Mainland scholars: "Chinese studies" cannot be treated as "business"
In today's Chinese studies craze, many parents send their children to various Chinese studies classes to recite "At the beginning of life, nature is good" , recite "Qian Sun Zhao Li, King Zheng of Wuzhou", wear Hanfu, and study classics.
How should we treat this cultural phenomenon of "Chinese Studies craze"? Recently, Qian Wenzhong, a professor at the Department of History at Fudan University, said: "We used to put Chinese studies under our feet, but later we exalted Chinese studies to the sky. In fact, this is all wrong. One of the most terrifying phenomena in China now is that once there is a craze , it immediately turned into a business, especially now that there are many training courses teaching Chinese studies. I am particularly worried about this. Many people who speak Chinese studies speak with a passion for marketing and pyramid schemes, which is particularly scary. , I dare not explain it, let alone tell others. Many Chinese studies courses now are actually business subjects. This phenomenon of pan-commercialization is fatal.”
The cultural and spiritual functions of Chinese studies should be like salt. , a glass of water, salt sprinkled in, invisible, but delicious and beneficial, that is the best state. It’s not that you are short of salt, I will give you salt. I didn't make it up like that. There is another most terrifying phenomenon in the current craze of Chinese studies, and that is the Great Leap Forward. It seems that after 20 years of hard work, Chinese studies have been called "Long Live" and Chinese literature has been revived. In fact this is impossible.
Indeed, in the craze of Chinese culture, Chinese culture packaging services have quietly become a new business opportunity in society. Many primary school students, elites, and administrators enroll in Chinese studies classes, and the training fee for each class is more than 10,000 yuan, or even tens of thousands of yuan. Such expensive Chinese studies courses make the thick, simple, profound, and broad Chinese studies become LV-like Fashionable luxury goods. Some cultural scholars are confused, worried, critical and questioning about the means, motivations, purposes and results of various forms of Chinese studies teaching in society, as well as these short-sighted cultural behaviors, such as excessive utilitarianism, commercialization, marketization, etc. Are they passionate about "Chinese studies craze" or "money-making craze"? However, some people take advantage of the public's enthusiasm for traditional Chinese culture and use the banner of Chinese studies to defraud and make money, deepening people's sympathy.
As a history, a tradition, a culture and an intangible cultural heritage, Guo Xue contains experience, wisdom and inspiration. As a pure spirit, it continues through history and time to the present, and has influence and effect on the present. We use it to resolve the crisis of the soul, explain the current survival dilemma, redeem the lost soul, and save the shrinking life. This is Guo Xue's value. Therefore, the current "Chinese Studies craze" has brought the tradition closer to us and given birth to new vitality of Chinese Studies. However, we now treat Chinese studies with an attitude of eager for quick success and quick benefits. But they have forgotten the cultural purpose and spiritual mission of Chinese studies, and the educational, learning and inheritance significance of Chinese studies. Instead, they focused on the commercial value and market resources of Chinese studies. Chinese studies have become a technical means to obtain utilitarianism and a tool for making money.
This kind of utilitarian and smelly "Chinese Studies" education is harmful to the cultivation of the public's cultural sentiments and historical outlook, and it is harmful to the purity and inheritance of Chinese culture. It is difficult for a generation that grew up in such a cultural environment to develop deep devotion and devotion to their own culture. If we no longer love, respect, and revere our own culture, wouldn’t the greatest culture exist in name only?
This is by no means empty talk. Behind today's seemingly "prosperous" and "busy" Chinese studies, there is a cultural situation that worries us: the level of our mother tongue education, which is the basis of Chinese studies education, is still very low, far less than it was in the 1950s; traditional cultural knowledge lacks popularization, "Joking" is popular in classical culture, and "vulgarity" in history is rampant; people in China and South Korea are generally keen on calligraphy, but we have almost lost the art of calligraphy as the essence of Japanese traditional culture.
When Chinese studies become "earning money" and tools for making pro