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Introduction language is a cultural symbol rooted in the national soul and blood. For a long time, Chinese has stood out, showing the profound and profound cultural "heritage" of the Chinese nation. However, there is a strange sight at present: when many people abroad are enthusiastic about learning Chinese, the enthusiasm of China people seems to have some faint taste. China people and foreigners have contradictory attitudes towards China people. ...

Language is not only a tool of expression, but also closely related to a nation's cultural psychology and way of thinking. It records the cultural traces of a nation and becomes the blood for the continuation of history and the future. If the characteristics of any culture are expressed in its own language, then protecting the language is actually protecting the culture and protecting the cultural genes on which it depends.

Domestic "weakness": excluding Chinese in the national territory?

In 1970s, writer Yu Guangzhong wrote Mourning the Decline of Chinese, lamenting the decline of modern China people's mother tongue ability. In fact, the current situation is even worse. English worship is sweeping China. Learning English is really "starting from a doll", and many children who are still babbling are involved.

Academia-lamenting that Chinese has become a second-class language: A professor of Wuhan University once said with emotion in a speech that Chinese is becoming or has become a weak language and a second-class language in China. The students who are full of the spirit of free debate here are in an uproar and refute with the view that "language has no class" However, after listening to the speaker's "Does a foreigner need to test our Chinese for promotion, secondary school, university, postgraduate entrance examination and doctoral study?" After the rhetorical question, the audience became silent.

Chinese Community-Chinese Physicists' Congress forbids speaking English: The 4th Global Chinese Physicists' Congress, which ended in Shanghai, gathered more than 500 academic elites. Although they are all yellow skin and black hair, all the papers on the conference website, from speeches to questions, and even the guides at the entrance of the venue are in English. A Ph.D. student at the University of Hong Kong wondered: Why is there no Chinese in the thesis collection? Someone failed to apply for a report in Chinese. Professor Ding Zhaozhong, the Nobel Prize winner, insisted on making a report in Chinese, and became the only person who "acted against the trend". Professor Ding's English ability is beyond doubt, but he has made a firm voice in his mother tongue! While expressing his academic thoughts, Ding Zhaozhong also expressed his cultural feelings beyond the physical meaning.

Cultural Circle-Suffering from Cultural Aphasia: Writer Yu Hua said: "When our generation of writers started writing, the translation of novels should be the most affected. Classical literature has little influence, and modern literature is even smaller. I have always believed that the contribution to the construction and development of China's new Chinese should be attributed to the translators who have found the middle way between China and foreign countries. They not only conveyed the charm of overseas works in Chinese, but also enriched the expressive force of Chinese ... "In China culture, almost all contemporary China writers are between Europeanized Chinese and translated Western languages. This is true in the creative world, but it is difficult for critics and theorists to surpass it. For more than 100 years, our academic discourse has been "westernized", and we rarely use traditional classical literary theories in terms of concepts, categories and theoretical propositions. Therefore, a few years ago, literary theorists initiated academic discussions such as "cultural aphasia" and "modern transformation of China's ancient literary theory" and began to rethink how to continue and innovate traditional literary theory.

The next generation-what's the use of learning Chinese? At a seminar, some people expressed deep concern about the development prospect of contemporary literature in China. Because contemporary college students, including Chinese majors, have shown shocking indifference to Chinese. This indifference stems from the fact that finding a job with high "gold content" now only needs to learn two skills well, that is, English and computer. I once met a girl's question when I was teaching modern literature: "Teacher, what's the use of learning these?" In this era of extreme expansion of instrumental rationality, she left me speechless.

Foreign "craze": Will Chinese become a new powerful language in 2 1 century?

Throughout modern history, there have been two "Chinese fever" in the world. The first time was in the 1970s, due to the relaxation of Sino-US relations, China resumed its seat in the United Nations, and an upsurge of learning Chinese rose in the United States, which influenced and promoted the "Chinese fever" in the whole western world. By the early 1980s, Japan had become an economic power, and "China fever" was replaced by "Japan fever". The second time was after the 1990s. Due to the Japanese economic depression, China's reform and opening-up, rapid economic development and rising national strength, the "Chinese fever" has risen again in the world, and it is still in the ascendant.

● People: Recently, I learned from the press conference of the final of the 3rd "Chinese Bridge" World University Students Chinese Contest held in Beijing that with the sustained economic development and the continuous improvement of China's international status, especially after China's entry into WTO and Beijing's successful bid for the Olympic Games, Chinese has been paid more and more attention by all countries. In recent years, the number of people learning Chinese in the world has greatly increased. At present, there are more than 25 million foreigners learning Chinese all over the world.

Among the foreign students who were admitted to China in 2003, 60,000 of them specialized in learning Chinese. In 2003, the Chinese Proficiency Test was set up in 87 cities in 35 countries, and a total of 330,000 foreigners took the test. China government has sent 140 Chinese teachers to 62 countries, and this year, for the first time, it sent 100 international Chinese teacher volunteers.

It is reported that there is a craze for learning Chinese in many countries. South Korea generally offers Chinese classes in middle schools; There are more than 6,543,800 people studying Chinese in Japan, and more than 400 high schools offer Chinese courses. More than 100 middle schools in France have offered Chinese courses, and more than 8,000 students have learned Chinese.

In addition, in countries all over the world, students used to learn Chinese, but in recent years, the number of business people learning Chinese has increased significantly.

United States-Chinese has become the second largest foreign language after Spanish, and bilingual teachers are becoming more and more popular. Chinese courses and examination items for pre-university students are offered in senior high schools. The United States has also incorporated the Chinese learning plan into the advanced curriculum of middle schools and implemented it in 2006.

Germany-According to the statistics of the German Chinese Association, up to now, 50 middle schools in Germany have offered elementary Chinese courses. 1998, the German culture ministers' meeting reached a consensus and formulated the Chinese test standard for the senior high school entrance examination. Beautiful Chinese characters are not only the patterns on T-shirts and the decorations on lampshades, but also the items of some middle school students in Mü nster, western Germany.

South Korea-Nearly 400,000 people study Chinese, and 20,000 people take the Chinese proficiency test every year. Chinese is becoming a hot topic of employment there. More than 100 universities in France also have more than 10 Chinese majors, and more than 100 primary and secondary schools offer Chinese courses.

Thailand-Various Chinese schools have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. Public and private primary and secondary schools are scrambling to set up Chinese departments or classes, and more and more people, whether Chinese or other ethnic groups, are learning Chinese. Then, Pangu Bank and Taihua Farmers Bank, two major commercial banks in Thailand, opened Chinese websites one after another, and Thais flocked to China for sightseeing, and the economic and trade exchanges and cooperation between Thailand and China became increasingly enthusiastic.

● Prediction: Yan Meihua, director of the Office of the National Leading Group for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, believes that at present, the global Chinese fever is generally warming up. About 100 foreigners from more than 25 million to 30 million countries have studied Chinese, and the number of foreigners taking the Chinese proficiency test has increased sharply, reaching 80 thousand last year. The international community predicts that Chinese will become a new powerful language in the 2 1 century, and it will surpass English and become the language with the largest number of users in the world.

In order to cope with the rising "Chinese fever", the China government attaches great importance to the promotion of Chinese in the world, so as to enhance understanding and friendship with people of other countries and promote economic and trade exchanges and scientific and cultural exchanges. Therefore, in 1987, a national leading group for teaching Chinese as a foreign language was established, which was composed of the State Council 1 1 departments.

Calm thinking as a China person.

Intensive communication between languages is an inevitable product under the background of modern society. It is normal for foreigners to learn Chinese and China to learn foreign languages. But in this process, we must first understand the purpose, means and scale of learning.

Mr. nan huaijin once said, "What a child remembers in childhood, like a daily diet, will become nutrition and a part of life. When he grows up, he will naturally use it in studying, working and treating others." Therefore, please give children more time to learn their mother tongue. We should create conditions for them to study "the most beautiful language in the world"-their mother tongue, before their mother tongue learning has begun and their hearts have not been occupied by western concepts. It is also necessary to cultivate their affinity and sense of identity with China's traditional culture, deepen their cultural accomplishment in China, and make them more creative and cultural soul in their future study.

Paying attention to English is understandable, because English is an indispensable tool in international trade and communication, and mastering English will broaden the channels of contact with the outside world. Statistics show that the official language of 45 countries in the world is English, and13 people in the world speak English, 75% of TV programs are in English, more than 80% of scientific and technological information is expressed in English, and almost 100% of software source code is written in English. In addition, in today's world where many international orders are made by westerners, learning English has evolved from a simple language problem to a rule problem of the international order. This is a problem of language assimilation and isolation, which is closely related to the country's economic development and modernization. If some analysts say that India has sprung up in the information industry in recent years, an important factor is that the official language of India is English, and there are basically no obstacles to international communication.

English is very important, but mother tongue is more important. Because language is not only a tool of expression, the relationship between language and nation is as close as lips and teeth, and fish and water coexist. For all China people, our mother tongue is the carrier and expression of the national spirit, which has lasted for 5,000 years and is the homeland that Chinese culture can never be abandoned. Recently, an article pointed out that "giving up one's mother tongue is actually giving up one's tradition and history, and giving up the cultural genes on which one depends".

China is moving towards internationalization and needs more barrier-free dialogue worlds. But many people who have lived abroad know that even if they speak English as fluently as British and American people, it is still difficult to get real recognition. Communication is not just a linguistic greeting, but a dialogue between cultural background and national strength. China people who yearn for unlimited communication should have more self-esteem and love for Chinese, at least not to let Chinese be excluded in China.

Decades ago, when Ding Zhaozhong delivered his prize-winning speech, he insisted on speaking Chinese, because Chinese was his mother tongue, even though he spoke English much more fluently than Chinese.