In middle school, there were already 60 must-have ancient poems and essays, but in high school textbooks, there are only 20 ancient poems and essays to recite. The pressure of reading is obviously much less than in junior high school.
The proportion of ancient poetry and prose in the newly compiled high school Chinese textbooks has reached 49.3%. Will the pressure on students to memorize ancient poetry and prose increase? There are 67 ancient poems and essays in high school, some of which are texts and some are extracurricular ancient poems and poems. The high school requires memorizing only 20 ancient poems and essays. If calculated over three years, the average is only six or seven per school year. Not a lot.
The new textbooks select classics that reflect the excellent traditional Chinese culture, ranging from ancient styles, folk songs, quatrains, rhymed poems to lyrics and music, from essays by scholars to historical essays, from essays on the Han Dynasty, poems from the Wei and Jin Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty Ancient prose from the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, from classical Chinese novels to vernacular novels, are presented. In terms of quantity, *** selected 67 ancient poems (one piece), accounting for 49.3% of the total number of selected articles (136 pieces/piece). Among them, there are 33 ancient poems and 34 ancient prose.
The new textbooks coordinate the proportions of various selected texts, highlight China’s excellent traditional culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture, and prevent cultural nihilism.
The selection of text materials reflects revolutionary culture. Among them, there are 5 (first) articles including Mao Zedong's "Qinyuanchun·Changsha" and "Reforming Our Learning", 5 articles including Lu Xun's "Usage Doctrine" and "In Memory of Mr. Liu Hezhen", as well as "Long Live the Victory of the Long March" and " "Interlude in the War", "Lilies" and many other works.
Advanced socialist culture is also reflected in textbooks, such as "Oh, Fragrant Snow", "Watching the Thousand Waves of Rice Shua - A Note on Yuan Longping, the First National Highest Technology Award Winner" and "Artemisinin: "A Small Step for Mankind to Conquer Disease", "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth", etc.
In addition, the textbook also includes more than ten classic works of foreign literature and culture, including "Resurrection", "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "Hamlet", "To a Skylark", etc.