Should children learn and recite ancient poems?
My colleague has always said, "What's the use of making children memorize things they don't understand? Have you forgotten how painful it was to be forced to memorize things you didn't understand when you were a child? Why should this pain be imposed on children? "
This is to judge children's world with the values of "usefulness and uselessness" of adults. I don't agree, but in the face of the utilitarian environment around me, I can't completely refute this idea.
Then, the subject asked the netizens four questions, which I believe are also the questions of many parents:
When you were a child, did you hate reciting ancient poems and prose from textbooks? Do you feel pain? Why do you hate or like it?
Do you think it is useful for children to recite ancient poems that they don't understand at all? Or, will you let your child carry what you think is useful? Why?
If children can recite ancient poems, what do you think is the significance of recitation to children?
In the adult world, it is often discussed whether it is useful to do something. When we educate our children, they don't have to learn what they don't need in the future.
A stone stirs up a thousand waves, but I didn't expect more than 4 thousand replies to the subject's question. The most touching answer for the little koala is this sentence: "When we grow up, when we are faced with countless beautiful scenery in 3000 worlds, what we think of is not" Wow "and" Cow B ",but" The sunset is lonely in Qi Fei, and the autumn water is * * * and the sky is one color ".
The influence that poetry can bring to people is subtle.
When I was in junior high school, not many people in Nalan Xingde knew that my deskmate liked ancient poetry at that time. One day during my lunch break, I saw her sobbing secretly. When I asked the reason, I realized that I was infected after reading Nalan's eulogy.
Later, costume dramas became popular, and many people hung "Life is like seeing it for the first time" or "Nothing was extraordinary at that time" on social software. I always think of her, as if there is a tacit understanding in the gap between time and space, and I will inadvertently think of her reading an indescribable sadness.
The influence of poetry is far-reaching and slow. For example, many people can only perceive the beauty of poetry briefly when they are over 20 years old, or they can only find deep affection in a few words after experience and understanding.
So some people say:
I think the significance of letting children read ancient poems from an early age is nothing more than this. I will tell you what the world is like in my eyes, and I will tell you what the world is like in the eyes of the ancients. You can agree or scoff. You need to understand the beauty of "* * *" first.
After all, life is a gray line of grass snakes, and so is poetry.
Others said:
Ancient poetry is not far away from us. They record the daily life of poets, bear their joys and sorrows, describe the world in their eyes and express their lofty aspirations.
These poems are either high-pitched and passionate, or low-key and euphemistic, or high-pitched and iron horses, or green mountains and green waters. Their existence is the proof that the ancients lived, and it is the trace left by the burning of life. Maybe children don't understand a trace of poetry when they are young, but one day, there will be a kind of scenery and a kind of mood that will make you feel that only that poem can describe it.
They will always know what "spring breeze is a horseshoe disease, and see all the flowers in Chang 'an in one day", and they will eventually understand what "the stars are slanting down from the clearing and the moon is running up from the river", and they will surely know what "our capital is nosy and you are a lonely and helpless poor person". On that day, they will find that they didn't understand those poems before because they didn't experience them and didn't feel like poets.
Since ancient times, although the pace of people's life is getting faster and faster, the pursuit of ideals, the yearning for hometown and the expectation of beauty have always been the same. Our spiritual connection with the ancients has not been broken. Poetry is our messenger when our souls are connected.
Of course, some parents will say, of course, we know the importance of learning poetry, but for us, the more headache is how to make children interested, not whether they should learn it. At this time, the launch of Xiao Ye's Chinese talk show is very timely.
Course introduction: China talk show takes poetry appreciation as the breakthrough point, and allows children to dabble in different types of ancient poetry through seven thematic courses, such as friendship, scenery writing, affection, defending the country, pastoral landscape and memory narration. Different from the forgotten appreciation of poetry, Teacher Xiao Ye used the original "talk show+painting while talking" method to let children master all kinds of poems in a relaxed and lively atmosphere.
Thank you, Mr. Xiao Ye, for letting children understand poetry easily in an interesting way, because when you finally realize its beauty and artistic conception, your memory can't bear it.
Learning ancient poetry is really a matter of "starting from the doll".