In 1930s and 1940s, because the educational circles imitated the educational model of the former Soviet Union, the "Freshman Chinese" was cancelled in 1950s. Since then, college Chinese has disappeared as a public course and has been suspended for nearly 30 years.

Professor Su said in 1978 "Declaration on the Presidency of Fudan University": "If Fudan is allowed to enroll students separately, I mean to give each class a Chinese exam first, and then issue papers after the exam. Unqualified, the following subjects will not be tested. You can't speak Chinese and you can't learn anything else. " ?

1978 Autumn, Nanjing University resumed the college Chinese course, and the president Kuang Yaming was not satisfied with the Chinese textbooks at that time. As soon as Xu Zhongyu took off his "Rightist" hat, Kuang Yaming took the initiative to contact him, hoping that the two universities would cooperate and compile a high-level textbook. ?

Later, he said in the preface of this textbook: "It is of great significance to offer Chinese courses in universities. Marx once said that mastering a language means mastering a weapon. Nowadays, many college students have a low level of Chinese. If we can't even master Chinese as a basic weapon, how can we correctly understand scientific knowledge and perfectly express scientific research results?

When Mr. Chen Yuan was in Fu Jen Catholic University, he was personally responsible for the first-year Chinese teaching and took the lead in class. At that time, some science students stopped studying Chinese seriously as freshmen. Teacher Wang personally mobilized and suggested that science students could not express their scientific research results smoothly if they lacked profound Chinese skills and writing skills.

Teacher Chen Yuan often says that he can't teach Chinese. How does he teach history? How do people who don't understand Chinese read history books? As a freshman, he personally taught Chinese and took the course of China history. Until the 1950s, despite his increasing popularity and age, he persisted.

Wen Rumin

I think "College Chinese" is mainly to stimulate and cultivate students' interest in Chinese, that is, interest in national language, literature and culture. In particular, it will revive the interest that may have been lost in exam-oriented education in the past, let students appreciate the beauty of Chinese and humanities, and cultivate a sense of closeness and pride in national language and culture. The cultivation of interest should be placed in an important position.

At the same time, don't forget "College Chinese" or "Chinese", which is comprehensive and instrumental. We should carry out reading and writing training with the help of "Chinese" ability in class. I don't quite agree that College Chinese should be an ordinary literature appreciation course, because it is a comprehensive course. -Wen Rumin, a first-class professor of liberal arts at Shandong University, former head of the Chinese Department of Peking University.