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Mr. Nan Huaijin talks about children reading the Bible

Classical Reading--Mr. Nan Huaijin talks about children reading the Bible

Mr. Nan Huaijin talks about children reading the Bible (1)

Today, we're going to talk about what we're used to calling "children reading the Bible," which is the term we're used to talking about lately. The first is that it is not a matter of time before you can get to the bottom of it. Regardless of whether we call it children's reading, children's bible reading, or children's introduction to Chinese culture, in my opinion, in this era, especially in the Chinese nation, in the last 70 to 80 years, when Chinese people hear the word "bible reading", they somehow resent it, thinking that it is a retrogression, or that it is out of fashion. Therefore, I would like to change the name of the work I am promoting to you to "Children's Wisdom Development - Guided Reading of Chinese and Western Cultures". In this way, on the one hand, we can avoid misunderstanding from all sides, and on the other hand, we can establish a new culture for the Chinese people to carry on from the past to the future.

In fact, to quote Confucius, everything has to be "named". What does it mean by "correcting the name"?

It means that we have to be clear about the theme of the matter. In fact, the children's Bible-reading movement that we advocate is a method of memorization, which is to teach people to be willing to read, memorize, and sing, and nothing else. It is to teach children who have just been born to read and memorize books from the age of zero to between the ages of fifteen or sixteen. The content of reading and memorizing includes some very basic books of traditional Chinese culture, Confucianism and Taoism, and even a small part of Buddhism can be included, but in traditional education, it is based on the books of Confucianism, and the books of Buddhism should be read when they are older. The content of the books to be memorized is not only the basic Chinese culture to be memorized, but also the cultures of other countries, such as English, French, German, and so on. In the past, the western method of education, no matter Europe, the United States also like China have to memorize books.

Everyone would find it very strange to think that in this day and age, how can we still teach children to memorize books? The average person doesn't understand that this is a basic method of education that the Chinese have lost, and arguably, the West has forgotten as well. There is only one primitive method of education for human beings, and that is memorization. Especially when reading Chinese books, it is necessary to recite them aloud. What is the rationale for reciting aloud? There are many implications. If you read aloud a lot, you will naturally understand the phonetics of speech and writing. In other words, one understands the phonetics between words and language. No matter whether it is Chinese or foreign language, if you recite aloud and slowly realize it, when you grow up and know the phonetics, you will have a wide range of knowledge in the future. If you study foreign languages, no matter whether it is English, French, or German, you will realize the spelling of phonetics, and you will know it as soon as you learn it. In ancient China, this was a common educational method, and everyone knew it. However, after China began to accept Western culture in this century, the education of children no longer adopted the method of recitation and memorization, but focused on the inculcation of knowledge and understanding. This was due to the influence of the American educator Dewey in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Later on, it influenced the United States, which emphasized "pragmatism" in education and advocated that education is life, overthrowing the system of recitation, which they considered to be a dead-end system for the ancients. They believed that recitation and memorization were like injections, and like feeding a duck, they would only feed people badly. Therefore, for the past hundred years, both Eastern and Western schools have adopted a more laissez-faire approach to educating children, which does not require memorization. All that is required is to know, so as to inspire his mind and develop his intelligence. Especially during the May Fourth Movement in China, influenced by Western culture, the reading of ancient Chinese books was completely overthrown, and new education was accepted, and some textbooks were changed. In the past, we used to read "The University", "The Meanwhile", "The Analects of Confucius", "The Book of Filial Piety", "The Book of Three Characters", "The Book of a Thousand Characters", and then "The kitten barks, the puppy barks, the school year begins, the school year begins, the teacher is good morning, the teacher is good," this is to learn the language, there is no culture, and it has been used up to the present time, and the harm caused by this kind of education method is very great. Therefore, the Chinese people of this generation have become culturally ungrounded. I always say, a country, a nation, the death of the country are not afraid, the most terrible thing is a country and the nation's own fundamental culture died, which will be reduced to the end of the world, will never turn around. We only have to look at the Jews to know this. Since the Exodus of Moses from Egypt, the Jews have always been the first class in the world for 2,000 to 3,000 years, and now, thousands of years later, they have re-established themselves as a nation and founded Israel. For thousands of years, the Jews have been educated in their own independent system, without contact with the outside world, and have always preserved the spirit of their culture. But the people of the world have neglected and belittled this, and we Chinese in particular have paid no attention to it, and this is a very serious problem.

The May Fourth Movement was an attempt to modernize China, to overthrow the old culture, but it did not establish what the new Chinese culture would be. So there was a cut in the back of Chinese culture. Now the cultural fault line in China is very serious. In the past few decades, the new power policies and some new practices have almost dug out the roots. People of our age group, those in their seventies and eighties, are about to die out, and it is almost impossible for us to carry on the past and the future, to carry on the past and the future, so that the national culture of the country can be preserved. Therefore, while we are still alive, we strongly advocate focusing on culture.

After the promotion, what should be promoted? Now back to the original question, that is, the way we let children memorize and recite, without telling the reason. Whether it's the Four Books, the Five Classics, or an ancient book, any passage, like singing, recite it easily and happily, without explaining it to them, or occasionally with a little explanation. After memorizing in this way, it will be useful for the rest of one's life, and one will never forget it. The first thing you need to do is to memorize not only the Chinese culture, but also the foreign languages.

We need to recognize the importance of memorization, and the focus there may not be known. Five thousand years of Chinese culture, as well as Western culture, Siberian communication is also passed down by memorization. Before the Tang Dynasty in China and the twelfth century in Europe, the printing press had not been invented, and there was no paper, so the preservation of human culture depended on everyone memorizing it and passing it on by word of mouth. For example, we all know that Emperor Qin Shi Huang burned books. At that time, the brush had already been invented, and some of them were written on cowhide or sheepskin with a brush, or carved on bamboo sheets with a knife, and then rolled up in one volume, so the reading was done in one volume, so it was called "opening a book is beneficial". Since the Qin Shi Huang burned the books, to the Han Wu Di began to restore the culture again, between the distance of seventy, eighty years, Chinese culture, the Four Books, the Five Classics, Laozi, Zhuangzi, all rely on this old man personally memorized, passed on by word of mouth. Do you think it's like the modern printing press and computer networking? No, they were all memorized. How do they read, the great scholars, how do they read? All memorized. For example, in the past, they memorized the "University" and "Medieval Times", and they would recite them whenever they remembered, from childhood to old age, and Chinese culture was memorized in this way. Even after the Song Dynasty, the invention of printing, but still memorize ah! Because printing books was not very popular at that time, it was also very difficult. Even at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, when I was a child, I still borrowed some books, copied them with my own hands, and then memorized them. At that time, the printing industry was not as developed as it is now, and a book or an article had to be copied by hand three times and memorized for the teacher. People like Lin Zexu, Lin Zexu's good friend Gong Ding Container, all of them memorized books, and memorized very well ah! The method of memorization, not only does not hinder the development of society, but also makes the development of society and culture more developed and refined. However, nowadays people don't understand and think that memorization is the memorization of dead books. As for the theoretical basis of memorization, it involves the science of cultivation, and nowadays, it involves the science of the brain. You can't memorize unless you are dedicated and stabilized. It is not painful for a child to memorize something, it is very happy. Because they concentrate on singing and memorizing, their brains become more stable. Thoughts and behaviors have to change. This is about brain waves, for example, when people talk about cultivation, monasticism, and Buddhist meditation, meditation is to make the brain nerves concentrate on thinking, and when they concentrate on thinking, they will be calm and stable, so that the physiological functions of the body will change and become healthy. When the brain becomes healthy, the thoughts and behaviors also become healthy. There are many, many benefits of memorizing, but nowadays, general medicine, especially brain medicine, has not yet been studied in detail. On this point of brain medicine, I am not an expert, but just to mention, the role of memorization can increase a person's intelligence, memory, thinking ability, so that the mind is more delicate, more detailed.

We now advocate the development of children's wisdom, customary also called reading the Bible, is so an ancient method, so simple a route. This work can be started in every family, take an ancient book can be memorized. We now print these books and send them out, and if someone is willing to memorize them, we will help him.

Q:Someone asked if there is any disconnect between reading the scriptures and the economic benefits?

Answer:If the economic benefit that parents want is that every child should be able to find a job after graduating from school, and be able to earn a living in society, then there are many people who have studied for a university, a master's degree, or a doctorate, and are unable to find a job! As for reading ancient books, will come to the community can not find a job, earn money or earn money, who do not make conclusions? Maybe it's better to read ancient books in the society! For example, I am reading ancient books, memorizing ancient books, I seem to be a little better than you all economic benefits. As for the fear that children will not be economically productive when they grow up after reading ancient books, this kind of thinking is wrong. After the children have memorized the ancient books and really memorized the ancient texts well, and after their wisdom has been developed, they can read the textbooks in schools nowadays and understand them at a glance, and this benefit has already come out. We can see that the current education method, each child from elementary school to middle school, the heavier the backpack, the thicker the glasses, the night to do homework until nine or ten o'clock, every day exams, year after year exams, exams in high school, junior high school readings do not want to, exams in college, the front of the things do not want to, which is all a waste. If you use the method of memorization, the textual foundation, cultural foundation, read these textbooks, and do not spend a few years, as long as a few months, secondary school textbooks will be, understand. This would save a lot of time and a lot of money for schooling. But people do not understand. The theory of economic benefits can be great.

Q:Nowadays, industry is so advanced and finance is developing so fast, and then we read ancient books in reverse, what is the correlation between them?

Answer:Industrial development, industry and commerce for stock, economic and financial development of the era, but also to knowledge ah, knowledge to intelligent command, after reading these ancient books, brain development, learning knowledge is easier, higher intelligence, not only there is no conflict, there are benefits ah!

Q: Children have a lot of homework, then read these ancient books, then there is no time, but also increase the pressure.

Answer:Now in Taiwan throughout the province, Taipei Wei Ge school, as well as many elementary school in mainland China, ten minutes a day, or only spend two half an hour a week to memorize, is equivalent to a week to spend only an hour, just like singing it! This does not add to the pressure of homework. Now that the results have come out, they have memorized more Chinese characters, they can recognize more Chinese characters faster when reading school textbooks, and they can understand them themselves. This will not increase the pressure, but will enable them to open up their minds more easily and happily and increase their knowledge, and it will not impede them at all. I think that the current education system is wasting young people's minds and energy, and the books they read are useless. Like my method, originally I told my children not to go to school to study, I said you are six years old, I teach you six years, packet you directly into the university. But the child's mother does not approve of this approach, then have to listen to his mother ha ha hello, so the child himself suffered. Now a child in Wuhan, Hubei Province, his father taught him to memorize, now 13 years old, to the university. This is also a case of not only not wasting time, but also strive to shorten the education time.

Q:There is another question, after memorizing will always remember?

Answer:Like we came from memorization. Sorry, still can't remember. But do you remember it or not? Remember. I read the book when I was 7 or 8 years old, I am now over 80 years old, you mentioned that point, I can immediately answer, still can not forget, understand, can not forget. Now in school, from the age of 6, read to the age of 20 years old, graduated from the university, get a doctorate, sometimes you ask him, these ten years when the secondary school things, can not answer ah, this is a common thing, it is very obvious thing. Because he refuses to memorize, is to cope with the temporary examination, that is called strong memory, hard memory. "Memorizing is like singing, and you don't have to use your brain. Nowadays, if you use your brain to memorize, you will damage your brain, and this is not recitation. For example, if someone graduates from college and then goes back to memorize, the way he does it is by forced memory, not by recitation. Because he is already an adult, it is strong memorization, recitation is a child, read "The Way of the University, in the bright moral ......" what is the connotation, do not know, is to be able to sing, can read, this is called recitation. In terms of Buddhism, recitation is into the eighth Arya consciousness, memory is the role of the sixth consciousness, is the role of the surface of the brain. For example, if a small child learns an ordinary popular song, he can memorize it just by listening to it, and he doesn't have to put his mind to it, so he will always remember it. Hard memorization does not count. Just as we now see those leaders standing on the stage with their speeches, it is hard memorization. Every day, how to give a speech, is the secretary for him to write a good script, the main points are also you say, but they can not remember. Then you read the script while you are speaking, which is the modern way. Ancient people did not do this. Nowadays, these senior leaders stand on the stage and memorize their own speeches, but they don't know what they are talking about, and this is a very shameful era. In the past, scholars and heroic leaders would not carry a script for their speeches, but would speak directly from their hearts. When we were young, we saw the old-timers of the revolution, the speech on stage never with a script, but recorded is a very good article. Modern people are long-winded, standing there, head down, wearing a glasses, look at it, raise your head to speak a sentence, speak the first half of the sentence, forget the second half of the sentence, they do not know what to say, this is not reading, do not memorize the problem.

For the "Children's Recitation of Chinese Classical Literature" Paradise Mediation (2)

From the traditional Chinese culture, there is an important old question. Why does a person need to study? The most correct traditional answer to this question is "to read to understand". What kind of reasoning is it? It is to understand the reason of being a human being. People are born as human beings, and all of them are naturally capable of being human beings, so why should there be another kind of reasoning for being a human being? It is true that human beings are originally human beings, and that their originality is similar to that of all the "spiritual" creatures in the world. However, our ancestors, especially our Chinese ancestors, started to establish a set of culture as early as 5,000 years ago to educate our descendants on how to understand the basic principles of human ethics, and then expanded to how to "live" and how to "survive" in this world, which is totally different from the primitive state of all "primate" creatures. Of course, it also includes 'scientific', 'philosophical', 'religious', 'artistic' and other civilizations.

What is the purpose of education for the Chinese people? Let us repeat: it is to be human. It is not to "live". Because the meaning of "life" is that people have to "live" in this world, how to maintain their own lives, and at the same time, to make everyone have a better "life", to live a very comfortable and happy life. After reading and understanding, because of the development of "wisdom" and "intelligence", it is easy to understand the "techniques" of making a living and various kinds of "intelligence" that are favorable to making a living. It is also a matter of course and necessity that one should be able to read and understand the way of human relationships.

But it is a pity that the basic purpose of culture and education, as recognized by modern people, is only to make a living. We want our children to study, to be educated, so that they can have a good career, a good salary, or to earn a lot of money and have a good "life" in the future. Some people even pin their hopes on their children for their life's disappointments or for what they have failed to do in their lives, and try desperately to force them to go to school and study. Without considering the children's "aptitudes" and interests, and without understanding the children's brain power and health, they just force the children to study and learn, not realizing that "love does harm," and thus, it harms the children's life consequences. In particular, modernized schools and extracurricular tutorials are simply a way of "fishing to the depths of the sea", causing the brain health of underage children to suffer from overloading, which is the most serious problem.

In fact, the general public is too young and modernized to realize how easy and enjoyable the traditional education methods of the past were, which enabled children to achieve a high level of literacy in an atmosphere of singing and dancing. This is the realm of what the ancients called "the song and the strings never end". In particular, the ancient books used are the crystallization of many aspects of "wisdom", such as "humanities" and "natural sciences", which is why people in later generations respect them as "classics". Moreover, these so-called "classic" ancient books are "literary" works of art, so they are also called "articles". A good "essay" is a piece of "literary" art, and it must be very catchy, that is, it must be sung in a very rhythmic manner. This is the same for both ancient and modern vernacular languages. Therefore, the ancients made the most difficult to memorize "arithmetic" and other "astronomy", "geography", "physics", etc., into "songs" to be sung and "recited" in a loud voice. That was the most brilliant method, so that children did not have to rack their brains to memorize, but naturally entered into their memory, and would not easily forget even after a lifetime of old age. Moreover, just like computers nowadays, they can recite it on their lips as soon as they move their consciousness. As long as there is a good teacher who understands this kind of education method which is not "injecting", the "injecting" effect of "heuristic" can be achieved naturally.

I have lived eighty years since I was a young boy, experiencing firsthand the old and new ways of teaching reading. From the age of twelve, I was a student and a substitute teacher. Afterwards, I have experienced a variety of educational methods, including literary, martial arts, worldly, worldly, Chinese, and Western, and I have been a student and a teacher, and I have been able to see the present, and I y feel that the modern school education method, as well as the educational requirements of parents for their children, are all very biased, and that we should "turn the tables on ourselves", and not come back to make mistakes for ourselves and for others. However, cultural education is a major issue for all people in the country, and I am not qualified or capable of remedying it. But I am glad to see that we have the heart to try the traditional cultural education method, for the next generation of the nation's youngest, cultivate the culture of reading seeds, so that they know "the way of human life" of the "humane" reasoning, know the "way of life" of the "art of life", know the life of the "literary" realm, can not help but to make a person tired of eyes suddenly open, glad to be happy for the intermediary.

Ding Chou Spring April 25, 1997

Questions and Answers on Reading the Bible (3)

Q: Is it possible to read the Bible and educate through the ancient and modern world, because reading the Bible is rather boring?

Teacher A: recitation do not feel novelty, this is an ancient method, to what I know of recitation, foreign countries, like reading English, French, German, the whole of mankind, and now to talk about learning, you have to pay attention to, probably less than thirty years you see, we talk about world civilization, the future unity of the world's cultures, you should have this vision and the heart of the preparation before you can talk about culture, and do not dead think that Chinese culture is great, and do not humanities foreign culture can not rise, slowly, to the whole of human culture ...... So back then the education of all of us, all recite, English and French the same, and now foreigners find themselves in this area is shortcomings. What is the advantage of memorizing? We know that memorization can cure Parkinson's disease, cure brain disease, and cure the problem of not being able to remember, especially when Americans tell us that it is not good enough to memorize English and German, but it is better to memorize Chinese, which is especially good for cerebral disease. This is the information given to us by foreigners. Once upon a time, people used to learn things by heart. Look at animals, they learn how to bark after their mothers, and the same barking is by heart. If you teach a child to memorize, you are not allowed to be reasonable. I just teach him to memorize and sing. First, we used to recite, for example, to give you the information there is a "University", "University" is the basic education ah, this "University" is I was ten years old to memorize, you say how to memorize it? Like we used to read, do not read the book ...... (teacher demonstration recitation of "University" and poetry, about the fun of private school education) so sing, so memorized, memorized, and then forget, the back mention "night fall crowing", on the "frosty sky". "Frost filled the sky" will come. If you don't use your brain, you have to think about which verse to memorize and then finish it, it's not called memorization. For example, I often tell young people to memorize, especially in English also need to memorize, the former English education, first learn phonetics, first learn grammar, now first learn language, this is different, so the benefits of memorization, but also can cure, but also sing, but also can recite the scriptures, but also to deal with ghosts ah, and sometimes ghosts ah, you recite the sound of the back of the book, the ghosts taught to run away (laughs) Believe or not in you, say or not to say in me ah (a laugh).

Q: How to deal with the relationship between traditional culture and industrial and commercial culture?

The teacher replied: traditional culture and industrial and commercial culture of course there is a relationship between the traditional civilization or industrial and commercial culture, modern technology night good. Eh, we are not a person ah, ask ourselves, of course, is an individual. We are not a Chinese, of course, is a Chinese, we are the same as the old ancestors, the same ah! Since we are the same, we are all one person, no matter how the times change, it is important for us to stand up for ourselves. Modern civilization is just a new way of acceptance. Especially long time civilization see more, see the new civilization, and the new civilization and the new civilization a combination, you have the highest wisdom ah. It doesn't make any difference. People have always been like this, and modern civilization hasn't changed a single person, has it? I also often tell you, pay attention, there is a western data, this data in the British National Museum, now open, the British have data there, hundreds of years of research on the human race, the Chinese, yellow, white, black, brown, match them, before the white people do not tell us, but now there is no way to do, they all know. After a pairing, bad, as long as which kind of people and yellow people married ah, the first generation born black eyes, the second generation of black hair, the third generation have become yellow. It's true. So you ask Chinese culture and Western culture, you care about it, you Chinese people what culture to melt away to you, all "yellow" (laughter).

The question is: What kind of traits should be molded into the contemporary students to be truly adult, and to be able to ride the world in the future and become the world's great heroes?

The teacher replied: this question I often tell young people, four words, an intellectual this era to develop: the characteristics of Zuoer, what is meant by Zuoer? Each person to develop an independent moral character. Do not follow the transformation of the times. Not to be turned by the world, not to flow into the vulgar. Nowadays, people desperately want to talk about getting rich, what is the use of getting rich. It is very difficult to make money, and even more difficult to spend money. Many friends say that they want to do good things, and I ask you if you know how to use money. You do not know how to spend money, for example, you learn Buddhism and religion, then well, I now give you 100,000 dollars, tell you to 100,000 dollars tonight to do good things to spend a hair left over, you spend, come back to me and then give you two hundred thousand, but you really can not do. As for you to the Karaoke, to the lady rouge powder money, a million dollars at once sent out, then spend money? That's what anyone would do. Really every dollar has done good things, really can not do. Doing good things also have to have good karma, but also have the blessing, but also have the opportunity to do it! Every day want to do good, good people, blow blow easy ah, good people have no example of ah, good thing is no opportunity for you to do ah. So you have to cultivate a unique, independent personality.

About the language (4)

The ancient Chinese understood that the language at most thirty years a change, due to the different places brought about by the language change is also a kind of, so the language and the text off. The descendants only need to spend two years of time speech, learned a couple thousand characters, more than a few thousand years of books can be read. Foreign languages are different. English, for example, now has one or two hundred thousand words and is still going strong. Ancient books written in a foreign language more than a hundred years ago are now unintelligible and must be studied by experts. Chinese writing is different here.

Chinese cultural treasures a key to open, is the ancient language. If you learn the ancient language and poetry well, you will naturally be able to write well in vernacular language and poetry.