How can I learn ancient Chinese well? Are there any tips that work?

First of all, you have to like it. Interest is the best teacher.

The second is to take it step by step. Start by not reading too difficult classical Chinese, reduce frustration and cultivate interest. We can start with the half-literate and half-white works such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and the Ming and Qing dynasties, and gradually move to the Tang and Song dynasties, the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Qin and Han dynasties, and finally to the works of the pre-Qin princes.

Again, we have to work hard. Insist on spending a certain amount of time on this every day (I read one of the articles in "Guwen Guan Zhi" every day before the college entrance examination). Once you start reading a work, you must read it to the end, and you can't retreat from the difficulties, otherwise you won't make progress.

Finally, be well-read. Ancient texts may involve knowledge of history, nature, customs, culture and other aspects, and a wide range of knowledge is conducive to enhancing the understanding of ancient texts (I read a dialogue between Wu Qi and Wei Wuhou about the dangers of mountains and rivers from an old book "The Story of the Struggle of Confucianism" during the Cultural Revolution at home, and it turned out that the college entrance examination question is exactly this paragraph, which has a fluke element, but it is also related to my extensive reading).

Generally, you have to read the Four Books and Five Classics first, because many allusions come from them. If you start from the interest, it is recommended to read the four famous works of the Ming and Qing dynasties, "Three Words and Two Beats", "Mirror Flowers", etc., which are easier to understand, and some allusions can be checked on the Internet, and there are fewer words that you don't understand. If you are patient, you can go and see the "Historical Records".

If the story is not continuous, you can read it in other books.

Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty said, "Read a book a hundred times, and its meaning will be seen by itself." If you are familiar with it, you will not wait for explanation, and you will know its meaning." The ancients were smart, and when young children entered school, the teacher did not talk much about theories, but asked them to memorize the seemingly word-for-word "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names", "Dry Character Text", "Four Books", "Five Classics", etc., over and over again, and the meaning of the article was naturally understood.

Mr. Li Guotao, a literary critic and ** scholar, said that ancient Chinese poetry and ancient texts cannot be memorized. Mr. Guo Moruo also said that the book he memorized when he was a child was like a big iceberg, entering the stomach, and as he grew older, it would slowly melt, and once it melted, it would be a great wealth. It can be seen that the simplest, most effective and most effective way to learn classical Chinese is to read and recite it by heart!

2. Word accumulation.

Learning classical Chinese is like learning a foreign language, without enough vocabulary, everything is in the air, talking on paper, so the accumulation of words is the foundation of learning classical Chinese. Generally speaking, the accumulation of literary words should not be memorized, but should be based on the principle of "words do not depart from words, words do not depart from sentences, sentences do not depart from paragraphs, and paragraphs do not depart from the text", and organically combine the "context" to figure out. Whether it is a real word or a virtual word, its meaning and usage are always displayed in the specific language environment.

In the accumulation of words, it is necessary to know that real words are easier to remember on the surface, but this is the key point, while the meaning of virtual words is more abstract, the frequency of use is high, and the usage is flexible and diverse, which is a difficult point. It is also necessary to know that in learning classical Chinese, real words are more important than imaginary words, and only by mastering real words will virtual words be well mastered; Only by learning real words will virtual words be easily solved. Therefore, in order to learn classical Chinese, we must first accumulate a large number of real words, and we should focus on the accumulation of "multiple meanings of words, active use of word classes, fake Chinese characters, and ancient and modern synonyms" in each textbook.

3. Grammatical induction.

Grammatical induction is to summarize the special grammatical phenomena in ancient Chinese one by one. In addition to classifying and summarizing the grammatical phenomena such as "multiple meanings of words, active use of word classes, common and false Chinese characters, and different meanings of ancient and modern" in real words, it is also necessary to summarize the usage of imaginary words in ancient Chinese, and also to classify and sort out the five main literary sentence patterns: judgment sentences, interrogative sentences, passive sentences, inverted sentences, and omitted sentences.

If you master these grammatical rules, you will be able to learn classical Chinese.

Reciting in a regurgitating state. Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty said, "Read a book a hundred times, and its meaning will be seen by itself."

If you are familiar with it, you will not wait for explanation, and you will know its meaning." "The ancients were smart, and when young children entered school, the teacher did not talk much about theories, but asked them to memorize the seemingly word-for-word "Three Character Classic", "Four Books" and "Five Classics" over and over again, and the meaning of the article was naturally understood.

Mr. Guo Moruo also said, "The book I memorized as a child, like a big iceberg, enters the stomach, and as I get older, it will slowly melt, and once it melts, it is a big wealth." "Pure finish.

It can be seen that the easiest and fastest way to learn classical Chinese is to read more and recite more, and then you can reach the realm of "familiar with 300 Tang poems, and you can sing without composing poems".