Esperanto creation date: 125th anniversary of founding is still sticking

【Key Words】 Esperanto's frustration, misunderstanding and future development in the development of Esperanto, in a sense, the current Esperanto dissemination and development can be said to be "stick to stage", I believe Esperanto will have a bright future .

July 26, 2012 marks the 125th anniversary of the founding of Esperanto. Esperanto, a man-made language based on the Latin language, was created by Zamenhof, a Polish doctor who studied thoroughly in all languages. On July 26, 1887, Ziehmhofhof publishes the first book of Esperanto at its own expense and makes it clear that the creation of Esperanto aims to achieve "barrier-free communication" among all ethnic groups. He hopes that human beings will achieve inter-ethnic mutual understanding through Esperanto , Eliminate hatred and war and achieve equality. Since then, people have set July 26 as Esperanto Creation Day.

Now, as a relatively niche language, Esperanto dissemination and development in our situation? What value and significance does it have in the cooperative development of today's human world?

Esperanto aims to bring peace to mankind

Yu Tao, vice president and secretary general of the All-China Esperanto Association, told reporters that in 1887, the young Zamenhof, with the support of his father-in-law, published Esperanto First Book. In that era, many artificial languages ​​also appeared. The reason why Esperanto can come to this day is that Esperanto itself has the characteristics of normative, scientific and easy-to-learn because of the common ideal of her that is placed on the basis of equal communication On mutual understanding, peace and get along.

The word Esperanto is the hope of Esperanto and is the pen name used by Zamenhof in the first language. To commemorate him, people call this language Esperanto. Expect Esperanto to carry the common ideal of peace for all and bring more hope to mankind.

Guo Xiaoyong, executive deputy director of the Chinese Foreign Affairs Bureau and the first vice president of the All-China Esperanto Association, told reporters that according to incomplete statistics, nearly 10 million people in the world have learned and used Esperanto. In 1985, the UNESCO General Assembly decided that all Member States and international organizations should strengthen the teaching of Esperanto and its application in international affairs.

Esperanto gave full play to the role of communication and communication bridge

From March this year, Professor Zhou Liuxi of Beijing Normal University has re-opened the elective courses in Esperanto. There are nearly 100 students who have come here especially from many foreign students. Dai Li (a pseudonym), a linguistics graduate student with Tsinghua University who has always insisted on listening to this course, told reporters that choosing to learn Esperanto is more because of its love of the language itself. Dai Li believes that although relatively few people learn Esperanto, but as long as some people continue to learn and use Esperanto language, then played a role as a communication and communication medium. At the same time, Dai Li also expressed her own confusion: although Esperanto is lofty, its use of language rules and symbols is only for the minority because there is no corresponding cultural support in the world because no Esperanto-speaking country exists.

In response, Guo Xiaoyong told reporters that although there are no national and ethnic relies, people using Esperanto all over the world and the annual International Esperanto Assembly takes turns held in various countries in the world. So far 97 have been held and our country once also held 1986 In addition, in order to strengthen the application of Esperanto, more than 60 specialized Esperanto organizations have also been set up in the world to try Esperanto in many fields such as tourism, science and technology, education, religion and literature ; Literary field pays more attention to the popularization of Esperanto, at present, almost all literary works with world influence have corresponding Esperanto translations.

For the setbacks, misunderstandings and future development of Esperanto in the process of its development, Chen Hao Su, president of All-China Esperanto Association, believes that in a sense, the current Esperanto dissemination and development can be said to be in a "stick to stage" and believe Esperanto There will be a beautiful future.

Guo Xiaoyong believes that the barriers to the promotion of Esperanto mainly come from two aspects. On the one hand, the understanding of the international community over the maintenance of language rights and opposition to language hegemony is not enough. People pay more attention to political and economic issues. On the other hand, Esperanto people also need to double Efforts should be made to study in depth the international community and linguistic environment, foster the talents of Esperanto teaching, expand the field of application of Esperanto and use Esperanto to serve the public.

Use Esperanto to Build a Harmonious Society and Serve the World in Harmony

In the late 19th century and the early 20th century, Esperanto was brought to China by Chinese people studying in Europe and Japan and doing business. As a result, Esperanto began to take root in Esperanto. At that time, a group of influential intellectuals such as Cai Yuanpei and Lu Xun actively advocated the study and application of Esperanto; during the Anti-Japanese War and the War of Liberation, all famous people like Hu Yu-zhi, Bing Xin and Ba Jin advocated the study of Esperanto and put Esperanto Application to the cause of revolution; 1939 at the Esperanto Fair held in Yanan, Mao Zedong inscription: "If Esperanto as a form, but with real internationalism, the real revolution of the road, then Esperanto can learn It should be learned. "

After the founding of New China, the party and the government attached great importance to the application and development of Esperanto. The Esperanto Association of China has been established, the Esperanto publication "China Report" was published and Esperanto Broadcasting was launched. After the reform and opening up, Esperanto's economic construction and opening to the outside world Has played an active role. Every time an International Esperanto Assembly convenes in China, more than 2,000 Esperanto speakers from over 60 countries can participate in the conference and become an important stage in introducing China to the international community.

At present, there are Esperanto organizations in all provinces and cities in the country. As a competent unit of the National Esperanto Association, the Chinese Foreign Office gives strong support to Esperanto. Both China Foreign Languages ​​Bureau and China Radio International have professional Esperanto teams engaged in popularizing and applying Esperanto and using Esperanto to serve the construction of a harmonious society and a harmonious world.

In his message to the 89th International Esperanto Congress in 2004, Chairman Wu Bangguo pointed out that for more than 100 years Esperanto has been perfected and developed through generations of peace-loving Esperanto writers who have enjoyed increasing use of Esperanto , Esperanto applications are also expanding. Now Esperanto has become an effective carrier in cultural exchange, information dissemination and scientific and technological cooperation, playing a unique role in frequent international exchanges.

In the interview, Esperanto experts believe that with the development of international political, economic and cultural exchanges and exchanges of science and technology and the expansion of some transnational organizations and institutions as well as the increase of membership, the issue of language has become increasingly prominent. Based on this, Esperanto, as an international Auxiliary language and the development is still very promising.