So what are the benefits of learning ancient poetry for children? Why should children recite ancient poems? Reciting ancient poems from childhood can cultivate children's sense of language and rhythm in their mother tongue!
Some people may ask: Can you cultivate a sense of language by reciting ancient poems? Sure! Ancient poetry not only has a sense of language, but also emphasizes a sense of rhythm. The ancients paid attention to chanting, so what is "chanting"? Simply put, it is singing! Don't believe it? You read Su Shi's "Water Tune Song Tou" and feel: "When will there be a bright moon? I take my glass from a distance. I don't know the palace in the sky, and I don't know the month and time. I'm willing to ride the wind to the sky, I'm afraid I can't stand the cold for nine days in a pavilion of fine jade. What does it feel like to dance to understand the shadow on earth? " This is a popular song in the Song Dynasty, and it is still out of date today.
Although the ancient technique of "chanting" has almost disappeared in the present research, the sense of rhythm of ancient poetry has not weakened at all. The cultivation of language sense is especially helpful for children to distinguish sick sentences in the future. Although some children don't know where the sentence is wrong, they can always choose the right answer through fluent reading. Because there is only one truth! This is the sense of language at work.
Reciting ancient poems can also cultivate children's aesthetic ability, which is unmatched by others. If language is a crown, then novels, essays, etc. are the golden bases of this crown, while ancient poems are the brightest gems on the crown. After all, poetry is the essence of language.
A large part of the ancient poems we study are lyric by scenery and lyric by things. Although children are young, they can't understand some emotions, but they can still understand and accept "borrowing scenery and borrowing things". Take Bian Xiao's favorite sentence, "Sunset and lonely Qi Fei, autumn waters are the same.". Although I have long forgotten where this sentence comes from, I always see that the sunset and the sea are the same color, and this sentence always pops up by itself. It feels like a thousand years of empathy!
The sense of picture and beauty of ancient poetry is beyond the reach of poetry in other languages, and the things you touch when you are young often affect your child's life. I hope that when TA grows up, falls in love and has worries, there will be a lot of "white clouds shining with golden light, fans with romantic feelings of gentlemen" instead of "love is like sugar, sweet to sorrow."
Maybe you recited some poems, but you forgot them. It doesn't matter. They're already in your blood. Although children sometimes forget the poems they have recited before, their memories of ancient poems have not been deleted. Those poems memorized, like incomprehensible paintings, are sealed in their hearts.
One day, when you meet a certain scenery and gain a certain mood, those vague memories will be awakened quickly, and children will suddenly understand the meaning of that poem. This experience is very different from that of children who have never been exposed to ancient poetry.