The Significance of Learning Classical Literature

On the Significance of Classical Literature Education

The Chinese nation is an ancient civilization with a long history of thousands of years. In the long process of development, our ancestors created splendid culture. In this vast and profound treasure house of China culture, China's classical literature is an extremely bright pearl. With the changes of the times, people show an indifferent attitude towards classical literature. The author believes that classical literature (works) still contains excellent national spirit and rich cultural connotation, and should not lose its luster and vitality with the changes of the times, which needs to be explored urgently. Making full use of this cultural heritage is not only of positive significance to promoting the construction of spiritual civilization and improving the quality of the people in the new period; We should also guide today's literary creation and develop socialist literature. This paper will expound the significance of classical literature education from three aspects: the aesthetic education function of classical literature, the social and cultural effects of classical literature and its relationship with modern and contemporary literature.

Aesthetic Education Function of Classical Literature

First of all, studying classical literature is to improve the knowledge structure and meet the demand of talents for construction in the new period. As we know, ancient intellectuals knew everything about poetry, ci, classics, classics, literature and fu. Although the times are different and the knowledge structure is quite different, as an educated person and a qualified descendant of the Chinese people, we should know something about these quintessence of Chinese studies. The ancients said that "reading poetry books is full of lofty sentiments", which means that reading can improve people's cultivation and temperament. The influence of China's classical literature can be seen. Even if foreigners are still like this, we should have the responsibility and confidence to learn it well and carry it forward.

Secondly, studying classical literature can improve personality and personal accomplishment. Wang Guowei said: "There are almost no writers who are noble and great without noble and great personality." "Learning to be excellent is an official, and only then can we produce truly great literature."

Social and Cultural Effects of Classical Literature

In recent years, there have been debates on the preservation and choice of traditional culture in academic circles, and some even sang the argument of "total westernization". The author believes that traditional culture must not be discarded and must be critically inherited; The essence of traditional culture still has social and cultural effects that cannot be ignored.

The Relationship between Classical Literature and Modern and Contemporary Literature

We know that any art, in terms of its own law of development, has a relationship of inheritance and development, and literature is no exception. There has never been water without resources, a tree without roots and no inheritance in the world. How can we talk about development and innovation? This kind of inheritance and development relationship also exists between modern and contemporary literature and classical literature in China.

Practically speaking, the brilliant achievements of China's classical literature must have been listed by people with a little knowledge of literary history, so I won't go into details here. In contrast, modern literature is dwarfed. It has been nearly a century since China's modern literature advocated the emergence of vernacular Chinese from the New Culture Movement. In this nearly a century of development, there have been many twists and turns. At the beginning of modern literature, with the efforts of a group of new culture Sports Master, such as Hu Shi and Lu Xun, modern literature had a glorious period from the 1920s to the early 1940s, which produced a large number of classic works and gave birth to a number of literary masters with international influence, such as Lu Xun, Ba Jin and Cao Yu. However, this kind of prosperity is only a flash in the pan, especially since the beginning of the new period, literature is in a marginal state and is going downhill.