Chen Wangdao (1891.01.18-1977.10.29) is a Chinese educator, rhetorician and linguist. Formerly known as Shen Yi, his pen names are Chen Fotu, Chen, Nanshan, Zhang Hua,,,, and Long Gonggong. People from Yiwu, Zhejiang. 189 1 year 1 month 18 (the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month in the 16th year of Guangxu reign) was born in a peasant family. He graduated from Jinhua Middle School in his early years, went to Japan to study literature, philosophy and law, and read Marxist books. He is the author of essays such as Ma Shi Wen Tong and monographs such as The Origin of Rhetoric. 1977, on his deathbed, he finished the last work of his last book, On Grammar (1978). This book is divided into seven chapters, many of which are the further development of some viewpoints in the late 1930s and early 1940s. This book uses a lot of pen and ink on parts of speech, which not only tells the basis of distinguishing parts of speech, but also tells the Chinese part of speech system. He divided Chinese notional words into four categories: body words, words, stippling and adverbs. Body words include nouns and pronouns; The words used are verbs, adjectives, turning words and balanced words; Braille includes numbers and fingers; Plus adverbs, it is divided into 9 categories. Function words include prepositions, conjunctions and auxiliary words. In addition to notional words and function words, there is another kind of emotional words, namely 13. The syntactic part is relatively simple. He divides compound predicates into four types: juxtaposition, ordinal number, conjunction and reference. This book is another important academic work after The Origin of Rhetoric.

Besides, he has many documents. His works have been included in Chen Wangdao's Collected Works in four volumes, or separately in Chen Wangdao's Language Collection and Chen Wangdao's Rhetoric Collection. Chen Wangdao is a professor at Shanghai University, Fudan University, Anhui University and Guangxi University.

1977101On October 29th, Chen Wangdao died at the age of 86. 1980 65438+1On October 23rd, according to the instructions of the CPC Central Committee, the Organization Department of Shanghai Municipal Committee held a ceremony to cover party flag for Comrade Chen Wangdao's urn in Shanghai Revolutionary Cemetery.