I am in favor of the debate about the usefulness and uselessness of learning classical Chinese.

Classical Chinese comes from vernacular Chinese, characterized by writing based on words, paying attention to the use of allusions, parallel prose, neat rhythm and no punctuation, including strategies, poems, words, songs, stereotyped writing, parallel prose and ancient prose.

The characteristics of classical Chinese are: separation of speech and writing, concise writing.

Compared with the vernacular (including spoken and written language), the characteristics of classical Chinese are mainly manifested in grammar and vocabulary.

The first word "Wen" means beauty. The word "Yan" means writing, expressing and recording. The word "classical Chinese", that is, written language, has long occupied a dominant position relative to "spoken language" in ancient China. After the May 4th Movement, vernacular Chinese was qualified to become a formal written language. The last word "Wen" refers to works, articles, etc. , and represents the genre.

"Classical Chinese" means "beautiful language articles", which is also called stylistic writing. And "vernacular" means: "articles written in ordinary and simple oral language" such as "have you eaten?" .

In ancient China, it was different to express the same thing in "oral language" and "written language". For example, if you want to ask someone if they have eaten, you can express it in spoken English. Did you eat? And expressed in written language, it is "rice?" . "Fanbu" is classical Chinese. Here, the noun "Fanbu" is used as a verb, which means to eat.

In the history of China for thousands of years, great changes have taken place in spoken English, but the classical Chinese has always maintained a similar format. Classical Chinese can make users of different languages "talk in writing", which is a fixed format but not very difficult way of communication.