Because of the inconvenience in using words at that time, Liu Bannong was the first to change the word "one" to "her".
At that time, people's thoughts, behaviors and even cultural promotion impacted everyone all the time. Liu Bannong was a pioneer of the New Culture Movement at that time. /kloc-returned to China from England in 0/925 and entered Peking University as a professor of Chinese Department.
It can be said that Liu Bannong was the founder of experimental phonetics in New China, so he worked very hard to use and popularize the vernacular. It was he who first thought that Chinese characters would eventually take the road of pinyin, so reform was imperative.
But this is really not a simple thing. Don't say that traditional old scholars have been talking for half their lives. Even many young people with new ideas have long been used to classical Chinese.
In this way, carrying out reform means starting all over again, not only adapting but also learning. So difficult, naturally the voice of opposition to reform is extremely high, but Liu Bannong didn't care at all, and boldly began to fight against old ideas.
In the aspect of writing reform, there are many stories about Liu Bannong, but he never thought that he annoyed a large number of women because of one sentence. Why is this?
It turned out that the local language was not only popular at that time, but also because of the indifference to women at that time, no one had ever studied the standardization of women's third-person words.
What about the third person of women at that time? In many cases, people write directly with "he". Of course, some places will use dialects, which will naturally be different. For example, Mr. Lu Xun's most commonly used word is "Yi". This is a habit of the local language. Although he is not used to it, he never thought about reforming the use of Chinese characters.
At that time, Liu Bannong was still studying in Britain, and he felt that it was inconvenient for him not to distinguish between male and female appellations. Moreover, even if English is spoken, people pronounce men and women differently. For example, the third person of a woman is "she".
Therefore, Liu Bannong studied it for a period of time and thought that writing a woman's third person as "she" was more feminine. For Liu Bannong, this word not only meets the standard of simplified characters, but also represents other characteristics of men and women.
Therefore, when Liu Bannong was writing on 1920, he wrote a poem called "Teach me how not to think about her". This is the first time that he has written the third person of a woman as "she" of a female activist.
At that time, Mr. Lu Xun said the same thing when he published an article. He thinks: "China's third person pronoun has no gender distinction, which is inconvenient. Semi-peasants created the words' she' and' he'. " The implication is that this kind of creation is very convenient and can also express the gender sense of the font.
Being scolded, Liu Bannong didn't understand why it was so difficult to invent a word.
Of course, Liu Bannong was still in England at that time, so he was not restricted by domestic restrictions on how to write. In addition, there is no systematic theory, so according to the old tradition of China, the third person of women is called "He".
Liu Bannong later felt that the word "she" invented by herself should be popularized to adapt to the development of the times and facilitate people's use. Therefore, he specially wrote the article "The Problem of Her Word" to demonstrate and analyze this word. Then, this article was sent back to China by him and published in Current Affairs News, Light of Learning.
But Liu Bannong never imagined that once his article was published, it would attract a wave of attacks and abuse. Someone even published an article in Newcomer magazine: "This is Liu Bannong's fault". The author signed it as Bing Bing. She not only insulted and accused Liu Bannong, but also scolded her for three years.
In fact, ice represents not only a person's own will, but also a group, that is, a feminist group, in that era when female consciousness is just budding.
Many of her articles show that "she" invented by Liu Bannong is the cognition of gender inequality, and men and women should not be equal. Since men can use the word "person" in the third person, why can't women? This is naked discrimination against women.
This is obviously what makes feminists most angry. They feel that since they advocate a new culture, women should cut off their long hair and start studying and working, so they should be equal to men. Nowadays, women are obviously not regarded as human beings to create the word "she", which is a retrogression of history!
Moreover, some women think that if men must regard the female "she" as the third person of women, they should write the male "he" as male.
Apart from these feminists' misunderstanding of Liu Bannong, the academic circles didn't know about the invention of the word Liu Bannong at that time. They think why there is no gender difference in writing between the first person and the second person, and why does the third person distinguish between men and women? This is completely thankless.
To tell the truth, Liu Bannong was really at a loss after being attacked by these people. For a time, Liu Bannong tended to be conservative and even began to write classical Chinese.
Until 1932, although there were not so many curses on Liu Bannong at this time, the word "she" was not used much. However, the education department has learned a lesson from this controversy and thinks it is necessary to promote this word. As a result, the word "she" was included in China Chinese Characters and Xinhua Dictionary this year.
Liu Bannong died on 1934. However, his invention gradually entered thousands of households and became a third-person word for women recognized and used by people.
Perhaps this is a long and painful process for a college student, but I believe Liu Bannong will never regret this behavior. After all, his invention changed the development of China characters, and he can be called a true pioneer of modern culture.