Mandarin words
Mandarin words, that is, in the narrow sense of the vernacular, but also the language of the text, refers to the Republic of China Mandarin language spoken language, after processing written language, to distinguish from the Spring and Autumn period has been used to the 20th century writing norms - classical Chinese. In the ancient times there is also a long history, in the Song Dynasty has the script, Ming and Qing dynasties also have some vernacular novels, such as "Water Margin" (Yuan), "Journey to the West" (Ming), "Golden Lotus" (Ming (The Qing Dynasty) and so on, but for the ancient vernacular, and the ancient vernacular works in ancient literature only a minority, classical at the time is still the mainstream. After the Vernacular Movement of the Republic of China, the government promoted the teaching of the vernacular, and the vernacular had replaced the classical Chinese and became the mainstream of writing, so that the classical language had slowly withdrawn from the stage of history. During the May Fourth Movement, the intellectuals further refined the vernacular. The beginning of the late Qing Dynasty style reform can be divided into "new style", "vernacular" and "mass language" three stages. ...