Who has made important contributions to the development of the Chinese language to the present?

I think the most important thing is Qin Shi Huang, as we all know, the story of the book burning pit furnace, Qin Shi Huang unified the country at that time into one, and then everyone spoke one language, which was later Chinese.

I think it's Qin Shi Huang, after all, it was he who unified our country and the Han Zi agreed, and he was the founder of the inspiration for this matter.

There are many people who have made important contributions to the development of the Chinese language to this day, but I think the most important one should be Confucius, who is an important founder of the Chinese language and wrote many popular books.

The development of the Chinese language is as follows:

The first stage, the "prehistoric period" without written records, in which the language is analyzed according to the history of the development of human society, is not developed and rich enough.

The second stage is the written antiquity period, the pre-Qin era. Due to the emergence of written language, there is the possibility of integration and standardization of language, such as the process of reciting poetry through written language, which is a standardized process.

In the third stage, from the Middle Ages to the Sui and Tang dynasties, social life was quite developed, and the frequent communication and communication, especially the use of written language, that is, writing, was very extensive, and the cultural influence of character books (dictionaries) and dictionaries (dictionaries) on all levels of society, especially the emergence of a large number of literary works, made the development and integration of the Chinese language very rapid.

In the fourth stage, from the late Tang Dynasty to the "May Fourth Movement", due to the influence of literary works, especially the emergence and popularization of vernacular Chinese, which is very closely integrated with the spoken language, the development of the written language in this period was very prosperous, so the exemplary role of the written language played a huge role in promoting the standardization and integration of the language.

The fifth stage, the "May Fourth Movement", is a mature period of the common language of the modern Han nation.

The Chinese civilization is a unique civilization, and its writing is also very unique. Among all the countries in the world, only China has always had an uninterrupted cultural inheritance due to the strong inclusiveness and assimilation of its national culture, which makes Chinese characters one of the few uninterrupted forms of writing in the world.

About the 14th century B.C., the oracle bone inscription of the late Yin Shang dynasty is widely regarded as the first form of Chinese characters, and has been developed to this day, with a history of three or four thousand years.

The development and change of the Chinese language is mainly reflected in the three elements of phonetics, vocabulary and grammar.

1. The development and change of speech. The most commonly used method of Chinese characters is the morphophonetic method, which often derives the sound of character A from character B, but there are many such characters that are incomprehensible according to modern pronunciation. For example, "Jiang" gets its voice from "work", "Ti" gets its voice from "is", "Road" gets its voice from "each", "Pang" gets its voice from "Dragon", "Shift" gets its voice from "Many", "Forgiveness" gets its voice from "Beijing", and so on.

This shows that the pronunciation of Chinese characters, whether it is initials, finals, or tones, has changed a lot.

2. Vocabulary development and change. It is mainly manifested in three aspects: the generation of new words, the gradual disappearance and change of old words, and the evolution of word meanings. Society is constantly changing, and the emergence of new things, phenomena, and concepts requires corresponding words to refer to, so new words are born, such as"Rockets, missiles, refrigerators, video cameras"Wait.

Like the generation of new words, the death of old things in society, changes in people's perceptions, etc., can also cause the death of words, such as"Emperors, eunuchs, crowns, horse coats"and other words, which are rarely used in the language until they gradually die out. There are three kinds of evolution of word meaning: one is the expansion of word meaning, the second is the narrowing of word meaning, and the third is the transfer of word meaning.

For example, "river", which in ancient times referred specifically to the Yellow River, and in modern times refers to all rivers, which is an example of the expansion of the meaning of the word. "Wife", which in ancient times referred to a wife and children, and in modern times refers only to a man's spouse, which is an example of a reduced meaning. "Rainbow", the ancients believed that it was a living insect that could drink water, while today people recognize it"Rainbow"It is a weather phenomenon that is a weather phenomenon due to sunlight shining on water droplets, which is refracted and diffracted to form a colored arc on a rain or fog curtain, which is an example of word meaning transfer.

3. The development and change of grammar. The development and change of grammar is mainly manifested in the generation of new grammatical elements, first of all, in the increase of grammatical means, such as the tense particles "着", "了", "over", etc., in modern Chinese, which are not found in ancient Chinese and have appeared in modern times. Another example is in "Zou Ji Satirizing the King of Qi", "Who am I with Xu Gongmei in the north of the city?"

It is the unique syntax of ancient times, and the bottom "Who is beautiful between me and Xu Gong?" It's the same as modern syntax. "Jun Meishi" now says "You are very beautiful", and the word "de" must be used in it.

"Don't be confident" is also an ancient syntax, and the modern saying is "Zou Ji doesn't believe in himself (more than Xu Gongmei)".

The history of the development of the Chinese language and its influence is as follows:

The standard language of Chinese has been gradually formed on the basis of the northern official dialect in recent centuries. Its standard tone is Beijing. The standard language of Chinese is called Mandarin in Chinese mainland, Chinese in Taiwan, and Mandarin in Singapore and Malaysia.

As a unique pictographic language in the world, Chinese has a high degree of unity and standardization, and modern Chinese has a unified and standardized grammar, although the pronunciation of dialects is particularly different, but the written language is standardized, and there is no written communication barrier caused by dialect differences. The super-dialectal nature of the Chinese language has played a tremendous role in maintaining the unity of the Chinese nation.

Chinese is an independent language, an analytical language. The Chinese language is written as a pictographic Chinese character. The written language used before the May Fourth Movement was called Wenyan, which was based on the Yayan used in the time of Confucius.

The written Chinese language promoted after the May Fourth Movement is often referred to as vernacular, the modern written language based on northern dialects.

Chinese literature has a long history of thousands of years, with special content, form and style, and the expression of Chinese language and writing has had a profound impact on the development of Chinese literature. The artistic conception of Chinese language and writing creates the imagination space of Chinese literature, and the vocabulary of Chinese language sublimates Chinese literature.

The stage of development is Ancient Chinese (the Chinese from before the Xia Dynasty to the Jin Dynasty); Middle Chinese (used in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, and Early Song Dynasty); Modern Chinese (the Chinese language with the early vernacular literature as the pre-Nazhi table); Modern Chinese (the language used by the modern Han people). With more than 1.5 billion speakers, it is one of the six official languages of the United Nations, and it plays an important role in international interactions.

Ancient Chinese: refers to the Chinese language from before the Xia Dynasty to the Jin Dynasty, and is the ancestor of the existing Chinese language.

Middle Chinese: Middle Chinese was used during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, and the early Song Dynasty (7th to 10th centuries AD), and can be divided into the early period of the Cutting Rhyme (601 AD) and the late period reflected in the Guangyun (10th century AD). Gao Benhan called this stage "ancient Chinese".

Modern Chinese: The Chinese language between ancient Chinese and modern Chinese, represented by early vernacular literature.

Modern Chinese: The language used by the modern Han nation, which includes not only the common language of the modern Han nation, but also the dialects of modern Chinese.

Chinese has a long history and is the largest number of speakers, with at least 1.5 billion people speaking Chinese in the world, more than 20% of the world's total population, and is the official language of China, one of the four official languages of Singapore, and one of the six working languages of the United Nations.

The origin of Chinese characters is invented, created and improved by the Chinese people in ancient times, and the current exact history can be traced back to the oracle bone inscription of the Shang Dynasty around 1300 BC. Then it was the small seal of the Qin Dynasty, and it was not until the Han Dynasty that it was named "Chinese characters", and it was not until the Tang Dynasty that Kaihua became the standard regular script of the handwritten font used today.

Development of Chinese characters: 1. Oracle bone inscription, Yin Shang era.

2. Jin Wen, Shang, Zhou, Kupai Qin, and Han all have this kind of writing, which prevailed in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

3. Seal text, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and the Qin Dynasty, is generally divided into large seals and small seals.

4. Lishu, which appeared in the Qin Dynasty, is the boundary between ancient and modern characters.

5. Regular script, produced in the late Han Dynasty, prevailed in the Wei and Jin dynasties and has been used to this day, which is the history of our country.