What is the significance of learning ancient Chinese to modern people?

Significance of learning ancient Chinese prose to modern people;

First of all, learning classical Chinese is an important way to inherit the traditional culture of the motherland, which can help us understand some historical knowledge, literary knowledge and social life knowledge and enhance our ability to understand society and things.

Secondly, ancient Chinese is the basis of modern Chinese and the "source"; Modern Chinese is the inheritance and development of ancient Chinese, and it is a kind of "flow". They are different stages of the development of the same language, not two languages. Many words in classical Chinese are still preserved in modern Chinese. For example, Shen Fu, a writer in Qing Dynasty, is still using modern Chinese. Therefore, learning classical Chinese can enrich our language warehouse and improve our language level.

Classical Chinese is an ancient written language, but it comes from ancient spoken language, and modern Chinese also comes from ancient spoken language. The similarities between the two are primary and the differences are secondary, so it is not difficult to learn. We should have confidence in learning classical Chinese well.

Methods of learning classical Chinese well:

The key to learning classical Chinese well is to cultivate a sense of language. There are "three elements" to cultivate a sense of language:

First of all, you must be familiar with reciting texts before you can be familiar with the expressions and language habits of classical Chinese. Reading aloud is a traditional learning method in China. As the saying goes, "read a book a hundred times and you will understand its meaning." Classical Chinese is concise and elegant, which is a good material for learning a language. Many great writers have profound language skills, which is due to their familiar reading and reciting of ancient Chinese. For example, when Ba Jin was 12 or 13 years old, he could recite China's ancient literary classics by heart, and Wu Han had already recited the Three Character Classics before he was 13 years old.

Second, we should use our own heart to understand, with the aim of integrating "speech" and "meaning" and knowing "meaning" by looking at "speech". How to do this? As mentioned above, classical Chinese and modern Chinese are in the same strain, and many words and meanings are interlinked. For example, the "period" in Chen Taiqiu and his friends means "agreement", which is consistent with the meaning of "period" in modern Chinese. For another example, the word "name" in "Can't tell a place" ("Kouji") is similar to the meaning of "name" in modern Chinese, and both mean "speaking". Only by understanding with your heart can you know what you are saying and what you mean, which is very important for learning classical Chinese.

Third, we should actively accumulate vocabulary in order to master the expression tools of classical Chinese. For example, the understanding of generic words, the understanding of the usage of function words such as "zhi", "qi" and "yi", and the ancient and modern changes in the meaning of words.

Learn and summarize, accumulate constantly, and you can master the law. Mastering the rules will make it much easier to learn classical Chinese well.

It is not difficult to learn classical Chinese. As long as we build up confidence, master the rules and step by step, we can achieve the goal stipulated in the curriculum standard, that is, we can read simple and easy classical Chinese.