Pupils mistake turtles for zodiac signs. How to better popularize traditional culture among primary school students?

A few days ago, about 60,000 fourth-grade pupils in Shenyang, Liaoning participated in the comprehensive evaluation of education quality, involving four subjects: Chinese, mathematics, English and basic literacy. Local educators said that research and monitoring found that students' reading ability was generally weak. /kloc-0.4% of the students mistook foreign festivals for traditional festivals in China, and some students mistook Little Turtle for the Chinese Zodiac. In the fourth grade of primary school, it is incredible that some people drag the little turtle into the zodiac and regard the foreign festival as a traditional festival. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the education of traditional culture common sense in school education.

This is not retro, nor is it a return. It is in this process that China people's inherent knowledge is retrieved and more fully recognized. At present, Chinese textbooks in primary and secondary schools have increased the proportion of traditional culture courses, and some schools are also organizing activities such as classic reading regularly, but these are not enough. Implanting traditional cultural elements into the knowledge system of the new generation of students can not be supported by a few ancient poems and allusions. To really attract the attention of schools and parents, we must find ways to create a rich learning atmosphere.

Common sense of traditional culture is not a simple accumulation of knowledge, but an attitude towards life. We often emphasize that China people should have cultural confidence now, but where does cultural confidence come from? It comes from traditional culture. Only by inheriting, absorbing and immersing can we have confidence in the collision with the outside world. If you lack common sense of traditional culture, even if you have more skills, you are still lame.

Bian Xiao believes that it is time to attach importance to the common sense education of traditional culture. A person's reading history is his spiritual development history. Whether a nation's spiritual development is sound, whether it can inherit traditions and absorb new knowledge, the key lies in whether it has awe of its own history and culture. In this sense, what Mr. Qian Mu said should be "tenderness and respect" for history and should be a wake-up call.