Why study ancient poetry? What are the benefits?

First of all, learning ancient poems 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.