Classical books are difficult to understand, mainly because they are far away from us. With the change of society, many cultural concepts have also changed. If we understand ancient books according to modern reading methods, there will be some deviations.
China's classical books are all passed down according to a cultural system. The ancients liked to use allusions. If you don't understand these historical allusions, you can't understand their true meaning. Therefore, in the process of reading classic books, you should constantly consult the information to understand the true meaning of each word, and then you can thoroughly understand the fundamental meaning of this sentence.
Therefore, when reading classical books, you should be prepared to collect the author's relevant information, his historical environment, the meaning of allusions and the stories behind them, and connect these materials in series to form a network, and the core of this network is the classical books you want to read, so that you can have an intuitive understanding of this article and look at the problem comprehensively without any knowledge.
When writing articles, the ancients liked to express their feelings through excuses, so the superficial meaning of these articles may not reflect the author's mood at that time. You need to make a concrete analysis according to the situation of the author writing this article at that time. For example, a disgraced official reflects an attitude of criticizing the times or expressing his noble mentality in his articles. There are all kinds of situations that you need to figure out for yourself.
Reading a book a hundred times is self-evident, especially when reading classical books. Because the writing methods and expressions of classical books have been very different from now, rough reading can only grasp the superficial meaning of words, but can not understand the profound connotation of these articles. When reading ancient books, we must read them repeatedly, deepen our understanding of the text and expand our association, make assumptions about the meaning behind the text by using logical thinking, and then reason according to the overall content, deny unreasonable settings, and keep the original content that we have understood. After repeated reading and argumentation, this article will be thoroughly understood.
Reading ancient books, the most taboo is conformity, because a thousand authors have a thousand Hamlets, everyone sees the same content, but the way of understanding will be different. Therefore, we must have our own understanding when reading these classic articles, and we can learn from others' viewpoints, but we must never copy them. Many times, different people have conflicting understandings of the same article, so you need to carefully screen and form your own ideas.
The translation of classical books is based on faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance. In other words, you should accurately convey the meaning of the text, and turn it into a statement that you can be familiar with and understand, and modify the text to make it smooth and full of beauty. When your translation of classical books is completed, you will have a much deeper understanding of this article than others.
In addition, the contents of classical books are of great reference value to our real life. We read these books in order to make our real life more perfect, so we should constantly use the things we encounter in our lives to confirm each other. You don't need to demand literal meaning, but pay more attention to inner expression and devote yourself to the wonderful use of words. As long as there are situations and events, there is nothing wrong with misinterpreting the original meaning.