Can you write Chinese characters? Can you write Chinese characters well? This question is not mystifying. With more and more opportunities to use computers, the writing ability of the younger generation is getting worse and worse, and frequent typos and scribbled handwriting have become "common diseases". According to the reporter, with the wide application of computers, many people can't write elegant square characters. Some experts believe that relying too much on the convenience of computer typing and short messages will make China's calligraphy, the treasure of China's traditional culture, face an embarrassing situation.
The decline of teenagers' writing ability.
Recognizing and writing Chinese characters well should be the basic qualities of an educated young man, but facts show that the writing ability of the younger generation is deteriorating. Compared with their parents, these young people may be far ahead in the speed of computer text input and texting, but their ability to write well is far behind. The reporter's investigation found that with the increase of age, the signs of this kind of writing ability degradation are more and more obvious.
"My child is a senior this year. Not only does he often write typos, but he also writes crooked words, which is very ugly. During the winter vacation, I bought a lot of copybooks for him to practice his handwriting, and he just scribbled a few pages at a time. Every time I teach him a lesson, he always says that handwriting is of little use in the future. Children simply don't understand the importance of writing Chinese characters. I hope the school teacher can check the children's Chinese writing. " Ms. Liang, a citizen, said without worry. Recently, the Ministry of Education issued a regulation that every wrong word in the college entrance examination composition will be deducted by one point, which makes Ms. Liang and other parents who have college entrance examination students worried.
The theory of "writing crisis" is not sensational. Chinese writing in the world of primary and secondary school students has undergone unprecedented subversion from form to content. Open some students' exercise books, and there are few clean and tidy homework. Many students' homework, compositions and class notes are illegible, with ugly handwriting and endless typos, not to mention the traditional Chinese writing structure and smooth strokes. Some students' compositions have to be mended with tape paper and correction fluid. Even in the key senior high school entrance examination or college entrance examination, the words on the paper are crooked, and there are many typos in the dragon and phoenix dance.
Explore why young people are becoming less and less able to write.
The deterioration of young people's writing ability is bound to have its social roots. Speaking of this problem, most people think it is directly related to the popularization of computer technology. However, we can't blame the computer for students' poor handwriting. In fact, the most fundamental reason is that we ignore the basic training of writing.
The deterioration of young people's writing ability lies in the fact that there are fewer opportunities for handwriting training than before. The proportion of students printing homework at school is increasing, and most young people entering the workplace are in a paperless office environment. With less training, their writing ability naturally degenerates.
Many parents find that after their children go to middle school, the time to finish their homework by computer has greatly increased. Homework assigned by teachers often needs computer printing, that is, collecting information online, making computer tabloids, and sometimes even writing and comments need to be printed and handed in. In the university stage, except for exams and class notes, students' homework and papers are almost completely completed by computers.
In the interview, the reporter found that many students have insufficient awareness of their own calligraphy. At present, the cultivation of calligraphy skills has gradually declined. There are still some students who study calligraphy in their spare time, but the number of such students is small, and calligraphy education is getting less and less attention.
In children's educational investment, calligraphy training has gradually faded out of parents' options. Many parents think that calligraphy is just a "small skill", and modern society does not need people to write good words. It is precisely because of various reasons from society, schools, families and students that students' calligraphy level has gone from bad to worse.
Standardize the curriculum and help students practice words
Quite a few people think that brush calligraphy and even pen calligraphy have gradually lost their practical value, and it is ok for the elderly to practice calligraphy for recreation, so it is unnecessary for teenagers to waste a lot of time learning calligraphy. However, more parents believe that the traditional culture of the Chinese nation should be passed down from generation to generation, and Chinese characters should not be abandoned because of the emergence of new writing methods.
"Good calligraphy can not only benefit children for life, but also cultivate their patience and observation in the process of practicing calligraphy." During the interview, many educators said that writing can become a "basic course" for students, which is not unrelated to the cultivation of students' comprehensive quality. Writing is not only related to aesthetic education, but also closely related to intellectual education.
Last year, the Provincial Department of Education officially issued a document, requiring all primary and secondary schools in the province to offer calligraphy classes once a week from this autumn, and bring them into the teaching quality assessment system. This is a clap of hands. Teacher Jin, who teaches calligraphy, believes that calligraphy is a series of interlocking sports processes, such as thinking, observing, stabilizing feet, stretching out arms, keeping the body upright, and manual work. Primary and secondary schools are the best time to practice handwritten Chinese characters. If we neglect the training of "writing", it is not conducive to the intellectual development of students.