Mr. nan huaijin talks about children's reading classics
Reading Classics —— Mr. nan huaijin on Children's Reading Classics
Mr. nan huaijin on Children's Reading Classics (1)
Today we are going to talk about what people used to call "children who read the Bible". "Children who read the Bible" is a term that people have become accustomed to recently, but in fact, children are reading. Whether children read classics, or children read China culture, in my opinion, in this era, especially in this country of the Chinese nation, in the past 70 or 80 years, China people have inexplicably resented the word "classic reading" and thought it was retro, retrogressive or inappropriate. This is a wrong concept. Therefore, the work I am selling to you is renamed "Children's Wisdom Development-A Guide to Chinese and Western Cultures". On the one hand, it will avoid misunderstandings in all aspects, on the other hand, it will also establish a new culture for the Chinese nation.
In fact, to quote Confucius, everything should be "rehabilitated". What is name correction?
This is a thematic issue, and we must make it clear first. In fact, the children's Bible reading movement we advocate is a method of endorsement, that is, teaching people to be willing to read, recite and sing, and nothing else. It is to teach newborn children to read and recite from the age of zero to fifteen or sixteen. The content of reading and reciting includes some books that are very basic for Confucianism and Taoism in China, and even a small part of Buddhism. However, in traditional education, Confucian books are the main ones, and Buddhist books should be read later. The content of endorsement is not only the basic culture of China, but also the cultures of other countries, such as English, French, German and so on. In the past, western education methods, whether in Europe or the United States, had to be endorsed like China.
Everyone will feel very strange, and think that in this era, why should children be taught to recite? Most people don't understand that this is the basic education method that China people have lost. In other words, West Renye Fang has forgotten it. There is only one primitive method of human education, and that is reciting. Especially when reading China's books, read aloud. What's the point of reading aloud? This has a lot of meaning. I read more and naturally understand the phonology of words and words. In other words, I also know the knowledge of pinyin between words and languages. No matter Chinese or foreign, read aloud and gradually realize. When you grow up and understand phonology, you will have a wide range of knowledge in the future. If you learn a foreign language, regardless of English, French and German, you will understand the spelling of phonemes. In ancient China, it was a general education law, as everyone knows. However, after China began to accept western culture in this century, the education of children no longer adopted the way of reciting and reciting, but focused on instilling and understanding knowledge. This is because at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century, it was influenced by American educator Dewey. Later, it influenced the United States, saying "pragmatism" in education and thinking that education is life, overthrowing the system that they thought that ancient people endorsed books as dead books. It is believed that reciting and reciting are injected like an injection, and forced into it like feeding ducks, which will only feed people badly. Therefore, in the past 100 years, the education of eastern and western schools has adopted a relatively laissez-faire approach to children, and there is no need to recite. Just let him know, enlighten his brain and develop his wisdom. Especially during the May 4th Movement in China, influenced by western culture, reading China's ancient books was completely overthrown and some textbooks were changed. I used to go to college and read The Doctrine of the Mean, The Analects of Confucius, The Classic of Filial Piety, The Classic of Three Characters, and The Thousand Characters. Now I read "The cat barks, the dog barks, the school starts, the teacher is early and the teacher is good". This is learning a language, without culture. Has been used up to now, the disadvantages caused by this kind of education. Therefore, China's generation has no cultural foundation. I often say that a country and a nation are not afraid of national subjugation. The most terrible thing is that a country and a nation's own fundamental culture will perish, which will be beyond redemption and never turn over. We just need to look at the Jews. Since Moses left Egypt, Jews have been the first class in the world for two or three thousand years. Now, thousands of years have passed, and they have rebuilt the country and established Israel. After thousands of years of education, Jews have kept their own system, isolated from the outside world, and always retained their own cultural spirit. However, people in the world have ignored and despised this point, especially in China. This problem is very serious.
The May 4th Movement tried to modernize China and overthrow the old culture, but what is the new China culture has not been established. So I cut a knife in the middle of China culture. At present, the cultural gap in China is very serious. For decades, new policies and practices have been almost uprooted. At our age, people in their seventies and eighties are dying. It is almost impossible to preserve our national culture. Therefore, while we are still here, we strongly advocate attaching importance to culture.
What will be promoted after promotion? Now back to the original topic, that is, the way we let children recite, without saying why. No matter the Four Books and Five Classics, or ancient books, any paragraph is recited easily and happily like singing, without giving him an explanation, and occasionally with a little explanation. Memorizing it like this will be useful for a lifetime and will never be forgotten. Remember not only China culture, but also foreign languages.
We need to know how to recite, and that's the point. Maybe you don't know yet. China's 5,000-year-old culture, as well as western culture, and Xibe prose has been handed down by reciting. Before the Tang Dynasty in China and Europe 12 century, printing was not invented, and there was no paper. The preservation of human culture depends on everyone's memory and word of mouth. For example, everyone knows that Qin Shihuang burned books. At that time, he had invented the brush. Some are written on cowhide and sheepskin with a brush, or carved on bamboo pieces with a knife, and then rolled up, so reading is rolled up, so it is beneficial to open books. From the burning of books by Qin Shihuang to the restoration of culture by Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, Chinese culture, the Four Books and Five Classics, and Lao Zi Zhuangzi were all recited by the old gentleman himself and passed down from mouth to mouth. Do you think it is like modern printing and computer network? No, it's all memorized. How do they study, scholars and scholars? It's all memorized. For example, in the past, I recited "University" and "The Doctrine of the Mean", and when I thought of it, I recited it from childhood to old age. This is how China culture is remembered. Even after the Song Dynasty, when printing was invented, I would recite it! Because printed books were not very popular and difficult at that time. Even in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, when I was young, some books were borrowed, copied by myself and then memorized. At that time, the printing industry was not as developed as it is now A book and an article should be copied by hand three times and recited to the teacher. People like Lin Zexu and Lin Zexu's good friend Gong Dingtun are all memorized. The method of reciting not only does not hinder the development of society, but also makes the development of social culture more developed and detailed. But now people don't understand, thinking that endorsement is endorsement. As for the theoretical basis of endorsement, it involves the science of cultivation, and at present, it also involves the science of the brain. Endorsement is not specific and unstable. It is not painful for children to carry things on their backs, but they are very happy. Because you sing and recite exclusively, your mind is calmer. Thought and behavior must change. This is about brain waves. For example, people talk about self-cultivation, monasticism and meditation. Meditation is to make the brain think exclusively, so that it will be calm, change the physiological function of the body and get health. When the brain becomes healthy, thinking and behavior will also become healthy. Endorsement has many advantages, but general medicine, especially brain medicine, has not been studied in detail. I'm not an expert in brain medicine. I just want to mention that the function of recitation can increase a person's intelligence, memory and thinking ability, and make his thinking more delicate and meticulous.
We now advocate the development of children's wisdom, and the habit is also called reading classics, which is such an ancient method and such a simple route. Every family can start this job, and you can recite it with an old book. We now print these books and send them out. As long as someone is willing to carry it, we will help him carry it.
Q: Some people ask whether reading classics is out of touch with economic benefits.
A: If the purpose of parents' economic interests is to enable every child to graduate from school and find a job in the society, so as to make a living and get rich, then some people have studied in universities, masters and doctors, but many still can't find a job! As for reading ancient books, who will come to the society to find a job and make money without making money, who will draw a conclusion? Maybe reading ancient books is better in society! For example, I just read books and recite ancient books, and the economic benefits seem to be better than all of you. As for reading ancient books, it is wrong to be afraid that children will have no economic benefits when they grow up. Children recite ancient books and really recite ancient Chinese. After their wisdom has been developed, we can see at a glance that this benefit has already come out by reading the textbooks in the school. You can see the current education method. Every child from primary school to middle school, the heavier the schoolbag, the thicker the glasses, the homework at 90 o'clock in the evening, the exam every day and every year, the things in high school and middle school, and the things in front of the university. This is a waste. If you have a solid writing and cultural foundation by reciting, you will not need to read these textbooks for several years, but you will only need a few months to understand the middle school textbooks. This can save a lot of time and money for running a school. But people don't understand. The theory of economic benefit is great.
Q: Now that industry is so developed and finance is developing so fast, what is the connection between reading ancient books in turn?
A: In the era of developed industry, industry and commerce as stocks and economic and financial development, knowledge is also needed. Knowledge should be mastered wisely. After reading these ancient books, it is easier to learn knowledge and smarter. Not only is there no conflict, but it is also beneficial!
Q: Children have a lot of homework, so there is no time to read these ancient books, which will also increase the pressure.
A: At present, it takes ten minutes every day, or only two and a half hours a week, which is equivalent to only one hour a week, just like singing! This will not increase the working pressure. Now that the results have come out, they have memorized Chinese characters, and they can recognize them more quickly by reading school textbooks, and they can understand them themselves, which will not increase the pressure, but will make them more relaxed and happy to open their minds and increase their knowledge without any obstacles. I think the current education system is wasting young people's brains and energy, and it is useless to read books indiscriminately. Like my method, I told my children not to go to school. I said that from the age of six, I will teach you for six years, and you will be admitted to the university directly. But the child's mother didn't approve of this practice, so she listened to his mother haha, so the child suffered by himself. Now a child in Wuhan, Hubei Province, whose father taught him to recite, is now 13 years old and goes to college. This is also an example, not only not wasting time, but also shortening the education time as much as possible.
Q: One more question. Will you remember it forever after reciting it?
A: It seems that we were born by endorsement. Sorry, I still can't remember. But do you remember? Yes I read this book when I was seven or eight years old. Now I am over 80 years old. I can answer this right away, but I still can't forget it. You can't forget it if you understand it. Now at school, I started at the age of six and graduated from university in my twenties with a doctorate. Sometimes you ask him what he has been in middle school for more than ten years, but he can't answer. This is a common thing and obvious. Because he refused to recite, he was dealing with a temporary exam, which is called rote learning. "Reciting by rote is not reciting", and reciting is like singing without thinking. Nowadays, if we learn by rote and forget, it is not reciting. Like some people, after graduating from college, they learn by rote instead of reciting. Because he is an adult, he just learns by rote. Recitation is a child. I don't know what it means to recite "The way to a university lies in a clear virtue …", but I can sing and recite. This is called reciting. In Buddhism, chanting is to enter the eighth Aryan consciousness, memorizing is the function of the sixth consciousness and the surface layer of the brain. For example, if a child learns a pop song, he can recite it casually. If he doesn't pay attention, he will always remember. This is recitation. What you carry doesn't count. Just as we now see those leaders standing on the stage and giving speeches, they are all memorized. How to give a speech every day is written by the secretary, and the main points are also said by you, but you can't remember them. Then read the manuscript while giving a speech, which is the practice of modern people. People in ancient times could not do this. Now these senior leaders are standing on the stage reciting their speeches, and they don't know what they are talking about. This is a very shameful era. Scholars in the past, great heroic leaders, no matter what happens, will speak with a manuscript, and they will speak directly when their minds are full of main points. When we were young, we saw revolutionary veterans. They never gave speeches on stage, but it was a good documentary. Modern people make a long speech, standing there with their heads down, wearing glasses, looking at it, looking up and saying a word, saying the first half, forgetting the second half, and not knowing what to say. This is the problem of not reading or reciting.
Introduction of "Children Reading China Classics" Paradise (2)
From the perspective of China's traditional culture, there is an important old problem. Why should a person study? Traditionally, the most correct answer is the word "read". What is the reason? Is to understand the truth of being a man first. When people are born in the next life, they will naturally be human. What other truths do humans have? Yes, people are people, and primitive people are similar to all primates in the world. However, the ancient ancestors of human beings, especially the ancient ancestors of the Chinese nation, began to establish a set of culture as early as 5,000 years ago, educating our descendants on how to understand the basic principles of "human relations" and then expanding to how to "live" and "survive" in this world, which is completely different from the original state of all "primate" creatures. Of course, it also includes "scientific", "philosophical", "religious" and "artistic" civilizations.
If you want to ask the Chinese nation-what is the educational purpose of China people? Say it again: it's for being a man. Not for "life". Because the meaning of "life" is that people want to "survive" in this world, how to maintain their own lives, and at the same time, let everyone have a better "life" and live a very comfortable and happy life. This is all after reading comprehension. Because of the development of "wisdom" and "knowledge", it is easy to understand the "technology" of "making a living" and all kinds of "knowledge" that are beneficial to "making a living". All belong to "reading comprehension". It is natural and inevitable to understand the way of "human relations"
But unfortunately, the basic purpose of culture and education known by modern people is just to "make a living". We want our children to study, study and receive education, just for their future, to have a good career and high pay (rate), or to earn a lot of money and live a good "life". What's more, some people pin their hopes on their children and desperately force them to go to school. If you don't consider your child's "sexual orientation" personality, you won't understand your child's brain power and health. They blindly force their children to study, not knowing that "love is harmful", thus hindering the consequences of their children's life. In particular, the modern school and extra-curricular remedial education methods are simply a way of "fishing after exhaustion", which makes the mental health of ordinary underage children suffer the most serious damage from overload.
In fact, ordinary people are too young and too modern to know how relaxed and happy the traditional education methods used to be, so that children can reach the level of cultural education in the atmosphere of singing and dancing. The ancients said that "string songs are endless", and this is the realm. In particular, the ancient books used are the crystallization of "knowledge" in many aspects such as "humanities" and "natural science", so people in later generations respect them as "classics". Moreover, these so-called "classic" ancient books are also called "articles" because their own words are works of literature and art. A good "article" is the "art" of "literature". It must be catchy, that is, it has a sense of rhythm. This truth is the same whether it is ancient Chinese or modern vernacular Chinese. Therefore, the ancients composed the most difficult "arithmetic" with other "astronomy", "geography" and "physics" to sing and recite. That's the smartest way, so that children don't have to rack their brains to remember, and naturally enter the memory, which is not easy to forget all their lives. And just like today's computers, the consciousness is recited in the mouth. As long as a good expert teacher knows that this educational method is not "injection", it will naturally achieve the "heuristic" effect of "injection".
Since childhood, I have experienced various educational laws, old and new, and now I live to 80 years old. Since I was twelve years old, I have been a teacher and a student. Since then, I have experienced various educational methods, literature, martial arts, life, birth, China and foreign styles. I have been a student and a teacher. Until now, I deeply feel that there is a great deviation between the laws of modern school education and parents' educational requirements for their children. I have to "find it myself" and I can't make mistakes. However, cultural education is a big problem for the nation and the whole people, and I am not qualified or able to remedy it. However, I am glad to see that people with a heart can take the lead in trying traditional cultural education methods, cultivate the seeds of cultural reading for the younger generation of ethnic minorities, and let them know the truth of "human relations", the art of "survival", and the realm of "literature", which can not but make people feel tired and happy in Tamanosuke.
Ding Chouchun1April 25, 997
Questions and Answers about Reading Classics (3)
Q: Is it possible to learn from the classics? Because reading classics is boring, is there any good way to use it?
Teacher: Don't be surprised by reciting. This is an ancient method. As far as I know, reciting is the same in foreign countries, like reading English, French and German. Now the whole human race is going to talk about learning. You should pay attention. You will see it in less than 30 years. What we are talking about is world civilization and the unity of world culture in the future. You must have this vision and psychological preparation to talk about culture, and don't think that China culture is great. Take your time, you need the whole human culture ... so in those days, everyone's education was all about reciting, just like English and French. Now foreigners find themselves short in this respect. What are the advantages of reciting? We know how to read, and foreigners' information tells us that reciting can cure Parkinson's disease, brain diseases and unforgettable diseases. Americans, in particular, tell us that it is not enough to recite English and German. It is better to recite Chinese, especially Chinese, which is especially good for encephalopathy. This is the information given to us by foreigners. In the past, people used to learn things by reciting. When you look at animals, you should learn how to call them after your mother. The same name is recitation. The teacher is still reciting. Don't be unreasonable. Just teach him to recite and sing. Let's recite it first. For example, there is an article "University" in the message sent to you. "University" is a basic education. I recited this song "University" when I was ten years old. How can I put it? People like us who didn't study before ... (the teacher demonstrated reciting "University" and poems, and talked about the fun of private school education), so we recited it and then forgot it. When we talk about "crying at night", it is "first frost is full of sky". Don't think about it, but how to recite a poem. After that, it's not called endorsement. For example, I often tell young people to recite, especially English. In the past, in English education, we had to learn phonology and grammar first, but now we have to learn Chinese first. This is different, so the benefits of endorsement can also cure diseases, sing, chant Buddhist scripture and deal with ghosts. Sometimes ghosts come, and when your voice turns back when you study, the ghost religion runs away (laughs). Believe it or not, it's in me (saying it's not in me)
Q: How to deal with the relationship between traditional culture and business culture?
Teacher: Of course, traditional culture is related to business culture. Traditional civilization is good, industrial and commercial culture is good, and modern science and technology are good. Hey, are we alone? Ask yourself, of course, is a person. Are we from China? Of course, we are from China. We are as different as our ancestors, the same! Since we are the same, we are all one person. No matter how the times change, we must stand up. Modern civilization has just accepted a new way. You have seen too many civilizations with a long history. When you look at new civilizations and combine them, you will have the highest wisdom. It makes no difference. People are always like this. Modern civilization never changed a person, did it? ! I often tell you, pay attention, there is a western material in the British National Museum, which is now open. The British have information. They have studied the ethnic groups for hundreds of years and paired China, yellow race, white race, black race and brown race. White people didn't tell us before, but now they can't know everything. After a couple, it was terrible. As long as any kind of person marries a yellow race, the first generation is born with black eyes, the second generation with black hair and the third generation with yellow race. It's true. So when you ask about China culture and western culture, you don't care about them. All the cultures from China have melted for you, and they are all "yellow" (laughs).
Q: What qualities should modern students create if he wants to become a real adult and a hero in the future world?
The teacher replied: I often tell young people this question, four words, what an intellectual should cultivate in this era: outstanding characteristics, what is outstanding? Everyone develops an independent moral personality. Do not change with the times. Not turned by the secular, not a mere formality. Now people desperately want to get rich, what's the use of getting rich. It is difficult to make money, and it is even more difficult to spend money. Many friends say that they should do good deeds. Let me ask you, will you use money? You don't know how to spend money. For example, if you study Buddhism and religion, that would be great. I'll give you100000 now. I'm telling you, by tonight,100000 has been spent on good deeds. You can spend it all. I'll give you 200 thousand when you come back. You really can't. As for you going to karaoke, giving the girl rouge pollen money and sending it out at once, do you spend money? Then anyone will. It's true that every dollar has done something good. It's really impossible. Doing good deeds requires good karma, good luck and good opportunities! It is easy to brag about doing good deeds and being a good person every day. Good people have no role models and no chance to do good for you. So we should cultivate an excellent and independent personality.
About Classical Chinese (4)
The ancients in China understood that language changes once every 30 years at most, and the language changes caused by different places are also one kind, so they separated language from writing. Future generations can read books written for thousands of years as long as they learn one or two thousand words in two years. Foreign languages are different, such as English, which now has1200,000 words and is still developing. People can't understand 100 years ago, so experts must study it. The Chinese characters here are different.
The key to China's cultural treasure house is ancient prose. If you learn classical Chinese and poetry well, you can naturally write vernacular Chinese and poetry well.