The top ten marshals and ten generals do not speak Mandarin. How do they communicate with them when they lead troops to fight?

Introduction

If you have watched the original soundtrack of the founding ceremony, you will find that On October 1, 1949, when Chairman Mao solemnly announced the founding of the People’s Republic of China on the Tiananmen Gate, he was not speaking standard Mandarin. In fact, during the Anti-Japanese War, Chairman Mao did not use standard Mandarin when meeting and discussing the war situation, but a Hunan dialect.

is the same as Chairman Mao, our marshals and generals , there are very few people who can speak standard Mandarin, most of them are not used to communicating in Mandarin. They come from various places with their dialect characteristics, so they don’t speak Mandarin. How did you lead soldiers to fight? Can the soldiers understand? General

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In the 1950s, not only Chairman Mao could not speak standard Mandarin, but even many revolutionaries could not. Looking at the top ten marshals when New China was founded, except for Xu Xiangqian who was from Shanxi, the rest were from southerners. was born in the south, and it is easy to have a local flavor when speaking.

Among them, Zhu De, Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, and Nie Rongzhen are from Sichuan, Peng Dehuai, He Long, and Luo Ronghuan are from Hunan, Lin Biao is from Hubei, and Ye Jianying is from Guangdong. Among the founding generals, there were 19 people from Guang Hunan, including Xiao Ke and Wang Zhen, and 3 from Sichuan, including Xu Aiping. Xu Shiyou was the only Henan native.

In 1947, in the early days of the East China Field Army, in order to strengthen the morale of the soldiers, Chen Yi gave a special speech . Chen Yi is a native of Sichuan. In his speech, there were "I", "why", "punching" and "big hammer" everywhere. "Vocabulary with very local characteristics made the soldiers laugh. In fact, is not a blind dialect, but contains Mandarin. It can be seen from

that most of the revolutionaries and fighters are from the south, and in the North China battlefield, if you don’t speak Mandarin, it is really difficult to lead soldiers to fight. In order to let the soldiers understand the generals, they will also pay attention to the birthplace of the generals when sending troops. For example, Lin Biao speaks Jianghuai Mandarin, and Xu Xiangqian speaks Shanxi Mandarin. Therefore, during the Anti-Japanese War, the generals would try their best to speak Mandarin, even with some dialect features, as long as they were not pure dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien, the soldiers could still understand it. Z1z

Qin Jiwei dialect jokes

Yunnan Military Region Commander General Qin Jiwei once made a joke because of the dialect. On January 10, 1946, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party reached an armistice agreement. During the negotiations, Qin Jiwei came to Peiping to report. But Qin Jiwei is a native of Hubei, and many people do not understand what he says here.

Qin Jiwei walked to the street and saw a sweet potato seller who wanted to eat it, but his subordinates told him: Now you are wearing a woolen coat and have a task. If you lose your identity on the street, you should go to the store to eat. After not taking a few steps, Qin Jiwei ran into a restaurant and couldn't wait to walk in.

"What do the two officers want to eat?" Looking at the waiter's smile, Qin Jiwei said in Hubei dialect, "Is there any red potato (sweet potato)?" The waiter didn't understand, he thought about it for a while, but he still didn't know what Qin Jiwei said. What is it. In desperation, Qin Jiwei had no choice but to make gestures with his hands, saying how long and big the thing was, it was still red, which made the waiter run away shyly. The subordinate of

smiled and told Qin Jiwei that your gesture was similar to that of the gangster, did it make people misunderstand it? Qin Jiwei realized that it was the waiter who had misunderstood him. He hurried out and bought two sweet potatoes from the roadside stall just now, and then showed them to the waiter. The waiter suddenly said: Sir, isn't this sweet potato? I didn't guess your gesture for a long time. This made Qin Jiwei realize that not being able to speak Mandarin would really affect military-civilian relations.

Chen Geng is also used to speaking in dialects to save lives

Chen Geng is also used to speaking in dialects, and Chen Geng also saved his life because of dialects. In September 1932, Chen Geng injured his right leg in a battle.In order not to drag the troops down, Chen Geng requested to go to Shanghai for treatment. After obtaining approval, Chen Geng went to Shanghai alone.

According to the memories of Chen Geng's children, Chen Geng went to Shanghai alone and encountered a lot of difficulties, because Chen Geng had learned the dialects of many places and could speak foreign languages, so he left again and again. On the first day when he arrived in Shanghai, he was searched by the Kuomintang army. Chen Geng pretended to be a businessman and spoke Hubei dialect before escaping the search. When

was eating in a restaurant, Chen Geng was actually recognized, and it is said that he was a subordinate of Hu Zongnan . The man looked at Chen Geng across from Chen Geng for a long time, and asked: You graduated from Huangpu, right? Chen Geng was silent, knowing that it would be very dangerous to be recognized locally. After a while, the man approached Chen Geng again and said: Are you Chen Geng? Chen Geng was shocked, if he didn't speak anymore, he might really be recognized.

Chen Geng said in a Shanghai dialect: Allah is from Shanghai, who is in business, you have admitted the wrong person. The Kuomintang officer said: It may be a mistake. My friend is from Hunan and looks too much like you. After eating, Chen Geng walked away quickly, returned to his residence and moved quickly. If Chen Geng hadn't deceived the Kuomintang officer with a Shanghai dialect, the consequences would be disastrous.

The leader who does not speak Mandarin

Zhu De once said in " Memories of My Mother ": My family is a tenant farmer and I speak Hakka. In fact, among many leaders, except for Zhou En, who spoke Mandarin, neither Zhu De nor Chairman Mao could speak Mandarin. Chairman Mao is from Xiangtan, Hunan, so he has spoken Xiangtan dialect since he was a child.

During the War of Resistance, Chairman Mao often spoke to thousands of soldiers. In his habit, Chairman Mao also normalized some languages, thus forming his own characteristics, so that the masses can understand, and also has People say that Chairman Mao’s Mandarin has a lot of dialect flavors, but it is very kind.

Lin Biao, Peng Dehuai, Chen Yi, etc., in fact, do not speak authentic Mandarin. They speak the local language when facing soldiers and the masses, but in order to make everyone understand, the generals have also worked hard to contain them. His own dialect accented.

In 1956, the "Mandarin" that had been defined since the Ming and Qing Dynasties was renamed "Mandarin", and the northern and southern regions gradually became popular. This shows that in the past, because Mandarin was not popular, many people had spoken in dialect since they were young, and it was really harder to speak Mandarin than to learn a foreign language.

In many anti-Japanese film and television dramas, we see that many generals speak fluent Mandarin, which is actually contrary to history. There are also many Japanese devils in who speak fluent Chinese, which is even more outrageous.