Why does Guo Moruo advocate horizontal typesetting of books? How did Master Chen Yinque react?

Politics and culture are closely related. The development of culture is influenced by politics, and political stability is also restricted by culture. 19 19,? May 4th Movement? Outbreak, this movement is actually divided into two parts, one part is a patriotic political movement initiated by students, and the other part is a cultural movement. What is it called? New culture movement? . ? New culture movement? Chen Duxiu founded New Youth magazine on 19 15, and it didn't end until 1923.

New culture movement? It advocates changing the past cultural form, opposing the popularization of classical Chinese and vernacular Chinese, and opposing the long-term corrupt Confucianism. 1923? New culture movement? It's basically over, but its influence is extremely far-reaching. Although it is a cultural movement, but? New culture movement? The difficulties faced are also great. In such an era of alternation between the old and the new, some scholars can change their ideas quickly, but some scholars insist on the traditional China culture. Mr. Chen Yinque is one of the scholars who stick to traditional literature, so he made a will before his death.

Support horizontal writing? Guo Moruo

As an ancient civilization with a long history, China has its own traditional cultural values, and Confucianism is the most influential school in the whole feudal history. Under the influence of Confucianism, the whole feudal society paid attention to the etiquette of respect and inferiority, which permeated all aspects of China society. In the traditional etiquette order of China, the upper level is the highest and the lower level is the lowest; Right is respect, and left is inferiority. This concept is vividly reflected in writing. China has a cultural and historical tradition of writing vertically for thousands of years.

In June, 1950, Mr. Hua submitted a proposal on revising the Chinese writing format at the China People's Political Consultative Conference. At that time, the new China had just been established, and the domestic economy and politics were in ruins, which was in urgent need of construction. In this context, this proposal has not attracted much attention.

Soon, Guo Moruo and other literary experts began to publicly support this proposal, and the issue of writing style gradually attracted the attention of the broad masses of the people. The government once organized a special experiment and selected 10 senior three students from a high school. These students have achieved excellent Chinese results. The researchers asked these students to read the same essay in China Youth Daily, but some students read in a horizontal layout, while others read in a vertical layout. According to the research results, students who read articles with horizontal layout are 0.345 times faster than those who read articles with vertical layout.

In fact, Mr. Hua is not the first person to propose changing the writing form of Chinese characters. As early as 19 17, Qian Xuantong published an open letter with Chen Duxiu in New Youth magazine, proposing for the first time that Chinese characters should be written horizontally instead of vertically. He thinks that people's eyes are side by side, not side by side, so writing horizontally is the most labor-saving. Since then, he has published four open letters in New Youth magazine, advocating the masses to change the original writing form. With the support of scholars such as Qian and Chen Duxiu, the horizontal writing of Chinese characters has been recognized by some scholars, but this is only recognized within the cultural circle.

The official recognition began at 1955, when Guangming Daily published an article "The Benefits of Horizontal Arrangement", which was recognized by the general public. By 1955, 1 1 month, 13 has been changed to horizontal in seven central newspapers nationwide. On the New Year's Day of 1956, the horizontal arrangement of People's Daily was also officially recognized.

Stick to traditional literature? the Chen Dynasty

Although it is a cultural change, as long as it is a change, it will inevitably be opposed. The horizontal arrangement of Chinese characters once caused opposition from many literati at that time, most of whom were calligraphers and poets. Among them, Professor Chen Yinque has the greatest influence.

Chen Yinque is definitely a child prodigy. Mr. Hu Shi once said, who is Professor Chen Yinque? The most learned historian? . Professor Chen Yinque was born in a scholarly family. He has read some classics and history since he was a child. He studied in Germany in his early years. Although he never got a diploma from any school in his life, no one ever doubted his knowledge. Professor Chen Yinque has unparalleled language talent. Familiar with Greek, Turkic, Manchu and other languages 17.

Professor Chen Yinque is a traditional scholar-bureaucrat in China. In his view, China's traditional culture is a treasure and should not be changed. Therefore, when Guo Moruo and others proposed to change the vertical version, he immediately objected.

However, at that time, horizontal typesetting has become the general trend. Although Mr. Chen Yinque has a high influence, there is nothing he can do. He can only make a will, claiming that all publishing houses that publish his works must use digital typesetting and traditional traditional Chinese characters. In order to show respect for Mr. Chen Yinque, later generations have always carried out his will.

Many years later, Yilin Publishing House adopted horizontal arrangement when publishing Mr. Chen Yinque's works, which attracted wide attention from all walks of life. However, according to the law, the author has been dead for 50 years, and publishers can decide their own publishing style, but this has not been recognized by Chen's descendants.

After thousands of years of elutriation, China's excellent traditional culture is still passed down to this day, which shows the superiority of Chinese culture. This excellent culture needs to be passed down by everyone in China, but it doesn't mean that it will remain unchanged. Inheriting China's traditional culture requires critical thinking, and only by critical inheritance can China's culture continue to advance. After many years, Mr. Chen Yinque's works have finally been published in the form of horizontal arrangement, which shows that horizontal arrangement is a trend and an inevitable trend.