According to Yawei’s self-report: “My contact with shorthand was also very accidental. In the summer of 1930, I found an early shorthand book in an old bookstore in Nanchang (note: referring to Cai Xiyong’s "Shorthand"). "Transmission of Sound"), which aroused my interest, and I began to study it. Later, I felt that shorthand was an academic that was extremely beneficial to human culture, but it was a pity that no one was promoting it at that time. So I paid attention to collecting relevant information at home and abroad. Materials." Later, he found the English "Pitman Shorthand" and "Gehrig Shorthand" in the library, conducted comparative research, and tried to create a shorthand scheme suitable for my country to facilitate widespread use by Chinese people. From then on, he was immersed in shorthand symbols, working day and night, forgetting to eat and sleep, spending a lot of energy and taking many detours. Finally, in 1934, he created a streamlined shorthand scheme. (See Tang Yawei: "The Road from Hard Support to Successful Development", published in the combined issue of "Shorthand Monthly", No. 49 and 50, 1955). Insist on innovation
Since Tang Yawei devoted himself to shorthand education in 1938, he has been working hard for the development of shorthand in China for the next 60 years, making great contributions and achieving great achievements.
He not only introduced the elliptical shorthand system to China, but also developed it and became the mainstream of Chinese shorthand. In order to improve Yawei's shorthand, he constantly revised the plan. In terms of omission, he pioneered the omission of sound symbols, the omission of rhymes, and the three "attachment omissions" of upper, middle and lower, and developed the "overlapping abbreviation" to make it systematic. Chemical etc. It had a profound influence on all kinds of shorthand in the future.
Although he initiated the elliptical shorthand school and developed it, and his students made innovations, which made elliptical shorthand flourish and talents emerge in large numbers, he did not hold a sectarian view and did not adopt "protectionism" , and be able to take a long-term view and look at the world. He established the Italic Shorthand Research Group in the Shorthand Monthly News Agency. In August 1953, a research and development work meeting was held to discuss and adopt a draft Chinese italic shorthand plan. In the following 40 years, the "3Y italic shorthand system" was formed and used in classroom teaching in colleges and universities.
Leading the mainstream
With the development of the world stenography situation, computer shorthand appeared in foreign countries. Tang Yawei himself had begun to research the parallel stenography machine with a special keyboard as early as the 1950s. In the 1980s, it was combined with computers to further study the "special keyboard" parallel-type computer stenography machine, which was successfully developed in 1994. Named "Yawei Chinese Stenograph", it filled the gap in Chinese computer steno machines.
Popular promotion
When Chinese shorthand entered a period of revival and innovation in the early 1980s, Tang Yawei took the initiative and held Yawei shorthand training courses at Sanlihe and Xinjiekou Workers’ Clubs in Xicheng District, with nearly 4,000 party members Political cadres and young people participated in the training. Tang Yawei first united people in the Beijing stenography circle to initiate the establishment of the Beijing Shorthand Association. Under the leadership of the Beijing Shorthand Association, shorthand research groups, associations and societies were established across the country. In 1985, he organized the Chinese Shorthand Friendship Delegation to Japan and was recommended as the leader to visit Japan and conduct shorthand cultural exchanges. In 1994, as the president of the Chinese Document Information Shorthand Society, he led the Chinese shorthand delegation to Turkey to attend the 40th International Shorthand Typing Federation. At this conference, the International Speed ??Federation officially admitted China as a member state. In 1934, the "Streamlined Chinese Shorthand Notation List" and the "Character Abbreviation List" were created. In 1938, "Standardized Yawei Chinese Shorthand" was published. In 1939, the "Yawei Chinese Shorthand Society" was established. In 2007, he won the second prize of the 2006 National Technology Invention Award for his "Yawei Chinese Stenograph Technology and Device".
He plays a leading and promoting role in all aspects of shorthand academic research, shorthand education, shorthand promotion, and shorthand activities, and has become a pioneer and driving force for the development of shorthand in China. The "astounding speed" performance has become an important organizational part of China's shorthand modern history. He has become a contemporary celebrity in China and has been included in classics such as "China's Contemporary Celebrities", "Contemporary Talents", and "Chinese Experts' Name Dictionary". People are no longer unfamiliar with Chinese shorthand, and it was Tang Yawei who invented Chinese shorthand in the 1930s. The award-winning "Yawei Speed ??Record" is simply a key technology for real-time language information collection. It uses a special keyboard and special software to synchronously record language information and convert it into text. It is indispensable for Chinese information processing. Links are the basis for realizing informatization.
The two major steps in the development history of Chinese shorthand were both taken by him. Achievement Imagination
A copy of "Transmitting Sound Quick Words" in an old bookstore inspired the birth of "Yawei Shorthand"
The older generation of shorthand workers in our country still clearly remember that in the first At a National Literary Congress, when Chairman Mao Zedong met with literary and art workers, the lights of the photographers were very dazzling, which made the nervous stenographers even more anxious. Seeing this scene, Chairman Mao stopped his speech and said to the reporters: "Please stand back and don't affect the work of the stenographers." Once, Premier Zhou Enlai received foreign guests, and the waiter arranged the seats of the stenographers at the door.