Tang Xiaomin
Get up in the morning, go out for a walk, just go out, feel as if it is raining, a very small and extremely weak rain particles, very gently falling, whether it is rain or not, it is not sure. This is not the kind of Jiangnan light rain that Zhu Ziqing wrote about, "like cow hair and like a fine needle", but it is also not a cloud or fog that "even if it is clear and has no rain color, it is also wet in the depths of the clouds". Perhaps, this should be the light rain of "falling flowers independently, micro swifts flying twice".
Check the "Modern Chinese Dictionary" and do not include the word "light rain". Maybe it's the Dictionary, there is no income, there is no "light rain" in this weather forecast, only light rain, and "sporadic light rain", but the sporadic light rain seems to be light rain. This morning's rain, however, is not even enough for light rain, and it is more appropriate to call it "light rain".
Not only do we think that in the process of the "modern transformation" of Chinese, that is, from ancient Chinese to so-called modern Chinese, we have lost many language resources. The vocabulary of ancient Chinese in China is very rich. Similar or similar movements, sounds, and forms are often copied or expressed in different words. Just like the sounds of animals, dogs barking, chickens chirping, tiger roaring, horse hissing, wolf howling, ape crying, deer yo, etc., today, it is roughly a "call", the horse is "calling" - "people cheering and horses calling"; chickens are also called - "chickens crying in the middle of the night", in short, they are "calling". Diverse, elegant Chinese has become too simple.
In ancient times, the same "war" also had many different terms: conquest, crusade, crusade, invasion, raid, swing, as well as taking, gramming, etc., each with different meanings or meanings. Today there is roughly only one "typing" word left.
There are naturally many reasons for this loss of linguistic resources, and linguists have worked hard to "regulate" language, which is one of the reasons. Especially a few decades ago, one of the contents of the normative language was the so-called reduction of the "burden on the Chinese language", according to which some people advocated the "normalization" of the two words "prostration" and "shock", because they were only "indistinguishable" in meaning and rhetorical color. Others say that "week" and "prayer", "classroom" and "classroom" are "completely synonymous words", and its appearance is "really useless, in vain to increase the burden on the Chinese language".
In fact, different words may have the same meaning, but there are always differences in sentiment. For example, the pronouns "I", "俺", the Shaanxi "e", and "Nong" and so on, the emotional taste is different. Lin Daiyu's "Funeral Flower Yin" in "Nong's funeral flower people laugh foolishly, who does he know when he buries Nong?" If it is written as "I am now buried with flowers, who do he know when he buries him?" "What a look this is."
From an educational point of view, word activity plays the most important role in enriching the human mind. Xing Gongqi said it well:
The whole world we know is supported by the words we use, and the bigger the world, the more words there are. On the other hand, the more words there are, the bigger the world. Confucius encouraged his students to study the Book of Poetry, saying that the Book of Poetry not only enables us to experience the names of birds and beasts, plants, and trees, but also enables us to "know the names of birds and beasts, plants and trees." Yes, if we can't call the name of this bird, the name of this grass, can we still know this bird, this grass? For example, we do not say: "There are all kinds of fruits in the tropics: coconut, banana, betel nut, durian, horse six fruit, peach, pineapple, red lychee, red hair list and so on." But he said, "In the tropics there are all kinds of fruits: round fruits, long fruits, flat fruits, such fruits, such fruits..."
We are often told that students should be "close to life" and learn language and literature from life. That's not bad, but it's not enough. Is the real life around us really so rich and wonderful? In fact, we ourselves do not believe it. For children, it is more important for them to obtain a richer spiritual world through reading, through contact with language. Moreover, language also cultivates people's ability to feel things in the real world. "Dogs bark, chickens, tigers, horses, wolves, apes, deer", this is the feeling of the predecessors on the song of these animals, when children read, they have feelings about "barking, chirping, whistling, hissing, howling, crying, yo", they know that the sounds of each animal are different, so they feel the colorfulness of the world. In today's children's hearts, all animals make a voice, they are all "calling". As a result, the world becomes monotonous, and the child's mind becomes impoverished.