Confusion about the content of the historical records and literary descriptions

That's recorded in the historical records, in history they said that meaning, but not necessarily that sentence, maybe they said the vernacular, but when it was recorded, it became a literary language, for the following reasons:

Written records are more paper-saving with literary language, bamboo slips and silk used when there is no paper in ancient times, it is inconvenient to write, in order to facilitate the record, it is generally concise and concise, so there is a literary language (like a flat and flat official book, which is also created to meet the needs of writing);

Later, with paper, it was easy to write, but paper was expensive, so the literary language still existed;

Moreover, the literary language is more beautiful than the vernacular, and for the scholars and nobles, the literary language is a little more enjoyable;

In addition, it is said that the song music of the pre-Qin period was originally spoken by the princes when they reported on their work, not for entertainment.

Those who write history generally have to talk about literary style, because the history books written in that way are more popular with literate people, and if someone reads them, writing history is valuable = =

At that time, there should have been vernacular, mixed with literary language, but it was used for oral communication more [this is a guess, after all, no one has been to ancient times to understand the truth, and the history books should not be able to think of recording whether the people at that time spoke the vernacular or literary ......

Above, look.

In ancient times, "writing" and "speech" were inconsistent, that is, writing things and speaking were different. We have the concept of classical Chinese, which probably comes from the promotion of vernacular Chinese by the New Culture Movement. Today's vernacular "wen" is the same as "yan".

In ancient times, the language was concise, probably because there was no paper, and for fear of waste, they wrote as little as possible. Later, with the advent of paper, this practice continued. In ancient times, there were many illiterates, and in addition to the difficulty of going to school, it may also be related to this.

The four famous works should be written in the vernacular of the time.

But then again, there are many local dialects, and some of them will become endangered over time, and the unified literary narrative of the time has also enabled the national culture to be inherited.

And what you said, "Princes and princes will have a kind of Xiangning", they may have spoken the current Cantonese or Hakka dialect at that time. What we now call Mandarin or the northern dialect has a thick Hu sound. A better look at history should help you.

The ancients said that kind of words are called ancient words, and their existence has their inevitability, because we are in this vernacular environment, so we feel that speaking vernacular is very natural and easy to understand.

Let's take an example. For example, when Americans come to China and see Chinese drinking tea, maybe they think it's just a tea drink? It's called tea.

How can there be black tea, green tea, Tieguanyin, Da Hong Pao and the like. This is a cultural difference, or an American came to China, he thinks why China speaks Chinese so complicated, why not speak American, how simple, but in this way we Chinese can not accept! We Chinese will think the same when we go to the United States!

I guess you're still a junior high school or high school student! Hehe.. You don't think too much, in fact, when you go to college, you don't care how the ancients expressed it, unless you study Chinese!

The spoken and written languages of the ancients were different, and the same spoken and written languages did not exist until the modern New Culture Movement. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, the articles of the Seven Sons of the Ming Dynasty were written in classical Chinese, while the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Water Margin were written in the vernacular, which were written in spoken language.

It should be. Our teacher seems to say that because there doesn't seem to be a vernacular performance at that time... It must be written in literary language (I guessed...)