Example: Imagism poetry principle helps to form Hu Shi's view of poetry, and triggers the revolution of modern vernacular poetry in China.
The characteristics of vernacular Chinese:
The vernacular is simple and popular, lively, rough and bold, full of life breath and expressive language.
Throughout the "May 4th" vernacular movement, we can see that it absorbed the western vocabulary resources and grammatical structure extensively, and developed at many levels such as language, writing and thought. This movement is not only a "self-sufficient change within the language", but also closely related to the innovation of the whole thinking concept and the national modernization movement. The contest between "vernacular Chinese" and "classical Chinese" is also a collision of two different value systems and social ideologies to a great extent.
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The historical development of vernacular Chinese;
Before the May 4th Movement in China, Chinese was divided into classical Chinese and vernacular Chinese. In pronunciation, it can be divided into pronunciation and white voice; Stylistically (including vocabulary and grammar), it can be divided into classical Chinese and vernacular Chinese.
Baisheng is actually a folk dialect, which is opposite to pronunciation (such as Guang Yun accent, Hongwu Zheng Yun). Compared with classical Chinese, vernacular Chinese is a written expression close to the language of daily life, which is obviously different from classical Chinese in terms of vocabulary, syntax and charm.
Chinese has been divided into classical Chinese and vernacular Chinese since ancient times. Classical Chinese is the official form of expression, the language and style of male and female scholars. However, China has a parallel set of Chinese, that is, the vernacular, which is the language used by ordinary people in conversation. In contrast, classical Chinese is more rigorous, standardized and logical than vernacular Chinese.
Since there were no tape recorders and other equipment in ancient times, we first learned about the ancient literary form-classical Chinese. However, with the in-depth study of China's ancient culture, we also realize that in ancient times, the official spoken language was not the local vernacular in the capital, but had a special pronunciation standard, that is, pronunciation.
For example, the official written language in the Ming Dynasty was classical Chinese, and the official oral language was based on the book Hongwu Zheng Yun, which was based on the Nanjing vernacular at that time. Obviously, the phonetic system of Hongwu Zheng Yun was more standardized and rigorous than any dialect at that time.
As for ordinary people, they don't understand classical Chinese at all, let alone as a daily conversation. They all speak the local dialect. But it can't be said that vernacular Chinese is a language without words.
The number and range of ancient Chinese characters in China far exceeded the narrow range of thousands of words used by modern people, and modern Chinese evolved from this parallel Chinese. We can see from the existing literary masterpieces, such as Tang and Song vernacular literature, Yuan Zaju, and "Three Words and Two Beats" in Ming Dynasty that ancient vernacular Chinese is not as different from modern Chinese as classical Chinese.
If you can't verify their pronunciation, at least their grammar and words are clear on paper. The ancient vernacular Chinese has hardly changed much from the modern vernacular Chinese in the May 4th Movement to the modern Chinese, but modern people have tidied up the western grammar and added a lot of words.
Baidu encyclopedia-vernacular Chinese
Baidu Encyclopedia-Vernacular (Language Form)