Humanities is concerned with human spirit, and professors in China are usually "overbearing" and have various colors worth remembering. The knowledge of humanities is easy to understand, while the knowledge of natural disciplines is too professional and even difficult for the public to understand. Part of the reason is that there are excellent students in Chinese department, who always make professors' strange' and interesting.
Humanities bears the cultural function outside the discipline.
"The task of Chinese language and literature education goes far beyond the teaching itself," said Chen Pingyuan, a professor in Peking University. In universities, it is often the professors of Chinese Department who go out of campus to participate in social dialogues and interfere in public events. Chinese teachers in middle schools also have the ability to influence students.
Chen Pingyuan once taught an excellent master student of Chinese Department. On the occasion of his master's degree, Chen Pingyuan encouraged him to pursue his doctorate and pursue literary studies. But this classmate refused, because his dream was to be a middle school Chinese teacher.
He told Chen Pingyuan that when he was studying in the middle school attached to South Normal University, the Chinese teacher had a profound influence on him. At that time, he decided to stand on the three-foot platform of the middle school. Now I am a Chinese teacher in the middle school attached to Tsinghua University, which is very popular with students.