With the advent of the information age, "typing words like flying" on the keyboard has replaced the writing of Chinese characters one stroke at a time. Today, "forgetting to write when picking up a pen" has become a new trouble for many people - known as "agraphia in the digital age". At the same time, in "Internet slang", the use of typos has become a fashion, Chinese characters are constantly being deconstructed, and the issue of standardization is becoming increasingly prominent. People have seen that some children can type four Chinese characters in one second, but they are hesitant to ask them to write by hand. As a result, some people are even more worried: We are facing a crisis of Chinese characters! So, in the information age, is it inevitable that the ability to write Chinese characters will "degrade"? What do you think of "Internet words"? How to "inherit" Chinese characters... Recently, at the "First Chinese Character Writing and Inheritance Summit Forum" jointly organized by the Commercial Press and CCTV, scholars expressed their opinions. How do you view the changes in social life when computers and mobile phones become indispensable reading and writing tools in people's lives, and when electronic reading increasingly replaces the reading of paper books? Professor Jiang Lansheng, President of the Chinese Dictionary Society, said, “This change is the rise of shallow reading and fast food culture. Typing on the keyboard increasingly replaces writing with a pen. The result is that we forget to write when we pick up the pen, and the writing of Chinese characters is getting further and further away from us—— People have reason to worry that if this trend is not corrected, it will get worse. Maybe one day Chinese people will not be able to write Chinese characters. It may not be a fantasy, but a sad fact." Li Yuming, a professor at Beijing Language and Culture University, believes. , whether we like to see it or not, in the information age, we may recognize more words in the future, but be able to write fewer and fewer words. This situation also occurs in Japan; but we cannot just because some people pick up the pen Forgetting words means denying informatization, or even rejecting informatization. Li Yuming said that in fact, it is a normal phenomenon for many people to forget to write when they pick up their pens. Don’t let the whole society think, “Why have I become illiterate?” "These words, even before computers, many people forgot to write them. When Guo Moruo went to Taiyuan to write an inscription, he also forgot to write the words. When he went back, he looked it up in the dictionary before writing the inscription again. It is normal for adults to forget to write when they pick up their pen. In old age, it is even more normal for them to forget to write when they pick up their pen. Li Bo, a postdoctoral fellow in Chinese language and literature, listed several crises of Chinese characters since the "New Culture Movement" and believed that those crises were all technical and not fundamental problems, because from a linguistic perspective, the key to the development of language and culture is the living conditions of the nation. . He said, "The current keyboard input and voice input make people forget to write when they pick up the pen, which is actually a dilution of the emotion of the mother tongue." Experts have different opinions on the phenomenon of forgetting to write after picking up the pen. Perhaps the consequences of forgetting to write will not be felt in the short term, but what will happen decades or even one or two hundred years later? Finding the key to inheriting Chinese characters "Many people say that Chinese characters are in crisis. I don't think it is a crisis of Chinese characters, but that the ability to write Chinese characters has declined, and the ability to use Chinese characters correctly and standardizedly has declined." Yao Xishuang, Director of the Department of Language Application Management of the Ministry of Education He said that if there is a crisis of Chinese characters, then there is an opportunity, and it is both a crisis and an opportunity. "Can we enhance the writing of Chinese characters by copying books? Can we do this? Times will always make progress." Wang Ning, a professor at Beijing Normal University and leader of the development team of the "General Standard Chinese Character List" believes that in the process of information dissemination The use of computers is not the fundamental reason for poor writing of Chinese characters. So, how to find the key to the inheritance of Chinese characters in the crisis of Chinese character writing? How to find a way to inherit Chinese characters, traditional culture and modern technology more effectively? "Why do our country's experts on 'two bombs and one satellite' have been engaged in science and technology all their lives, but they can write very beautiful handwriting, but they don't forget to pick up the pen? The fundamental reason is that our society must have cultural demands and have Cultural literacy, everyone must love their own culture... We should not rely on computers blindly. If we cannot write Chinese characters well, should we cancel computers? The key to the inheritance of Chinese characters is to bring the cultural accomplishment and cultural appeal of a country to the level of the whole people. "Wang Ning said.
During the live interaction on the forum, someone asked: The word "囧" means bright in ancient Chinese, but this meaning is no longer used today; on the Internet, because the word "囧" looks like an embarrassing face, like two eyebrows It drooped down, so netizens gave it a new meaning. Isn't this a kind of inheritance! Huang Dekuan, a professor at Anhui University, believes that the phenomenon of "囧字" has existed since ancient times. Common people like to say this by looking at pictures and saying the word, and it can also become popular in Internet languages. There is no need to make a fuss, because after a short period of popularity, It will die. Chinese characters are symbols that record the Chinese language. When certain words withdraw from daily use, they become less familiar to everyone. Therefore, it is normal that some words have withdrawn and the characters that record them are no longer used. Chinese characters have a self-elimination and update function. Professor Wang Ning explained that Chinese characters are not isolated characters. In the development process of Chinese characters, it is a system. If a character is used incorrectly, the system will be wrong. A wrong word in a place name may lead to a mistake of thousands of miles. Therefore, writing and disseminating Chinese characters in the information age must be standardized. Moreover, Chinese characters have a self-organizing phenomenon, that is, they will be eliminated if you mess with them. Any ancient thing must be passed down to modern times in a modern way, and must be adapted in the process of inheritance. We understand ancient times but are not retro. Only on the basis of standards can we mention the inheritance of Chinese characters. "Chinese civilization has good and healthy genes. No matter whether it is a keyboard or anything else, no matter how the way of writing Chinese characters changes, it cannot change the role of Chinese characters as a carrier of Chinese cultural heritage." - At this summit forum, participating scholars reached an agreement Basic knowledge: In the rapidly changing information age, maintaining our culture and maintaining the standardized use of Chinese characters are the basic ways to write and inherit Chinese characters. It is also the unshirkable social responsibility of contemporary cultural workers.