The Ministry of Education named words such as "people are difficult to dismantle" and "ten moves to refuse": an obscure response to Recommendation No. 3950 of the Third Session of the 13th National People's Congress

On November 13, the Ministry of Education's website published the "Reply to Recommendation No. 3950 of the Third Session of the 13th National People's Congress" (hereinafter referred to as the "Reply"), which disclosed the specific content of the Ministry of Education's reply to the Third Session of the 13th National People's Congress "Suggestions on Standardizing the Inheritance of Traditional Culture in Chinese Language".

The Ministry of Education pointed out in the "Reply" that language and writing are an important symbol of Chinese civilization and an important carrier for inheriting Chinese civilization. Correctly standardizing the use of ancestral Chinese script plays a fundamental role in inheriting and carrying forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and is also one of the important tasks of language and writing work.

"As you said, the advent of the Internet era has had a huge impact on language and writing, not only some new words and phrases that can reflect the characteristics of the times and spread positive energy, such as 'give power', 'like', 'hardcore', etc., but also some irregular and uncivilized misreading, miswriting and misuse, such as 'people are difficult to dismantle' and 'ten moves to refuse' and other obscure words, and even some vulgar language, which have a negative impact on the network ecological environment, as well as social language life and cultural security." The "Reply" said that the Ministry of Education and the State Language Commission attach great importance to this and take positive measures to strengthen guidance.

The "Reply" said that in the next step, the Ministry of Education will seriously study and absorb your suggestions, first, by preparing for the convening of the first all-Chinese language and writing conference since the new century, studying and issuing the guiding document "Opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening the Work of Language and Writing in the New Era", developing the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for the Development of the National Language and Writing Cause", and improving the "Implementation Measures for < the > of the National Common Language and Writing Law" and so on. The second is to continue to coordinate and cooperate with relevant departments, timely monitor the dynamics of language life in the all-media era, strengthen the supervision and management of the use of language and writing in key areas according to the law of language development, and guide the healthy and harmonious development of social language life. The third is to promote the in-depth implementation of the Chinese classic recitation project, continue to build language and culture brand programs, widely carry out practical activities such as Chinese classic recitation, writing, and explanation, give full play to the advantages of modern information technology, innovate "Internet + language culture", develop diversified new media resources that are fun to learn and read, increase the publicity and promotion of media channels, and promote the inheritance and development of China's excellent traditional culture.

The full text of the reply -

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > response to Recommendation No. 3950 of the Third Session of the 13th National People's Congress</h1>

Teaching Pragmatic Advice [2020] No. 89

Your "Proposal on Standardizing the Inheritance of Traditional Culture in Chinese Terms" has been received, and the reply is as follows:

Language and writing are an important symbol of Chinese civilization and an important carrier for inheriting Chinese civilization. Correctly standardizing the use of ancestral Chinese script plays a fundamental role in inheriting and carrying forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and is also one of the important tasks of language and writing work. As you said, the advent of the Internet era has had a huge impact on language and writing, not only some new words and new words that can reflect the characteristics of the times and spread positive energy, such as "give power", "like", "hardcore", etc., but also some irregular and uncivilized misreading, miswriting and misuse, such as "people are difficult to dismantle", "ten moves to refuse" and other obscure words, and even some vulgar language, which has a negative impact on the network ecological environment, as well as social language life and cultural security. In this regard, the Ministry of Education and the State Language Commission attach great importance to it and take positive measures to strengthen guidance.

First, strengthen the top-level design and improve laws and regulations

First, in the "Outline of the Reform and Development Plan of the National Medium- and Long-term Language and Writing Undertaking (2012-2020)" and the "Thirteenth Five-Year Development Plan for the National Language and Writing Undertaking", the "Standardization of Language and Writing Construction" is regarded as one of the key tasks, pointing out that it is necessary to promote the standardization of language and writing in key areas such as organs, schools, news and publications, radio, film and television, and public service industries, and give play to its leading and exemplary role; it is necessary to guide new media such as the Internet and mobile phones to standardize the use of language and writing. Correct the phenomenon of irregular use of language and writing, and guide the healthy development of social language life. The second is to set up a special language and writing legislation research group to study and promote the revision of the "National Common Language and Writing Law" and the formulation of implementation measures, and further put forward clear requirements for standardizing the use of the national common language and script in the revised draft. The third is to carry out the evaluation of urban language and writing work and the supervision and evaluation of language and writing, further promote the standardization of language and writing requirements in various regions and industries into routine management through evaluation, strengthen inspection and supervision and rectify the irregular use of language and writing, especially further increase the supervision of the standardized use of new media language and writing such as the Internet and mobile phones, and improve the standardization level of language and writing application in the whole society.

II. Carry out regulatory monitoring and strengthen normative guidance

In recent years, the Ministry of Education, the State Language Commission and relevant departments have worked together to strengthen the normative guidance of the use of language and writing in various ways. For example, it has established a cooperation mechanism with the State Administration of Radio and Television to supervise the use of radio and television language and writing in real time; set up a monitoring and research center for the use of print media, audio media, online media, and educational textbooks; entrusted relevant universities, research institutions, and associations to carry out monitoring and research on newspapers and periodicals, government websites, and online languages; and conducted research with the Ministry of Culture, the State Administration of Market Regulation, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and other departments, and on this basis, jointly issued relevant policy documents to improve the standardization level of language and writing in the industry system In the evaluation of civilized cities and the management of book quality, the requirements for the standardization of language and writing in the departments of culture and information industry are put forward; led by the State Language Commission, together with the Central Compilation Bureau, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the Press and Publication Administration, the Information Office of the State Council, xinhua News Agency, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, jointly form an inter-ministerial joint conference on the standardization of foreign language Chinese translation and writing, pay close attention to the existing and emerging foreign language words and the application of Chinese translation names in various fields of society, and regularly announce to the public the recommended foreign language word specifications Chinese translation names.

Third, implement the Chinese classic recitation project, and vigorously inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture

In order to further give play to the basic role of language and writing inheritance and promotion of China's excellent traditional culture, the Ministry of Education and the State Language Commission have promoted the implementation of the Chinese classic recitation project, and extensively and deeply carried out the practice of Chinese classic recitation, writing and interpretation. For example, for five consecutive years, the Central Radio and Television Corporation has held the "Chinese Poetry Conference", which has received more than 3 billion people on the whole network; held two sessions of the Chinese Classic Recitation and Speaking Competition, including a series of competitions such as recitation, explanation, writing, and seal engraving; built a "Chinese Classic Resource Library" and completed five phases of about 12,000 minutes of recitation and speaking video resources; jointly with the Central Radio and Television Corporation to build a "Primary and Secondary School Language Demonstration Recitation Library" to create high-standard and high-quality "audio language teaching materials"; and carry out face-to-face training for teachers of classic recitation and writing every year 3. Implement a special training plan for the network of 10,000 teachers, improve the cultural literacy and teaching level of teachers, and lead the public to love the ancestral Chinese words and words through various ways, get close to Chinese cultural classics, and inherit excellent traditional culture.

In the next step, the Ministry of Education will seriously study and absorb your suggestions, first, by preparing for the convening of the first all-Chinese language and writing conference since the new century, studying and issuing the guiding document "Opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening language and writing work in the new era", developing the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the National Language and Writing Industry", and improving the "Implementation Measures for &lt; the &gt; of the National Common Language and Writing Law" and so on. The second is to continue to coordinate and cooperate with relevant departments, timely monitor the dynamics of language life in the all-media era, strengthen the supervision and management of the use of language and writing in key areas according to the law of language development, and guide the healthy and harmonious development of social language life. The third is to promote the in-depth implementation of the Chinese classic recitation project, continue to build language and culture brand programs, widely carry out practical activities such as Chinese classic recitation, writing, and explanation, give full play to the advantages of modern information technology, innovate "Internet + language culture", develop diversified new media resources that are fun to learn and read, increase the publicity and promotion of media channels, and promote the inheritance and development of China's excellent traditional culture.

Thank you for your concern and support for education and language and writing work!

ministry of education

October 19, 2020

Source: The Paper, Ministry of Education website

Editor: Hu Decheng

Process Editor Wu Yue