After that, Pan Wuyun worked as an apprentice in a arts and crafts factory. Pan Wuyun has three younger brothers, and the monthly salary in the arts and crafts factory 14 yuan can't support the family's life at all, so Pan Wuyun works hard and earns 1.25 yuan a day. At the age of 22, Pan Wuyun pulled a scooter in a timber factory and went to the briquette factory with his younger brother to lift coal. His shoulders were bruised. I built a dock at the shipyard. In the midsummer of July, my shorts were soaked in water and my whole body was covered with blisters. I went into the water in the dead of winter in 65438+ February, shaking all over. Every day 12 hours of high-intensity labor, and Pan Wuyun is also doing the most bitter and tiring work that no one does.
From 196 1 graduating from high school to1admitted to Fudan University on 1979, Pan Wuyun worked hard for 18 years. At first, it was really hard, because people with family background like Pan Wuyun couldn't get into college and couldn't find a job, so they had to work as coolies, pulling carts, digging soil and carrying cinders with people released from labor reform all day. In those hard days, what supported Pan Wuyun to persist was reading and studying. "I think I should live up to myself. I'm so good at reading by myself that I shouldn't give up on myself. People can study in universities, so I can teach myself. " Learning has become the happiest thing in Pan Wuyun's hard work and life. When picking up dirt on the construction site of Wenzhou Shipyard, the empty burden passed. While breathing, Pan Wuyun recited the songs of the South. When the burden came, Pan Wuyun gritted his teeth again. In the metalworking workshop of Wenzhou Boiler Factory, after the task was completed, Pan Wuyun was busy doing high math problems on the ground when others were resting. At the bedside of the end lathe in Wenzhou Boiler Factory, Pan Wuyun controlled the lathe with his feet, took out the copied Zuo Zhuan and recited it silently. Eria was remembered by the drill. Literature, aesthetics, philosophy, music, art history ... "I love reading and want to read everything."
From 65438 to 0969, Pan Wuyun met Zheng Zhangshangfang, an important person in his life (a researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a native of Wenzhou). At that time, Pan Wuyun was very interested in linguistics and often read books on phonology. I really set foot in linguistics after I came into contact with Zheng Zhang Fang.
Linguist Lv Shuxiang, then director of the Institute of Linguistics of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, lent Zheng Zhang Shangfang a phonological study of China by Swedish sinologist Gao Benhan, and wanted to take it back first because of language needs. Zhang Zheng found Pan Wuyun and asked Pan Wuyun to help him copy the thick dialect vocabulary at the back of this book. Although Pan Wuyun had little knowledge of international phonetic symbols at that time, it took Pan Wuyun more than a month to copy the book carefully in duplicate. Zheng Zhang Fang was very moved and thought that Pan Wuyun was a lonely person who was willing to sit on the bench. He was a learning material, so he began to teach Pan Wuyun the research methods of linguistics. Pan Wuyun gradually began to study phonology with Zheng Zhang Fang.
From 1969 to 1979, 10, Pan Wuyun and Zheng Zhangshangfang encouraged each other, studied knowledge, and believed that academic spring would come one day with firm conviction.
1979, Pan Wuyun, 36, is the father of two children. That year, Pan Wuyun, an ordinary worker in Wenzhou Boiler Factory, was admitted to Fudan University as a postgraduate in linguistics.
1986 Pan Wuyun gave a central speech at the China Language and Dialect Conference held in Auckland, entitled "Introduction to Wu Language"; During the period of 1994, Pan Wuyun gave a central speech entitled "Some supporting materials for the hypothesis of Sino-Australian language family" at the International Symposium on the Origin of Language in China.
65438-0986 When Pan Wuyun visited the United States, he was very interested in the Dictionary of Computer Software written by Professor Shiyuan Wang, the founder of the language discipline at the University of California, Berkeley. After returning to China, Pan Wuyun immediately applied for the Computer Processing System of Chinese Dialect Phonology, a key project of philosophy and social sciences in Zhejiang Province. Pan Wuyun didn't understand computers at that time. In order to finish the project, Pan Wuyun went to the computer room at 8 o'clock every morning and didn't come back until midnight, reading computer books and writing programs. Seeing tears in front of the computer screen, Pan Wuyun asked his eldest son, who was in elementary school, to help him look at the screen. After a summer vacation, the subject came to have a look. Pan Wuyun is one of the earliest scholars in China who applied computer technology to the study of Chinese phonology and dialectology. This is a pioneering work in the field of linguistics in China, which has benefited later researchers a lot. It also makes the development of the whole language discipline take a big step forward. The speed of computer can't be compared with manual operation. Generally, it takes four days to manually operate the homophone list of a dialect, and only a quarter of a second to use a computer.
Comparative linguistics is a systematic project, which needs large corps to fight, cooperate in many ways and tackle key problems together. This is also an idea of modern society. On the one hand, Pan Wuyun participated in the cooperation plan of Fudan Modern Anthropology Research Center and fully absorbed the academic nutrition provided by molecular anthropology, archaeology and history. On the other hand, Pan Wuyun fully cooperated with the language disciplines of universities and research institutes at home and abroad, mobilized all forces, and completed the comparison of East Asian language areas.
In 2006, Pan Wuyun was the chief researcher of the Institute of E- Comparative Linguistics of Shanghai University. He was responsible for inviting tenders, hiring scholars, investigating and analyzing the languages in East Asia, and finally figuring out the original features of East Asian languages, and then investigating the origin of the whole oriental civilization. For this project, Shanghai allocated 6.5438+0 million yuan a year, and universities provided 500,000 yuan in 654.38+00. Pan Wuyun said that this will be the culmination of Pan Wuyun's academic career. More than 30 professors participated in this project.