local dialects, but also overturn China's thousand-year-old phonological rules.

This is against the people who read books all over the world!

In ancient China, there has always been "Mandarin", that is: Yayan, Zhengyin, and Mandarin.

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

Luoyang Taixue reads the sound, also known as the Central Plains Yayan.

It is not a Henan dialect, but a set of pronunciation rules, which standardize pronunciation by reverse cutting.

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

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

Therefore, the reading sound 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 China's unification for 2,000 years, and its great role is not lost to the unification of characters. It can integrate various local dialects into the same system, which is the most convenient and effective means of phonetic pronunciation in ancient societies where there were no radios and televisions.

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

Saying so much, you may not understand, but you must speak more intuitively.

Modern Chinese is a second-level institution: Mandarin-dialect.

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

Chen Maosheng suddenly said: "It's not impossible to forcibly promote, don't we remember what we sing?" ”

"Not bad." The famous opera actors present echoed one after another.

Regardless of the world, the south and the north, all the operas in the country, the recitation of Bai is an authentic official dialect.

Zhao Han smiled and asked: "If it is forcibly promoted, should the Central Plains Yayan be used as the positive sound, or the old Jiangzuo language should be used as the positive sound?" ”

"It doesn't matter." Everyone laughed.

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

Due to the different authors, "Hongwu Zhengyun" is biased towards Jianghuai dialect, and "Jiaotai Rhyme" is biased towards the original pronunciation.

Li Banghua suddenly said: "Let's take "Hongwu Zhengyun" as the standard, in the early Ming Dynasty, in Tuntian, Jianghuai dialect was used more widely. ”

"Do you really want to do that?" Qian Qianyi was shocked.

Zhao Han said: "I don't want to abolish Yayan, but to use Jianghuai dialect as the criterion, so that people everywhere can communicate in language. ”

Qian Qianyi said: "The town implements three-year education, and in the future, everyone will be able to read everywhere, everyone can understand the sound of reading, and naturally everyone can communicate unhindered." Why do you still want to forcibly promote the JAC dialect? ”

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

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

Zhao Han smiled and said, "How do you know if you don't try?" First determine the model tone, how many tones should it be? Do you want to keep the sound? ”

This question stunned everyone.

Qian Qianyi stubbornly said: "Seven sounds, as for the sound, you should keep it." ”

Zhao Han teased: "Emperor Chongzhen spoke, did he have a voice? ”

"Nope." Li Banghua and Qian Qianyi shook their heads at the same time.

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

The retention of the intonation had nothing to do with the emperor, but with the exception of parts of the north, at this time there were dialects throughout the country.

The Mandarin of later generations has no sound.

Mandarin has four tones, and Zhao Han's future promulgation of "Zhengyin" may have seven tones.

Zhao Han couldn't promote it according to the Mandarin of later generations, because no one but him could speak that thing.

Zhao Han asked, "Who wants to be the editorial president of 'Datong Zhengyin'?" ”

No one answered.

This thing is so nonsense that everyone has no clue and doesn't dare to take over the porcelain work easily.

Liu Ru suddenly raised his hand and said, "Why don't you ...... I'm going to be the president? ”

Zhao Han looked at Qian Qianyi with a smile: "What does Mr. Yushan think?" ”

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

Zhao Han explained to Liu Rushi: "I don't despise women, nor do I despise Liu Jun's talent. Instead, it forcibly promoted Datong Zhengyin, which would have met with great resistance. If the woman is the president, those who resist will have a voice. Mr. Yu Shan is different, he is a master of the literary world and a leader of Shilin, and he must be convinced by the scholars of the world. ”

Qian Qianyi wanted to scold his mother.

The world's soldiers are convinced, this set of Zhengyin is forcibly promoted, and I don't know how many people will scold it.

Everyone will not hate Zhao Han, and their anger will be directed at him Qian Qianyi!

Different dialects are like different systems.

Traditional dialect is a set of rules that make these dialect systems compatible, but they must be translated into corresponding reading sounds.

Zhao Han's plan to implement Datong Zhengyin is based on one dialect system and covers all other dialect systems.

Level 3 language structure, simplified to Level 2 language structure.

Not only can people everywhere use a unified language, but also children can learn at a faster pace.

In addition to being depressed, Qian Qianyi was a little excited.

As the compilation president of Datong Zhengyin, he must have been scolded bloodily in his life. But if it can really be successfully promoted, a hundred years later, he will leave a name in history and be praised as the Zhengyin Grandmaster by later generations!

Infamy in front of him, good name behind him.

Zhao Han smiled and said: "Mr. Yushan, I will give you fifty brands, you can recruit fifty Confucians, it is best to be proficient in the study of phonology." You compile Datong Zhengyin together, remember, each province must choose a few, and it can't be limited to Jiangnan, otherwise it will be Jiangnan Zhengyin. ”

Qian Qianyi wanted to die when he heard this, he said with a bitter face: "The tone of voice in each province is different, so you have to fight!" ”

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

"Compliance...... Life. "Qian Qianyi is weak.

A piece of toilet paper is useful, won't Qian Qianyi find it useful?

Zhao Han looked at Liu Rus: "Do you want to make up the same sound?" ”

Liu replied: "In Xia Yitong opera, Zhengyin is not lagging behind. ”

Zhao Han said to a few famous opera actors: "After Mr. Yu Shan has made up the correct sound, you can sing the opera against it, and if you feel wrong, say it and let them revise and compile it again." ”

"Yes!"

Those famous opera actors were very happy, and they couldn't imagine that they could participate in such a big event.

Zhao Han said: "Everyone else should step aside, Qian Qianyi and Liu Yin don't leave for the time being." ”

The people took ree, and they withdrew.

There were only three people left in the courtyard, and Zhao Han said to Qian Qianyi and Liu Rus: "The merits of Emperor Qin are the first to recommend the same text." And what you have to do is to speak in unison, you should understand how important it is, right? Thousands of years later, the famous scholars and Confucians have all become ancient, but the two of you have left your name in history. ”

"Do your best, and then die!"

Liu Ru is blood is boiling, as a woman, she can finally do great things.

Qian Qianyi said: "I will do my best. ”

Zhao Han smiled and beckoned: "Come on, come on, show you some letters." ”

Qian Qianyi and Liu Ru walked over, and 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, you can create original symbols, and some people in the late Qing Dynasty created their own symbols to engage in pinyin.

However, the Chinese create their own symbols, which are inevitably born from radicals, and it is easy to form a certain kind of misdirection.

Therefore, Chinese mainland uses the Latin alphabet to pinyin, and Taiwan uses imitation of Japanese kana to pinyin, in fact, both use the same principle.

And this principle, derived from the traditional Yayan, is the set of reading sound rules that can be compatible with various local dialects.

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

Those who have learned the Yayan phonetic method can understand it as soon as they hear it at this moment, Qian Qianyi and Liu Ru are the two, and they immediately understand what those letters are for.

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

Sound, rhyme, and mother are all phonological terms in their own right.

Zhao Han was even happier when he saw their reactions, it was easy for the scholars to accept it, they only needed to forcibly memorize the pronunciation of the letters.

"Read it for yourselves." Zhao Han said.

Next to each Latin letter, there are Chinese characters phonetic, and Zhao Han also wrote several examples of vowel combinations.

The two looked at the Chinese characters and read them for a while, and Zhao Han wrote out the four tones of modern Chinese: "This is the tone, I created four by myself, and you create the remaining three by yourself." ”

Qian Qianyi randomly selected a few Chinese characters, tried to use pinyin to cut the sound, and suddenly sighed and said: "Although it is superficial, it is indeed easy for Mengtong to learn." However, it has deviated from the method of correct rhyme, and once this positive sound is promoted, over time, the local languages will die out. ”

Zhao Han said: "Since ancient times, language has been changing, and the direction of change is from complex to simplified. I want to simplify not only the pronunciation, but also the Chinese characters, and if there are many ways to write them, choose the simplest and most reasonable one. ”

Qian Qianyi sighed: "The ambition of the head town can only be glimpsed today." ”

Zhao Han did not engage in forced simplification, but only chose stick characters as standard characters.

For example, "無" and "无" have been used for hundreds of years, and their meanings and usages are exactly the same, so why not use "nothing" as the standard glyph?

Liu Ru looked at Zhao Han's departing voice, and said to himself: "What a great man! ”

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