We are China, and our civilization is as bright as the stars. Now that we have developed into the age of science and technology and industry, this long-standing civilization has become like a buried jewel, with only its dim brilliance visible but not its original brilliance. The time has come when the Chinese nation as a whole calls for the awakening of civilization, and the restoration of Chinese civilization and traditional Chinese culture is also the wish of Mr. Nan Huaijin.
Dongshan Culture adheres to the wishes of Nanjing Normal University, practices the educational philosophy of Nanjing Normal University, and is willing to promote Chinese culture in a way that is both elegant and popular and suitable for everyone. When Mr. Nan was talking about the "Chinese Studies and Chinese Culture" course, he gave everyone a book list and also gave us a shortcut to quickly enter the treasure house of Chinese culture.
According to the book list issued by Nanjing Normal University, we will recite some Chinese cultural classics and make a series of audio materials, which will be regularly and continuously sent to our public account platform. This will help more people get in touch with and learn about classic Chinese studies, and also lead everyone to get to know the recitation method that Nanjing Normal University calls "reciting like singing, without using your brain", making it more convenient for children and everyone to learn about it. learning resources.
We at Dongshan Culture named this classic recitation and sharing activity "Dongshan Classic Recitation Tour".
The contents of this "trip" mainly include: "Zhu Xi's Maxims on Family Governance", "Book of Commandments", "Three Character Classic", "Thousand Character Classic", "University", "Thousand Family Poems [Selected]" ", "Enlightenment of Rhythm", "The Book of Songs [Selected]", "The Doctrine of the Mean", "Laozi", "The Analects of Confucius", "The Classic of Filial Piety", "Reedition of Zengguang Xianwen", "Cai Gen Tan", "Young Learning Qiong" Lin", "Longwen Whip Shadow", "Guanwen Guanzhi [Selected]", "Mencius", "Zhuangzi [Selected]", "Book of Rites [Selected]", "Book of Changes [Selected]", "Gang Jian Yi Zhi" "Records [Selected]", "Three-Character Classic of Medicine", "Fu on the Properties of Medicines", "Records of the Nei Jing", "Fu on Meridian Points of the Whole Body".
Is this "menu" a bit huge? But if you don’t do it, it’s enough. Of course, if you do it, you must do it perfectly and comprehensively. This will be a long-term project. Please wait and see and insist on "fighting" with us to the end. We look forward to everyone joining us in the future to "sing in the classics" "Get up...
Reciting is a traditional Chinese way of reciting Chinese poetry. It has been passed down orally and heart-to-heart since the pre-Qin Dynasty and has been passed down to this day. Reciting was once the only reciting method used in the ancient Chinese education system. One of the charms of Chinese poetry is that it can convey expressions through melody and musical recitation, turning the study of knowledge and culture into aesthetic enjoyment.
However, in the past hundred years, due to changes in culture and education, chanting has been gradually abandoned by schools and is on the verge of being lost. When modern schools explain ancient poetry and prose, they only explore the meaning of the words, and the understanding cannot be comprehensive and in-depth. This is actually a great loss for the inheritance of Chinese poetry and prose! As everyone knows, chanting can not only help us better understand ancient poems and prose, stimulate interest in learning, and promote memory, but also allow us to get in touch with the true spirit of traditional Chinese music, listen to pure and beautiful sounds, feel the charm of mother tongue culture, and cleanse away the surliness. Qi, develop the style of a gentleman.
Several major characteristics of reciting:
1. Reciting can easily arouse the interest of children and adults in learning. People prefer to study because it is "interesting", especially children.
2. Chanting is a kind of "singing", which is also related to breathing. The ancients called it "mind method" - music, and music helps to remember images. Learning by chanting is because Chinese people have the idea of ??"yin and yang". If the content of the text is "yin" and is quiet and profound, then you can practice it by chanting this "yang" and rhythmically. Yin and yang complement each other, and the road is not far away. Students are happy to learn, which is the best state of learning.
3. The music produced during chanting will bring emotions. The music of Chinese literature is inherent in words. This emotion makes chanting more three-dimensional and vivid, and is one of the reasons why people deeply love and enjoy chanting.
4. Compared with ordinary "reading", chanting is of course slower, but modern people's lives are full of fast pace. We should find a way to slow down everyone's reading. Come down.
Keep learning to chant, it will be endless fun. If you persist well, chanting may be able to change the life of an adult or a child.
What needs to be reminded is that Teacher Nan Huaijin has always advocated reading, but the "reading" he said actually means reciting. Since ancient times, the so-called "reading" means chanting.
"Reading" means reciting loudly, and "reciting" means reciting loudly.
The word "reciting" was referred to by later generations because the Western reading method borrowed the words "reciting" and "reading aloud" after it was introduced. Mr. Nan Huaijin, like other elderly people, does not use the word "reciting" but uses "reading" or "reciting" to refer to reciting, which has rhyme and melody. Please distinguish carefully! (Excerpted from the Chinese Chanting Society)
The following are excerpts from Mr. Nan’s writings related to chanting and reading.
Students, study Chinese studies and recite poems and essays, so be careful! What are the benefits of reading aloud? Don't worry about whether your voice sounds good or not. It's not about singing. The songs are for others to listen to. Therefore, the ancients called it reading, and reading and reciting poems in the study room was called "moaning without illness".
Sometimes, I have feelings when I see it, and reciting "The orioles are singing with my concubine in the sun, and only the luxuriant grass can be seen when I open the curtains" is my own appreciation for myself. If you read a book like this once, it is equivalent to reading a book a hundred times now. Be careful! Otherwise, you have read too many books and have you remembered them? Can't remember. This is about Chinese studies, so the ancients called it "study". When reading, one of the methods of reading is to recite silently and the other to read aloud. To recite aloud is to read aloud. This is called reading.
If you read in this way, you will have deep memories in your heart and mind, and your mood will be very happy, and your psychological emotions will be naturally adjusted. This is the first step in learning Chinese studies.
——"Discussing Chinese Culture"
Mencius and Gongsun Chou also said just now that poetry is a type of rhyme. Ancient prose also contains rhythm to some extent. Why are there so many auxiliary words such as "zhi, hu, zhe, ye, ran, yan, zai" etc. in ancient Chinese prose? When reciting, they can restrain, enhance, pause and frustrate, help long and slow chants, and accentuate the tone. Deepens the impression and makes it easier to remember.
I think the ancient reading method is better than the modern one. It not only has the above-mentioned benefits, but also chants loudly and puts your own feelings into it, so that you can become one with the characters in the book. For example, when reading "The Analects of Confucius", sometimes it seems that I am Confucius. Invisibly, it is also a subtle influence of moral education. In terms of physiology, it is equivalent to taking a deep breath and practicing Qigong.
Unlike modern people who study, they lower their heads and chew in silence, cramming knowledge into their brains and forcing their brains to memorize. How painful it is!
There are so many myopias among young people today, which has a lot to do with the way they read. When we were young, we read and sang knowledge into our brains like a song. Of course, we can’t get back from this era. Compared with the past, the organizational methods of literature are very different. Today's style of writing is the same as speaking. For example, "Zhang San, walk faster" can be spoken or written, but if it is recited in the same way as ancient prose, , that's not "hurry up" but "thirteen" - neurotic.
——"Nan Huaijin's Lectures"
Confucius liked music very much. Music and poetry, in modern terms, are a blend of art and literature. Intellectuals in the past attached great importance to the cultivation of art and literature. Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, the line has gradually narrowed, and it has changed from Yuefu to poetry.
Life without a little bit of literary accomplishment would be very painful. Especially people engaged in social work and political work are quite lonely mentally. People of later generations, without this kind of cultivation, most likely take the path of religion. But for pure religion, that kind of restraint is uncomfortable. Therefore, only the realms of literature, art and music are more suitable.
But in the field of music, for people in their later years, vocal music and wind instruments are not suitable. Only instruments played with hands, such as harp and harp, are suitable. Therefore, the poetry that later evolved in China has the artistic conception of music, but does not need to sing loudly. It can be immersed in the artistic conception of music and intoxicated with the world of literature...
With Speaking of myself, I have almost entered the realm of old age, but I have found that many of my friends in middle age and above, in their forties and fifties, feel very lonely, and the reason is a lack of spiritual cultivation.
If we recite ancient poems in Mandarin, we will often pronounce them incorrectly. For example, the four tones of a character, namely Ping, Shang, Qu and Ru, are changed to the first, second, third and fourth tones in modern times. But the fourth tone (enter) is often no different from the peace tone, so the original four tones equal to only three tones.
The original three tones of Shang, Go, and Ru were all oblique tones, but now when I hear someone reciting poetry in Mandarin, the character for the Ru tone is pronounced as a flat tone. This is because in today's Mandarin, it is difficult to distinguish the first and fourth tones. problems. ”
——Nan Huaijin’s lecture