Why do we still need to learn classical Chinese, which is no longer useful?

Measuring knowledge by "whether it is useful or not" is typical pragmatism. The distinguishing feature of pragmatism is the eagerness for quick success. In fact, what is "useless" in the eyes of pragmatists is actually not directly "used", that is, you are not directly making money from this knowledge.

However, there are countless places where mathematics, English, and classical Chinese are indirectly used in life, not to mention that each discipline is imperceptibly improving people's logical thinking ability, judgment ability, and problem-solving ability. It can be said that all subject knowledge is "useless".

It can't be regarded as useless, language is a part of culture, classical Chinese is naturally a part of traditional culture, there is no harm in learning to understand, if it is not for learning ancient poems and ancient texts since childhood, how to understand the pursuit of the ancients "self-cultivation, Qi family, and peace in the world"; How to understand the benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith of "all brothers in the four seas" in Confucianism; And how to enjoy the beautiful scenery of "the kite flying in the sky, looking at the peak and resting the heart"? It is necessary to be able to read a little ancient literature to help understand the history and understand the history and cultural roots of your own country.

Because classical Chinese can make us increase our sense of identity more. Some friends say that algebra, geometry, and functions are also useless in life, but we still need to learn. Yes, we need to learn algebra and geometry because it trains our logical thinking.

Learning classical Chinese, poetry, songs, and songs will unconsciously change or improve a person's thinking ability, imagination ability, language organization ability, text modification ability, and several other abilities. If you don't compare these abilities with others, you won't perceive these benefits.

In any sense, language proficiency is a concentrated expression of cultural quality. Language proficiency is usually summarized into four aspects: listening, speaking, reading and writing, and the core position should be the ability to "read". To study classical Chinese, we should work "reading".

The ancients were familiar with 300 Tang poems, and they couldn't chant poems.

can give us an idea of history. Although we now use vernacular Chinese, if we want to understand history and read classical classics and history books, all of them are in classical Chinese. Therefore, classical Chinese is not insignificant.

When I was a child, I memorized a lot of classical Chinese and ancient poems, and I felt miserable at the time, but now looking back, there is no more beautiful text than them. At that time, I felt that the most difficult "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng", from any paragraph in the text, I took out a few sentences casually, which were all amazing sentences, such as: Luoxia and the lonely bird fly together, and the autumn water grows together in the sky.

In just 14 words, it presents a beautiful artistic conception that is difficult to depict in hundreds of words in the vernacular.

Classical Chinese teaching plays a pivotal role in high school Chinese teaching, and it accounts for a large proportion of both new textbooks and new readers. In recent years, the type, difficulty and proportion of the Chinese part of the national college entrance examination have almost formed a pattern.

Now that they don't know how to write in classical Chinese, why do students still need to learn classical Chinese?

1. Classical Chinese is Chinese culture.

of the root and soul. China's Confucianism, Taoism, Law and other hundred schools of thought are all presented in the form of classical Chinese. Those are the crystallization of the wisdom of Chinese who have gone through countless generations.

Using Chinese characters and speaking Chinese is the Chinese culture that Chinese should inherit. Classical Chinese culture, the prose of the hundred schools of thought, Han Fu.

Tang poetry, Song poetry, Yuan song, Ming and Qing dynasties are the root and soul of Chinese culture. If students learn classical Chinese well, their language proficiency will get better and better, and they will get closer and closer to Chinese culture.

2. To build a national brand, it is inseparable from classical Chinese. Culture is soft power.

The competition in today's world is a competition of hard power and soft power. The four classics, Tang and Song poems, are all unique Chinese culture. Establishing a national brand is inseparable from traditional culture.

Traditional culture is also inseparable from classical Chinese.

3. In order to take the exam, I have to face the reality. Whether it is the high school entrance examination or the college entrance examination, whether it is the syllabus or the examination syllabus, classical Chinese reading is an indispensable examination content. Whether you have an opinion or not, it is an objective existence, an objective existence that is not subject to your will.

You can keep your point of view, but you can only face life and reality.

4. For the needs of the profession and the pursuit of ideals. My friend's child was admitted to Sun Yat-sen University after the college entrance examination.

of the medical profession, issued notices and summer assignments. In the homework, he asked to read "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing", and the key sentences required translation. This is a career requirement.

In addition, there are many majors such as language, philosophy, history, archaeology, and traditional Chinese medicine. If you have a poor knowledge of classical Chinese, you may lose your job in that industry.

5. Many parents think that memorizing ancient poems is just for exams, and urge their children to learn according to the guidance of memorization, dictation, and interpretation. It is easy for children to lose interest in learning ancient texts, especially in primary school, and force it as a learning task without knowing more. Mr. Kojima advises parents to find interesting reading history materials for their first and second graders.

Because learning classical Chinese helps to understand the history and culture of ancient times, it is important for students to learn classical Chinese.

Because learning classical Chinese can allow us to better learn traditional Chinese culture, and some articles are beautiful that cannot be shown in vernacular Chinese, we can better inherit Chinese culture, improve students' cultural literacy, stay up late to their sentiments, and shape students' values.

I think the main purpose is to learn about Chinese traditional culture, which is broad and profound, and needs to be passed on from generation to generation.

Although it is said that classical Chinese is not used when writing, the value of classical Chinese is very high, so students still have to learn it.

1. The spiritual values reflected in classical Chinese are worthy of our learning, for example: "If you are poor, you will be good to yourself, and if you are good, you will help the world", the worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world", which shows that the intellectuals of the past generations regard serving the country and the people as the highest ideal; The road is long, I will go up and down and seek", the pursuit of the value of life, the realization of the ideal of life of the spirit of the socks; These spiritual values are worth learning from my friends.

2. Promote traditional Chinese culture. Learning classical Chinese and inheriting traditional culture is the foundation of Weizhi's good branch education. The most important carrier of Chinese traditional culture is the classic ancient poems, if you can't study it carefully, how to cross the river of tradition and reach the other side of modernization.

3. The traditional Chinese culture reflected in classical Chinese has become the Great Wall of Culture in China and even the world, witnessing and constructing an important part of human civilization, and has a direct and far-reaching impact on the cultural evolution and civilization progress of Japan, South Korea and many countries in the world.

4. The significance of learning ancient poetry lies in the improvement of cultural literacy. It can give us inspiration in thinking, literary enjoyment, and imagination in amazement.

Articles are supposed to replace words, and all articles should be words, but they are written in words instead of speaking with their voices; There will never be anything other than words. The so-called literary language is actually the language of ancient times.

Words are subject to change. The ancient people wrote articles according to the language of the time, which were passed down to future generations, and the people of later generations imitated them in the same way, regardless of the changes in the language. Therefore, the words are self-talking, and the articles are self-articles, obviously the descendants of the people, when writing the articles, they do not follow the words of the time, and they must follow the words of the ancients to be considered a fit. Hence the literary style.

At present, China uses a style of language and vernacular. However, the books that have been handed down in the past are all written in the classical Chinese style, and some articles in the society still use the classical Chinese style. Therefore, we ourselves can stop writing articles in classical Chinese, but in order to read ordinary books and other articles written in classical Chinese, and in order to absorb the cultural wisdom of ancient times, we still have to know classical Chinese.

The division of literary style and language style has become stricter in modern times, which is obviously related to the examination system of the imperial examination. The articles written by the ancients always reveal the elements of the language at that time, and the modern articles, as long as they have nothing to do with the imperial examination, can often see the elements of language in the literary language. There have been many articles with a mixture of literary style and language style since ancient times.

For example, most of the lyrics and songs in the opera are in the literary style, but most of the white words are in the language style, and the vernacular "white" character comes from here. This is clearly evidence of the mixture of literary and linguistic styles. In addition, such as the ** of the romance style, such as the quotations since the Song and Yuan dynasties, such as ordinary family letters and other articles, there are many words preserved in the original appearance.

1. Why should we learn classical Chinese?

1. Inherit the excellent traditional culture and carry forward the national spirit. The study of classical Chinese is an important way to inherit Chinese culture, carry forward the national spirit, and improve one's own quality.

2. Promote the learning of modern Chinese and improve the level of Chinese language. Ancient Chinese is the foundation and "source" of modern Chinese, and modern Chinese is the inheritance and development of ancient Chinese. Studying classical works and absorbing vibrant and expressive ancient languages is an important way to improve language proficiency.

2. What is the use of classical Chinese:

1. Cultivate a variety of abilities and improve aesthetic literacy.

2. The classical Chinese language is beautiful, the rhythm is neat, the sound is harmonious, and the regular recitation not only cultivates the sense of language, but also improves the memory ability.

3. Although it is difficult to understand classical Chinese due to the gap between language, the times and the ideology, it can exercise and improve students' comprehension and analytical and critical skills, so as to form a dialectical materialist viewpoint.

1. What is classical Chinese: Classical Chinese is a written language in ancient China, which mainly includes a written language formed on the basis of the spoken language of the pre-Qin period. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the items used to record the text have not been invented, and the words used to record the text are bamboo slips, silk and other things, and the silk ** is expensive, the bamboo slips are bulky and the number of words recorded is limited, in order to be able to write down more things on the "one roll" bamboo slips, it is necessary to delete the unimportant words.

Later, when "paper" was used on a large scale, the ruling class's habit of using "official documents" had been formalized, and the use of "classical Chinese" had evolved into a symbol of reading and literacy. After the 20th century, in China, the status of classical Chinese was gradually replaced by vernacular. Classical Chinese is relatively vernacular Chinese, and its characteristics are based on words, focusing on allusions, battles, neat rhythms and no punctuation, including strategies, poems, words, songs, eight strands, ancient Chinese and other literary styles.

In order to make it easier to read and understand, classical Chinese in modern books is generally marked with punctuation marks.

2. Introduction to Classical Chinese Sentence Patterns: Classical Chinese sentence patterns are basically the same as modern Chinese sentence patterns. They are all divided into single sentences and complex sentences, and they all have six components: subject-verb-object and definite complement.

The word order of the sentences is also basically the same. Of course, there are still differences between them, and when learning classical Chinese sentence patterns, we must strive to grasp the differences between them and modern Chinese sentence patterns. Although the sentence forms of ancient Chinese and modern Chinese are basically the same, some special sentence patterns have emerged because some real words in classical Chinese are different from those used in modern Chinese.

If you want to learn classical Chinese well, correctly understand the meaning of sentences, and comprehend the content of articles, you must master the special sentence patterns of classical Chinese. The special sentence patterns we often talk about in literary language are judgment sentences, omitted sentences, inverted sentences, passive sentences and fixed sentence patterns.