Zhao Yuanren (1892165438+1October 3-1February 24, 982), Han nationality, originally from Wujin, Jiangsu (now Changzhou). Descendants of Zhao Yi (Oubei), a famous poet in Qing Dynasty. Guangxu was born in Tianjin in the 18th year (1892). Modern famous scholars, linguists and musicians.

Zhao Yuanren taught at Cornell University, Harvard University, Tsinghua University, the Institute of History and Language of the Academia Sinica in China, the University of Hawaii, Yale University, Harvard University and the University of Michigan, and later at the University of California, Berkeley (1947- 1963), and retired from Berkeley. Zhao Yuanren has successively obtained honorary doctorates from Princeton University (1946), University of California (1962) and Ohio State University (1970), and "Professor Award Research Lecturer" from University of California (1967), and honorary professor from Peking University, China (. 1982 On February 24th, Zhao Yuanren died in Massachusetts, USA, at the age of 90.

Zhao Yuanren is the pioneer of modern linguistics in China, known as "the father of modern linguistics in China", the pioneer of modern musicology in China and one of the founders of "Science Society of China". Representative works in linguistics include: Research on Modern Wu Dialect, Chinese Grammar, Textbook of Phonetic Symbols in Putonghua, Twittering and Beating Chicken, etc. Zhao Yuanren's representative works in music include: Teach me how not to miss her, Haiyun, Xiamen University School Song, etc. Zhao Yuanren's representative works include Alice in Wonderland and so on.

Chinese name: Zhao Yuanren.

Mbth: YuenRenChao

Nationality: USA

Ethnic group: Han nationality

Place of birth: Tianjin

Date of birth: 1892 1 1.3.

Date of death:1February 24, 982

Occupation: linguist, musician

Graduate institutions: Cornell University, Harvard University.

Major achievements: China's father of modern linguistics and China's pioneer of modern musicology.

Masterpieces: Research on Modern Wu Dialect, New Rhyme of Putonghua, Chinese Grammar, Teach me how to think of her, Haiyun.

Gender: male

Native place: Wujin, Jiangsu (now Changzhou)

Mother tongue: Wu language

Foreign language ability: English/German/France/Japan/Russia/Greece/Latin.

Dialect ability: able to speak 33 dialects such as Changzhou dialect.

Word: Xuan Zhong, Yi Zhong

The life of the character

1892165438+1October 3rd, Zhao Yuanren was born in Tianjin. My father is good at playing flute in the middle of the year. Mother feng lai Sun Shan's Poems and Kunqu Opera.

1900, Zhao Yuanren returned to his hometown of Qingguo Lane, Changzhou, and studied in No.2 Middle School.

1906 (fourteen years old), entered Changzhou Xishan Primary School.

From 65438 to 0907, Zhao Yuanren entered the preparatory course of Nanjing Jiangnan Higher Education School with excellent results.

1910 In July, the Aesthetic Department of Qingyou was admitted to the second place in Beijing (70 people were selected from the list this time). In August of the same year, he went to Cornell University to study mathematics. Take physics and music as elective courses.

Zhao Yuanren received a Bachelor of Science degree.

Zhao Yuanren entered Harvard University to major in philosophy and continued to take music as an elective.

19 18, received a doctorate in philosophy from Harvard University.

19 19, Zhao Yuanren teaches in the Physics Department of Cornell University.

From 65438 to 0920, Zhao Yuanren taught physics, mathematics and psychology in Tsinghua University.

/kloc-in the winter of 0/920, the famous British philosopher Luo Su gave a lecture in China, with Zhao Yuanren as his translator.

192 1 jun 1 day, married Yang Buwei.

192 1 year, Mr. and Mrs. Zhao Yuanren came to the United States, and Zhao Yuanren was a lecturer in philosophy and Chinese at Harvard University, studying linguistics.

During 1925, Zhao Yuanren returned to Tsinghua University to teach mathematics, physics, China phonology, general linguistics, modern Chinese dialects, China music scores and western music appreciation. With Liang Qichao, Wang Guowei and Chen Yinque, they are also called "four great teachers" of Tsinghua.

From 65438 to 0928, Zhao Yuanren, as a researcher in the Institute of Linguistics, conducted a large number of language field investigations and collected folk music.

From 1938 to 1939, Zhao Yuanren taught at the University of Hawaii, where he taught China music.

1938 to 194 1 year, teaching at Yale university. Five years later, he returned to teach at Harvard and participated in editing Harvard and Yanjing dictionaries, during which he became an American citizen.

From 65438 to 0945, Zhao Yuanren was elected president of the American Language Society.

1945, Zhao Yuanren was elected president of the American Language Institute (LSA).

1946, Zhu Jiahua, Minister of Education of the Kuomintang government, sent a telegram asking Zhao Yuanren to be the president of Nanjing Central University. Zhao Yuanren replied, "I can't do it. Thank you! "

From 65438 to 0947, Zhao Yuanren taught China Chinese and linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.

From 65438 to 0948, Zhao Yuanren was elected as the first academician of Academia Sinica in China and an academician of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1952 was appointed professor of oriental languages and China studies at Aggasiz foundation.

From 65438 to 0959, Zhao Yuanren gave a speech at Taiwan Province Provincial University.

1960 was elected president of American Oriental Society (AOS).

1962, retired from the University of California, Berkeley, and still served as the outgoing professor of the University of California.

From 65438 to 0973, the normalization of Sino-US relations just started. Zhao Yuanren and his wife took their granddaughter Zhao Bo and son-in-law Mike back to China to visit relatives. From the evening of May 6th, 2003 to the early morning of May 6th, 2004, he was cordially received by Premier Zhou Enlai. Premier Zhou also talked with Zhao Yuanren about the script reform and the "Tongzi Plan" that Zhao Yuanren devoted himself to. Also present were Guo Moruo, Wu, Zhu Kezhen and other friends.

198 1 year, at the invitation of the Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Zhao Yuanren, who just lost his wife, returned home to visit relatives with his eldest daughter Zhao Rulan, his son-in-law Bian Xueshuang and his fourth daughter Zhao. He was warmly received by Deng Xiaoping, chairman of China People's Political Consultative Conference, and accepted the title of honorary professor awarded by Peking University.

1982 On February 24th, Zhao Yuanren died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 90.

Main work

work

New rhyme of putonghua

Study on Modern Wu Dialect

Guangxi Yao song recording

Introduction to Cantonese (English version)

Society and Language in China (English Version)

Chinese grammar.

Chinese reading materials

Language problem

"Tongzi Plan"

Selected Papers on Linguistics of Zhao Yuanren

Types of Bursts in Chinese Dialects (1935)

Notes on Zhongxiang Dialect (1939)

Investigation Report on Hubei Dialect (1948)

Zhongshan dialect (1948)

Collected Works of Mount Tai (195 1)

Common Chinese Plant Words (1953)

Chinese address words (1956)

Multifunctional phonetics.

Jiji bump chicken

songbook

Collection of new poems and songs (1928)

Children's Day Songs (1934)

Xiaozhuangsong (1936)

Collection of popular education songs (1939)

Xingzhi songs

Zhao Yuanren Song Collection (198 1)

Famous songs

Song of Xiamen University

Yunnan university school song

Song of Northeastern University

Teach me how not to think about her.

Haiyun, etc.

translate

Alice is in wonderland.

short article

The history of lions eating lions

Character contribution

personnel training

Zhao Yuanren is a well-read mathematician and physicist, and he also has certain attainments in philosophy. However, he is mainly known as a famous linguist. When he retired from the University of California, he taught in Tsinghua from 1920 to 1972 and worked in education for 52 years. Famous linguists in China, such as Wang Li, Zhu, etc., are all his students, and they have "cultivated a huge team" for China's linguistic research, which can be said to be full of peaches and plums.

China research

Distinguish between tone and intonation

The name "Zidiao" was invented by Zhao Yuanren, and its meaning is basically the same as that of "Diao" in China's linguistics and language teaching. Zhao Yuanren clearly realized that tone sandhi, tone sandhi and tone sandhi are not the same thing. With the deepening of research, he gradually expounded the relationship between tone sandhi and intonation, and put forward three famous metaphors-"rubber band", "algebraic sum" and "big wave and small wave". These metaphors point out a shortcut for the study of Chinese intonation.

Attach importance to the study of tone sandhi and light tone in Chinese.

Zhao Yuanren's research on light and heavy sounds in modern Chinese is groundbreaking. He pointed out that spoken Chinese is not a pronunciation, but also a light tone, and the light tone is very important in Chinese intonation. In his research, Zhao Yuanren almost mentioned all kinds of light tones in Chinese, and distinguished them, which basically covered such phenomena as word stress, sentence stress, light tone, light tone, intonation light tone and structural light tone. Zhao Yuanren also noticed the differences between Chinese light and heavy sounds and western languages, and saw the relativity of stress.

Put forward the prototype of Chinese intonation structure

Zhao Yuanren developed his own new trilogy structure: adjusting the crown-turning around-adjusting the body, in which adjusting the body includes adjusting the core and adjusting the tail. Zhao Yuanren pointed out that Chinese intonation can be handled in sections. In addition to introducing the concept of intonation structure, Mr. Zhao also introduced and created practical phonetic symbols of Chinese intonation, which were created by combining the characteristics of Chinese and the universality of intonation.

Chinese intonation can be divided into form and function.

Zhao Yuanren first divided intonation into "neutral intonation" and "tone intonation", and he also divided intonation into 40 types according to "posture", each type corresponding to one or more "functions". The first 27 kinds are mainly composed of pitch and time changes, and the last 13 kinds are mainly composed of dynamics and the nature of voice parts. In addition, Zhao Yuanren also regards the speed of speech as a constituent element of intonation (belonging to the category of time).

Pointing out the direction and methods of "future" intonation research in Chinese intonation research, Zhao Yuanren pointed out that auxiliary words should be studied systematically, and there are still problems in the source and analysis of intonation research. The symbols of intonation need to be improved, and the classification of intonation may need to be refined, so the study of intonation should be strengthened. These aspects are still urgent problems in intonation research. In particular, Zhao Yuanren attaches great importance to the role of auxiliary words in intonation.

musical creation

Zhao Yuanren's music creation broke through the mode of "school music songs" borrowing foreign music scores to write lyrics, and began to compose and write lyrics entirely by China people, which made modern music in China enter a new stage of development. Therefore, he was one of the pioneers in the history of modern music in China and an excellent composer in China in the 1920s.

Although Zhao Yuanren's music creation activities began before the May 4th Movement, they were mainly concentrated in the 1920s and 1930s. His music creation is mainly divided into two periods. The first period was in the 1920s after the May 4th Movement. The representative works included songs such as Song of Labor, Selling Cloth Ballads, Teaching me how not to think about him, Going up the mountain to listen to the rain, It's Wei Yun, etc., and the chorus was Hai Yun. These songs and some of his previous works, *** 14, were included in the Collection of New Poems and Songs published by the Commercial Press 1928. The 1930s was Zhao Yuanren's second creative period, and his representative works included Song of Boating and Song of the Western Mirror. He also composed many children's poems by Tao Xingzhi and others, such as Long Singer's Brain and Children's Labor Songs, which were included in Children's Day Songs (1934) and Xiaozhuang Songs (1936).

Zhao Yuanren is brave in artistic innovation, and his songs have vivid musical images, novel styles, beautiful and smooth melodies and strong lyricism. From the content point of view, his works are mostly based on the new poems since the May 4th Movement, which have both the characteristics of the times and the national style. Formally, his works not only effectively use the western music creation techniques, but also creatively absorb the valuable experience of China traditional music. His vocal music works are of high artistic level and have made important contributions to modern music creation in China. Many works have been handed down to this day and have been frequently performed in the teaching and concerts of the Conservatory of Music.

Zhao Yuanren's "Teach me how not to think about him", composed on 1926, has become a classic art song in the treasure house of modern music in China, and is also an excellent vocal teaching material for professional music institutions. Its lyrics are 1920, a new poem written by Liu Bannong when he was living in England-"Teach me how not to think about her". The poet himself said that it expressed an overseas traveler's yearning for the motherland "mother". However, when Zhao Yuanren composed music for this poem in 1926, he changed the word "she" to "he", which expanded the space of "thinking" and made it more subtle and profound. As Zhao Yuanren himself said later: "He can be a man or a woman in the lyrics, representing all the beloved him, her and it." The melody of this song is beautiful and affectionate. On the one hand, the vocals of China traditional operas are full of "China charm", on the other hand, they are integrated with western-style music conception, tone sandhi and other multi-voice techniques, showing the deep feelings of intertwined thoughts and yearning.

Zhao Yuanren's other masterpiece "Hai Yun" (Xu Zhimo's Ci) is the earliest influential multi-voice couplet chorus in China, which was written in 1927. The work vividly depicts the tragic story of a beautiful and brave girl who yearns for freedom and is finally swallowed up by the raging waves despite the threat of violent winds and waves. The works show the romantic spirit of China youth's anti-feudalism and pursuit of individual liberation during the May 4th Movement. At the end of a song, people are often immersed in strong singing and aesthetic reverie, which has a strong artistic appeal and can be called chorus music handed down from generation to generation in China.

Zhao Yuanren is also the earliest composer in the history of modern music in China who adapted China folk songs with multi-voices. 1935 He composed the title song "Song of the Western Mirror" for the film "Urban Scenery", which absorbed the tone of folk rap and exposed and criticized the darkness of urban life at that time. 1942 "God" written in the United States, the lyrics adopted the folk songs of China in the late Ming Dynasty, with the style of folk rap narrative. "God" was introduced to China in the mid-1940s, and was sung by patriotic students in anti-Chiang demonstrations, which aroused strong repercussions. Since then, this song has been sung all over the country.

Years of language research have had a great influence on Zhao Yuanren's music creation. He paid special attention to dealing with the relationship between lyrics and tunes according to the tone and phonological characteristics of China language, so that the rhymes of lyrics were consistent with the tunes and the songs were full of charm and oral sense. In his creation, he also pays attention to the local style of music language. For example, Listening to the Rain expanded the tone of reciting ancient poems in Changzhou dialect, and Maibu Ballad was created on the basis of the tone of Wuxi dialect. Teach me how to miss him absorbed the tone of Xipi, a Beijing opera. In the aspect of song accompaniment, Zhao Yuanren attaches great importance to the role of piano in shaping the musical image. For example, in Wei Yun, Up the Mountain, Haiyun and other works, rich and vivid piano texture patterns are used to strengthen the artistic image and emotional changes of vocal music singing.

family members

Father: Zhao Hengnian

Mother: Feng Laisun.

Madam: Yang Buwei.

Eldest daughter: Zhao Rulan (the first Chinese female professor at Harvard University)

Eldest son-in-law: Bian Xue _ (tenured professor of MIT, academician of American Academy of Engineering, academician of American Academy of Sciences)

Two women: Zhao Xinna (a famous chemist)

Second husband: Huang Peiyun (founder of powder metallurgy in China, academician of China Academy of Engineering, professor of Central South University).

Three girls: Zhao (a professor at Cornell University)

Third husband: IsaacNamioka, professor of mathematics at Washington University.

Four women: Zhao (professor at MIT)

Anecdotes of characters

Language genius

In the late Qing Dynasty, Zhao Yuanren's grandfather was an official in the north. When young Zhao Yuanren lived with his family in Beijing and Baoding, he learned Beijing dialect and Baoding dialect from his nanny. When I was 5 years old, I returned to my hometown Changzhou and was invited by a local tutor. He also learned to recite four books and five classics in Changzhou dialect. Later, I learned changshu dialect from my aunt and Fuzhou dialect from my aunt.

When he 15 was admitted to Nanjing Jiangnan College, only three of the 270 students in the school were authentic Nanjing people, and he learned authentic Nanjing dialect from these three Nanjing students. On one occasion, he dined at the same table with guests who happened to come from all directions. Zhao Yuanren can talk with his deskmate in eight dialects.

1920 coincides with the lectures given by Dewey, an American educator, and China, an English philosopher. Tsinghua University sent him to translate for Russell. He learned to speak Hunan dialect when he accompanied Russell to Changsha, Hunan. Because of his clear speech, profound knowledge and dialect translation, Russell gave a better lecture than Dewey at that time. Since then, Zhao Yuanren's linguistic genius has been recognized, and he himself has decided to take linguistics as his main career for life.

Recognized fellow villagers

Zhao Yuanren's greatest happiness in his life is being recognized as a "fellow villager" by local people all over the world.

After World War II, he went to France to attend a conference. At the Paris station, he spoke the Parisian dialect to the waiter. The other party thought that he was a native of Paris and sighed: "You are back. It's not as good as before. Paris is poor. "

Later, I went to Berlin, Germany, and chatted with the locals in German with Berlin accent. An old neighbor said to him, "God bless you, you escaped this disaster and came back safely."

1920, the British philosopher Luo Su gave a lecture in China, and Zhao Yuanren served as a translator. Everywhere he went, he translated in the local dialect. On the way, he learned Changsha dialect from Hunan, and when he arrived in Changsha, he was able to translate it in the local dialect. After the speech, someone came to climb with him.

be newly married

On the evening of September 1920, it is estimated that the Jingmen Gate has been closed, so Zhao Yuanren can't go back to stay with his relatives in Tsinghua campus, and intends to talk with his uncle about the dissolution of the engagement. At my cousin's house, Zhao Yuanren met Yang Buwei, a female doctor in Senren Maternity Hospital.

When Zhao Yuanren and Yang Buwei first met, it was not clear what they talked about, but they liked each other, that's for sure. The next day, Yang Buwei, a female doctor, invited Zhao Yuanren's cousin back, and he was also invited. They went to Central Park first and had dinner together. Zhao said in his diary that day: "Dr. Yang is 100% open." Yang Buwei also has a fiance arranged by her family, and she broke off her engagement. It can be seen that Zhao Yuanren is very sympathetic and appreciative of Dr. Yang Buwei's breaking the old ethics and breaking the contract of arranged marriage.

Since then, Zhao Yuanren has been to Senren Hospital almost every two days. On September 25th, he bid farewell to Yang Buwei and said, "I'm afraid I'm too busy (he was invited by famous artists such as Liang Qichao as an interpreter for Russell, a British philosopher who came to China to give lectures). I hope you don't mind if I can't come again. " But he went again that night.

At this time, Zhao Yuanren had a feeling of love for Yang Buwei. Therefore, the arranged marriage was dissolved. Until the end of May of 192 1, the woman agreed to dissolve the engagement, but she needed to provide Ms. Chen with a "tuition fee" of 2,000 yuan (better than the loss of youth). Zhao Yuanren wrote in his diary: "I have been engaged to this girl for more than ten years, and I am finally free."

1921On May 25th, Zhao Yuanren and Yang Buwei began to prepare for the wedding, and drafted and printed the marriage notice; Self-written marriage certificate, affixed with 40 cents stamps; Go to Central Park to take multiple selfies, and choose one as a wedding photo in the motto hall; I rented a wedding room at No.49 Xiaoyabao Hutong, Dongcheng, Beijing. The room is very comfortable and has a roof garden. On May 3 1 day, after Zhao Yuanren and Yang Buwei decorated the house properly, Hu Shi and Zhu Zheng, a female doctor, were invited to have dinner in the living room that night. After dinner, I took out my marriage certificate and asked two friends to sign it as marriage certificate holders. In order to legalize it, a stamp duty of 40 cents was levied.

Zhao Yuanren recalled: On the notice we sent to friends and relatives, we said that when we received the news, we got married at 3: 00 pm on June 192 1 Sunday, based on the standard of east longitude 120 degrees sun average. With two exceptions, never accept gifts. The first exception is letters, poems, or music scores, and the second exception is donations to the Chinese science society.

The next day, the Beijing Morning Post took the title of "Newly Married New Characters". After marriage, Yang Buwei gave up the position of hospital director and gynecological director, and became a good wife and mother. The two live in harmony, and a loving couple have been together for more than 60 years.

Refuse to be the principal

After Zhao Yuanren returned to China, he taught many courses in Tsinghua University. With Liang Qichao, Wang Guowei and Chen Yinque, they are also called "four great teachers" of Tsinghua. However, such a master has avoided being an official all his life.

1945 After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Zhao Yuanren family in the United States were ecstatic when they heard the news of Japanese surrender and the end of World War II on the radio. They began to prepare for returning to China. In August of the following year, Zhao Yuanren's second daughter, Sinna, and her son-in-law Pei Yun set off for home. Before leaving, Mr. and Mrs. Zhao Yuanren told their daughter, "We will come back next year and wait for us." .

At that time, Central University moved back to Nanjing and wanted to hire Mr. Zhao Yuanren to teach in China. Mr. Zhao immediately agreed to resign from Harvard. However, in the summer of 1946, Zhu Jiahua, then Minister of Education, sent a telegram urging Zhao Yuanren to return from the United States and become the president of Nanjing Central University. This request frightened Zhao Yuanren, and Zhao Yuanren called back and said, "I can't do this. Thank you! " He refused again and again, so he was afraid to go back to China.

Later, at the suggestion of Mrs. Zhao, he decided to stay in the United States for another year and go back after being confirmed by the president of Central University. This is the incident of avoiding officials mentioned earlier. When he didn't return to China for some time, he accepted the invitation of the University of California and went to California temporarily. On his way home, he passed through California. Unexpectedly, more than 30 years have passed and it has become the place where he has lived for the longest time in his life.

Oral travel

Zhao Yuanren once performed a "national tour" in ventriloquism: from Beijing to the south along Han Jing Road, from Hebei to Shanxi and Shaanxi, out of Tongguan, from Henan to Hunan, Sichuan and Yunnan, from Guangdong and Guangxi to Jiangxi, Fujian to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, from Shandong to Bohai Bay to the three northeastern provinces, and finally back to Beijing at Shanhaiguan. During this "trip", he talked for nearly an hour and "walked" all over China, introducing places of interest and local products in local dialects everywhere. Known as the "father of linguistics in China", this wizard can speak 33 Chinese dialects and is proficient in many languages. Researchers say that Mr. Zhao's ability to master a language is amazing, because he can quickly penetrate the phonological system of a language and sum up the rules of a dialect and even a foreign language.

The Story of the Cave Poet: Eating Lions

Zhao Yuanren once made up a "funny" monosyllabic story to illustrate the relative independence of pronunciation and writing. This story is called "Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi. Shi always sees lions in the market. At ten o'clock, ten lions are suitable for the market. Shishi is in the right market at the right time. Stone regards it as ten lions, relying on the vector potential to make its ten lions immortal. Stone picks up the bodies of ten lions, which is just right for stone chambers. The stone room is wet, and the stone room is waiting to be cleaned. After the stone room was cleaned, Shi began to try to eat the bodies of ten lions. When I was eating, I first learned that ten lion corpses were actually ten stone lions. Trial interpretation is one thing. "

popularize putonghua

In the 1920s, Zhao Yuanren made records for the Commercial Press and promoted "Mandarin". There is an anecdote, which is hard to distinguish between true and false, but the scenery of Zhao was quite obvious. Mr. and Mrs. Zhao Yuanren prefer Mandarin when they go shopping in Hongkong. Hong Kong people are used to English and Cantonese, and few people are familiar with Mandarin. They met a shop assistant whose Mandarin was so poor that he couldn't understand anything Zhao Yuanren said. Zhao is helpless. Unexpectedly, when he was leaving the house, the man gave him a gift: "I suggest Mr. Wang buy a phonograph in Mandarin to listen to. Your Mandarin is really poor. "

Zhao Yuanren asked, "Who is the best phonograph in Mandarin?"

"Nature is the best in Zhao Yuanren."

Mrs. Zhao pointed to her husband and said with a smile, "He is Zhao Yuanren."

The clerk said angrily, "Stop joking! He speaks Mandarin so badly, how can it be Zhao Yuanren? "

Dialect investigation

Zhao Yuanren is the first scholar in China who studies dialects and dialects by scientific methods. His ears can distinguish various subtle phonetic differences. During the 1920s and 1930s, I personally investigated and studied nearly 60 dialects such as Wu dialect.

Zhao Yuanren's study of dialects is beyond the reach of others. He knows 33 dialects. His rigorous and diligent spirit of scholarship is amazing.

1in the spring of 927, when Zhao Lao was a tutor in Tsinghua University Institute, he went to southern Jiangsu and central Zhejiang to inspect Wu dialect. I often go to two or three places a day and record while investigating. If I can't find a hotel, I'll stay at a farmer's house. On one occasion, he and his assistant caught the train from Wuxi to Suzhou at night and only bought a fourth-class ticket with a hard seat. I was so tired that I fell asleep on the bench after I got on the bus. When I woke up, the car was in complete darkness. I looked out and realized that all the cars in front had left, leaving this fourth-class car. The assistant asked him what to do. He said, "I can't find a hotel now anyway. Just sleep in the car until dawn! " "The assistant saw that he was weak and advised him to do less research every day. He said humorously, "To do research is to work harder and hurry up, otherwise you can't go home early!"! "Isn't it more time-consuming and harder in the future?"

In that Wu dialect survey, he went to Zhenjiang, Danyang and Wuxi, got off at each stop, then took a small steamboat to Yixing, Liyang and returned to Wuxi. He braved the cold, ran back and forth, went deep into the masses, visited many places and recorded a large number of local dialects. Three months later, he returned to Beijing and wrote the investigation materials into a book "A Study of Modern Wu Language". When the book was published, the phonetic symbols were international phonetic symbols, and the printing house had no fonts. He and his assistant write, draw tables and make copies, and work more than 65,438+00 hours a day. After the book was published, it made a very precious contribution to the study of Wu dialect and dialect, and Zhao Yuanren also became the originator of Chinese dialect investigation.

record

From 65438 to 0936, Zhao Yuanren recorded a record "Teach me how not to think about him" in EMI Company, which was popular for nearly half a century.

198 1 When he came to Beijing last time, he was invited to sing this song many times. Once after singing this song in the Conservatory of Music, people asked him: Is this a love song? Who is "he" among them? Zhao Lao replied: "The word' he' can be a man or a woman, or it can refer to something other than men and women. This word represents all the beloved him, her and it. " He said that this lyric was written by Mr. Liu Bannong in London, England, "including his nostalgia for his motherland."

Zhao Lao also told you an anecdote about this song. He said that this song was very popular in the society at that time, and a young friend wanted to see the style of the lyricist and asked Liu Bannong what he thought. One day, the Zhao family in Liu Qu was drinking tea, and Ye Zhao was present. Mr. and Mrs. Zhao Yuanren introduced to the young people: "This is the lyricist of" Teach me how not to think about him. " The young man had a big accident and blurted out, "So he is an old man!" "Everyone laughed. When Liu Bannong returned home, he wrote a doggerel: "Teach me how to think of him. Please come in and have a cup of tea. It turns out that he is such an old man. Teach me how to miss him again! "

From the 1920s to the early 1930s, most of the lyrics of Zhao Yuanren's songs were written by Liu Bannong. 1933 When Liu Bannong died of illness, Zhao Lao wrote a pair of elegies with deep affection: "It is difficult to make a song without words after playing the double reed for ten years; A few people are weak, teach me how to think about him! "

Personality assessment

"The Father of Linguistics in China".

"Open a new era of China's music industry." (Xiao Youmei)

"His knowledge is based on mathematics, physics and mathematical logic, but his contribution to linguistics is particularly great. In the past 30 years, it can be said that he laid the cornerstone of China's linguistic science research, so the younger generation called him' the father of China linguistics'. " (Luo Changpei)

"Zhao Yuanren can be called the first generation linguist in China. I studied linguistics with him and later went to France, which was also influenced by him. " (Wang Li)

"Mr. Zhao Can can never be wrong." (American linguistics)

"Zhao Yuanren, Zhao Yuanren, when I was a teenager, Zhao Yuanren was everywhere." (Chen Yuan)

First, he took modern language as the research object of linguistics, which opened up a new way for China's linguistic research; Secondly, he trained a huge team for China's linguistic research. (Lv Shuxiang)

"A knowledgeable scholar engaged in science and liberal arts research like this is an amateur at best for music, but his contribution far exceeds that of many fashionable composers and theorists. Although his interest in music is amateur, he has made great efforts. He has mastered all the basic knowledge of music and often analyzes all the classical music, romantic music and even modern works he can play on the piano. These activities of his are research, analysis and study, and they are also his entertainment appreciation. His works are improvised. He is a linguist, and his creation has unique insights and achievements in the combination of lyrics and songs, which deserves serious study by future generations. " (He Lvting)

Zhao Yuanren's songs have distinctive musical images, novel styles, beautiful and smooth tunes and rich lyricism. He is good at learning from the techniques of modern European multi-voice music creation, and constantly explores and maintains the characteristics of China's traditional culture and music. He pays great attention to the tone and rhyme characteristics of lyrics, and pays attention to the consistency of tone and melody of lyrics.