The origin of Putonghua:
The state stipulates that the promotion of Putonghua must start with students. All kinds of schools at all levels should use Putonghua to make it the teaching language and campus language. It is necessary to carry out the activities of "loving the national flag, singing the national anthem and speaking Putonghua" in schools, and to promote and popularize Putonghua as an important part of students' quality education. At the same time, it is stipulated that from 1998, the third week of September every year will become the "National Publicity Week for Promoting Putonghua".
The Significance of Speaking Mandarin
The key to popularizing Putonghua lies in the renewal of language concepts. If a city only circulates local dialects, it must be relatively closed. If you can hear many languages and dialects in the city and Mandarin is popular, then the city must be highly open, and Mandarin is a cultural language. From ancient times to the present, the same language of the Han nationality carries profound Chinese culture. In the process of learning and using Putonghua, people not only realize the practical value of Putonghua, but also gradually realize that Putonghua, as a language phenomenon applied in public places, is closely related to people's daily social life and is widely used in real life. It has a wide influence and is popular in a region or the whole society.
It serves the whole society and is recognized by all members of society. It has the characteristics of sociality, publicity, openness and practicality, and it is a language activity with the highest usage rate and the widest coverage in daily life. It embodies the characteristics of language use in all walks of life, and embodies social and cultural factors such as national psychology, moral concepts and cultural literacy. Social language often plays a guiding role in the language development of the whole society.