On the founding date of Esperanto, Luoyang would say that Esperanto had less than 100 people

□ reporter Xu Minglu Li Binwen Zhang 琮 photography

Reading Tips | "scato." Open the door, a girl warmly greet this reporter. Reporter some confusion, the girl laughed: "I say Esperanto Oh, that is, hello."
Girl called Ji Xiang translation, is a Esperanto fan. Yesterday morning, Zhongyuan Road, Luoyang City, Dongfeng District, the reporter saw the translation of Yi and her father Jifeng Ji. Affected by the father who was a member of Luoyang Esperanto Association, Ji Yixiang, who is in her junior year, started to learn Esperanto since he was a child. However, the "Esperanto Complex" between her father and daughter is not known by many as the only window in Luoyang to popularize Esperanto with the silence of the Luoyang Esperanto Association 20 years ago was also closed, Has not yet opened.
Today is the founding day of Esperanto. In the 1980s, Luoyang had a craze to learn Esperanto. However, at present, there are about 100 urban Esplanade people who know or may speak Esperanto.
Girls through Esperanto, meet friends all over the world
'Saluton' reads 'Pasadena' in Esperanto, 'hello'; this 'dankon' means 'thank you.' "Ji Yixiang watched the words written by his father Jifeng and taught the reporter two sentences Esperanto.
Ji Yixiang 21 years old this year, Wuhan Agricultural University in the third grade, but not very young but there is a very wide circle of friends, friends all over the world, Brazil, Hungary, France, Poland and other countries. Ji Yixiang took a photo of foreign friends traveling to Luoyang and told reporters: "No matter if you meet anyone in any country or ethnic group, you can use one language to communicate, sing, sing, When dancing, it was a wonderful feeling to be able to become friends with them all because of Esperanto. "Ji Yixiang has a 20-year-old boy David from Hungary, a foreign friend who has met Esperanto. David said he likes Chinese culture very much and is thinking of going to China and studying in the Shaolin Temple. Through his correspondence with letters of Chinese Esperanto fans, David visited all over China. In early August last year, David came to Luoyang Ji Yixiang home. Ji Xiang translation and family hospitality, but also led David went to his heart longing Shaolin Temple. "We often talk online and talk about the recent study and living. He said he is currently applying for an exchange of life to China, hoping he can apply for success and meet his foreign friend again," said Ji Yixiang. As for why Ji Yixiang learn Esperanto, all because of her father's influence. Ji Yixiang's father Jifeng is a member of International Esperanto Association, a member of All-China Esperanto Association, a deputy secretary-general of Esperanto Association of Henan Province, and a secretary general of Luoyang Esperanto Association.
80's very popular, he fell in love with Esperanto in high school
"When I was in high school in 1982, I had an English class, but after a while I felt it was hard to master English. I was thinking that if there was an easy-to-learn language that would allow people to communicate more with each other Easy, that's how good! Later inadvertently see the Yellowstone Esperanto correspondence tutorial in the "China Youth Daily", I spent 20 dollars to buy a set, with tapes and text information, I decided to self-study at home Esperanto than English Easy to learn, listen to the tape, compared with the International Phonetic Alphabet, an hour basic pronunciation mastered. "Watching Jifeng read the Esperanto books, the reporter seems to be back with him back to listen to the tape, holding learning data learning era .
According to Ji Feng memories, in the 1980s, there was a burst of enthusiasm for learning Esperanto in China, and the total number of Esperanto speakers reached a maximum of 1 million. "If we take Esperanto as a form and carry the path of true internationalism and true revolution, then Esperanto can learn and should learn." Mao Zedong once commented on Esperanto. At that time, Huangshi Esperanto correspondence schools exchanged information for the convenience of Esperanto learners, and sent the list of applicants by mail to the addresses of the applicants when applying. "Esperanto learners from all walks of life such as peasants, workers, cadres and doctors quickly held together to learn Esperanto together with enthusiasm." Yoshinoyu exclaimed: "It was a very burning time!" Later, living in Luoyang Esperanto study lovers, in order to Esperanto vigorously promote and popularize in Luoyang, in October 1984, established Luoyang World Esperanto Association, which is the first officially established esperanto organization in Henan since the reform and opening up. "Our association runs free Esperanto workshops in various enterprises, institutions, factories and other places and should hold no fewer than 1,000 participating Esperanto learning events in its heyday!" For nearly 30 years, the Association of World Language Speakers Peak era, Jifeng face still could not conceal some fascinated. In 1995, the state reorganized and reorganized social groups and needed to re-register. Due to the complicated registration conditions and the failure of registration, Luoyang Esperanto Association was dissolved. "Since then, our identity has changed from a member of the Luoyang Esperanto Association to a Esperanto hobbyist," Jifeng joked.
Luoyang now
Less than 100 people can speak Esperanto
According to incomplete statistics, there are only about 10,000 Esperantou speakers in the country. At present, Luoyang Esperanto state of development, Jifeng quite regrettable: "Now, Luoyang can speak Esperanto no more than 100." In this regard, Jifeng also expressed his point of view, "At present Esperanto is not widely used, learning staff Not many, because now the atmosphere of learning English in the community is too strong, although Esperanto is also an important international language communication tool, but the vast majority of international occasions use English as a language of communication.
After bidding farewell to Jifeng's father and daughter, the reporter found an address of Luoyang Esperanto Association based on an obsolete address book. The reporter found that here Esperanto atmosphere has vanished, was replaced by a small hotel. Thirty years ago, a group of enthusiastic Esperanto co-founders promoted a language. "Nowadays, with fewer and fewer Esperanto companions and more barren soil suitable for the growth of Esperanto, it was a situation we had never expected before." In the interview, Jifeng took out his photo that he attended "Esperanto Forum" at Luoyang University (now Luoyang Institute of Technology) in 2005, and his tone was sad.
Esperanto,
A highly respected language
Esperanto, once known as "International Mandarin," is a language founded by a Polish Jew in 1887 called LL Zamenhof. He hoped that by means of this language, mankind would reach the human race of mutual understanding among nations, eliminate hatred and war, and realize equality and fraternity. In the early twentieth century, Esperanto was introduced to China by Russian traders, students from Japan and Western Europe and was endorsed and supported by Cai Yuanpei, Lu Xun, Hu Yuzhi, Ba Jin and Chen Duxiu. When Esperanto was first introduced into China, it was once transliterated into "Love is not difficult to read" language, also called "New World." Later, someone borrowed the Japanese translation, called "Esperanto."
In December 1981, the Friendship of Chinese Esperanto founded by celebrities such as Ba Jin, Xie Bingxin, Bai Shouyi, Ye Shengtao and Xia Yan was established. More than 130 celebrities, deputies and CPPCC members from all walks of life joined the sponsor of Esperanto in the society Has had a wide range of effects.