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How to read classical Chinese?

Question 1: How to understand and recognize ancient Chinese is very simple. First of all, you should lay a good foundation (nominal words, interchangeable words, special sentence patterns, polysemy, compound words with partial correction, literary common sense, ancient rhetoric). Without basic skills, you are reading China's ancient books. Then there is the need to grasp the meaning and central idea, that is, the use of your language sense and skills: skills are to learn to judge the meaning according to the context, determine words through association and analogy, and combine literal translation with free translation to pursue faithfulness, elegance and expressiveness (that is, accuracy, fluency and fluency). For example, Historical Records and Twenty-four History mainly introduce characters, for example, The View of Ancient Chinese is mainly in the form of ancient Chinese. Mastering this law of writing books is helpful to understand the theme and significance of literature. In fact, the most important thing in reading ancient Chinese is persistence. I don't know where to start reading when I first came into contact with ancient Chinese, but I will be proficient if I keep reading.

Question 2: How can I read ancient Chinese? 1. If you want to learn classical Chinese, you must explain and translate it word by word, which requires a lot of literary accumulation. According to the different genres of articles, we can recommend three books: Historical Records, Learning from the Same Experience and Wen Gu Guanzi.

2. Get into the habit of consulting the dictionary frequently. There are great differences between ancient words and modern Chinese words.

3. Cultivate the good habit of reciting more, and recite more articles with high gold content, such as Preface to Wang Tengting and Preface to Lanting Collection.

4. Be good at learning and use it flexibly. When you encounter the word 1, you should think more about whether there is any other explanation for this word. Can you give me an example?

5. The principle of "faithfulness, expressiveness and elegance" should be grasped in translation.

Question 3: How to read classical Chinese? Ancient Chinese has its special language structure. If you learn the Four Books and Five Classics since childhood, ancient Chinese is not a problem for you. Therefore, the only way to learn ancient prose is to be familiar with it and master its rhythm. I suggest you start reading The Analects of Confucius and The View of Ancient Chinese, and get to know the taste. Wang Caigui, a professor at Taiwan Province Normal University, especially advocates this learning method. I suggest you look at his speech at Beijing Normal University in 2003, which can be downloaded from the Internet.

Question 4: How can I understand classical Chinese? I didn't understand it in high school.

Later, I bought a classical Chinese version of Historical Records without translation.

Look at those stories, which are as clear as extracurricular books and novels. It is easy to know the general meaning of the whole sentence, what the whole story is about, and a word has several fascinating meanings. Moreover, historical records are all stories of the ancients and will not be boring.

It's normal not to understand at first. After reading it for a long time, you will find it more interesting than vernacular Chinese, which can arouse your association and stimulate your imagination.

Really can't. Go and buy an ancient Chinese dictionary. ......

Question 5: How to read ancient Chinese is related to one's educational level and historical knowledge. To understand this, you must:

Try to master the meaning of notional words and function words in ancient Chinese.

Master common sentence patterns in ancient Chinese.

Understand ancient names and places.

Understand the ancient laws and regulations system

Understand the traditional culture dominated by Confucianism

Master general idioms and allusions

Keep an ancient Chinese dictionary or dictionary.

Question 6: How can we understand the meaning of ancient Chinese? First of all, you should be able to read, then pause, and then understand the common words in it, so that you can understand it basically.