The name of the telegraph in the Republic of China?

1 Word Explanation Edit

Rhyme for Day is a method of telegraphic dating in Chinese history. At the beginning of the opening of the telegraph by the Qing government, because sending telegrams was very expensive, by word, "word is gold", so it was very important to economize on the use of words. Therefore, it was very important to economize the use of characters. For this reason, a new way of dating was invented, replacing the month with the earth's branch and the date with the rhyme. This method has been used in the field of telegraphy until the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, before and after the use of more than 70 years. In other areas are also used, and even some people's diaries are to rhyme instead of the day. Some famous events in history are also named in this way, such as: horse day incident, gray day riots, Wenxi fire, YanDian, HaoDian and so on.

2 Rhyming catalog instead of date editing

Hongjun used the rhyming catalog of the Ping Shui Rhyme compiled in the Jin Dynasty instead of the date. Rhymes are concepts in traditional Chinese phonetics. To learn how to write poetry, you must first learn the rhyming book and know how to rhyme. Instead of the date, there are thirty rhyming entries selected from the Table of Rhyming Entries, each representing thirty days. In the first fifteen days, all of the flat tones of the rhyme scheme were used, followed by ten of the upper tones of the rhyme scheme, and five of the lower tones of the rhyme scheme; later on, the Gregorian calendar was used, and the last "Shi", which was not found in the Rhyme Sheet, was added to represent 31 days, and thus the thirty-one characters were used to represent thirty-one days respectively. This poetic way of dating was very convenient at that time, because the readers knew which character represented which day at a glance, but later on, with the rise of vernacular language and the loss of practical function of poetry, the readers gradually lost their interest in filling in the lyrics and composing poems, and the sound and rhyme were not emphasized. So much so that what used to be something that the average person knew how to do has become specialized knowledge, and now it's hard for the average person to figure it out.

Rhyme Substitution Day List

Date

Rhyme Number

Date

Rhyme Number

Superfinal

Inferior

Upper Tone

Deuterative

Enterative

Upper Tone [1]

Deuterative[1]

Enterative[1] <

Replacement

1st

Dong

dōng

first

xiān

Dong

dǒng

Send

sòng

House

wū

16th

milling

xiǎn

advise

jiàn

ye

yè

2nd

dong

dōng

xiao

xiāo

swell

zhǒng

Song

sòng

Wo

wò

17th

Shino

xiǎo

Shantou

xiàn

Chiai

qià

3rd

Jiang

jiāng

Cuisine

yáo

Speaking

jiǎng

Jiang

jiàng

Jue

jiào

18th

Coincidence

qiǎo

tsunami

xiào

<

4th

Support

zhī

hao

háo

Paper

zhǐ

put down

zhì

quality

zhì

19th

how

hào

hi

hi

hào

.

Effective

xiào

5th

Weak

wēi

Song

gē

Tail

wěi

Not

wèi

Objects

wù

20th<

Superior

gě

No.

hào

6th

Fish

yú

Ma

ma

Language

yǔ

Ou

yù

month

yuè

21st

Ma

mǎ

箇

gè

7th

Yu

yú

Yang

yáng

stag

yǔ

meet

yù

Ho

hé

22nd

Nurturing

yǎng

Religion

mà

8th

Qi

qí

geng

gēng

Shepherd

Capsule<

qí

jì

jì

crafty

xiá

23rd

terrier

gěng

yang

yàng

9th

ja

jiā

<

Qing

qīng

Crab

xiè

Tai

tài

Crumb

xiè

24th

Wildly

jiǒng

King

jìng

10th

Ash

huī

steam

zhēng

bribe

huì

gua

guà

medicine

yào

25th

th

you

yǒu

jìng

11th

Zhen

zhēn

You

yóu

villa

zhěn

Team

duì

Stranger

mò

26th Day

Bed

qǐn

Yu

yòu

12

Wen

wén

Invasion

qīn

kiss

wěn

Quake

zhèn

Tin

xī

27th

Sense

gǎn

Qin

qìn

13th

Yuan

yuán

Quan

tán

Ruan

ruǎn

ask

wèn

job

zhí

28th

jian

jiǎn

kan

kān

14th

cold

hán

salt

yán

drought

hàn

wish

yuàn

seizure

jī

29th

growth

xiàn

yàn

yàn

15

Delete

shān

Sham

xián

Weep

shān

Han

hàn

Hap

hé

30th

Trapped[1]

xiàn<

30

sà

31st

[1]

Shi, cite

shì, yǐn

Thirty days, which is supposed to be "陷" but is bad for the army.

Shì, yǐn

Thirty days, according to the regulations, should be "陷", but in the military is inauspicious, taboo, so the word "卅" (卅, pinyin: sà, that is, thirty) is used instead; and there is no rhyme scheme available for the thirty-first day of the Gregorian calendar, so the word "世" or The Chinese character "世" (三十, pinyin: sà, which means thirty) was used instead of the Chinese character "引"; and since there was no rhyme scheme for 31st day of the lunar calendar, it was usually replaced by the character "世" (世, pinyin: sà, which means thirty) or the Chinese character "引". The word "Sh" is a combination of "thirty-one" and "引" is like 31 Arabic numerals. According to the above table, "Dongri" is the first day of the month; "Ma" stands for the twenty-first day; the Mari Incident happened on the twenty-first day of May 1927; the Wenxi Fire happened on the twelfth night of November 1938; and "Yandian" is the telegram of December 1938, which was sent on the twenty-ninth day of December. The Yandian is a telegram from December 29th, 1938