Tsinghua Xueba's speech: Why do we learn China's poems, just for the college entrance examination?
What do we usually learn to use China's poems for? Did we pass the college entrance examination? However, in fact, we ignored its most beautiful part.
What is the first beauty of poetry? It can give us all an expression system that belongs to us in China.
Foreigners won't. Only China people can express their rich feelings implicitly and elegantly through China's ancient poems.
For example, if a girl broke up with a love rat, she would find out what Weibo usually said, "There are always several scum in one's life", right?
what would a girl say if she knew ancient poetry? "From then on, there is no beloved night, let him go down to the West Building in the bright moon." You see, such a cultured ex-boyfriend must regret it, right?
For another example, we often talk online about "You are so reasonable, but I am speechless". How do you say it in ancient poems? "There is truth in this, and I have forgotten what I want to say." Tao Yuanming is proper and there is nothing wrong with it.
The second beauty of poetry is that it can give us a poetic life in our daily life.
people can't live too materially. Every day, especially in an environment where efficiency and speed are particularly emphasized, GPA, how my KPI is completed, how my house price fluctuates, and how my stock goes up and down are all these.
Some people say that there is more to life than the present, but also poetry and distance. But note that poetry can bring you far away.
You don't have to go out, you are in the dormitory and in the office, so you can feel the splendor of the sparkling moon through "the moon, grown full now over the sea, at this time of the end of the world".
You don't have to go out, you are in the house, and you can pass the "snow in Xiling, and the Dongwu Wan Li boat is moored at the door", and you can feel the elegance of the silver-clad boat.
What does poetry give us? It gives us a big pattern in our small life.
The beauty of poetry is the third beauty. It has cultivated us in China and our unique national feelings of compassion for others in China.
We China people have a natural sympathy for poverty and oppression.
In the face of the unfairness caused by these gaps, what will Du Fu denounce? "The wine and meat in Zhumen stink, and the road has frozen bones.". The destruction of social production caused by the war, the destruction of the family and the death of people, how would Cao Cao feel, "Bones are exposed in the wild, and there are no crows in a thousand miles".
When you are old, and Wan Li returns after 3 years, you are no longer that young boy, but that old gentleman, standing at the door of your house and welcoming you must be … what is it? "When children meet strangers, they smile and ask where the guests come from". And what you think in your heart must be the sentence "People don't know where to go, but peach blossoms still smile in the spring breeze".
So, facing today's era, I want to say that traditional culture needs to return.