反思文白之争与欧式中文

The Reflection about the Dispute on "Writing in Classical Chinese or Vernacular Chinese" and Westernized Chinese

新文化运动涉及内容林林总总,文白之争乃其重要方面。围绕文言、白话,其时聚讼纷纭。最终废止文言教学之论大占上风。文言历史悠久,经历代文化精英千锤百炼,积累深厚。白话产生较晚,大量词汇、句法、篇法均来自文言。二者并非迥然不同,而是取长补短、互有影响。废止文言教学,白话发展生态一变。适值西学东渐,西文词汇、语法大量侵入中文,白话发展生态再变。经此一变再变,中文欧化日呈畸形,中文之美大受破坏。因此反思文白之争与欧式中文,也就迫在眉睫。

The new culture movement involved a lot of disputes,and the dispute on 'writing in classical Chinese or vernacular Chinese' was the important aspect.Scholars argued back and forth and could not agree with each other then.Finally,the viewpoint of abolishing classical Chinese teaching gained the upper hand.Classical Chinese had a long history and profound accumulation.Cultural elites of successive dynasties inputted much energy to it.Vernacular Chinese appeared later,and plenty of vocabulary,syntax and grammar came from classical Chinese.They were not totally different,but were complementary and had mutual influences.The ecological development of vernacular Chinese varied after the abolition of classical Chinese teaching.Just at the time the western academic was being introduced into China,and Chinese was influenced seriously by English vocabulary and grammar,the ecological development of vernacular Chinese varied once more.After changing more than once,the Chinese was westernized severely and the beauty of Chinese was damaged seriously.So the reflection about the dispute on 'writing in classical Chinese or vernacular Chinese' and westernized Chinese is extremely urgent.