How did the ancients usually talk and chat? Still speaking obscure classical Chinese?

In fact, there is not much difference between ancient chat and modern chat. Most of them are written in vernacular Chinese. Classical Chinese is a written language with a writing style. If ancient people spoke in classical Chinese, both the listener and the speaker would feel very uncomfortable.

It is said that in the pre-Qin period, most of daily life was still in dialogue with classical Chinese, which was regarded as a period of integration of language and literature. However, with the passage of time, people find that in daily life, in order to let the other party know what they want to express and make it easier to understand, the words are becoming more and more vernacular, forming a simplified language for daily communication. This language is simple in expression and clear in meaning, and almost immediately formed a daily communication mode throughout the country. By the Han dynasty, ordinary people had already needed annotations to read classical Chinese, and later dynasties continued this convenient language for communication. In the poems left over from the Tang and Song Dynasties, vernacular Chinese can also be found, including some emperors who like to make imperial edicts in vernacular Chinese.

Classical Chinese, as a writing carrier, I believe many people will feel very strange. Why did you use vernacular in the past, and why did many books with articles still use classical Chinese? In fact, before paper appeared, it was to be engraved on bamboo slips. Of course, the simpler the better. Later, paper was made, and the cost was too high. In order to save costs, continue to use classical Chinese. This is one reason. Of course, there is another one. Every region has its own characteristics of spoken English. It has different accents. Three miles with different sounds? In short, if written in vernacular, people in different regions may not understand it and can only continue to use classical Chinese. Moreover, the development and changes of daily oral English are great, and it is more suitable for writing, which may cause future generations to fail to understand previous articles after oral English changes.

Since the Qin Dynasty, the times have changed for two thousand years, but as a written record, we can still understand classical Chinese. This is the highlight of Chinese civilization, forming a fixed style of writing that is self-integrating, running through ancient and modern times. Were our ancestors very powerful? ?