1892165438+1was born in Tianjin on October 3rd. My father is good at playing flute in the middle of the year. Mother feng lai Sun Shan's Poems and Kunqu Opera.
19O0, Zhao Yuanren returned to his hometown of Qingguo Lane, Changzhou, and studied in No.2 Middle School. Influenced by national culture in his early years, it has a profound influence on his life and career.
Zhao Yuanren showed his talent for languages when he was very young. He learned all kinds of dialects as soon as he learned them. I entered Changzhou Xishan Primary School at the age of fourteen. 19O7 entered the preparatory course of Nanjing Jiangnan College of Higher Education with excellent results. He learned English and German very well and won the honor of American English teacher Jia Hua (D. J. Carve's favorite. Jiahua often invites Zhao Yuanren to his home. Mrs. Jiahua is good at playing the piano and singing. Zhao Yuanren learned from Mrs. Jiahua to sing songs such as Home, Sweet Home and Auld Lang Syne, which was the beginning of his acceptance of western music.
From 65438 to 0909, Zhao Yuanren was admitted as a formal student studying in the United States, majoring in mathematics and taking physics and music as elective courses at Cornell University. He studied composition from e. Johnstone, piano and harmony from J.T. Quarles, piano from S.P.Siwerman, and took vocal lessons for many years. 19 14 obtained a bachelor's degree in mathematics. After studying in the School of Philosophy for one year, 19 15 people took philosophy as their major and continued to choose music. During Harvard, music professors included B. Hill and Spalding. R. spaulding). 19l8 received a doctorate in philosophy from Harvard university. I also studied in Chicago and the University of California for one year as a graduate student. 19 19 returned to teach in the Physics Department of Cornell University for one year.
1920, Zhao Yuanren returned to China to study physics, mathematics and psychology in Tsinghua University. In the winter of the same year, he was invited by the famous British philosopher Bertrand Russell to give lectures as a translator in China. While in Tsinghua, Zhao Yuanren and Yang Buwei got married.
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.
From 65438 to 0925, Zhao Yuanren returned to Tsinghua University to teach mathematics, physics, China phonology, general linguistics, modern China dialect, China music score and western music appreciation. With Liang Qichao, Wang Guowei and Chen Yinque, they are also called "four great teachers" of Tsinghua. 1928, as a researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the Institute, conducted a large number of language field investigations and folk music collections.
1938- 1939, teaching China music at the University of Hawaii. 1938 to 194 1 year, teaching at Yale university. Five years later, he returned to teach at Harvard and participated in the editing of Harvard and Yanjing dictionaries. During this period, he became an American citizen. 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 1947 to 1962, Zhao Yuanren taught China Chinese and linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and remained a retired professor at the University of California after retirement. 1945 Zhao Yuanren was elected president of the American Language Society. 1952 was appointed professor of oriental languages and China studies at Aggasiz foundation. 1959 giving lectures at Taiwan Province Provincial University. 1960 was elected president of the American Oriental Society.
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.
Zhao Yuanren died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on February 24th, 1982. The University of California established the Zhao Yuanren Foundation for him and held a grand memorial service for Zhao Yuanren's death on April 4th.
His major works include The New Rhyme of Putonghua, A Study of Modern Wu Dialect, Notes on Guangxi Yao Songs, An Introduction to Cantonese (English version), Social and Linguistic Aspects of China (English version), Chinese Grammar, Chinese Reading Materials, Language Problems, Common Words Scheme, etc., and he has published Zhao Yuanren's Linguistic Essays.
Songs published in Zhao Yuanren include New Poetry and Songs (1928), Children's Day songs (1934), Xiaozhuang songs (1936), popular education songs (1939) and Xingzhi songs. During 1987, under the proposal and promotion of He Luting, president of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Shanghai Music Publishing House published the Complete Works of Zhao Yuanren (edited by Zhao Rulan, the eldest daughter and professor of Harvard University in the United States), which included 83 songs, 24 chorus songs, 9 folk songs 19 and 6 instrumental essays, totaling 32 works.
Zhao Yuanren (1892 ~ 1982), a native of Wujin, Jiangsu, is an internationally renowned linguist and one of the founders of modern linguistics in China.
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.
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.
He is also known as a rare generalist and "Renaissance wise man". As the "four great teachers" of Tsinghua's Chinese studies, which is also known as the world with Liang Qichao, Wang Guowei and Chen Yinque, linguistics is his deepest field, but he also teaches physics, logic and other courses.
He is good at music. He once studied acoustics and composition, played many musical instruments and spent his whole life with the piano. He composed more than 100 pieces of music, including vocal music and instrumental music. Whenever he and his daughters get together, they form a family choir and practice singing his new or old works in parts. No wonder people say that music is a part of his life.
Zhao Yuanren told her daughter that she studied linguistics for "fun". In the eyes of today's people, there are many profound meanings behind a faint "fun". Many scholars in the world often study a phenomenon or theory for fun. "The actor is not utilitarian, does not seek fame and profit, does not grandstanding, and does not seek profit."
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. 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 was wet, so I asked the servant to wipe it. 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. "
Linguist Chen Yuan wrote in his reminiscence article: "Zhao Yuanren, Zhao Yuanren, when I was a teenager, Zhao Yuanren was everywhere." When he was a teenager, he fell in love with Zhao Yuanren's translation of Alice in Wonderland (an occasional work by Zhao Xingzhi, but a classic translation of children's literature). When I grow up, I want to learn "Putonghua", so I use Zhao Yuanren's "Putonghua Phonograph Textbook" as a teacher. Later, I fell in love with music, including Beethoven's Ode to Joy introduced by Le Youxiao, and his own composition Teach me how not to think about her.
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? "