How did ancient people speak?

As now, it is also divided into classes. The literati or the ruling class will know how to write Zou Zou, and the surname of the ordinary boss is no different from now.

It's basically the same as in modern times, and it's all said by some literati, and you see who says that on the street.

Speaking in the vernacular, classical Chinese is the written language. The local dialect is spoken, and Mandarin was only developed after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The language spoken by the ancients is very different from that of modern people, and the main differences are:

1.The ancients used classical Chinese, and modern people use the Qiansheng vernacular. Classical Chinese is the written language of ancient Chinese and was commonly used by the ancients, while modern people use vernacular, which is closer to spoken language.

2.The ancients paid attention to etiquette and humility, and the words used in the language and the way of speaking should conform to etiquette. Modern people are more intelligent and old-fashioned in direct, natural and concise expressions.

3.The language of the ancients is full of idioms, allusions, and quotations, which are their cultural heritage accumulated over thousands of years, while the modern language is more borrowed from foreign languages and cultures.

In general, the language style of the ancients was more solemn and elegant, focusing on the beauty and rhetorical effect of speech; Modern language, on the other hand, is more practical and direct, focusing on accuracy and clarity of expression.

Classical Chinese. Before the Spring and Autumn Period, there was not much difference between classical Chinese and colloquial vernacular, and classical Chinese was actually a simplified and deformed colloquial language of the Shang and Zhou dynasties. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, classical Chinese was basically stereotyped, and it basically remained unchanged for the next two thousand years.

Introduction

However, the colloquial vernacular has been changing, mainly due to the influence of immigrants, such as the linguistic changes caused by the arrival of nomads in the Central Plains. After the Tang Dynasty, the separation of vernacular and classical Chinese became more obvious, and people's usual speaking and writing were completely different.

Although vernacular is easy to read, it is really not easy to write because there are too many words. If the content of the same information content is used in the vernacular, it will have twice the amount of text than classical Chinese. Before the invention of paper, the ancients cast words on bronze, carved words on bamboo slips, and wrote on silk, all of which were very expensive and laborious.

Therefore, in order to save money and effort, the ancients had to cherish words like gold when writing articles, and the simplified language of classical Chinese reflects its advantages.

The ancients said: Poor: How dare you enter prosperity when you are poor? How dare you mistake the beautiful woman with a breeze on both sleeves?

Good morning: morning and dusk, wake up, although not together, but seek the same heart.

Good night: The mountains and rivers have been twilight, the time has been sleeping, although the pillow is not the same, but seek the same dream.

I'm single, I'm proud