The Development of Ancient Linguistics in China

Linguistics is a very old subject in human society. We in China have been consciously learning languages for at least two thousand years. In ancient China, there was no such thing as a child prodigy, only a so-called "primary school". The content of "primary school" is roughly equivalent to what we now call generalized linguistics.

Why did the ancients call language learning "primary school"? This also has a historical development process. "Primary school" originally refers to the school where children aged eight to fourteen study. Dai Zhuan: "If the prince is young and knows the color of a princess, he must enter primary school. The little one has learned the palace. " Lu argued, "The ancient prince entered primary school at the age of eight and imperial academy at the age of fifteen." Han's "Four-person Monthly Order" said: "Before ploughing, I entered imperial academy and studied the Five Classics; Order children to enter primary school and learn chapters. " "Text" refers to literacy textbooks, such as Cang Xie. Because "Cang Xie" "sixty words are broken into one chapter, each chapter is fifty-five". Therefore, "chapter" refers to this [2]