The Book of Songs is the origin of Chinese literature. It was once a textbook used by Confucius to educate his disciples. The way we study the Book of Songs with our children today is naturally different from the era in which Confucius lived. The Book of Songs has more of a cultural and aesthetic connotation for us and our children. We should focus more on this when teaching, that is, taking cultural education and aesthetic education as the two focuses of our classroom teaching.
A tree can grow only if it has roots, and a person can stand only if he has talents. As the two major sources of Chinese literature, "The Book of Songs" and "Meng Ci" must be understood by students. Only by understanding it can we deeply understand classical literature and modern literature. As a Chinese teacher, due to the special era in which I live, I often have a lack of knowledge in this area when reading ancient literary works. Today's children, we really should not let them leave the regrets of our generation.
When studying "The Book of Songs", due to the long history of the times, students find it more difficult to understand the poems. This requires our teachers to explain to them the background of the times when the poems were produced, their role at that time, and understand "The Book of Songs". The expression form of the Book of Songs, such as the so-called "Six Meanings" of the Book of Songs, allows students to understand, analyze and understand their expressions and meanings in combination with specific poems. In this way, the learning tools can be given to students, allowing them to learn and understand on their own. Moreover, these "tools" are also the origins of many of our expression techniques today, some of which we still use today. Some teachers give up this aspect when teaching, and simply tell the students, lead them to understand the main idea of ??the poem, and then recite it. This is really a huge waste of educational resources, and can even be said to be "forgetting one's ancestors".
Most of the poems in "The Book of Songs" come from life, from the folk, the language is pure, simple, vivid and expressive of life, and many of their classic words are still used today. When reciting, we can lead students to appreciate it carefully, which is of great help to children's language level, language expressiveness and guiding children to learn language from life. As for how children "read" in class, the author does not think it is necessary to emphasize "reading aloud", "singing" and other forms. In any case, after all, we don’t know how people in the Spring and Autumn Period read these poems. If we imitate this and compare that, we can’t help but think that painting a tiger is like a cat. Instead of doing this, it is better to allow students to express themselves freely and express their understanding individually.
Many of the poems in the Book of Songs are beautiful chapters, depicting the lives of characters and creating artistic conceptions like dreams and illusions. The beautiful artistic conception can really make people linger and sublimate their souls. For example, the man in the poem "Guan Ju" is so passionate, persistent, obsessed, and tossing and turning in his pursuit of the fair lady. It is so vivid to us when we read it, and we can't help but worry about his love destiny. Another example is the poem "Jian Jia", "The so-called beauty is on the side of the water", the artistic conception of "like in the middle of the water" will also make us sigh. This kind of edification and infection of beauty will naturally improve students over time. Maybe this is how gentlemen and ladies are created. To achieve this, it is difficult to do without students’ imagination and association. Teachers should pay attention! By guiding students to imagine and empathize with the text on the basis of understanding the text, students' thoughts and emotions will be sublimated, and their understanding of beauty will also increase day by day.