"Nan Huaijin on Children's Classic Education": Chinese culture education should start from dolls

In "Nan Huaijin on Children's Classical Education", Nan Huaijin advocates that children should be familiar with the classics of literature and language from an early age, and should start with the "University", "Zhongyong", "Analects", "Mencius" with beautiful and concise language and profound cultural connotations, and then it should be the "Three Character Classic", "Thousand Character Text", "Hundred Family Names" and so on. Because the latter is easy to memorize but also easy to forget, it is better to memorize the representative works of traditional Chinese culture that will inspire greater ideas in the future.

Classic education, starting from the doll

In recent years, whether in reading or writing, I have felt the importance of being a Chinese and familiar with the traditional culture of the Chinese nation. But I am ashamed, I myself am the most typical representative of the generation that said in the book that "since I was a child, I have not laid a good foundation for Chinese culture, neither Chinese nor Western, not now nor ancient"...

Therefore, recently, when I picked up a copy of Qingren's notes casually, I found that it was very difficult to read. There are too many allusions in it that I have never heard of, and it takes a lot of time to constantly look up the information to fully understand. The root cause of this is that the foundation is not solid. Most of my contemporaries did not pay much attention to the education they received as a child, so even if they grew up and studied for a doctorate, if they were not majoring in ancient literature, they often still could not read ancient texts. I used to be very glad that I grew up in a third-rate school with little pressure to learn, and I could hide from the things I needed to memorize, and even be complacent because of it, but now I know that it is an extremely extravagant waste of precious adolescence!

However, there is no regret medicine in the world, there are a few, I am afraid that there are billionaires rushing to get it, and the wheel will not be able to turn you.

Fortunately, we still have the next generation. Aware of this problem, while trying to improve their own ancient literary accomplishment, there is also a chance to help the next generation and avoid their repeated mistakes.

Words also have "longevity"

Nan Huaijin also mentioned a problem of "longevity" in writing. He said that modern Chinese can write articles according to the colloquial vernacular, but newspaper articles have a maximum lifespan of three minutes, and they are finished after reading, and the five-minute lifespan of publication articles, no matter how well they are written, they are also lost after reading, not enough to circulate. Unlike the classics handed down in ancient times, although they are also vernacular in nature, the life of the text is not the same. Therefore, if you study those ancient articles well, modern vernacular texts can certainly be written well.

I would also like to add that if you learn ancient Chinese well, your eloquence must also be very good. For example, Nan Huaijin said that after memorizing Liu Yuxi's "Buried Room Inscription", you can say when entertaining foreign guests to visit the office, I am here "the mountain is not high, there are immortals are named", "there is no silk bamboo messy ear, no case of labor form". By the way, watching Nan Huaijin interpret ancient poems, just like listening to Jiang Xun talk about ancient texts, will make people jump out of the literal shallow meaning, and suddenly have a sense of enlightenment, such as "Buried Room Ming" and "Shu Xiang".

Of course, learning ancient Chinese well is more than these benefits. Fundamentally speaking, by reciting those traditional classics that have been tested by history, modern people can learn from the valuable experience of their predecessors and summarize them, so that their thoughts can fully absorb the nutrients and use them again.

As The Japanese "sock maniac" Naoto Koshichi said to himself in "One Thing in a Lifetime", his well-remembered "Sun Tzu" has become a part of his body. Only after graduating from junior high school, he still started the arduous apprenticeship period, got up one hour early every day, compared with the Chinese-Japanese dictionary, tirelessly nibbled on classical Chinese masterpieces, including "History", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Analects", etc., and then flexibly applied the principles in the books to commercial practice.

In addition, Nanlao also raised various questions about modern education in the book.

In fact, it is foolish to think that no matter what is learned, whether the teaching materials are declining, the value of education does not seem to lie in whether or not much knowledge has been learned, but more in providing a possible way for the middle and lower classes to promote the people, although the real probability of success is not necessarily high, but there is great hope. If even the door of test-oriented education such as the college entrance examination is closed, then the solidification of classes will intensify, which is bound to stimulate more social contradictions. I am afraid that this is also one of the controversies caused by the current education reform and the reduction of the burden.