Why should we study classical Chinese? What is the use of classical Chinese?

Studying classical Chinese can enable us to appreciate the beauty of culture and improve our temperament and cultivation. Some classical Chinese texts (including ancient poems) in middle school Chinese textbooks are famous works by famous writers that have been passed down through the ages. They are exemplary and representative in terms of ideological content, emotional factors, artistic skills, and language forms. They can directly cultivate the cultivation of our middle school students. , improve the cultural literacy of middle school students, make them enriched and not frivolous, and help them become a person with elegant temperament in the future.

Learning classical Chinese can make our language concise and clear, and improve our reading and expression skills. Understand the relationship between ancient and modern vocabulary through classical Chinese and expand language knowledge. Modern Chinese and ancient Chinese are of the same origin. By studying classical Chinese, you can understand the origin, exact meaning and evolution of idioms, and you will be able to use idiom words accurately.

Learning classical Chinese can improve our ability to use language and form our own creative style. Many modern and contemporary great writers in our country have profound classical literary accomplishments and language accomplishments, and flexibly use words, phrases or sentence forms fixed in classical literature, thus forming their own unique styles and becoming the names of literary masters. However, if you read carefully the so-called works of some modern "famous" "writers", you always feel that they are shallower than the works of those literary masters of the past. Why? It also lacks cultural heritage. The root cause of the lack of background lies in the lack of accumulation of classical literature, so even if it is a hit, it will soon fade away.

Learning classical Chinese allows us to learn from the writing skills of ancient famous writers. The poems and essays written by ancient writers have their own unique characteristics in terms of conception, conception, material selection, material cutting, allusion, plot planning, layout, word choice, sentence making, narrative, scene description, person recording, lyricism, analysis, and description of objects. Characteristics, ancient writers especially attached great importance to the artistic conception, structure and language of their articles. Studying classical Chinese and trying to figure out the methods of ancient famous writers will be of great benefit to improving their literary accomplishment and writing ability. All of China’s most influential writers are proficient in ancient Chinese literature.

The culture of any country has a foundation, and the foundation of Chinese culture begins with ancient literature, and classical Chinese records my country’s ancient cultural heritage. Learning classical Chinese and reading ancient Chinese can enable people to truly come into contact with the temperament of China. If one cannot read classical Chinese and cannot read ancient documents, the so-called inheritance, absorption and development will be impossible to talk about.

Today, students can read ancient Chinese articles with the help of simple reference books. We can understand poetry and prose from the Han and Tang dynasties, and even read articles from the oracle bone and bamboo slip eras. However, if the British want to understand Shakespeare's original works printed more than 300 years ago, they have to use thick reference books to understand them. It is not easy for middle school students to understand. This is the embodiment of the heritage of Chinese culture. We must cherish our own culture.