Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, China began to establish universities, subdivided into majors and departments, and to this day, more and more people will draw an equal sign between the departments they are studying and their future careers.
For example, the graduation of the computer department will become a programmer, the future of the graduate of the department of architecture will become an architect, the future of the graduation of the music department will be a musician, etc., which belongs to a misunderstanding of everyone's cognition. Some people take it for granted that Chinese graduates will become writers, so many students who dream of becoming a writer in the future will apply for the Chinese department, but the reality is exactly the opposite of our cognition.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > writers are hardly Chinese</h1>
If you count the famous writers in modern China, you will find that very few of them are enrolled in Chinese departments and successfully graduated. For example, everyone knows that Mr. Lu Xun originally studied medicine, but he felt that medicine could not save Chinese, so he put down the scalpel, picked up the pen, and achieved a generation of everyone.
A well-known writer who studied medicine like him is Guo Moruo; and Mr. Jin Yong, who has written many martial arts works such as "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter" and "The Hero of the Condor", is a law graduate; and Xu Zhimo, the representative poet of the Crescent School who wrote such a moving poem as "Farewell to Kangqiao", studied political economy at Cambridge University.
In addition, there are famous artists like Bing Xin, Zhang Ailing, Yu Guang, etc. who have graduated from the Department of Foreign Literature, and what is more, such as Shen Congwen, Ba Jin, Ye Shengtao, etc. have not even gone to college. Of course, this kind of misunderstanding is not only for outsiders like us, and many writers have fallen into this misunderstanding in their early years.
For example, in his later years, Mr. Qi Bangyuan once recalled that he was admitted to the Chinese Department of Wuhan University because he wanted to become a writer, but her mentor Mr. Zhu Guangqian, after learning about this, immediately advised her to transfer to the Department of Foreign Literature.
A similar thing happened on the campus of Peking University, where the famous writer Li Jianwu was admitted to the department of Chinese of Peking University that year. During the roll call in the first class of the school, the teacher stopped deliberately when he clicked on Li Kengo's name and asked him if he was the Li Kengo he often saw in the newspaper.
After receiving a positive answer, the teacher continued to ask Li Kengo if he wanted to become a writer, Li Kengo nodded his head, and the teacher immediately decided to let him transfer to the Department of Foreign Literature immediately. And Li Jianwu also followed the advice of his teacher to change departments, and eventually achieved a future generation of literary masters. The teacher is the famous Chinese essayist Zhu Ziqing, and he himself is not from the Chinese Department, he graduated from the Department of Philosophy of Peking University.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >Chinese department does not train writers is a common knowledge within the university</h1>
Although the Chinese department is most closely related to literature on the surface, Chinese department only studies literature. Chinese Department will not cultivate writers with wild ideas, free writing and full of sensibility, but is committed to cultivating academic researchers who are rich in learning, rigorous in logical thinking, and full of rationality. This is also the fundamental purpose of the establishment of the department of Chinese by the academic school represented by Bosch Nian.
Therefore Chinese department is actually a more academic department that is more inclined to theoretical education and academic research. Although Chinese department can allow students to learn more literary theories and knowledge backgrounds, and can cultivate students to have more rigorous analytical skills and logical thinking.
But to a certain extent, this also stifles the students' creative inspiration, limiting the students' thinking to a small box, so that students sometimes can't even write anything.
At the same time, because of the excessive study of too much theoretical knowledge, it also makes the students' writing become too deep and heavy, full of academic atmosphere, just like reading academic papers, the content is full of various professional terms, making it difficult for ordinary people to read.
Moreover, many academic professors attach great importance to academic-based thinking, and even reject literary creation work such as writing. Just like the old pedant in the previous school, although I have read a lot of books, because I have read too much, I have read people into a dull.
Therefore, in the hearts of many people, even several well-known literary scholars, the Chinese Department is an old pedantic profession that cultivates a mouth full of "people who care about it". Mr. Hu Shi once lamented that he was "not a teacher", because he had read too many books like an old scholar and thought too much rationally, so he could never achieve great achievements on the road of literary creation.
Chinese department seems to be the closest major to literature, but it is also the major that is farthest away from literary creation. Professor Yang Han, head of the Department of Chinese of Peking University, once said publicly during the class: "This major does not train any writers, please students with this idea immediately change departments."
Mr. Wang Li, who is also a professor in the Department of Chinese of Peking University, has also said: "Literary talents are actually difficult to cultivate, but if it is said that literary talents can be cultivated, the most suitable major for cultivating literary talents should be the Department of Foreign Literature, not the Department of Chinese."
From this, it is not difficult for us to see that whether it is the academic Chinese professors or the writers who are committed to literary creation, they all believe that Chinese departments cannot cultivate writers at all. And if you really want to become a writer, it is best to first go to the foreign literature department to broaden your horizons, expand the wings of imagination, and then go back and read Chinese literary works, and then you will find many different ideas and views, thus deriving a lot of creative inspiration.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > whether the Chinese system is worth reading</h1>
At present, there is a fault in the current level of talent reserves in China's domestic Chinese and even in the literary circles.
In 2010, a Jiangsu examinee named Wang Yunfei wrote his college entrance examination essay in Chinese and received a full score on the Internet, and in order to approve this essay, the reading group even invited a number of professors from Chinese departments to review it, and the depth of the ancient chinese used by Wang Yunfei was even unclear to these professors.
The accumulation of literature depends on a lifetime, and it is impossible to complete it in just a few years of college. However, at the moment when fast food culture is prevalent, more and more students only value the final diploma and do not care about the process between getting that diploma, and this utilitarian thinking has created the current dilemma of lack of talents in domestic Chinese departments and even literary circles.
In fact, in the final analysis, whether the Chinese system is worth reading or whether it is a matter of benevolence and wisdom depends on everyone's own personal wishes.
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