1925年的一天,在清华大学国学研究院里,一位教授在讲授中国音韵学。他用了两句通俗的话来说明阴阳上去入五声。第一句是“中华好大国”;第二句是“偷尝两块肉”。这两句话或庄重自豪,或风趣幽默,正好说明了五声,立刻被学生记住了。这位善于讲学的教授,就是我国现代语言学的先驱者赵元任。赵元任不仅是享誉世界的语言学家,也是开创我国近现代音乐新纪元的作曲家。 One day in 1925, at Tsinghua University Sinology Research Institute, a professor taught Chinese phonology. He used two popular words to illustrate Yin and Yang into the fifth. The first sentence is “China is a great power ”; the second sentence is “steal taste two pieces of meat ”. These two words or solemnly proud, or humorous, just shows the five sound, immediately remembered by the students. The good professor is Professor Zhao Yuan Ren, a pioneer of modern linguistics in our country. Zhao Yuan Ren is not only a world famous linguist but also a composer who created a new era of modern Chinese music.