On Classics of Chinese Studies: Reading Classics of Chinese Studies and Cultivating Qualified College Students
This paper expounds the definition of Chinese classics, the value of reading Chinese classics, the criteria for qualified college students and the significance of reading Chinese classics in cultivating outstanding college students. The article holds that the classics of Chinese studies are the essence of Chinese culture and the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation for 5 thousand years. Reading the classics of Chinese studies and letting excellent culture and thoughts infiltrate the hearts of college students plays an irreplaceable role in cultivating contemporary qualified college students.
Keywords classics of Chinese studies; Reading value; Qualified college students
Sinology education has been gradually popularized in many primary schools, and more and more people are beginning to realize the importance of reading sinology classics. Reading classics to children is no longer an innovative education in a few schools. However, in universities, although some schools have established institutions or departments of Chinese studies, such as Tsinghua and Peking University in their early years, Wuhan University in 200 1, Renmin University in 2005, Yuelu College in Hunan University, and China Institute of Traditional Culture in 2006. However, in most universities, only teachers and students of Chinese Department pay more attention to Chinese studies, and the essence of China's classic culture has not been immersed in the hearts of college students in a practical and effective way. Many college students don't know what Chinese studies are, don't pay attention to their traditional culture, worship foreign things and flatter foreign countries, and are impetuous and empty. In this context, clarifying the meaning of China's classics, vigorously developing China's classic reading activities and infiltrating the minds of college students with China's excellent traditional culture will play a good role in cultivating qualified college students.
First, the definition of China's classics
Chinese studies can be said to be the foundation of learning. Teacher 1906 Notes on Chinese Studies thinks: What is Chinese Studies? A country's learning is also. Life with land is on it, because there is a country, and people with a country have their own knowledge. People who study, learn about a country, think it is useful for the country and govern a country? . Mr. Wu Mi, a master of Chinese studies, believes that Chinese studies are the whole of a country's scholarship and its own. In other words, it should include all aspects of China's scholarship. Mr. Zhang Dainian believes that Sinology is the abbreviation of China's learning. From this perspective, Chinese studies should be the inherent knowledge of a country and the traditional essence of a nation. China's sinology generally refers to the traditional culture and scholarship of China with Confucianism as the main body since the 20th century. It also includes Chinese medicine, drama, calligraphy and painting, astrology, mathematics, etc. These certainly belong to the category of Chinese studies, but they can also be said to be an extension of Chinese studies, or Chinese studies in a broad sense. In a narrow sense, sinology mainly refers to the traditional ideological culture at the ideological level, which is mainly manifested in the study of Sikuquanshu. Among them, Jing, Shi, Zi and Ji should focus on Jing and Zi, especially Jing, or the study of the Four Books and Five Classics for short.
Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are the three spiritual pillars of traditional culture. 1978 the new Asia college of the Chinese university of hong kong was established? Mr. Qian Binsi's lecture on academic culture? Mr. Qian Mu was invited to give a series of lectures. In his speech, Qian Mu pointed out that there are seven books. A book that all China people must read? ―― Analects of Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Six Ancestors' Tanjing, Records of Modern Thoughts and Biographies. These traditional books and records are all shining with the brilliance of China's traditional studies, which can be called the classics of China's traditional studies.
Second, the value of reading China's classics
As the name implies, classic reading is the reading of some classic texts. Etymological analysis, reading classics? Recite? And then what? Reading? Two words are compound words. In Shuo Wen Jie Zi,? Recite? The comment is? Irony? . Duan Yucai made further comments on this:? The irony of the times, chanting festivals with voices. Double the same back to show that you don't understand. Reciting is not reciting the text directly, but also reciting syllables. Reading? , "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" is interpreted as? Books? . Duan Yucai also made a further explanation:? Abstracting its meaning to infinity is called reading. ? Duan Yucai is right, right? Recite? And then what? Reading? It further illustrates the difference between the two: irony can also be read in the cloud, and the meaning of reading is not limited to irony. Irony stops what it says and reads what it means. ? On the whole. Recite? It refers to a reading activity through oral memory. ? Reading? Grasping the meaning of the text through understanding is a reading activity. ? Recite? And then what? Reading? Collectively? Read aloud? That was after the Qin and Han Dynasties. Some researchers define reading as: A reading method is to get familiar with reading and thinking by observing and reciting the mind on the basis of understanding, so as to achieve a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the text. ? From this definition, we can see that reading is a process of deepening the text step by step. Classic reading is to introduce students' life experience as a scaffold for classic reading and participate in it from three levels: cognition, evaluation and aesthetics. With the help of reading, through the joint activities of eyes, mouth and ears, text symbols first enter the brain through vision, and then enter the brain through hearing, so that text symbols and related words stimulate the brain at the same time, thus realizing a deep grasp of the classic meaning. This kind of activity is a kind of whole-hearted activity, a kind of spiritual immersion for college students, and plays an irreplaceable role in cultivating the excellent character and humanistic quality of contemporary college students.
Third, the definition and present situation of qualified college students
China traditional culture holds that a perfect person should be virtuous and stand up and make contributions, especially? De? See the most. In traditional culture? De? Mainly refers to people's mind, culture, sentiment, belief, aesthetics, knowledge, self-cultivation and other qualities, rich in content, including benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faith, and the sentiment of national supremacy and national standard; The cultivation of valuing righteousness over profit, respecting teachers and valuing morality; Strong and promising belief in self-improvement; Harmonious persistence and the quality of sustainable development; The spirit of learning from others and using it for my own use.
The university stage is an in-depth stage of study, and college students can completely take off their shirts for exam-oriented education and engage in professional academic and scientific research on the one hand; On the one hand, the study of humanistic qualities such as traditional culture cannot be ignored. Disciple Rules even emphasizes: first, filial piety to parents; second, sincere faith, fraternity, kindness and spare capacity; then study literature. ? Only by having both ability and political integrity can you become a qualified college student.
However, the current situation is not optimistic. There are many phenomena among contemporary college students that are inconsistent with traditional virtues. Especially as the most important part of traditional culture, teachers' morality and filial piety have not been fully reflected in many college students today. College students' consciousness of collectivism and social morality is weak and their psychological quality is poor. Some college students take the realization of self-worth as the core, emphasizing individual standard, followed by society and collective; In terms of material and spiritual relations, they pay too much attention to immediate opportunities and development, while ignoring lofty ideals and goals. Many people put higher economic income and stable life in the first place in their pursuit of life, emphasizing material interests and pursuing practicality, thus diluting their sense of social responsibility and even falling into the mud pit of extreme individualism; In the relationship between demand and dedication, we emphasize demand blindly and think that individual contribution should be equal to social demand.
On the surface, this situation has formed a chain, that is, the utilitarianism of college students' learning and the narrowness of reading-the lack of humanistic knowledge-the lack of culture-the confusion of outlook on life and values-the prevalence of utilitarianism. In essence, the central link of this chain is the lack of culture, and the lack of traditional culture in China is an important aspect of the lack of culture.
Fourth, read China's classics to cultivate college students' excellent accomplishment and quality.
The reading of Chinese classics is to let college students bathe in the brilliance of Chinese classics, educate students on traditional culture, and take China's traditional thought and culture as the core content to cultivate college students' traditional cultural accomplishment, humanistic spirit, national consciousness and sound personality. This activity is of great value and far-reaching significance. First, reading Chinese classics can inherit the classic culture and improve the humanistic quality of college students.
Reading Chinese classics can help students inherit excellent culture and improve their self-cultivation. Huxley, the author of Brave New World, said in 1930s. In a rapidly changing era, a well-informed person and an educated person are likely to be incompatible, which is a real danger. To be well informed, you must read a lot of books quickly, such as information guides. And to have self-cultivation, it is necessary to read slowly and savor several books, all written by people with rich life, thoughts and feelings. ? The network has solved the problem of reading a large amount of information quickly, but it has brought impetuous and tricky atmosphere. Fredric jameson, an American scholar, called this a postmodern feature, that is? Planarization or no depth? . If young people want to achieve something, they must form the habit of reading and thinking, and don't be led by the nose in this era when everything comes and goes like the wind. Students calm down and learn to inherit, read and recite Chinese classics, which can gradually be internalized into a kind of cultivation-good moral quality and rich humanistic accomplishment. Practice has proved that both famous scholars in humanities and social sciences and accomplished natural scientists have extraordinary humanistic qualities. Only with good humanistic quality can we provide strong stamina for personal development and improvement in the future.
Second, reading Chinese classics can improve college students' national identity and enhance cohesion.
Although the world economy is globalizing, the culture with national characteristics is more precious. Countries all over the world are also inheriting their own national cultures. For example, Christian culture, Iberian culture, Islamic culture, black African culture and so on. The Chinese nation is one of the greatest nations in the world. Self-improvement? 、? Hyun-hye, carrying things? Our national spirit is the most tenacious bond, which maintains the peace and development of the Chinese nation and affects the peace and development of the world. Excellent Chinese culture is the foundation of China's continuous development and growth, and it is the inexhaustible spiritual wealth of China people. Zhang Longxi, a Chinese academician at the Royal Swedish Institute of Humanities, History and Archaeology, said that we can draw nutrition from reading classic works such as The Book of Songs and Songs of the South, which all exist in our aesthetic experience and are not divorced from us. The long-standing and endless culture, wisdom and spirit of the Chinese nation will always inspire future generations to move forward.
Third, reading Chinese classics can stimulate college students' innovative spirit and enhance their pioneering power.
No inheritance, no word continuation; Without innovation, there will be no development. Inheritance has made China a long and mellow city, and civilization is proud of the world: a hundred schools of thought contend, and Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism continue to grow; Innovation makes China strong and leads the trend: four great inventions and ingenious technology open up a clear spring of stocks. Inheritance and innovation complement each other. China's traditional culture has both essence and dross. We can't rest on our laurels, we must create something on the basis of inheritance. Our classics of Chinese studies are a kind of learning that is constantly absorbed and growing like a hundred rivers. For example, is it a kind of absorption and China of Indian Buddhism? A new day, a new day? In today's reform and opening up, we should take the classics of Chinese studies as the basis, integrate new learning and innovate. Hu Jintao once put forward:? Carrying forward the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation is of far-reaching significance. ? This is also the historical responsibility of every China person, and it is the basic guarantee to improve the humanistic quality. China culture has lasted for thousands of years, which is rare in the world. We should shoulder the heavy responsibility and pass on Chinese studies. In today's globalization, we are learning from each other's strong points and exchanging reforms with each other. We must also explore and innovate, but we must never worship foreign things and flatter foreign countries, completely westernize them, and forget our ancestors. ? The more national, the more cosmopolitan? . Should we support the motto of great scholar Zhang Zai? Stand for heaven and earth, stand for the people, link the past with the future, and create peace for all generations? Let the classic reading of Chinese studies bear fruit.