As we all know, China has a vast territory and abundant resources, and different regions have their own dialects. However, the use of the same Chinese characters makes people in different parts of the world unable to understand each other's words and can communicate with each other, which lays a cultural foundation for the unification of all parts of China.
As well as the use of classical Chinese, the words that record culture are separated from the vernacular Chinese that is close to oral Chinese, avoiding the interruption or misunderstanding of cultural tradition inheritance caused by the development and change of oral Chinese:
Not to mention a hundred years, it is elderly people who come to listen to today's children. I'm afraid there are many things that are incomprehensible, not to mention thousands of years.
According to historical research, Hakka dialect in the southeast coastal area is the closest pronunciation and language to ancient Chinese, and Cantonese in Guangdong carries a lot of grammar and sentence structure of ancient Chinese. Moreover, the Mandarin we speak today is not the most authentic Chinese, but the product of mixing with dialects of all ethnic groups in the north!
The development of network language proves that we don't know what the language will look like tomorrow.
But as long as you have received basic literacy education, you can read 300 poems, including Yuefu, Tang poetry, Song poetry and Yuanqu. There is not much difference in grammar and sentence patterns between historical records two thousand years ago and a modern classical Chinese.
The use of classical Chinese not only simplifies the materials consumed in China's historical records as much as possible, but also ensures the continuity and inheritance of culture.
Unfortunately, the New Culture Movement not only completely denied Confucianism, but also completely denied classical Chinese, which was equivalent to destroying the two cornerstones of China culture.
I hope you can read more classical Chinese and make up your traditional culture class.
2. Why do you want to learn classical Chinese? The landlord has two problems. One asked why you want to learn classical Chinese. The other asked why you didn't inherit feudal autocracy.
This is actually a concept of stealing. I wonder if the landlord has an emotional tendency to ask this question?
Classical Chinese can be learned. Read more if you like. Don't read it if you don't like it.
But students at school have to take exams. As long as there is an exam, you must study.
After a year or two out of society, you will find that you have forgotten everything except a few famous sentences. ..
What about cultivating a sense of language and feeling the profound humanistic spirit of history is mostly nonsense.
That's the function of people's fantasy in the Ministry of Education.
Besides, even if you feel the so-called humanistic spirit, what's the use? It took me several years to find out after I came out for social work. Ah. ~ it turns out that human beings are such a spirit.
That's the function of people's fantasy in the Ministry of Education.
Besides, I don't know how to learn. Nowadays, classical Chinese in senior high schools pay attention to literal translation, and free translation is allowed in rare cases.
Literal translation means to translate every word.
The characteristics that led to the conciseness of classical Chinese were also lost.
On the other hand, classical Chinese still requires basic comprehension, but literal translation is absolutely unnecessary. Some classical books of China are worth reading, especially the Twenty-four History. If you want to know its way, you must follow history first. Studying history is very helpful for grasping the situation and analyzing problems. The remembrance of the past is the teacher of the future Even if you come out to work, you will find it true. However, many classic books are branded with other people's attitudes and opinions when translated, which may be distorted.
But it is biased for the landlord to say why he didn't inherit feudal autocracy. History is a process, created by human beings. Feudal autocracy has its economic foundation, and changing it does not depend on people's consciousness. Only when a certain ruling group asks it to go backwards can it go backwards.
Even if the current ruling group says that it is not feasible to abolish modern Chinese and use classical Chinese. Just like when Qin Shihuang burned books and buried Confucianism, although he lost some valuable culture, what should be circulated will still be passed down.
Where to inherit feudal autocracy? Is impossible to achieve.
But from a modern perspective, is feudal autocracy really useless? At least in its rising period, it promoted development, but later it was replaced by another ideology and culture.
Therefore, learning classical Chinese is a personal emotional tendency, which is related to individuals. Besides, at least it's harmless to individuals. Inheriting feudal autocracy concerns everyone, and the interests are more entangled. Besides, objective reality does not allow it, so inheritance is not allowed.
3. Why do you want to learn ancient prose and keep it in your own system for thousands of years? I said, for example, since the May 4th Movement, China literature has changed from old literary works to vernacular Chinese. What is its function? In the past decades, we have witnessed the popularization of education and knowledge in China and the absorption of world knowledge. Undeniably, all these have contributed to the progress of the country.
But for China culture, it was cut off from now on. What is the reason? There are too many things piled up in China's cultural inventory, and thousands of years of culture have been preserved through ancient prose.
As for those who don't understand ancient Chinese through vernacular literature education, of course, they can't open this warehouse. Therefore, from the standpoint of China culture, they are cut off. Since you are talking about literary revolution and vernacular literature, we must first know why vernacular literature should be advocated.
Before and after the May 4th Movement, it was generally believed that in order to save the nation and survive, it was necessary to absorb new knowledge, especially to integrate ancient and modern Chinese and foreign academic cultures. So the veterans went outside and found that the language and characters of any country are the same. Therefore, they think that China has not made progress because of the writing tools, especially the "Confucius Theory" in the Four Books and Five Classics, which needs to be overthrown, so they advocate vernacular Chinese. However, pay attention to one thing. We look at the world's writing, regardless of English, German and French. Although the writing and language are integrated now, the language has changed for about 30 years. Therefore, books in English and French a hundred years ago are regardless of gender unless they are experts.
Our ancestors in China knew that language and times would change, so they separated the characters from the language. After two or three years of training, they could be written in a short time, and the characters became a system and expressed their thoughts. Therefore, this kind of writing has preserved the concept for thousands of years. In the eyes of people after thousands of years, if there are no obstacles until now, what is wrong with the country? There is nothing wrong.
Just because education is not popular, no one has learned this kind of China culture well. At that time, some people who advocated the May 4th Movement were right to make progress. Frankly speaking, there was still a need for consultation on knowledge cultivation at that time, so something went wrong with this literary revolution.
Therefore, I am not qualified to talk about the literary revolution, and neither are you. Why? If classical Chinese, CET-4 and CET-6 styles, poems and songs can all be displayed, and then there is something wrong with this kind of literature, then you are qualified to talk about revolution.
Now there is no life. What are you doing? Are you still qualified to take part in the literary revolution? As soon as I said this, they listened stupidly. This meeting will be impossible in the future.
4. Why do you want to learn classical Chinese? Today I study, Zeng, Gong Xihua. Lu Yuanfei of Class One asked, "What's the use of learning these things except exams?" This problem also caused Shi Meng to really * * *.
I replied, "Just now, that man secretly looked in the mirror. I joked that if he took another photo, he wouldn't become Pan An. You don't seem to understand. If you look at some ancient prose, this kind of situation that you don't know after being satirized by others will basically not appear. "
But I want to answer this question directly.
Zhejiang University once conducted a survey on college graduates. One of the questions was: What do you think is the most useful course of college Chinese? The result was unexpected, and "Ancient Literature" ranked first. Most graduates believe that ancient literature can cultivate sentiment, cultivate temperament and even directly affect work performance.
Classical Chinese has not completely withdrawn from our modern life. The vocabulary, grammar, allusions and idioms in classical Chinese are still vivid in our modern Chinese, such as "In a word, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and people are delighted to hear it, and vice versa. shine on you is better than blue, and kind and cherishes things". So it didn't fade away, but retreated from the stage to the background, or it was hidden behind a modern mask, and we talked and wrote unconsciously every day.
Classical Chinese embodies the wisdom and thoughts of the Chinese nation and is a treasure of Chinese culture. Learning classical Chinese can let us really touch the temperament of China. If you don't understand classical Chinese, you can't understand ancient documents, and the so-called inheritance, absorption and development are out of the question. The culture of any country has a foundation. China's cultural heritage began with ancient literature, and the classical Chinese recorded the ancient cultural heritage of our country. Such as Zhouyi, Analects of Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Tang poetry, Song poetry, novels, Qufu and so on. Their wisdom and value have not faded with the passage of time, but they are more and more dazzling and favored by future generations. Many principles and ideas of dealing with people benefit from Zhouyi. There are many summaries about the success or failure of governing the country in Historical Records and Zi Zhi Tong Jian. The health care of Huangdi Neijing makes modern medicine ashamed ... China's classics for nearly 3,000 years are written in classical Chinese. Relying on it, we have accumulated vast cultural heritage and formed national culture, national psychology, national character and national spirit. The wisdom and experience of ancestors have not changed for thousands of years, relying on classical Chinese. If you can read classical Chinese, you can talk to Confucius, meet Mencius and communicate with each other. Therefore, classical Chinese is the greatest invention of China ancient sages. With such a tool, we can pass on the wisdom, talents and accumulated experience of our predecessors.
Learning classical Chinese can improve our temperament and cultivation. Classical Chinese (including ancient poems) in middle school textbooks are masterpieces that have been read down through the ages. They are exemplary and representative in ideological content, emotional factors, artistic skills and language forms. They can cultivate sentiment, improve cultural quality, enrich people and help us become an elegant person. A person with a certain foundation in ancient literature will have appropriate expressions and actions in practical work, and it is easier to get close to success.
Learning classical Chinese can make our language concise and lively, and improve our reading ability and expression ability. Understand the relationship between ancient and modern vocabulary through classical Chinese and expand language knowledge. Modern Chinese and ancient Chinese come down in one continuous line. Learning classical Chinese can help us understand the origin, exact meaning and evolution of idioms, and we can also use idioms correctly.
Learning classical Chinese can improve our language use ability and appreciation ability. Many great writers in modern and contemporary China, because of their profound classical literature accomplishment and language accomplishment, used fixed words, phrases or sentence forms in classical literature flexibly, thus forming their own unique style and becoming literary masters. The so-called works of some "famous" "writers" in modern times, under close reading, always feel shallow compared with the works of those literary masters in those years. What is this? Lack of cultural background. The root of the lack of inside information lies in the lack of accumulation of classical literature, so even if it is a smash hit, it will soon pass.
Learning classical Chinese can help us learn the writing skills of famous ancient writers. Poems written by ancient writers have their own characteristics in conception, conception, drawing materials, cutting materials, using allusions, planning articles, layout, wording and sentences, narration, description of people, lyricism, analysis and expression of things, etc. Ancient writers paid special attention to the artistic conception, structure and language of articles, and learning classical Chinese was of great help to improve their literary accomplishment and writing ability. China's influential literature is well versed in China's ancient literature. Even if I don't plan to be a writer in the future, no matter what occupation I am engaged in, I will inevitably communicate with others. It is always the minimum requirement to make your own views clear, and you can learn methods from classical Chinese.
Although I think reading classical Chinese is very emotional, the above words still feel quite rigid and a little boastful. It is not easy for students to persuade orally, but talking is better than nothing.
5. Why do you want to learn classical Chinese? We observe the whole world today, and the ancestors of any nation did not think of it.
This is how to pass on their wisdom and experience, and keep that purity forever for thousands of years and will not change. This tool is too important. Our ancestors knew that writing would change with the times, so we modern people don't understand the ancient writing. If the words and language are consistent, after a long time, later people will not understand the language. What we see in the west, like Greek and Latin, has become their ancient prose, and very few archaeologists are still groping there and cannot be widely circulated.
We now have two obstacles to the things of the ancients. The first is that the heart is unclean, which is an obstacle to our wisdom; The second is the obstacle of writing. Because the latest translations of Buddhist scriptures are all from the Southern Song Dynasty, it should be seven or eight hundred years now, so the text used is classical Chinese.
So today, you can understand classical Chinese. Reading The Analects of Confucius means talking to Kong Old Master Q Q, and reading Mencius means meeting Mencius, so that we can communicate with each other without misunderstanding and mistakes. Therefore, classical Chinese is the greatest invention of China ancient sages. With such tools and methods, the wisdom, talents and accumulated experience of our predecessors have been passed on to us.
Classical Chinese, now people see it, this is so difficult! It is a fact that it is much easier than learning English. Where is the difficulty? The difficulty is that you refuse to learn.
6. Why do you want to learn classical Chinese? China is an ancient civilization with a long history, and our ancestors left us rich cultural wealth. Chairman * * * once said that we should adopt an attitude of "making the past serve the present" for ancient culture.
When we study classical Chinese, we should master the methods and inherit the ancient cultural heritage. There were many excellent historians and writers in ancient China. They have written many works, all of which are of high value. Reading these works can inspire our patriotic feelings. For example, Wen Tianxiang in the Song Dynasty said, "No one has died since ancient times, so we should keep an open mind."
Lu You's "Sleeping in a lonely village is not mourning for yourself, but thinking about defending the country." Poetry has been passed down to this day.
When the ancients wrote, they paid great attention to layout and composition skills. It can be said that writing is painstaking, and Jia Dao has the allusion of "deliberation".
Therefore, some ancient chapters can not only edify us with literature, but also help our writing. Therefore, we should not only learn classical Chinese, but also learn it well, so as to inherit the ancient cultural heritage and truly make the past serve the present.