China News Service Client, Beijing, May 15 (Reporter Shangguanyun) Recently, the popular costume drama "Qing Ping Le" has attracted a lot of fans with its exquisite costumes and strong cultural atmosphere. Even the audience expressed that they would like to Go back to the Song Dynasty and see if life at that time was so beautiful.
Some people also questioned, why do we think that many ancient names and places are very beautiful? Is there "Mandarin" in the Northern Song Dynasty? If it can be traversed, can modern people chat happily with the Song Dynasty ancients?
"Qing Ping Le" poster
What was "Mandarin" in the Northern Song Dynasty?
The official languages of ancient China are called Yayan, Zhengyin, Mandarin, etc., which is also the definition of "Mandarin" in different historical periods in China. The biggest function of standardizing pronunciation is to facilitate communication.
It is said that Confucius is talking about "Ya Yan", because he has been traveling abroad for many years to teach, and has also received many disciples. If only the local dialect is used for teaching, communication will be a problem.
In the early days of the Song Dynasty, Kaifeng in Henan was used as Tokyo and Luoyang in Henan was used as Xijing. People in the Northern Song Dynasty often used Luoyang dialect as the standard pronunciation at that time.
In the early period of the Northern Song Dynasty, Ministers Kou Zhunhe and Ding Wei were in the political affairs hall, discussing in their leisure time where the voice of the world is correct. Kou Zhun said: "Wexi Luo people have to be in the world." Ding Wei said: "Otherwise, there are dialects in each of the four distances, and only the scholars will be right."
In comparison, the difference between the readers of Song Shi and Luoyang is similar to the difference between Mandarin and Peking.
"The Northern Song mandarin generally refers to the language used by literati for writing compositions, and the dialects are more commonly used by ordinary people. This is the situation in the Central Plains, and other localities also have their own dialects." Zheng Zining, author of "Dongyan Xiyu", said that the Sichuan dialect was very difficult during the Song Dynasty Known and known, it has little to do with the current Sichuan dialect.
He said that no one specifically recorded what the language used in the Northern Song Dynasty Hall looked like, but in theory, it should be inclined to a communication language that everyone could understand at the time.
Cross back to Song Dynasty? It just sounds beautiful
The pictures of life in the Song Dynasty displayed in "Qing Ping Le" made many audiences sigh and wanted to pass through. But this idea just sounds beautiful. Not to mention the many inconveniences in life, there may be a big problem simply chatting.
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In the Northern Song Dynasty, Middle Ancient Chinese was used, and the phonetic system is quite different from the modern one. Zheng Zining gave an example. Modern people say that the "heart" of the heart, the "xin" of rejoicing, and the "new" of old and new have basically the same pronunciation.
But in the Northern Song Dynasty, the pronunciation of the heart is "sim", the new pronunciation is "sin", and Xin is "hin". In case of crossing back, modern people use the pronunciation pronunciation of Mandarin to talk to the people of the Northern Song Dynasty. It is estimated that a serious mistake will occur. listen.
Even the words "Qing Ping Le" have different pronunciations from ancient to modern times. Zheng Zining said that according to research, if it is necessary to imitate it in Chinese pinyin, in the Northern Song Dynasty, people might read these three words as "cieng pieng ngaoh".
"In addition to pronunciation, there may be some differences in vocabulary usage from now on, which will cause great communication difficulties." Zheng Zining said that in the Song Dynasty, the battle of war can mean how much difference, now it is a relatively rare usage. In addition, people in the Song dynasty would sound like "gold" if they said "true".
So, suppose a modern person with the surname Chen crosses to the Song Dynasty, because at that time the pronunciation of "Chen" is similar to that of Jin. When the modern person with the surname Chen introduced himself, the Song Dynasty people thought about it, thinking that the closest surname might be Cen "Cen".
Place names, names of people ... distance creates beauty?
In addition, in some costume plays such as "Qing Ping Le", many names of people and places will make the audience feel quite beautiful. But Zheng Zining said that some of them are indeed very culturally conspicuous, but some may be caused by "distance produces beauty."
Like "Lan Ling", there is a hazy beauty in the eyes of modern people, but in ancient place names, there are many "Ling" and it is relatively common.
"For example, the place name now contains the word" zhuang ". Assuming that hundreds of years later, people have moved away from rural life in their daily lives and no longer use the word" zhuang ". In the eyes of future generations, they may also think that this is more than Beautiful name. "Zheng Zining explained.
"Qing Ping Le" poster
As another example, when people read history, modern people would feel that "the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions" are far away. The names of Jingjuegu and Loulanguo sound pretty good. According to the available information, it is actually a transliteration of a local word. .
"When it comes to taking names, modern people look at words like" 梓 "萱" which are popular but a bit tacky. In fact, some people in ancient times also obtained names more casually. According to records, the heavy ears have double earlobes. "Zheng Zining said. (Finish)