What is communication in classical Chinese?

1. What language did the ancients communicate in classical Chinese or albino? If you are from ancient China.

If you are an ancient person, an ordinary citizen, and talk quietly all day, you must be a mental derangement. Is it difficult to look it up in the dictionary even if you say something? People will choose their own language to speak.

In other words, classical Chinese is not easy to communicate orally. This is why some people (regardless of ancient and modern times) have a headache when reading classical Chinese.

To analyze your problem, we should start with the comparison between classical Chinese and vernacular Chinese. 1, classical Chinese is more concise than vernacular Chinese, and often simple words can be translated into many words.

As I said just now, classical Chinese is not easy to communicate orally. According to 2, since classical Chinese is not easy to communicate orally, the appearance of classical Chinese must not be passed down orally.

We can find that classical Chinese all appear in books. In other words, classical Chinese may be a special language way used to describe Chinese in ancient times.

This coincides with 1 When people feel that they want future generations to know that our generation has lived, or need to remember something in particular, words are born.

The evolution of Chinese characters comes from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Zhong Dingwen and so on. It must have been a long time since the use of Chinese today. But I'm not sure whether Zhong Dingwen and Oracle Bone Inscriptions were written in vernacular or classical Chinese. All the above are the sayings in classical Chinese after the existing vernacular Chinese.

The following is the assumption that there is vernacular after the existing classical Chinese: In ancient times, people didn't have so many words and their meanings were unclear, so they abbreviated what they wanted to say, forming this concise classical Chinese. As more and more words are created, the meaning of expression becomes clearer and clearer.

Gradually, a kind of vernacular Chinese that is convenient for communication has been formed. However, there is a flaw in this statement, that is, if you speak according to your own words, then you can't write with words.

You can't play here either. If you think about it slowly, you will think a lot. Bad words are like swearing words. If they have not been handed down from ancient times to the present, who will invent how to write them? Of course, I think classical Chinese is taken from dialects handed down by people orally.

Because I firmly believe that Mandarin is not a dialect. There is no place in China where people regard Mandarin as a dialect from the beginning.

When people don't have Mandarin, people can't understand each other's dialects. But I think dialects are also related to the differences between North and South.

From south to north, dialects should also have a geographical transition process. Therefore, little by little, the vernacular and classical Chinese can be widely spread and widely promoted and applied.

As for Mandarin, I think its prototype should be in a private school. After people have words, there will be children who can't read books.

Thus, the corresponding industry was born-education. People combine the most correct way of speaking and writing to form teaching materials and dictionaries.

There was no dictionary at first, and the "oral dictionary" should have been born in a private school. Mandarin is just to standardize dialects.

2. Contact information How to say "contact information" in ancient Chinese has no corresponding vocabulary.

The so-called contact information refers to the relevant information of communication methods between people in modern society, as well as the channels and platforms they rely on. Such as: telegram registration, postal code, detailed address, fixed telephone number, QQ number, MSN address, flying signal, email address, mobile phone number, Baidu user name, WeChat, etc. The word itself is produced in the process of information development.

The ancients didn't have telephones, post offices or the Internet. The only way to contact them was to send messages (books and thorns), so there was no word similar to "contact information". Just like "e-mail", "information platform" and "high-speed rail", it cannot be interpreted backwards.

If you want to reflect the life of modern people in classical Chinese, you can directly use the word "contact information" for words that can't be found in classical Chinese. Comparing ancient Chinese with modern Chinese, we can also find that the vocabulary in classical Chinese is constantly enriched with the development of society. For example, the "Prime Minister of the Cabinet" did not exist in the pre-Qin ancient prose.

3. Do ancient people speak vernacular or classical Chinese in daily communication? Classical Chinese: refers to China characters used as norms before the May 4th Movement.

Classical Chinese: An article written in classical Chinese

Therefore, it is obvious that classical Chinese is an ancient Chinese written language different from vernacular Chinese. What is emphasized here is written language, which is only used for writing, not for oral communication.

The spoken language of the ancients is different from the classical Chinese, but it is similar to the spoken language we use today.

For example, Peacock Flying Southeast is a folk song widely sung in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, so the language in it is very close to the spoken language at that time. Please look at the first sentence: "Peacock flies southeast, falling in five miles" is relatively simple, although it is not quite the same as today's spoken language, but it is not big. This can reflect the characteristics of spoken English.

Besides, Four Great Classical Novels's other three novels, except A Dream of Red Mansions, are all created on the basis of folk stories or stories told by storytellers, and their language features also have certain oral nature, which is what we call "half writing and half writing".

After the May 4th Movement, written language and spoken language were basically the same, so we can judge that the spoken language in modern China is similar to our spoken language today from the written language today or before liberation.

Therefore, ancient people used a language similar to our spoken language in daily communication, and only used those classical Chinese when writing articles to show that they were very knowledgeable, which was different from ordinary people who had never read books.