"Salon Activity Preview" Linguistics class that must be taken before crossing: the past and present of Chinese and its dialects

There are different opinions about the past and present of Chinese. Or that "Japanese and Korean are all dialects of Chinese", or that "Cantonese is the Mandarin of the Tang Dynasty", or that "Beijing dialect is Manhua Chinese", are these rumors true or false (hint: false)? Why is Sichuan dialect far easier to understand than other southern dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien? Why can't so many poems in the Book of Songs rhyme? Why are the phonetic characters such as cheese and grid pronounced completely different? This salon will take you into the history of the development of Chinese phonetics and clear away the many mists shrouded in Chinese.

Speaker: Zhou Yulou

Hunan native, Tujia, bachelor of linguistics and master of computer science from Stanford University, non-famous former up-master in the cover area of station B, speaker of "Introduction to Sichuan Dialect in One Hour"

Activity time

US West 3/13 Saturday 5:00pm-7:00pm

US East 3/13 Saturday 8:00pm-10:00pm

East Eight District 3/14 Sunday 9:00am-11:00am

Live broadcast

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Live link: https://youtu.be/0nGf9qB1P1w

Tencent Conference: 739 0388 4030 Password 2021

ways of registration

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Lecture points:

• Rumors surrounding the history of Chinese
• How speech has evolved
• Traveling back to the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China——The upper history of Beijing dialect
• Traveling back to the Yuan and Ming Dynasties - "Mandarin" and the "Patriarch" of Chinese Pinyin
• Traveling back to the Middle Ages - who is the "Mandarin of the Tang Dynasty"
• Traveling back to the pre-Qin period - did ancient Chinese really have complex consonants?
• The source of Chinese languages
• What historical linguistics can tell us

about us

The Bay Area Cultural Salon is a forum for interdisciplinary knowledge sharing and public discussion. Relying on lectures and round-table dialogues and other activities as the carrier, the salon aims to provide a platform for rational dialogue and connection establishment for Chinese in North America, and jointly build a high-quality public cultural life.

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