Classical Chinese is the written language in ancient China, mainly including the written language based on the spoken language in the pre-Qin period. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, no articles were invented to record characters, but bamboo slips, silks and other things were used to record characters, and silks were expensive, bamboo slips were huge and the number of words recorded was limited. In order to record more things on a roll of bamboo slips, unimportant words must be deleted. Later, when "paper" was used on a large scale, the habit of using "official documents" among the ruling classes had been finalized, and the ability to use "classical Chinese" had evolved into a symbol of reading and literacy. After the 20th century, in China, the position of classical Chinese was gradually replaced by vernacular Chinese. Classical Chinese comes from vernacular Chinese, characterized by writing based on words, paying attention to the use of allusions, parallel prose, neat rhythm and no punctuation, including strategies, poems, words, songs, stereotyped writing, parallel prose and ancient prose. The classical Chinese in modern books are generally marked with punctuation marks in order to facilitate reading and understanding.

Overview of classical Chinese

Mr. Wang Li, a famous linguist and educator of classical Chinese, pointed out in Ancient Chinese: "Classical Chinese refers to the written language of ancient Chinese formed on the basis of pre-Qin spoken language and the language in the ancient works of later writers." Classical Chinese, that is, articles written in classical Chinese, that is, ancient classical Chinese works and works imitating it in past dynasties. Classical Chinese, as a written stereotyped writing language, has been used for two or three thousand years, from pre-Qin philosophers and poems in Han Dynasty to ancient Chinese prose in Tang and Song Dynasties and stereotyped writing in Ming and Qing Dynasties. In other words, classical Chinese is the ancient written language of China and the source of modern Chinese. [2]

The first word "Wen" means beauty. The word "Yan" means writing, expressing and recording. The word "classical Chinese", that is, written language, has long occupied a dominant position relative to "spoken language" in ancient China. After the May 4th Movement, vernacular Chinese was qualified to become a formal written language. The last word "Wen" refers to works, articles, etc. , and represents the genre.

"Classical Chinese" means "beautiful language articles", which is also called stylistic writing. And "vernacular" means: "articles written in ordinary and simple oral language" such as "have you eaten?" .

In ancient China, it was different to express the same thing in "oral language" and "written language". For example, if you want to ask someone if they have eaten, you can express it in spoken English. Did you eat? And expressed in written language, it is "rice?" . "Fanbu" is classical Chinese. Here, the noun "Fanbu" is used as a verb, which means to eat.

Before 19 18, China's articles were all written in classical Chinese. In modern times, we generally refer to "ancient prose" as "classical Chinese".

In the history of China for thousands of years, great changes have taken place in spoken English, but the classical Chinese has always maintained a similar format. Classical Chinese can make users of different languages "talk in writing", which is a fixed format but not very difficult way of communication.

2. Very good performance, even in ancient Chinese.

The basic meaning of "what"

1, very, very: ~ ok. ~ come on.

2. Over: from one day to one day.

3. What: ~ What?

4. It means to go to the next floor: ~ Go. ~ or.

Extremely, most of them: ~ less. ~ honey. ~ make friends (girlfriends). ~ sincere. ~ supreme. ~ famous words.

To understand this word, the Oracle Bone Inscriptions glyph is like an arrow pointing to the ground, indicating arrival. The original meaning of "to" is to reach the extreme, which means to achieve completely. It also means to reach the extreme and extreme, and is used as an adverb. It also means to do another thing after one thing is finished.

Extended data:

Characteristics of classical Chinese: Classical Chinese is characterized by separation of speech and writing and concise writing. Compared with vernacular Chinese, the characteristics of classical Chinese are mainly manifested in grammar and vocabulary:

I. Grammatical features:

The grammatical features of classical Chinese are mainly manifested in parts of speech and word order. Generally speaking, classical Chinese uses parts of speech more flexibly than vernacular Chinese.

Second, the lexical features:

There are great differences in vocabulary between classical Chinese and vernacular Chinese. This difference must usually be listed in the form of a dictionary or dictionary in order to fully express it.

However, one feature can be observed in general: the vocabulary of classical Chinese is relatively simple, for example, compared with the vocabulary of vernacular Chinese, the vocabulary of classical Chinese is mainly monosyllabic.