1, read the book a hundred times, see its meaning.
Although children didn't quite understand the meaning of ancient poems at first, we have many poems that are easy to understand, such as Li Bai's Thoughts on a Quiet Night, Meng Haoran's Spring Dawn and Luo's Ode to Goose. As long as we explain it to the children a little, they can still understand the meaning.
Even if they didn't understand these poems at that time, if they memorized them, when they encountered similar scenes in their own lives, they could relate their life experiences with the poems they had learned and suddenly understand the artistic conception and content of the poems. So reciting ancient poems helps them feel the world better.
2. Cultivate their sense of ancient Chinese.
Generally speaking, ancient poetry is a form of classical Chinese, with concise and beautiful language, which is more meaningful, implicit and profound than modern vernacular Chinese. However, we all use the vernacular in our daily life. Reciting ancient poems can cultivate children's sense of ancient Chinese language, make them better contact with the long-standing classical culture of the Chinese nation and help them better read, understand and use ancient Chinese.
3. Cultivate children's perception of the world.
Ancient poetry has two important functions: scenery description and lyricism. Scenery description is to perceive the surrounding scenery and things, and lyricism includes the expression of feelings and aspirations. Flowers and trees, sun, moon and stars, morning and evening, and so on. Everything that is common around us can enter poetry, everything can have a different taste when it comes to the poet's pen, and everything can make the poet feel moved by the scene.
These are the poet's perceptions of the objective world and the subjective world. Reciting poems can expose children to the way of thinking in these poems, so as to perceive the world in a more diversified way and improve their perception of the world.
4. Cultivate children's correct three views.
Qian Mu said in The Significance of Literature lies in Finding a Higher Life: The ancients in China once said that poetry expresses aspiration, which means that poetry is about what is in our hearts. If our hearts are broken, how can we make clean poems and bright poems? Therefore, learning poetry can make people embark on a higher realm of life.
As we know, from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, the earliest collection of poems in ancient China, to Yuefu poems in Qin and Han Dynasties, and then to Yuan Qu in Tang and Song Dynasties, the earliest poems have been two or three thousand years now. These poems can span thousands of years and have been passed down after generations of screening and elimination.
This is enough to prove that these poems are recognized by everyone in both form and thought.
The poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Lu You and Xin Qiji must be among the best in Qian Qian. Because those who are not good enough have long been eliminated. Their personality charm, life pursuit and value embodiment are all exemplary, and many world outlook, values and outlook on life they inherit and propagate in their poems are traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, which are worth learning.