Yong Zhengdi vigorously promoted "Putonghua" in Fujian and Guangdong. Why did it fail?

At the beginning, the policy was in full swing, but the follow-up implementation was not enough. When this order was first issued, there were a series of measures. For example, a school has been set up, and it is also stipulated that people who can't speak Mandarin can't take an examination of scholars.

Due to the high-handed policy at that time, many people were forced to learn Mandarin. However, the following efforts failed to keep up, and many jokes were made in the process of learning Mandarin. Some teachers from other provinces come to teach and can't speak Mandarin, which is embarrassing. Therefore, it gradually disappeared.

Furthermore, the promotion of Putonghua, as a political activity and means, is also one of the reasons for its failure. Although promoting language is conducive to political stability and national unity, it is difficult to achieve the expected results if you want to intervene in some policies or even decisions in this way.

After all, language belongs to the category of culture. Can't be attached to politics. It has its own independence and regularity. This kind of forced learning violates the natural law of language development, and to a certain extent, it will inevitably have the opposite effect.

At that time, this policy was introduced because there was no in-depth study of the law of the movement, development and popularization of language itself, and there was a lack of accurate judgment. So at first, the popularization movement was in full swing, and later it failed.

At that time, the local government also added its own meaning and understanding when implementing this order. But these understandings are somewhat biased.

For example, at that time, Yin Zheng Academy took the Oracle Wide Teaching as the teaching material, which was not so much learning Mandarin as thinking control.