1. Asking for the opposing view of "should we learn classical Chinese well?"
We do not advocate writing classical Chinese, because we modern people speak modern languages ??and write modern essays.
For example, when we use English at the United Nations, we cannot use classical Chinese. Of course, the Party Central Committee must use modern language when issuing proclamations, and of course it must be used in modern language when engaging in business activities.
Therefore, our primary and secondary school students must spend the main energy learning modern languages. Do you want to learn classical Chinese? I think you should learn a little bit. The purpose is to understand the literary talent of our ancient Chinese culture.
Getting to know the glory of our ancient Chinese culture will make them a little interested and generate a sense of national pride, but the main time and energy should be spent on learning modern Chinese well. Classical Chinese accounts for 50% of the current high school textbooks, but the time we spend studying it has reached more than 50%, and what we get is less than 20%, so we are overwhelmed with the study of classical Chinese.
Those rural areas with low education cannot even teach modern literature well, let alone classical Chinese. I think the basis for learning modern literature well is to learn standard modern literature well.
Vernacular is modern vernacular, and vernacular has always had its own product. It did not evolve from classical Chinese. Modern vernacular evolved from modern vernacular, and modern vernacular evolved from medieval vernacular. Vernacular evolved. I don’t agree with Mr. Han’s point of view here. He said that only by learning classical Chinese well can one learn vernacular well. This is misleading. For example, eating can make you full, and drinking can make you drunk. You can’t say that I will be drunk by eating and full by drinking. Right wrong? ! Mr. Zhu Ziqing said that vernacular Chinese is much more refined and rigorous than classical Chinese, so why not spend time learning it? Classical Chinese cannot be used as a necessary learning condition for modern literature.
It is said that if you learn classical Chinese well, you will be able to learn vernacular Chinese well. I don’t think there is an inevitable logical connection between this. For example, Kong Yi talked a lot about it, but in fact his classical Chinese was not good. We don’t need to study classical Chinese to learn vernacular. We can learn it from the vernacular books we are exposed to now. Lu Xun and Guo Moruo are both literary masters, but they also wrote in vernacular. They experienced the era of classical Chinese and experienced classical Chinese. situation, so during the May Fourth Movement, through the new culture, they opposed the old literature and advocated the new literature.
If every pore of Lu Xun had been soaked in the sauce vat of classical Chinese, he would not have become Lu Xun. Lu Xun was the leader of the New Culture Movement. He used modern thoughts, modern concepts, and modern thinking. Do we want to use classical Chinese to speak, publish articles, engage in negotiations, and go to the United Nations to speak? It is an ironclad fact that classical Chinese texts have no vitality up to now.
Human beings have created all knowledge, and no one person in the world can master it all. Therefore, our society must divide labor. In the words of the common people, beating gongs and selling candies, each doing his own job, using Han Yu It is said that there are specializations in academic fields. After entering university, only those who study the history of Chinese mathematics in the Chinese Department of History and even the Department of Mathematics must master classical Chinese. However, that is to say, we do not encourage all primary and secondary school students to devote a lot of energy to learning classical Chinese, because most of them will become workers, farmers, businessmen, and leading cadres in the future, and may not necessarily need it.
I can say that in our Chinese Department, Ancient Chinese is the most troublesome course for Chinese students. Some of our college students say that reading a few pages of Ancient Chinese text before going to bed at night can replace taking sleeping pills. I think that from elementary school to now, I have never been particularly interested in classical Chinese because I didn’t have that kind of learning environment. If you tell a primary school student, “Hang on to the clouds and sail across the sea,” he won’t understand it at all. He could only memorize the meaning while shaking his head. Parents watch their children memorize these things all day long. They will never use things in their lives. When they recite them hard, they must feel very uncomfortable. I think this is also A simple truth is that our language is used for communication. Let everyone understand it first. That is to say, primary school students must first be able to communicate with others. Secondly, no matter what, today's parents teach their children the vernacular first when they are born.
We must go back to the basic things and apply what we have learned. Whether it is spoken in vernacular or classical Chinese, it is all Chinese. The fundamental function of language is communication, which includes oral and written. That said, it is also a tool for thinking. I do admit that classical Chinese is relatively concise, but sometimes it is difficult for us to understand just because it is so concise.
When I was studying "The Story of Yueyang Tower", I had to explain one word. In the textbook, "Yueyang Ning" means the third year, but our Chinese teacher said that this year's new textbook has just been revised. , and then I felt that it caused me to have a question. The annotations of classical Chinese were given by predecessors and later changed. Learning classical Chinese in this way cannot achieve the purpose of understanding its key points, so there is no need to learn classical Chinese. I would like to ask you a question. The "China Education News" on April 22 put forward such a view, "Without learning classical Chinese, we can't find our way home." What I want to ask you is, where is our home? Mr. Lu Xun said that when I opened history, the whole book was filled with benevolence, righteousness and morality. After reading carefully for a long time, I saw two words between the words: "eat people". This country is full of monarchs and ministers, fathers and sons, and an ethical outline. As well as a home with a strict feudal hierarchy, a home with no human rights, no equality, and no law at all, do we want to take the majority of young people back? We must inherit excellent cultural heritage, but we do not require everyone to understand it in depth. Classical Chinese itself has a certain depth and difficulty, and it is impossible for everyone to be able to understand it and appreciate its truth.
Since it is difficult, why can't a small number of people inherit it like classical music and folk dance, instead of asking everyone to do it? I want to distinguish the most basic concepts: learning, appreciation, and edification.
What we do not agree with is the emphasis on classical Chinese in basic education. Rather than opposing the influence of classical Chinese.
I am also exposed to classical Chinese. This is a mentality with two different concepts. One is the tradition of national history and culture accumulated behind me for thousands of years. We can rely on it as a big tree. Rather than a burden that rests on each of our shoulders. Classical Chinese is divorced from our real life, and it is an inevitable trend of the times for vernacular Chinese to replace classical Chinese in primary and secondary school textbooks.
"Yang Lou Ji" involved the explanation of one word. In the textbook, "Yue Ning" means the third year, but our Chinese teacher said that this year's new textbook has just been revised, and then I felt that it made me think I have a question. The annotations for classical Chinese were given by predecessors, but were later changed. Learning classical Chinese in this way cannot achieve the purpose of understanding its key points, so there is no need to learn classical Chinese. I would like to ask you a question, April 22 The "China Education News" put forward such a point of view, "Without learning classical Chinese, we can't find our way home." What I want to ask you is, where is our home? Mr. Lu Xun said that when I opened history, the whole book was filled with benevolence, righteousness and morality. After reading carefully for a long time, I saw two words between the words "eat people". This country is full of monarchs and ministers, fathers and sons, and an ethical outline. And a home with a strict feudal hierarchy, a home with no human rights, no equality, and no law at all. Do we want to take the majority of young people back? We must inherit excellent cultural heritage, but we do not require everyone to understand it in depth. Classical Chinese itself has a certain depth and difficulty. It is impossible for everyone to be able to understand it and appreciate the truth. Since Why can't a small number of people inherit the difficulty like classical music and folk dance, instead of asking everyone? I want to distinguish the most basic concepts: learning, appreciation, and edification. What we don't agree with is the emphasis on classical Chinese in basic education. It is not against the influence of classical Chinese. It is also the mentality of being exposed to classical Chinese. There are two different concepts. One is the tradition of national history and culture accumulated behind me for thousands of years. We can regard it as a big tree. A tree to rely on, rather than a burden on each of our shoulders. Classical Chinese is divorced from our real life. It is the inevitable of the times that vernacular Chinese replace classical Chinese in primary and secondary school textbooks. 3. Asking for opposing views on "Should we learn classical Chinese well?"
Opposing views
Don't learn classical Chinese!
Reason:
Classical Chinese is only useful when studying ancient books and has disappeared in daily life. For example, when we chat here, we don’t use classical Chinese, although sometimes out of hobby, Occasionally "text" a little bit.
Classical Chinese is the language of the past. It is basically consistent with ancient spoken language, but it is more refined. Modern people speak vernacular, and the words that reflect their spoken language can only be vernacular.
Classical Chinese can only be understood after studying ancient Chinese. But the vast majority of people don’t read or basically don’t read ancient texts. Not to mention China, isn’t this the case in other countries? Who still speaks Latin these days? How much has modern English changed compared to ancient English? This dead language can only be studied by a few!
If you only want to read it yourself and don’t want others to read it, of course you can write it in “Zi Hu Ye Zhe”. You can even write in any dead language, such as ancient Greek, Celtic, Hebrew, or Oracle.
If you want to communicate with others - and language is a tool for communication - then of course you should use the common language. 4. The opposing side of the debate on whether to learn ancient Chinese
The following information is reproduced for your reference: Opposition to attending tutoring classes is a professional term. In fact, ordinary people do not call it that. The main name is Tutoring.
Tutoring is originally the abbreviation of family education. Studies have shown that 70% of children’s education comes from family education, which means that family education is very important! In fact, parents have to work hard in order to survive, so the time spent on educating their children has been reduced again and again. After surveys, some families have children who do not see their parents twice a year. It's up to the grandparents and parents-in-law to take care of them. As the saying goes, if there is a need, there is a market. Parents also know that they need to educate their children, and tutoring classes have emerged accordingly.
In the beginning, people in the society established some tutoring classes. Later, some teachers also started a side job and brought up students. Nowadays, it is also popular to send children to tutoring classes and send them to teachers’ homes. Many parents always think that sending children to teachers’ homes or tutoring classes is good for their children’s growth.
But as far as I know, the main job of tutors nowadays is to help children complete their homework to ensure that their homework is correct. It is this kind of tutoring class that parents enjoy attending.
Homework is the basic channel for children to consolidate the knowledge they have learned throughout the day. Homework should be completed by children independently and reviewed.
When parents send their children to teachers’ homes or tutoring classes, they actually stifle their children’s right to complete their homework independently, and even stifle the possibility of developing the habit of carefully checking their homework. Therefore, it is wrong to send children to teachers or tutoring classes for homework. This is the first reason.
The second reason is that after a hard day as a teacher, there is no energy left to tutor the children in the evening. As far as I know, many teachers just let the children do their homework and that’s it. Sometimes some children even do The teacher who got up slowly told the child the answer in order to let him go home early. Therefore, teachers’ energy is limited. If parents do not spend their own energy on educating and managing their children’s homework, and try to help their children develop homework habits through teachers, it will be in vain.
Let’s talk about remedial classes. Many teachers in remedial classes are social figures. They are not very professional and treat children rudely. They mainly focus on getting children to complete their homework. It is easy for children to develop resistance and eventually Let the children give up on themselves and not want to learn. The third reason is that some parents say that I send their children to remedial classes not to do homework. If their children do not learn textbook knowledge well, it is always good for me to send them to remedial classes or teachers to make up for it! I would like to ask weakly, if my children don’t listen carefully in class, will they be able to listen during the holidays?
I think they were in the tutoring class and focused on having fun. Such tutoring is not only ineffective, but also wastes children's time and money earned by parents.
As far as I know why many children cannot learn well, the key is bad attitude and habits. You must know that the content of today's teaching materials is much simpler than in the past. In fact, in the final analysis, I think parents still have wrong concepts of family education.
In the process of communicating with parents, I found that many parents always like to ask teachers to help more and take care of things. The teacher's words are worth ten words to them. My attentive friends don’t know if they have found any problems in these two sentences. Yes, they always forget themselves in their words! Earlier we said that family education is the source of children’s 70% education.
Not only that, but the behavior of parents has a subtle influence on their children. For example, if a child is beaten by a classmate, the parents will be furious and ask the child to beat them at all costs. Such behavior can destroy several years of education by the teacher. . So I think why we need to attend remedial classes is because parents have a wrong psychological suggestion. They always think that if their children have poor academic performance, we just need to send them to remedial classes or teachers’ homes and everything will be fine. Little do we know that this is just an excuse for parents.
Many parents are definitely not convinced, saying that you are a teacher and don’t know our sufferings. Look, we don’t know much of the knowledge we learn now. If you say that we don’t send tutoring classes or teachers’ homes, what will happen to our children? , they won’t! For example, dear parents, how much do your parents know? Do you still remember that many of your parents are illiterate? How did they educate you? But what you cannot deny is that although your parents are illiterate and do not understand culture, they are teaching you to study hard and write well. In fact, it doesn’t mean much whether you attend tutoring classes or not. As long as you understand the root causes of children’s poor learning, such as not listening carefully and not having good habits, etc., then you will find that the real education of children is to cultivate children. habits, not how much knowledge is taught to children.
That’s why I say that parents’ wrong concepts of family education make them think that picking up tutoring classes is a magic weapon. In fact, this is wrong. This is the fourth reason. While your child is struggling in the tutoring class, other children are having fun.
The result is that your child’s performance remains stagnant or even keeps retreating, while other people’s children continue to improve and be far ahead.
How do you feel? Dear parents and friends, you may find it boring. It turns out that sending them to tutoring classes is ineffective. Forget it, just let it go. Children are not made to learn. This is what I encountered. What many parents really think.
But have you ever really thought about what your child is thinking, what your child wants, and what your child’s wishes are? In fact, children are vindictive. They always want to get back the time that those who attend tutoring classes spend more time than others. So where to get it back? Many children have no choice but to take it out of the classroom, so there will be many children. Not listening carefully in class and studying in a mess. If you ask a parent what he wants, he will definitely answer without hesitation that he sends you to a tutoring class or sends the teacher to your home.
I think the children were still scared at first, but as time goes by, the children no longer care. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if they don’t listen in class. Anyway, there is a tutoring class or teacher for homework! It is this kind of thinking that makes children continue to sink and eventually regress more and more. This is the fifth reason I want to say. We say that children have no judgment and persistence, and children in the learning stage need to be quiet when doing homework. As the saying goes, they cannot be half-hearted.
As far as I know, there are many students in the tutoring class and the environment is noisy. Under such conditions, it is difficult for children to complete their homework with peace of mind. Not only that, as far as I know there is another one. 5. Should we pay attention to classical Chinese debate competitions?
If we don’t pay attention to classical Chinese, how can we understand and inherit the excellent traditional culture?
If no one of the 1.3 billion people in the country can read the Thirteen Classics and the Twenty-Four Histories, then when some of our neighboring countries tell you that the Diaoyu Islands belong to them, McMahon The land south of the flood line is theirs, the islands in the South China Sea are theirs, and even many of China's historical figures and cultural traditions are theirs. Anyone or any country can distort and tamper with China's history at will, but we don't. People can criticize and refute, but how serious is this? (This question can also be split into two parts: culture and territory, especially the territory part. It can also refute arguments such as "classical language is useless" and "ancient culture is backward")
Did the Xia Dynasty exist? ? What is the history of the Shang Dynasty? Which student can answer this question seriously? For thousands of years, the Xia and Shang dynasties existed almost exclusively in simple histories and mythological novels. Why? Because the Xia Dynasty did not have rich documentary records, although the Shang Dynasty left a large amount of oracle bone inscriptions, they were lost in the Yin Ruins in Anyang for a long time. If we don’t study classical Chinese seriously and understand the literature and classics of the past three thousand years, it is not difficult to imagine that one day, Emperor Qin, Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Zong of Tang and Song Zu will all become figures like myths and legends. No one will remember or understand them. .
We admire the gorgeous diction of the "Book of Songs" and "Chu Ci" and the beautiful artistic conception of Tang poetry and Song Dynasty poetry, but how many of us can seriously understand the literary connotation of "The Book of Songs" and "Chu Ci"? How many people can understand the subtleties of each poem? Both are bold poets, what is the difference between Su Shi and Xin Qiji? Are Li Yu, Liu Yong, Li Qingzhao and Jiang Kui all the same poets of the Wanyue school? I would like to ask, if we don’t have a superb foundation in classical Chinese, how can we be connected by blood and spiritual connection with the ancient poets and poets?
Today’s Chinese people wear suits, jeans and long suspender skirts; they eat chicken wing burgers and steak pizza; they travel by cars, trains, planes and ships; they contact relatives and friends by telephone, mobile phone and fax Yi Meier. In addition, we have been learning hello and OK since kindergarten, and we are still learning classes 4, 6, 8, IELTS and TOEFL until college. We find it troublesome to pay New Year greetings to our elders during the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, but we cry and shout to celebrate April Fool's Day, Valentine's Day, and Christmas.
Excuse me, from food, clothing, housing, transportation to speech and behavior, what else can we use to prove that we are Chinese? Apart from a fragile soul that is increasingly being eaten away by Western civilization and modern fast food culture, what else do we Chinese have? Why can't we keep a little bit of our own unique style for ourselves?
Some people say that classical Chinese and traditional culture are too backward and too outdated. I would like to ask if Hong Kong and Taiwan, which pay more attention to classical Chinese reading than us, are trying their best to eradicate the few remaining classical Chinese texts in Chinese textbooks. Is the mainland more outdated and backward? Is our neighboring country Japan, which still wears kimonos, celebrates old festivals, listens to Noh music, and watches sumo wrestling, any more outdated and backward than China? If you can't run, don't blame the road. Please check whether your shoelaces are tied first!
That’s all. These questions and answers are all beneficial to the positive side. I hope they can be used. 6. Should middle school students study classical Chinese?
1. The question of whether middle school students should study classical Chinese is not a question, especially not a question that middle school students can choose. What this means is that in order to accept the current situation, some students often search and search for the meaning of classical Chinese out of resistance to classical Chinese, so they ask whether they should learn it. This is a piece of knowledge. A must for learning, so this is non-negotiable.
2. Make it clear that you should learn. This is first of all the need for cultural inheritance. Although culture may be invisible or intangible, it is the root and soul of a nation. The life contained in classical Chinese is actually the crystallization of the careful thinking of Chinese ancestors, and it has profound enlightenment significance for us now. Secondly, the language of classical Chinese is concise, refined and concise, one is worth ten. Mr. Lu Xun's writing style is so sharp and tasteful, and one of the contributions should be attributed to his profound foundation in classical Chinese. Without talking about the whole thing, directly quoting the words of the ancients can also increase the literary grace and thickness of the language.