Chapter 39 praise

Hu Shi commented on Zhao Yuanren before his death: "He is the cutest person!" When the two were studying in the United States, Hu Shi highly praised Zhao Yuanren: "Every time I comment on people who have studied in the United States, I always recommend Zhao Yuanren as the first. His philosophy, physics , Arithmetic, all are proficient. With the rest of my strength, language and music, I have achieved something... Learning and doing, there is no waiting for the two, what will be achieved in the future, there is no limit." Zhao Yuanren has been engaged in education for 52 years in his life. The famous Chinese linguists Wang Li, Zhu Dexi and Lu Shuxiang are all his students.

"Mr. Zhao will never be wrong", this is a lofty comment that the American linguistics circle is full of trust in Zhao Yuanren. Lu Shuxiang praised Zhao Yuanren's contribution to Chinese linguistics: first, he used modern language as the research object of linguistics, which opened up a new way for Chinese linguistics research; second, he trained a huge team of Chinese linguistics research. team. Chen Yuan wrote: What you feel in his (Zhao Yuanren's) music is not a lonely self-admiration far away from real life, but a simple and innocent heart!A heart of Chinese descendants!A heart of good sons and daughters of the Chinese nation!

In "Introducing Mr. Zhao Yuanren's New Poetry Collection", Xiao Youmei believed that Zhao Yuanren's art songs "opened a new era for my country's music industry". At the symposium on the 70th anniversary of Tsinghua University, Wang Li, a disciple of Zhao Yuanren and a linguist, said: "Zhao Yuanren can be called the first generation of linguists in China. I learned linguistics from him. I later went to France. , was also influenced by him.” Luo Changpei commented on Zhao Yuanren and said: His academic foundation is mathematics, physics and logic.But the contribution to linguistics is particularly great.From 1922 to 1948, he published about 14 monographs on linguistics and about 21 papers.In the past 20 years, it can be said that he laid the foundation stone for scientific Chinese linguistics research, so the younger generation calls him "Father of Chinese philosophy".