Why is there always such a push to learn ancient texts in today's textbooks?

History has always moved forward, why do our textbooks still promote ancient texts, backwards? History can only move forward, so if we want to learn, we can only learn ancient things. As a matter of fact, although we learn ancient things, the focus is still on modern history. Time can only move forward and not backward, so when we study, which of the three parts of knowledge, the past, the present and the future, can we study?

This is a very valuable question. Many people do not really understand the study of the literary language and think that it is not necessary to spend time on learning the very difficult literary language in today's highly developed information technology. Such a wrong view is not only shared by many students and some adults, individual senior language teachers surprisingly think so too.

In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of ancient poems in language textbooks for primary and secondary schools, which is consistent with the country's strategic policy of revitalizing the national culture. Today, for primary and secondary school students, the study of classical Chinese is not only necessary, but also important, and the fact that the proportion of ancient poems in the examination papers of the middle and high school entrance exams has exceeded 20 percent is a concrete manifestation of its importance.

Decades ago, I have seen Taiwan's secondary school examination paper, in which the proportion of ancient poems is more than thirty percent, much higher than our present, which surprised me, when our secondary school examination paper ancient poems are much smaller than important. Later, when I read the novels of Sanmao and Qiong Yao, I felt that Taoist culture and Song lyrics were like salt in water in their novels, and I y admired them for their strong foundation in traditional culture. Later on, I read Nan Huaijin's The Analects of Confucius, Qian Mu's writings on traditional culture, Chiang Hsun's articles, and Bai Xianyong's novel Taipei People. ...... I was y impressed by the fact that Taiwanese writers and scholars have a much higher level of skills in traditional culture than mainland scholars as a whole. Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are still using traditional Chinese characters, even Japan has retained a lot of things in traditional Chinese culture, their economy and science and technology in many aspects than we are still developed, it is clear that traditional culture does not affect the development of the economy and science and technology, and we are often backward in people's responsibility to traditional culture, not to find the reasons in their own, this is the lack of commitment to shirk the responsibility of the lazy man thought. I'm really worried about not fulfilling the words of Confucius: "The loss of etiquette seeks the wild."

A philosopher once said: If history cannot illuminate the present, the future will be dark. The value of history lies in illuminating the present, but illumination depends on the present to hold up the torch of history. History, the present and the future, are inseparable. Understanding history and learning history is for the sake of the present and the future; deadlocking on history and historical nihilism are both wrong approaches.

The study of the literary language involves the inheritance of ancient culture. Human history is constantly evolving, and knowledge is constantly being updated, but as long as people are still human, there are bound to be many thoughts and feelings that are the same and similar to those of the past and the present, and even if the humanities have evolved and changed greatly, ancient culture can still give us important inspiration.

Some people may say, why don't we just translate it, wouldn't that save us a lot of trouble? The translation of the language and foreign language translation has the same situation, translation is a matter of last resort, and then a good translation is also an itch, and again, language is the carrier of culture, but also culture itself, learning the language, is to learn the ancient culture, only read the translation, just like eating bagasse, not to mention that lyrical stronger poetry is difficult to translate, personal feelings, the experience of the difference between the larger, the Wildfox think that the translation of poetry The argument that translating poetry is absurd, can poetry be translated? Can speak, can explain, translate that is also their own say their own. The translation of last resort is only a means to help us learn and master the language, it can not solve the ultimate problem - the promotion of traditional culture.

The past, which is settled, can be learned. The present, it's on the news, and if you really try to learn it, you can't really learn it. The future, it hasn't happened yet, how to learn? When all is said and done, our options are actually quite limited. If we don't learn from the past, where do we learn? Many people view the world with a "metaphysical" attitude. Often the logic is something like "xx has nothing to do with me, so I don't have to learn it".

What does the ancient world have to do with me? I'm not going to travel back, so I won't learn! The first thing I'd like to say is that I don't want to go abroad, so I don't want to learn! If we follow this logic, we don't need to learn anything. Ancient people have something to do with us, a great deal to do with us. Ancient people's experience teaching, we must learn, but also serious learning, innovative learning. For example, how ancient people got along and did things is not very different from modern people. If we learn the way of life of the ancients, learn the thoughts of the ancients, it will be a very useful guide to modern life.

The ancient people talked about benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith, which are the universal values of human society, not only we should learn them, but also foreigners should learn them, and learning them will make the society more harmonious and the life happier. Foreigners, too, have something to do with us, something very much to do with us. We have to learn, we have to learn seriously and innovatively. Modern science and technology basically come from the West, even now, our country science and technology is not every kind of leading, many aspects we still have to learn from the West. Learning advanced science and technology from the West and borrowing advanced social management methods are all very important.

Whether it is to learn from the West or from the ancients, it is all about improving ourselves and allowing ourselves to have a better future. Only by learning from the past can we face the future! Only by learning from others can you live a better life!

I think there should be not a few people who have this kind of doubt, but this is exactly one of the reasons why we need to strengthen the study of ancient languages, because culture is the root of our nation, without this everyone **** the same recognition of the root, our problems in the future will be more and more serious.

The study of ancient languages is not only to cope with the examination, as far as the study of language is concerned, no one can deny that our traditional language (ancient language) refined, subtle, beautiful and so on, it is the source of modern language, but also the modern language can not be surpassed by the paradigm.

In a word, modern language is enough for communication, but what makes us human is that we have a higher spiritual pursuit, we are not only satisfied with mutual understanding, but also seek to be able to speak elegantly and beautifully, which is our intrinsic need to learn ancient languages.

Additionally, the more important reason for learning ancient languages is that it gives us a sense of national identity, which is an important reason to ensure that our nation has always stood in the forest of the world's nations.

Because, no matter what kind of storms we encounter, the culture inherited from our bones will y influence our thinking and actions. There are some things that we may not be able to see in normal times, but they will come into play at critical times.

Like the old generation of scientists, such as Qian Xuesen, heard the birth of new China, why are willing to give up a good life abroad, rush to come back, because of our traditional culture of "patriotism" gene; why many people outside the wandering all his life, the old would like to return to their hometowns, that is, traditional culture, "leaves return to their homes", the traditional culture of "patriotism". The gene of "leaf returning to its roots" is at work.

Some people say that "science has no borders", there is the ability to play wherever you can, this is a typical fallacy, this kind of person is the traditional Chinese culture can not learn the place, or did not learn the people, science can be no borders, but scientists have borders, the object of the service is a national boundary.

Of course, the significance of learning traditional culture is much more than that, our traditional culture has a lot to learn from our modern people today to learn and learn from, for example, "Sun Tzu's Art of War" in the military thinking, Confucianism, "and", "the middle of the road" idea, Wang Yangming, "the middle of the road" idea, "the middle of the road" idea, "the middle of the road" idea, "the middle of the road" idea, and the middle of the road. The idea of "unity of knowledge and action" of Wang Yangming, and so on.

It can be said that ancient Chinese culture is an inexhaustible "treasure trove" of ideas and wisdom. This is how many foreigners feel envious of things, how can we not know how to cherish it?

Today, some of these things are a bit backward, but more things in today's still have practical significance, and can even be said to hide the mystery of the fate of the future of our humanity, such as the book of "Zhouyi", our understanding of which is far from reaching the heights it deserves.

Said so much, in a word, we have to correctly recognize the great charm of traditional Chinese culture, which has nothing to do with the examination, the examination is only a means, we really want to master and accept is the traditional Chinese culture in some of the core concepts and ways of thinking.

There is no contradiction between these two aspects. History moving forward is the law of history, and promoting the study of ancient texts is a way of passing on the cultural essence of the Chinese nation, not forgetting the solid roots of Chinese civilization, learning from the past and then knowing the new, and boosting the people's cultural self-confidence.

It's like, people's age is always increasing year by year, but we advocate reflecting and summarizing ourselves, and those experiences in the past are also the basis of practice for us to continue to move forward.

After the New Culture Movement, the vernacular language replaced the literary language in literary creation, and literature was popularized so that everyone could read and understand it as long as they were literate. It seems that the vernacular language then became the dregs of feudal society and became of little use, and the point is that those who do not have a basic knowledge of the vernacular language simply cannot read it. So why do we still push the study of ancient languages in primary and secondary school teaching?

Learn ancient languages, understand the long history of the nation and enhance cultural confidence

China's thousands of years of history must be understood through ancient languages. Culture is the foundation of a nation, and a nation without cultural heritage is like a duckweed on water, difficult to stabilize.

On the other hand, by learning popular ancient texts, mastering basic ancient culture and social general knowledge, and exposing students to excellent national culture, it is conducive to enhancing the cultural confidence of the young generation and the cohesion of the whole nation. Miner thinks that this is very important, especially in the era of foreign admiration and pandering to foreigners, in the new era of the national people's expertise to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the excellent culture of the Chinese nation, which has been deposited over thousands of years, is very significant for us to hold on to our own, and keep moving forward.

Learning ancient languages, inheriting traditional Chinese culture, and carrying forward the spirit of the Chinese nation

Culture is the soft power of a country, and excellent traditional culture is the foundation for the establishment of advanced culture. The spirit of worrying about the country and the people, being positive and optimistic, honesty and friendliness shown in the ancient texts in primary and secondary school textbooks is precisely the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation. In today's economic construction-centered world, the spiritual civilization left behind by the ancients still has a strong vitality.

Traditional culture needs to be passed on, the national spirit needs to be inherited, which is the spiritual impetus for us to move forward, no matter how far we go, we can not give up.

There is a saying, "If you don't read, you don't know the greatness of learning." Ancient books, containing thousands of years of wisdom, do you read?

Some people may say, "In modern society, what is the point of reading ancient books? Modern people should read modern books; ancient books are for ancient people.

We can think about the formation of coal. It started out as a tree, and it took millions of years and the weight of the earth's crust to form that little bit of carbon. You could say that coal is concentrated trees. The same goes for books. Human books, through thousands of years of regulations, as vast as the sea, can be handed down to today, is the original few minutes of a few. Can be handed down to the present is still regarded as a classic, and is a fraction of a few. Therefore, reading ancient books is to learn the accumulated wisdom of the ancients.

Books are the crystallization of human wisdom. Read more books, read more ancient books, so that we learn a lot of things of the ancients, to be able to follow the past and contribute to the progress of mankind.

As far as China is concerned, ancient books not only cover multidisciplinary fields, but also many highly sophisticated technologies. There are some things that we modern people don't even understand. The ancients had a lot to learn. Wooden ox flowing horse, who built it? Who built the armillary sphere? Li Bai's poem, can anyone write it now? It is better to learn more.