The so-called "reading" is often melodious and rhythmic. Our children sing to school, so they are called "books are loud". "Lang Lang" is a wonderful jingle when two beautiful jade pieces collide. When I walked to the campus, I heard the children reading. The voice is beautiful and the melody is beautiful.
In fact, a hundred years ago, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China abolished old private schools, advocated new schools, and abolished the method of reading by recitation. However, since then many masters have proposed to return to chanting. To tell the truth, until now, most textbooks have not involved the related content of chanting, let alone classroom teaching.
As a teacher who is about to take the podium, I don't need to embarrass myself to learn something that is not in the textbook and is not involved in teaching. Then why should I learn to recite?
In fact, the answer is simple, because the benefits of chanting to children are irreplaceable:
Reciting solves a very difficult problem, that is, reading.
We normal students have a lot of professional training. This kind of training can give us a wonderful lesson and attract students by telling stories or using multimedia, but none of these means can solve a problem, that is, reading.
All the children are attracted by the teacher, not the articles in the book. Modern Chinese is OK. We can attract children by reading aloud, but when it comes to China's ancient poems, reading aloud is a bit unworkable. No matter how affectionate you are, there are always four words: bow and scrape! In the long run, children will gradually get away from the treasure left by our ancestors for more than 3000 years. This is terrible.
And chanting directly solves this problem. Singing and reading is much more interesting than sitting there reading, just like when my parents took us to sing children's songs and play games, the teacher took the children to recite these ancient poems. When the classroom becomes a game, will the children still hate it?
Reciting can make children feel the words far away from them through tunes.
The ancients said: "If you don't shed tears when reading a mold, you will be disloyal;" Those who read Chen Qingbiao without tears will be unfilial; Those who don't cry when reading "Sacrifice to Twelve Lang Wen" will not be friends. " The first two of these three articles are all in textbooks, and I have never heard of any teacher who shed tears while teaching these texts.
Is our child unfaithful, unfilial and friendless? It must not be like this. The problem may be that our children didn't even look at it. What the ancients said about reading is now chanting. Scholars are chanting and writing, and children should of course recite and learn, and with those firm or sad tunes, their understanding will be deeper.
Some people say that we have so many composers, isn't it good to sing music? This is different. The music of music is added by our descendants, but the chanting is true and carried by the Chinese characters themselves.
Recitation is a traditional method of education and learning, and it is the summary and invention of ancestors for thousands of years, especially suitable for learning China tradition.