Putonghua and Ancient Poetry

Mandarin, that is, standard Chinese. Putonghua is the common language for communication among all ethnic groups in China, with Beijing accent as the basic pronunciation, northern dialect as the basic dialect and typical modern vernacular as the grammatical norm. "It is mainly used in the area north of the Yangtze River in Chinese mainland, but Mandarin is generally not spoken in the area south of the Yangtze River, because there are Chinese dialects everywhere and it does not depend on Mandarin" [1]. Among them, Cantonese is spoken in Hongkong, China and Macau, China, and Mandarin is also used in official occasions in Taiwan Province Province, China, but the accent is slightly different from that in Chinese mainland.

Putonghua English "Putonghua" comes from Portuguese. Today, Mandarin is the official language of China after the founding of New China, and it is also one of the six official working languages of the United Nations. Article 19 of the Constitution of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that "the State promotes the use of Putonghua". People's Republic of China (PRC) National Language Law established the legal status of Putonghua as the "national language".

Putonghua has different names in different parts of China: mainland officials (including Hong Kong and Macao): Putonghua; Taiwan Province Province: Mandarin; Singapore: Chinese; Academic circles: modern common Chinese.

Ancient poetry is the general name of ancient Chinese poetry, which refers to 1840 China's poems before the Opium War. From the perspective of meter, ancient poetry can be divided into ancient poetry and modern poetry. Taking the Tang Dynasty as the boundary, the previous poems were all ancient poems, and later, the ancient poems gradually declined and died out. Ancient poetry is also called ancient poetry or ancient style; Modern poetry is also called modern poetry. From the Book of Songs to Yu Xin in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, they are all ancient poems, but the poems after the Tang Dynasty are not necessarily modern poems, but they are distinguished according to rhyme.