Jin Zhaozi

Jin Zhaozi

Jin Zhaozi (1889-1975) was a famous linguist and historian. Zidun is a native of Jinhua County, Zhejiang Province. Father City, No. Zhipu, poor family, early school teacher, Qing Guangxu two years (1876) Gongsheng, once Jinhua Fu school supervisor. He graduated from jinhuafu middle school at the age of 20 and Peking University at the age of 23. He was admitted to the Department of mining and metallurgy of Tianjin Beiyang University in 1912. In 1915, he dropped out of school due to his mother's illness and returned home. He was employed as a Chinese teacher of Zhejiang provincial No.7 Middle School (now Jinhua No.1 Middle School). He was the principal in 1916. At the age of 31, he teaches in Beijing Normal University. His lecture notes on the study of Chinese grammar is one of the earliest works on Chinese grammar.

Personal life

In 1922, he went to Shanghai and joined Zhonghua Book Company as a literary and historical officer. The textbook of "new middle school junior national history" and "new middle school textbook junior national history reference book" etc. One year later, he was admitted to the Ministry of foreign affairs as a translator and worked in the customs. In 1929, he entered Zhonghua Book company again and became the director and deputy director of the book Department of education, science and technology. He was responsible for the textbooks of primary and secondary schools, normal schools and Nanyang primary and secondary schools. Before the Anti Japanese War, he gradually put all these textbooks out. Before and after the August 13 incident in 1937, he also taught general history of China at Shanghai Daxia University. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, he left Shanghai for Jinhua in January 1942. In 1942, he was the president and general manager of new China magazine in Chongqing Zhonghua Book Company.

In 1951, he retired and moved to Suzhou. Later, he was elected as the people's representative and vice mayor of Suzhou. He returned to Shanghai in 1957 and was reappointed as the director of Shanghai Office of Zhonghua Book Company. At the same time, he was elected as a member of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and a member of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the China Association for the promotion of democracy, and attended the CPPCC National Committee meetings as a special invited member for many times. In February 1958, the scientific planning commission of the State Council established a planning group for the collation and publication of ancient books, and was employed as a member of the history group. In 1961, he was the director of Shanghai Municipal Museum of culture and history. In 1964, he left his job to recuperate due to cerebral thrombosis. He was persecuted in the cultural revolution. He died in Beijing on June 15, 1975. In February 1979, the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) completely rehabilitated him and restored his reputation.

personal works

His works include the academic manuscripts of PENGCHANG, the study of Chinese law, and practical Chinese rhetoric. In addition, he has also written a bird's-eye view of modern literature (1933), fried cold rice (academic studies, 1940, Volume 2), a study of Fengyi and Bangguo (historical studies, 1956, issue 2), some of my opinions on the scheme of Chinese Pinyin (pinyin, 1957, issue 6) and a study of Poetry (by Boris panley, translated by Fu Donghua and Jin Zhaozi) ）His works include modern history of China, the origin of Chinese race and culture, the characteristics of modern historiography, is history scientific? His works include Zhigang collection and three hundred years of Xu wending.

Achievement and honor

His most important work on grammar is the study of Chinese language and Law (Zhonghua Book Company, 1922). The book is divided into three chapters. The first chapter "Introduction" discusses the compilation purpose, nominalism and grammar, the definition, scope and category of grammar. The second chapter "research method of grammar" discusses three main research methods of grammar: Historical Research (that is, research from the development of language), comparative research (that is, comparative research combined with ancient dialect materials and materials influenced by foreign languages) and general research (belonging to the category of general linguistics, studying the principle of the phenomenon of characters). The third chapter is "the phenomenon of nominalism and the phenomenon of grammar". The part of "the phenomenon of nominalism" explains the basic concepts of logic and the coordination between them. The chapter of "the phenomenon of grammar" is divided into such chapters as discussing characters, discussing character groups and discussing sentences. This part is also the focus and characteristics of the book. He emphasized and discussed the relationship and difference between logic and grammar, and believed that the study of grammar cannot leave logic. He opposes the habit of imitation in Chinese grammar study and the translation style in grammar study. He advocates paying attention to the history and habit of Chinese grammar and finding out the rules from the historical habit of Chinese language. It points out the development trend of Chinese grammar. He put forward two important concepts of "aspect" and "phase", which are very distinctive. This book pays attention to the characteristics of Chinese grammar and has its own independent research ideas. It is one of the early representative works of Chinese innovators.