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Does anybody else think the language infobox from the article is dubious? Look at the first two points it makes: Spoken in: mainland China; Taiwan; Japan; Korea and Vietnam Total speakers: Not a spoken language 222.152.105.200 (talk) 10:10, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
- That's a little Delphic. Markalexander100 02:41, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- ...Delphic? In response to the Korean bit? Anyway, salutations are certainly a small part of a letter, but the part I objected to is: "certainly not uneducated", which is, quite frankly, the understatement of the century. One needs a considerable amount of education to write wenyan properly. little Alex 09:02, Apr 23, 2004 (UTC)
- Ah, fair point. ;) Markalexander100 16:47, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- ...Delphic? In response to the Korean bit? Anyway, salutations are certainly a small part of a letter, but the part I objected to is: "certainly not uneducated", which is, quite frankly, the understatement of the century. One needs a considerable amount of education to write wenyan properly. little Alex 09:02, Apr 23, 2004 (UTC)
- There is an analogy with Latin, which can be read in a variety of different ways depending on whether the reader is from Britain, France, Spain, Italy, or Germany. None of these are the same as the actual way Latin was spoken in ancient Rome.
- Actually there isn't. There are currently two standards for Latin pronounciations (church and classical) and neither is related to local vernacular pronounciation. Roadrunner 01:17, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Oh, really? I thought that there were different ways of singing Latin at least -- in Germany, people said /ts/ for Latin "ci" and "ce", where England and France would use /s/; and in England people use the English vowels /ei i ai ou ju/ rather than /a: e: i: o: u:/. -- [[User:Ran|ran (talk)]] 17:50, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)
- Actually there isn't. There are currently two standards for Latin pronounciations (church and classical) and neither is related to local vernacular pronounciation. Roadrunner 01:17, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I originally wrote "Some varieties that have extensive multiple readings for each Han character (notably Southern Min) require the reader to read wenyan with the literary reading." This was later changed to: "Other varieties of Chinese, such as Southern Min, have a special set of pronunciation used exclusively for Classical Chinese", which can mislead. In Southern Min the readings used for Classical Chinese are not exclusively for that purpose. The requirement is that the (so-called) literary character readings be used. There should not be any implication that these readings are only used for Classical Chinese, as they are found in everyday speech, as well. A-giau 03:57, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Homophony
Southern Min (Minnan) phonology is a hybridisation of Chinese and aboriginal speeches of that region. Minnan pronunciations are very atypical of other Han languages. Even the people there look different with wavy thick black hair, typical of people of South-East Asia and the Philipines, being quite common.
And yes, there are more than 2500 years of sound changes separating any current human languages from the grand-parent languages of over 2500 years ago, not just with the Chinese languages. So I can't see what point his sort of statement is suppose to show.
JC 31 Aug 06
More than 2500 years of sound change separates Classical Chinese from any modern language or dialect, so when reading Classical Chinese in any modern variety of Chinese (especially Mandarin) or in Japanese, Korean, or Vietnamese, many characters which originally had different pronunciations have become homonyms, making it impossible to orally communicate using Classical Chinese.
- What is the connection between the long history and homonyms? Are we saying there has been a reduction in the number of distinct syllables since the time of Classical Chinese? Or that new (monsyllabic) words have been created since, that relied on the written character to discriminate meaning? The Zhao Yuanren example only indicates that Classical Chinese was -- or has since evolved into -- a written language. It seems not to indicate the number of homonyms has increased (though it might well have).
- A-giau 04:22, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Yes, there has been a very drastic reduction in the number of distinct syllables since the time of Confucius, especially in Mandarin, and less so in Cantonese and Minnan, as a result of the 2500-year gap between Confucius and us. Of course other processes have also occurred (e.g. people go for brevity in writing Classical Chinese and rely on character to get themselves understood), but the general trend is a drastic reduction in syllables.
- The characters in Zhao Yuanren's examples may all sound like "shi" in Beijing, but they don't in Guangzhou or Xiamen, and they certainly didn't for Confucius. That passage might actually be understandable to Confucius if read aloud (I'm not sure about this, but it's definitely plausible). -- [[User:Ran|ran (talk)]] 05:05, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
add kanji
Add the kanji for the Japanese terms mentioned. --jidanni 2006-04-15
Copula
Article says there is no copula in Classical Chinese. Is this really true? What is the function of 也 in classical Chinese then? For instance the phrase: "大也。" --JakeLM 23:29, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
In modern Mandarin, at least, 也 is just an adverb or conjunction (also/and/or), very different from a copula (which usually works as a verb "to be" or similar). Can't be sure about CCh, though.201.21.248.121 02:10, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
- In Classical, 也 was quite definitely a copula. I may edit the page to reflect this; four months is a long time for that falsehood to sit there. Jiawen 12:08, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
- 也 is not a copula. It is typically used along with 者, forming the structure A者B也, which means "A is B". It is similar to the Japanese AはBです. 也 alone is nothing like a copula. BettyJJ (talk) 12:36, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
- Neither goes, 也 is usually described as a particle with quite a variety of uses beyond the A者B也 construction.--Neqitan (talk) 23:59, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
- 也 is not a copula. It is typically used along with 者, forming the structure A者B也, which means "A is B". It is similar to the Japanese AはBです. 也 alone is nothing like a copula. BettyJJ (talk) 12:36, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
We at least need Boltz and Baxter as sources here.
Both A handbook of Old Chinese phonology by William Baxter and The origin and early development of the Chinese writing system by William Boltz would be great sources to add to this article for further improvements. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 16:35, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
classical chinese public domain dictionaries
classical chinese public domain dictionaries, over 100 years old
- Abel Rémusat (1822). Élémens de la grammaire chinoise, ou, Principes généraux du kou-wen ou style antique: et du kouan-hoa c'est-à-dire, de la langue commune généralement usitée dans l'Empire chinois. Imprimerie Royale. p. 214. Retrieved 2011-5-15.
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- Frederick William Baller, China Inland Mission (1912). Lessons in elementary Wen-li. China Inland Mission. p. 128. Retrieved 2011-5-15.
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- Herrlee Glessner Creel, ed. (1952). Literary Chinese by the inductive method, Volume 2. University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 2011-5-15.
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04:17, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Merge from Guwen
The WP:PRIMARYTOPIC of 古文 or "guwen" in English and Chinese is Classical/Literary Chinese, the subject taught in Chinese schools as part of their Language Arts class and Gaokao prep. The other page started as a discussion about scripts and never got merged here. We should fix that, although we should mention the development of the term "guwen" in the history/etymology section here.
In the alternative, (1) the current article at Guwen should be moved to Guwen (disambiguation), (2) it should be reformatted into a dab page pointing at the appropriate articles, (3) the namespace Guwen should be turned into a redirect here, and (4) a hatnote dab should be added here pointing to Guwen (disambiguation). — LlywelynII 07:58, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
- Guwen is certainly highly ambiguous, with meanings including
- one of the two additional forms included in the Shuowen Jiezi
- all early Chinese scripts (oracle bone script, bronze scripts, seal scripts)
- the Old Text literary tradition
- Classical and Literary Chinese
- the Classical Prose Movement
- I don't think Classical/Literary Chinese is primary in English sources, as some of the others are more common. I'd favour recasting Guwen as a disambiguation page, with any unique content merged to the appropriate page. I don't think any of it would go here, though. Kanguole 15:44, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Example for 人 and 年 does not match source
ResolvedThe example given in section Pronunciation does not appear to match the citation given: "... their hypothesized pronunciations in Old Chinese were very similar, which may explain the resemblance. For example, in the recent Baxter-Sagart construction, they were /niŋ/ and /nˤiŋ/, respectively, becoming /nʲin/ and /nin/ in Early Middle Chinese." But the link to http://lodel.ehess.fr/crlao/document.php?id=1217, which presumably was meant as a reference, does not contain Old Chinese, the only column that might fit is labelled "MC (B&S)" and is indeed closer to the MC pronunciation given for the two. Yet, even these don't match completely: The list has "nyin" and "nen", respectively. — Sebastian 10:43, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
- The CRLAO site referenced formerly contained version 1.0 of the Baxter-Sagart reconstruction, but when the book was published they removed the OC files, leaving only the Middle Chinese word list. Version 1.1 of their OC reconstructions is now hosted here.
- The source of the 年/人 example is given on the Commons page – it's a proposal by William Boltz, but I'm not sure it's widely accepted. It's probably not a good example, but then the whole section is in need of a rewrite based on solid sources. Kanguole 13:59, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks, that solves the issue; I replaced the reference in question. — Sebastian 15:34, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
Rewrite of Pronunciation section
I agree with Kanguole's suggestion in the previous section that it may be a good idea to rewrite the Pronunciation based on solid sources. The example of 人 and 年 we currently have has one advantage: That we have a nice picture for it. On the other hand, it has the glaring problem that the similarity on which it hinges is not apparent at all; for one, it's not obvious where the "人" is supposed to be hidden in the 甲骨文 of "年", but even if it were, it wouldn't be a good example, since "人" has only two strokes, so that conceivably many characters would contain it by sheer coincidence. (To be honest, though, I didn't find a clear case to back up my statement; one that might pass as such is the center of "永" as seen here.) — Sebastian 15:34, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
the maximum size of the Tang dynasty
recently i noticed an error related to the maximum size of the Tang empire. As it showed in the historic atlas of China from historian Qixiang, the Tang territory reached its maximum size in the year of 699.[1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gl72099 (talk • contribs) 12:02, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
- Please join the discussion at Talk:Tang dynasty#Area in infobox. Kanguole 12:08, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
References
- ^ qixiang tan, historic atlas of China, volume 5, http://www.guoxue123.com/other/map/zgmap/009.htm. the land size of China,https://wenku.baidu.com/view/ddbb91ea284ac850ad0242c2.html
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Materials and sources on Literary Chinese and relationship with the vernacular
Use the secondary sources as references, put any relevant book which is out of copyright into further reading. I folded this up so it wouldn't clutter the talk page.
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Wen-li PD documents on Documentary Chinese (registers of written chinese ranging from wenyan to wenyan/baihua mix to baihua)Notes on the Chinese documentary style Index of the Characters in Dr. Hirth's "Text Book of Documentary Chinese," Arranged by Their Radicals: With a List Giving Their Tones Hsin-kuan wên-chien-lu: text book of documentary Chinese, with a vocabulary for the special use of the Chinese customs service 新關文件錄 http://books.google.com/books?id=sJQbAAAAMAAJ Syllabary of Chinese sounds Wên-chien tzŭ-erh chi: a series of papers selected as specimens of documentary Chinese Wên-chien Tzŭ-erh Chi, a Series of Papers Selected as Specimens of Documentary Chinese, Designed to Assist Students of the Language as Written by the Officials of China: Key tho the Tzū Erh chi : documentary series, Volume 2 Documents and sources on Literary Chinese (Wenyan)Gu-wen (gu means old or ancient, wen means writing) Élémens de la grammaire chinoise, ou, Principes généraux du kou-wen ou style antique: et du kouan-hoa c'est-à-dire, de la langue commune généralement usitée dans l'Empire chinois http://books.google.com/books?id=rJAUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Protestant missionary lessons on wenyan (which they called wen-li) A guide to Wenli styles and Chinese ideals: essays, edicts, proclamations, memorials, letters, documents, inscriptions, commercial papers, Chinese text with English translation and notes Anti wenyan advocates (pro baihua) http://books.google.com/books?id=EGMWzOfJOTIC&pg=PA283#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&pg=PA56#v=onepage&q&f=false - http://books.google.com/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q&f=false - http://books.google.com/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&pg=PA89#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&pg=PA90#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&pg=PA92#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&pg=PA93#v=onepage&q&f=false
Qiu Tingliang http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-DLJY200804026.htm http://books.google.com/books?id=VWVIVroAZKcC&pg=PA836#v=onepage&q&f=false The Development of Malaysia's Colloquial Chinese Literature (1919-1941) http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/arch_0044-8613_1984_num_28_1_1926 Pro wenyan advocates http://books.google.com/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&pg=PA91#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=dNVihjQVQNIC&pg=PA32#v=onepage&q&f=false Sacred Edicts The sacred edict: containing sixteen maxims of the emperor Kang-Hi, amplified by his son, the emperor Yoong-Ching : together with a paraphrase on the whole, by a mandarin The sacred edict: containing sixteen maxims of the emperor Kang-Hi, amplified by his son, the emperor Yoong-Ching : together with a paraphrase on the whole, by a mandarin The sacred edict, 16 maxims of the emperor Kang-he, amplified by the emperor Yoong-ching; with a paraphrase by a mandarin [Wang-Yew-Po]. The sacred edict: containing sixteen maxims of the emperor Kang-Hi, amplified by his son, the emperor Yoong-Ching : together with a paraphrase on the whole, by a mandarin The Sacred Edict Containing Sixteen Maxims of the Emperor Kang: He Amplified by His Son the Emperor Yoong Ching The Sacred Edict A vocabulary of the colloquial rendering of the Sacred edict A Grammar of Colloquial Chinese: As Exhibited in the Shanghai Dialect By Joseph Edkins Sacred edict translation http://www.sacred-texts.com/journals/mon/kang-hi.htm Literature Notes on Chinese literature: with introductory remarks on the progressive advancement of the art; and a list of translations from the Chinese into various European languages Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio by Su Pongling Dialectal literary readings of characters Vs colloquial readings of characters. The literary readings are used when reciting wenyan writing, colloquial is used for vernacular writing. Literary and colloquial readings of Chinese characters Literary reading is 文=Wen. Colloquial reading is 白=Bai. http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/文白异读 http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-YYYJ200303007.htm http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-FJSX200504023.htm http://books.google.com/books?id=jdYUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA440#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=rhwmnYSqmiUC&pg=PA145#v=onepage&q&f=false Mandarin http://books.google.com/books?id=Ka0yXAH5vowC&pg=PA71#v=onepage&q&f=false http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-YWZG200206006.htm Cantonese http://books.google.com/books?id=WY48AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA130#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=QWNj5Yj6_CgC&pg=PA101#v=onepage&q&f=false Anxiang http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-GYSZ200804012.htm Xuwen http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/clao_0153-3320_1983_num_12_1_1123 Taichow http://books.google.com/books?id=GoX1VBvsJHQC&pg=PA332#v=onepage&q&f=false Mainland minnan http://books.google.com/books?id=bYvPvqO2J6wC&pg=PA382#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=jdYUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA440#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=rhwmnYSqmiUC&pg=PA145#v=onepage&q&f=false Taiwanese minnan http://www.sino-platonic.org/complete/spp089_taiwanese.pdf http://books.google.com/books?id=NTtNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR60#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=lf9GAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR60#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=rNFIAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR60#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=4_7GSpgbnxUC&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false Both minnan http://books.google.com/books?id=ouhzKI8rkZkC&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q&f=false Taishun http://books.google.com/books?id=jdYUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA446#v=onepage&q&f=false Ningpo http://books.google.com/books?id=_XUuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR11#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=Z_EpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR4#v=onepage&q&f=false Wenzhou http://depts.washington.edu/icstll39/abstracts/icstll39_wu_anqi.pdf Wu and Chu http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/clao_0153-3320_1979_num_5_1_1055 Wenli Lessons in Elementary Wenli https://archive.org/details/lessonsinelement00balliala https://archive.org/details/pts_lessoninelement_3720_0708 http://books.google.com/books/about/Lessons_in_Elementary_Wen_li.html?id=7bNDAAAAIAAJ https://library.villanova.edu/Find/Record/1395166 https://archive.org/details/lessonsinelement00balliala https://archive.org/details/aguidetowenlist00morggoog https://archive.org/details/guidetowenlistyl00morg https://archive.org/details/cu31924024003885 https://archive.org/details/1875ChineseMandarinEasyWenlichinoisOldTestamentOfSchereschewsky https://archive.org/details/newtestamentinpl00sche Mentioned http://books.google.com/books?id=A30uAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=PQcBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR5#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=uh7PAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA155#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=-CMMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA241#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=DzDPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA206#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=LvKJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA90#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=YzcXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA238#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=JfQ8wRWpQnAC&pg=PA245#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=1GPrJ5jB9-0C&pg=PR13#v=onepage&q&f=false Referenced Classical Chinese grammarÉlémens de la grammaire chinoise, ou, Principes généraux du kou-wen ou style antique: et du kouan-hoa c'est-à-dire, de la langue commune généralement usitée dans l'Empire chinois By Abel Rémusat (both Classical and colloquial Chinese) Chinesische Grammatik: Mit Ausschluss des niederen Stiles und der heutigen Umgangssprache by Georg von der Gabelentz Anfangsgründe der chinesischen Grammatik: Mit Übungsstücken By Georg von der Gabelentz Gabelentz's Chinese Grammatik was described as the most comprehenstive and finest work on Classical Chinese grammarin a western language, and still usable to this day. 馬氏文通 https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/馬氏文通 https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Ma_Jianzhong https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Ma_Xiangbo http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Science/mashiwentong.html http://www.wsc.uni-erlangen.de/pdf/peyraube.pdf PD Baihua (mandarin)Mandarin Primer By Frederick William Baller A Primer in the Mandarin Dialect: Containing Lessons and Vocabularies, and ... By China Inland Mission Mandarin Primer: Prepared for the Use of Junior Members of the China Inland ... By Frederick William Baller An Idiom a Lesson: A Short Course in Elementary Chinese By Frederick William Baller (contains Zhuyin Fuhao transcription, called "National Script Symbols" by Baller) A Course of Mandarin Lessons, Based on Idiom By Calvin Wilson Mateer A Primer in the Mandarin Dialect: Containing Lessons and Vocabularies, and ... By China Inland Mission Yü-yen Tzŭ-erh Chi, a Progressive Course designed to assist the student of colloquial Chinese, as spoken in the capital and the Metropolitan Department: with key, syllabary, and writing exercises, Volume 1 Yü-yen Tzŭ-erh Chi, a Progressive Course designed to assist the student of solloquial Chinese, as spoken in the capital and the Metropolitan Department: with key, syllabary, and writing exercises. Key to the Tzŭ Erh Chi : colloquial series, Volume 2 Wên-chien Tzŭ-erh Chi: A Series of Papers Selected as Specimens of Documentary Chinese--Key to the Tsŭ Erh Chi, Volume 1 Pronunciation By Thomas Francis Wade, Sir Walter Caine Hillier (colloquial series) The radicals By Thomas Francis Wade, Sir Walter Caine Hillier, Walter Hillier (Sir.) The Hsin Ching Lu, or, Book of Experiments; being the first of a Series of Contributions to the Study of Chinese: By Francis Thomas Wade The radicals Pronunciation Mandarin primer Mandarin dictionary Chinese made easy Grammar 羅馬字初學 primer of mandarin romanization An Analytical Chinese-English Dictionary A Mandarin-Romanized dictionary of Chinese: including new terms and phrases, now current By Donald MacGillivray The standard system of Mandarin romanization, Volume 2 By Educational Association of China, F E. Meigs Colloquial Chinese (northern) By A. Neville J. 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Rajmaan (talk) 06:10, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
Difference between Classical and Literary
Classical is not the same as Literary. I have attempted to correct this error in the article, but I think that we really should split Literary and Classical into two articles. What do you folks think? Jiawen 14:18, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for bringing this up.... I wasn't aware of the difference. There's also "Old Chinese". I believe the definition of "Classical Chinese" is therefore basically "Written Old Chinese" (or something along those lines)?
- Yes, I think so.
- I think all in all this article is describing 文言文 as a whole.
- The problem is, the article is not just describing 文言文; it's also describing Classical Chinese, and it's mistakenly conflating them.
- While it's true that Qin-Han Wenyan, Tang-Song Wenyan, and Ming-Qing Wenyan are all pretty different (especially some of that stuff from the Qing Dynasty), there's a continuity there broken only by the promulgation of Vernacular Chinese. It really is a lot like Latin... no one says that Cicero's Latin and Renaissance Latin are really quite the same... but nevertheless they're all Latin.
- As you say, there are many eras of 文言文, and I think there are almost certainly regional variants, too. I'd love to have more information on these topics; unfortunately, I don't know enough to say. Regardless, we should keep the distinction between Classical and Literary clear.
- On the other hand, it would be cool to have more info on the differences between older Zhou-era Classical Chinese, and later (e.g. Qing-era) Literary Chinese. :)
- I just added a little bit (about 這), but I don't remember anything else right now. I wish my Classical Chinese textbook hadn't been stolen... :)
- (btw Jiawen... just went to your website and I have to say: your Chinese is amazing! Now why aren't you on Chinese Wikipedia.... ;) )
- Thanks for the compliments. I don't know if it's that good, though. I certainly don't think I could add much to discussions of 文言文, 古文, etc. I think I've made some small notes about transgender issues on the Chinese pages, though. Jiawen 18:06, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- -- ran (talk) 15:29, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
- 古文 (Classical Chinese) refers to the Chinese written language used before Qin Dynasty.
- 文言文 (Literary Chinese) refers to the Chinese written language used after later Han Dynasty mimicing Classical Chinese.
- 上古漢語 (Archaic Chinese) refers to the Chinese spoken language used around Zhou Dynasty.
I also want to add that the distinction between Classical and Old Chinses is needed. -- G.S.K.Lee 13:54, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
I want to revive this discussion. I came here trying to find the meaning of wényán / 文言 which we can see in Wiktionary has two distinct meanings: Literary Chinese and Classical Chinese, whose eras don't seem to even overlap. This article seems to cover both meanings. We should separate articles by ideas, not by a shared name, and I suggest this article be split accordingly. Instead, this article left me more confused. Daask (talk) 14:29, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
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