What is the difference between ancient Chinese and modern Chinese?

1. There are differences between ancient Chinese grammar and modern Chinese grammar. For example, a noun can be put in front of a verb as a gerund in ancient Chinese, which is not the case in modern Chinese.

2. The phonetics of ancient Chinese and modern Chinese are different. Two words that are not the same in modern Chinese may be pronounced very similarly in ancient Chinese. As for reading ancient poems and songs, it is necessary to understand the level and rhyme, and so on, which requires more knowledge of phonetics.

3, the ancient Chinese language and modern Chinese language there are completely different meaning of the words. For example, the word "pool" means "pond" in modern Chinese, but in addition to this meaning, it also means "moat" in ancient Chinese.

Expanded:

Language evolves, it changes with history, but at the same time it cannot change very much. it cannot change very much, because it has development on the one hand and its solidity on the other.

Because there is inheritance, the Chinese language thousands of years ago has a lot of **** in common with the modern Chinese language, which is the aspect of inheritance, but it also has the aspect of development, which is what makes the ancient Chinese language different from the modern Chinese language.

So we must first establish a historical point of view in learning Chinese, knowing that it has the same, different, inheritance and development.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Modern Chinese