Why is Zhihu's classical Chinese not good?

1. Why is the classical Chinese "Zhihu" in Qing Dynasty more difficult to understand? This phenomenon does exist, but it cannot be generalized.

The obscure classical Chinese, such as the wolf in a serial, is indeed more difficult to understand than many classical Chinese in the pre-Qin period. Mainly because classical Chinese is also a kind of writing after all, and writing is used to record language. If the ancients intend to create a word to record what they say every day, then the words and grammar created by the ancients must be consistent with their daily words, otherwise they will find trouble for themselves, which is not in line with their purpose of coining words.

In other words, in fact, at least in the pre-Qin period, classical Chinese was the vernacular Chinese that people said every day. The Analects of Confucius, for example, is that Confucius' disciples remember what the teacher said before his death and record it, which is equivalent to the record of Confucius' daily speech. So at that time, only some vocabulary usage of classical Chinese was unfamiliar to us, and some words didn't change much and didn't even need translation.

However, after the Qin and Han Dynasties, with the gradual evolution of spoken language, language and writing gradually deviated from each other and became bigger and bigger. By the Qing Dynasty, they were completely different. The spoken language of the Qing Dynasty is very close to ours now, but the classical Chinese needs special study, which is suppressed by feudal culture and imprisoned by thoughts, reaching the peak of the eight-part essay in the imperial examination, resulting in many pedantic literati deliberately writing the classical Chinese very difficult and unable to speak human words. Deliberately choose those extremely obscure words to express knowledge. For example, Kong Yiji in Lu Xun's novels is an example. There are several ways to write fennel to show off fennel beans. Can such a person write classical Chinese well?

To put it simply, what was said at that time was the pre-Qin classical Chinese, and it was not necessary to write it out in words. In the case of the separation of spoken and written language, later generations wrote classical Chinese to write written language, and some people went to extremes in the Qing Dynasty, which is why some classical Chinese in the Qing Dynasty were extremely difficult to understand without speaking human words.

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2. What are the advantages of improving classical Chinese? Zhihu can appreciate the beauty of culture by improving classical Chinese. Some classical Chinese texts (including ancient poems) in middle school Chinese textbooks are masterpieces that have been passed down through the ages. They are exemplary and representative in ideological content, emotional factors, artistic skills, language forms, etc. They can directly cultivate the cultivation of middle school students, improve their cultural literacy, and help them become elegant people in the future.

A person with a certain foundation in ancient literature will have appropriate expressions and actions in practical work, and it is easier to get close to success. It makes people full and not frivolous.

Understanding the relationship between ancient and modern vocabulary and expanding language knowledge, modern Chinese and ancient Chinese come down in one continuous line. For example, learning classical Chinese can help us understand the origin, exact meaning and evolution of idioms, and we can also use idiom vocabulary accurately.

Therefore, learning classical Chinese can make our language concise and lively, and improve our reading ability and expression ability.

Learning classical Chinese can improve the ability to use language and form your own creative style. Many great modern writers in China have profound attainments in classical literature and language, and use fixed words, phrases or sentence forms in classical literature flexibly, thus forming their own unique style and becoming literary masters.

Learning classical Chinese can learn from the writing skills of famous ancient writers.

Poems written by ancient writers have their own characteristics in conception, conception, drawing materials, cutting materials, using allusions, planning articles, layout, wording and sentences, narration, description of characters, lyricism, analysis and expression of things. Ancient writers paid special attention to the artistic conception, structure and language of articles, and tried to learn from ancient masters by studying classical Chinese, which helped to improve their literary accomplishment and writing style.

China's influential literature is well versed in China's ancient literature.

The culture of any country has a foundation, and the cultural background of China begins with ancient literature. Learning and reading classical Chinese can make people really get in touch with China's temperament.

Classical Chinese records the ancient cultural heritage of our country. If you don't understand classical Chinese and ancient documents, you can't talk about inheritance, absorption and development.

Students can read China's ancient articles with simple reference books. We can understand the poems of Han and Tang Dynasties, and even the articles of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Bamboo Slips.

However, if the British want to understand the original Shakespeare printed more than 300 years ago, they have to rely on thick reference books to understand it, and it is not easy for middle school students to understand it.

3. What if the classical Chinese is not good? What level do you think?

If it is poor, I recommend you to read The Journey to the West, which is the first novel I read in primary school. You don't think you are inferior to primary school students, do you?

If it goes well, then take a look at the Water Margin and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which are also what I saw in primary school.

Of course, I mean all the original novels, not the illustrated vernacular version for children. ...

Besides, I think Saint Amethyst and Disciple Rules are also very interesting. They are all enlightenment books for ancient students, and they are also easy to understand. You can find a translated version.

The level has gradually improved. You can look at novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties, such as The Scholars, Sanyan Liangpai and so on.

I am not good at classical Chinese. What should I do? Classical Chinese is the carrier of China traditional culture and the root of Chinese culture. Learning classical Chinese well is the need of inheriting tradition, cultivating self-cultivation and understanding. However, learning classical Chinese well requires mastering skills. Many parents are anxious about their children's poor study of classical Chinese, which affects their grades. "If a worker wants to do a good job, he must sharpen his tools first." Good methods can help us get twice the result with half the effort. Here I introduce several effective methods that I have summarized or classic:

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First, listen.

Listen to the demonstration, including the recording demonstration, the teacher reading the demonstration, etc. Standard reading can not only achieve the purpose of pronouncing sentences, but also be a process of understanding text language and feelings. Because as a demonstration reading, especially the reading of some broadcast artists, it is a second creation that carefully understands the main idea of the article. Just like today's children can talk about TV advertisements, listening to high-quality demonstration reading may even make us recite classical Chinese before listening to lectures, and at least remember some classic sentences.

Listening to the explanation means listening to the teacher in class. The teacher's explanation will make us understand faster and more accurately. We understand, like and love the ideological and artistic nature of words. Of course, learning becomes a happy thing at this time.

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Second, reading.

Paying attention to reading is one of the most important ways to learn traditional Chinese characters. The first thing to read is "Let it come out of my mouth." According to Zhu, to this extent: a word can't be wrong, a word can't be missing, a word can't be added, and a word can't be inverted. He asked students not to memorize, but to read more natural buzzwords and never forget them. Secondly, the essence of reading is not to let go of every word in the study of key classical Chinese. For example, the accumulation of content words in classical Chinese in junior high school is the main thing.

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Third, write

1, rewrite, that is, keep the ideological content of the original, and only change the classical Chinese into vernacular Chinese. Don't be a translator, for example, you can change the style, structure and person. For example, the well-known "Lost" was changed into the novel "Non-attack" by Lu Xun. It can be seen that successful rewriting is the deepest understanding of classical Chinese.

2. Expanding writing is to expand and supplement the original text on the basis of maintaining the original intention, so as to enrich it. This is especially important for the study of ancient poetry, and the characteristics of poetry determine its leap. And the perfect expansion gives this jump the best transition. This is a great opportunity for us to understand poetry.

Why don't people like reading classical Chinese nowadays? The first reason is that classical Chinese is obscure.

The randomness of the second classical Chinese grammar is hard to understand.

Third, too many pronouns make the sentence appear incomplete.

The fourth kind of people have insufficient respect for the ancient culture of China. Not many people care about the quality of China literature, but almost everyone will care about the quality of English learning.

Fifth, the widespread use of vernacular Chinese, indeed, classical Chinese has too many shortcomings in vernacular Chinese, which is not conducive to low-level communication.

Sixth, education lags behind. I want to say that as long as we learn classical Chinese well in junior high school and senior high school, it is not difficult to understand classical Chinese. The problem is that our education and learners have not kept up.

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