Today let's have a reading contest, who can read the following passage in one breath:

Shi Shi, a poet from Shilou, was addicted to lions and vowed to eat ten lions. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm going to be able to do it. Ten hours, suitable for ten lions suitable for the city. It is the time, the Shi Shi suitable for the market. When he saw the ten lions, he took advantage of the situation and killed them. He picked up the bodies of the ten lions and put them in a stone room. When the stone room was wet, he made the attendant wipe the stone room. When the stone room was wiped, I began to try to eat the body of the ten lions. When he was eating, he realized that the ten lion carcasses were actually ten stone lion carcasses. I'll try to explain it to you.

After reading, there is still gas?

Every word on it is recognized, but if someone reads it to you next to it, then you must be confused and don't know what the "shishishi" is doing.

How idle is the person who wrote this "shi" article?

Not at all! He's a professor at Tsinghua, and he wrote it to prove a big point:

The feasibility of pinyinization of Chinese.

His name is Zhao Yuanren, the youngest of the four tutors at Tsinghua's National Academy.

The youngest of the four tutors at Tsinghua's National Academy of Chinese Studies, Zhao Yuanren is a descendant of Zhao Yi, a historian of the Qing dynasty and a poet of the "Spiritualist School".

The Zhao family has been officials for generations, and Zhao Yuanren's father, Zhao Hengnian, was a graduate of the Guangxu Jiuwu school, and his mother, Feng Laixun, was proficient in poetry and calligraphy.

As a child, Zhao Yuanren followed his grandfather everywhere. At the age of three to the Magnetic State, four years old to Qizhou, five years old to Baoding, six years old to Jizhou ......

In the age of learning to speak, a year to change a place, always around a variety of different accents of the people come and go, and actually inspired his talent for language.

Before the age of 12, Zhao learned the dialects of Beijing, Baoding, Changshu and Suzhou. Later, when he went to Beijing to prepare for his exams as a government-funded international student at Tsinghua University, he taught himself Latin in the short time he was there, and made a good friend, Hu Hong bay horse (who later changed his name to Hu Shi).

Together with his good friend, he embarked on the road to study in the United States, and has since begun his career as a student of God. （

In addition to linguistics, Zhao took courses in the history of philosophical development, logic, experimental physics, mechanics, thermodynamics, finite group theory, and systematic psychology, spanning the arts and sciences.

At the age of 23, he easily earned a degree, a bachelor's in mathematics. Then he applied for a graduate fellowship in philosophy and became a graduate student in philosophy.

Once he graduated from graduate school, Cho went on to apply to Harvard, where he got his Ph.D. in philosophy at the age of 27 and returned to Cornell to teach.

As a lecturer in physics!

Somewhat messy ......

In the words of his later wife, Yang Buwei:

When he boarded the "China" ship, he intended to be an electrical engineer; he boarded a train and crossed the American continent to become a physicist; he was rushed to Cornell University to teach physics. He became a physicist; he became a mathematician when he graduated from Cornell in 1914; and he got his PhD in philosophy from Harvard in 1918.

Before Zhao Yuanren, the division of labor seemed to be just a joke, played with in his hands.

Their talent and learning ability, I am afraid that no one before or after.

Even the great genius Hu Shi admired him.

Whenever he commented on the people who had stayed in the U.S., he always pushed Zhao Junyuan Ren of Changzhou as the first.

In 1920, Zhao returned to China and began teaching at Tsinghua University.

Anything that is favorable will have disadvantages.

It was because he was so talented and had outstanding achievements in everything he studied that Zhao Yuanren was never sure what he wanted to do.

Until Russell visited China in 1920, he accompanied him as an interpreter.

Who was Russell?

British philosopher, logician, historian and winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature. These four completely unrelated identities together, is Russell. (You continue to read the article, I continue to go mess for a while ......)

Another all-round talent who knows everything, just like Zhao Yuanren. No wonder the two smell alike.

This time, accompanied by the translator, Zhao Yuanren's explosive language skills amazed everyone.

Whenever he visited a place, he learned the local dialect in less than three days.

In Changsha, he used his newly learned Changsha dialect to communicate with people, and after a while, they asked him, "What's the matter with you?

In Changsha, he was asked, "When did Mr. Zhao come back to the province?" He was treated as an indigenous person!

People's interpreters use standard Mandarin, but he was naughty, Russell's speech in which he used the dialect of that place to translate, making the students on stage laugh.

Zhao Yuanren finally realized what he wanted to devote his life to -- linguistics.

At the end of 1921, he returned to Harvard to study linguistics, and then returned to Tsinghua a year later.

The university arranged for him to take 10 courses in math, physics, philosophy, phonetics, modern dialect studies, music score studies and Western music appreciation.

One subject short of physical education would have been perfect, otherwise you could proudly say, "My language was taught by a physical education teacher!" And others have to disagree with you, what a beautiful picture that would be.

In 1925, Tsinghua's Institute of Chinese Studies was founded. The first batch of four tutors hired, is the famous "Tsinghua Institute of Chinese Studies four tutors": Wang Guowei, Liang Qichao, Chen Yinke, Zhao Yuanren.

The four names are very well known! The male gods in the heart of the small new group of heaven!

Zhao Yuanren was the youngest of them all, only 33 years old at the time.

In 1927, Zhao Yuanren began traveling to the countryside to conduct China's first systematic dialect survey.

The result of this research was A Study of the Modern Wu Language. This was the first work in China to use modern linguistic methods to study dialects, marking the birth of modern Chinese dialectology.

In 1929, he set out again, running through the two lakes and two provinces, investigating 67 dialects and recording a large number of ballads, and learning a ****33 dialects across the country.

Throughout his life, Zhao Yuanren was proficient in English, German and French, and had a rough knowledge of Japanese, Ancient Greek, Russian and Latin, ****7 foreign languages. Buried in the memorization of words to take the 4th grade children's shoes, you can first go to cry for a while and then look at the text.

For Zhao Yuanren, the study of language is a pleasure, and it is a blessing to be able to contribute to this pleasure for the rest of one's life.

Returning to Tsinghua to teach, from time to time a skill itch Zhao Yuanren in front of the students to show off their skills.

Zhao Yuanren supported the pinyinization of the Chinese language, the beginning of the piece of abuse mad countless descendants of the Shi Shi's history of lion-eating is the research process of the aftermath of the work.

It is important to know that the god of learning has a sign: other people spend their whole life to study the specialty, he casually play to play out new heights.

Chao Yuanren has not translated many books, the most famous of which is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which you all know as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

There are dozens of translations of this book, but the thesis word rhymes, and the translations are subtle and proper, and no one has been able to match him to this day.

He was also a master of many instruments, composing music as a student and a lifelong companion at the piano.

Don't just think of him as the "King of Karaoke". He broke through the pattern of borrowing foreign music scores for the lyrics of "school songs" and began composing music entirely by Chinese people, which led to a new stage in the development of modern Chinese music.

The most popular song written by Zhao Yuanren is the melancholy "Teach Me How Not to Think of Him". But Xiao Xin prefers another one, "Sea Rhythm" sung by Teresa Teng, which was adapted from a tune composed by him.

What kind of woman deserves such a fun and talented man?

Let's welcome Mrs. Zhao -

Yang Buwei

Yang Buwei, formerly known as Rhyme Qing, comes from a prestigious family, and is also a character that is difficult to define by a certain identity.

When she met Zhao Yuanren, she was 31 years old, which makes her an older woman today. Her face was also average, her body strong and not at all birdlike.

But this woman was able to charm the young genius Zhao Yuanren, who was three years younger and still married.

Why?

Because brains are sexy.

Yang Buwei has received a new-style education since he was a child, and he dares to speak and act. When it was time for her to leave the court at 16, she personally wrote to her fiancé to withdraw from the marriage, infuriating her father and her to turn against her.

When she was 23, she accepted an invitation from the governor of Anhui Province to become the principal of Chongshi School, where she helped train more than 500 female students for the Northern Expedition.

Becoming principal didn't count, she turned her head and went to Japan to study, making history in the process by becoming China's first female medical doctor to study abroad.

After returning to China, Yang Buhui opened Senren Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital with a friend.

Such an unusual woman, the average man can not hold and dare not hold.

Zhao Yuan Ren precisely on her independent thinking, insights, love at first sight, this life will identify her.

At first, Ms. Yang wanted to reject Zhao Yuanren, but Zhao Yuanren's confession eventually impressed her:

Yunqing! So it's just going to be like that? --I mean our words? ...... Yunqing! I can't.

On June 1, 1921, they were married in a new style.

How new? Just look at people's wedding announcements.

With the background of their two families, how easy it would have been to throw a big banquet.

But they made it clear in writing that they would not accept any gifts, and that if they really wanted to send them, they should send handwritten letters, poems and music, or make a donation to the China Science Center.

This style is rare in the world, enough character, romantic.

Becoming a family man not only stabilized Zhao Yuanren's rich emotions, but also prompted him, a cross-border maniac, to find a lifelong career direction.

Yang Buwei said:

I didn't advise Zhao Yuanren not to get into philosophy, and a little bit of philosophy won't do any harm. But I think I gave him said into the Chinese linguistics. ...... The influence I had on him on this was actually not felt by myself, and he was unaware of it.

After marriage, Yang Buwei still has her own piece of the world. She has promoted family planning, opened a restaurant and published a best-selling book.

When she was a housewife, she accidentally put herself on the pedestal as a "non-professional female chef" and wrote a book called "The Chinese Cookbook". The preface of the book was written by Hu Shi, and the introduction was written by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl Sai.

To this day, it is the best-selling and most famous book on Chinese food abroad, with more than 20 reprints.

Zhao Yuanren's talent is a perfect match for Yang Buwei's daring ideas.

June 1, 1971, was their golden wedding anniversary, and the couple each wrote a poem. Although they are both 70 years old, that dog food spilled more than the youngsters taking selfies to show their love.

Yang Buwei:

Fifty years of bickering and arguing, but everyone says it's a good marriage. Yuan Ren owes me this life's karma, reversing yin and yang to reunite again.

Zhao Yuanren:

The reversal of yin and yang has led to another reunion, just as it did in the past. In this new century of equal rights for men and women, we will work together for the good of the world.

The next life will be a swap of the identity of the couple, just change, the key is to be reunited, and then continue to the year of honey sweet.

What's more enviable is that people still have four daughters with excellent talent and temperament.

The eldest daughter, Zhao Rulan, a doctor of Chinese music at Radcliffe College and the second female full professor ever at Harvard, is a member of Taiwan's Academia Sinica along with her husband, Bian Xue-sheng;

The second daughter, Zhao Xiner, a chemistry graduate of Harvard University, later returned to China to settle down as a professor of Changsha's Central South Institute of Mining and Metallurgy along with her husband, renowned materials science and metallurgy scientist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Huang Peiyun.

Third daughter, Zhao Laisi, Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, who has published 23 books, and her son-in-law, Japanese Wisaku Namioka, a professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington;

Fourth daughter, Zhao Xiaozhong, M.S. in Physics from Cornell University, USA.

Yang Buwei died in 1981. A year later, Zhao Yuanren also passed away.

The couple, who had always stood at the top of the world, supported each other, inspired each other, and lived a wonderful and incomparable life.

If you are not Zhao Yuanren, you will not find Yang Buwei.

The world has come to a Zhao Yuanren, there will be a Yang Buwei, to write a legendary life with him *** with.

The only way to find the good one is to make yourself better.

The world will not fail a better you.

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