Cao (1924— 1996) is a modern writer. People from Ningbo, Zhejiang. Former editor-in-chief of Shanghai Education Publishing House. He is the author of Five Thousand Years Up and Down, Zhuge Liang. Representative works: Up and down for five thousand years, a generation of Zhuge Liang.
Cao's Experience in Learning Ancient Chinese
Generally speaking, teenagers' love for poetry often exceeds that of ancient Chinese. When I was a child, I liked reading modern poems (metrical poems and quatrains) because of its neat sentences and strong sense of rhythm. Of course, I also like the long narrative poems in ancient poems. As far as content is concerned, I have a wide interest in all kinds of poems. Such as heroic frontier poems, quiet and natural pastoral poems and meaningful epic poems. I also read Li Shangyin's untitled poems very well. In fact, Li Shangyin's untitled poems were not only incomprehensible at that time, but I don't fully understand them now that I am old.
It can be seen that I just appreciated its rhetoric and sonorous syllables at that time. I have read many poems and want to write them. There is a saying that makes sense. You can recite poems by reading 300 poems of Tang Dynasty, but if you really want to write poems, you must know the level and rhyme, that is to say, you should look up rhyming books. At that time, I used to write a poem every day or every other day. Later, I also accumulated more than 200 poems, and a book "Poetry Rhyme" was turned into a page.
By practicing writing poems, I am familiar with the knowledge of leveling and rhyme. Reading ancient poems can also read the charm. It is not advisable for teenagers to learn to write ancient poems. But we should read ancient poems well and master some metrical knowledge.
Expanding information When I was a teenager, I was eager for knowledge. I just read the selected books and gradually felt dissatisfied. There are some famous books in my collection, such as Du Gongbu Collection, Complete Works of Li Taibai, Complete Works of Bai Xiangshan, Poems of Jian Nan, etc. I have browsed before, and then I have to read a few books that I feel interested in (not necessarily representative works). Because I chose it myself, it feels particularly delicious.
Reading books is like watching a bonsai exhibition. The variety is good, but only a few pots have been selected. Reading a famous album is like entering a famous garden. Although you can only take a cursory look, you can see the whole picture and feel the weather is different.
There are also some books, some of which are voluminous, and some of which are only in the original text (without notes), which are difficult to read or even browse. Nevertheless, I also like to look through the contents of written titles and frontispiece, and I can also get some emotional impressions. For example, at home, there is a wooden box containing these 100 books. I looked through it, and at least I understood what the so-called "philosophers" generally included. Another example is the twenty-four histories. At that time, I only read Historical Records, but I also read Hanshu, which was very superficial.
According to my experience, contact with the original is different from just reading the comments. For example, it is difficult for a student who has not been exposed to the "Four Books" to remember the titles of the four books. If you have read the original, even if you just flip through it, it is not easy to forget.
Cao mingju
1, the phenomenon of fire has long existed in nature, volcanic eruption, fire; When thunder and lightning strike, the forest will catch fire. But primitive people began to see fire, and instead of using it, they were scared to death. Later, I occasionally picked up a wild animal that was killed by fire and took it to taste. It tastes delicious. After many experiments, people gradually learned to eat with fire and tried to keep the fire burning all the year round.
2. About one year in BC 1 1 century, I heard the report of spies and knew that Zhou had reached the point of disloyalty. He thought the time was ripe, so he sent his troops to 50 thousand, and asked Marshal Tai Wei, who was proficient in the art of war, to cross the Yellow River eastward. When we arrived in Jinmeng, 800 governors were reunited. Zhou Wuwang held a swearing-in meeting in Jin Meng, announced the charges of murder, and encouraged everyone to work together with Qi Xin.
3. From then on, the sky was ten feet high, the ground was ten feet thick, and Pangu himself was ten feet high. In this way, after 18,000 years, the sky will be high and the ground will be thick, and Pangu has certainly become a giant with indomitable spirit. Later, when Pangu died, all parts of his body became the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, vegetation and so on.
4. Wang You likes compliments. Later, I simply abolished the queen and the prince, and made Zan the queen and Zan the prince. It turned out that the queen's father was a vassal of the state of Shen. When he got the news, he linked the dogs to attack Haojing.
5. When the Shang Dynasty was established in Shang Tang, the earliest capital was Bohai (Yinbo, now Shangqiu, Henan). In the next 300 years, the capital moved five times. This is because the royal family often competes for the throne and civil strife occurs; Coupled with frequent floods in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. Once a flood flooded the capital and had to move.
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