What is Chinese? Why study? What's the use?

I. Meaning

Chinese is the abbreviation of language, language articles or language culture, and its original meaning is language. Chinese is a general term for the study of language and characters from the perspective of philology, which generally includes philology, exegetics, phonology, collation and so on.

China is rich in ancient literature, with special characters and developed language. Language in a broad sense should also include linguistics, that is, linguistics and philology. But now, because linguistics is a big category of international academic branches, philology is subordinate to linguistics and has become a branch of linguistics.

Second, the reason.

1, language and articles, language knowledge and cultural knowledge are inseparable from it. It is a general term for language abilities and knowledge such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, translating and editing, as well as cultural knowledge.

2. Chinese is a general term for oral and written language and speech, and it is the sum of language laws and speech activities of speech works formed by using language laws.

3. Chinese is a teaching subject in the basic education curriculum system. Its teaching content is language and culture, and its operating form is also language and culture.

4. Language ability is the basis of learning other disciplines and sciences, and it is also an important humanities and social discipline, and a tool for people to exchange ideas.

Third, meaning.

1, "Chinese New Curriculum Standard" clearly points out: "Chinese is the most important communication tool and an important part of human culture. The unity of instrumentality and humanism is the basic feature of Chinese curriculum.

2. "Humanism" emphasizes the cultural function of Chinese curriculum in influencing students' thoughts and feelings and the humanistic characteristics in the curriculum. The humanity of Chinese curriculum emphasizes the process of Chinese learning, which requires students to realize self-growth and stimulate their creativity and vitality.

The role of expansive materials and characters in human history

For a long time, humans only used spoken language to convey information, and the written language formed by using written notes to convey information has a short history. Systematic language has become an important tool to distinguish between human beings and animals, and writing has enabled human beings to enter a civilized society with historical records.

Transcoding the changes of images in time and space into a visual symbol system, so that future generations can understand history and learn technical experience through indirect text imagination. Let words become the main carrier of culture.

The breakthrough of written language in spoken language is limited by time and space, which enables human beings to inherit human wisdom and spiritual wealth completely on the basis of written language, and enables human beings to improve their education system, improve their wisdom, develop science and technology and enter a civilized society.

The evolution of China characters has gone through several stages: Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Dazhuan, Xiaozhuan, Lishu, cursive script, regular script and running script. This is in line with the development law of characters from complexity to simplicity and from nonstandard to standardized. Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Dazhuan and Xiaozhuan can be collectively called seal script. Then, seal script, official script, regular script, running script and cursive script constitute the five fonts of China's calligraphy.

Language carries information, but also needs specific forms of expression, which can be words, sounds or gestures. As long as there is one, you can use information to build a bridge of direct cognition.

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