Chapter 85 It's time to be obsessed with the ancients

It's time to be obsessed with the ancients Feng Tang Reading is something that everyone can enjoy.Some people enter the Tao first, and some people start reading later. Later people naturally have a need for reading theory: to know how the predecessors read, so as to save a lot of detours.The predecessors are also happy to provide: "Being a good teacher", "Happy class grandchildren" and "Eating men and women" are as rooted in people's hearts.However, juniors should be very careful, keep their eyes open, and consider the context of the conclusion and the author's state of mind before believing in the conclusions of the seniors.

Since the May Fourth Movement, among the reading theories, the most orthodox, the most arrogant, and the most deeply rooted in the hearts of the people is "the theory of not reading ancient Chinese books". The most orthodox, because it was initiated by Lu Xun.In January 1925, the "Beijing News" supplement asked for the number of ten "must read books for young people", so Lu Xun wrote a short article "must read books for young people".Lu Xun's answer was very short: "I never paid attention to it, so I can't say it now." But there was a rather long note, which said: "...I thought it was necessary to read less—or not—read Chinese books, and read more Foreign books..." The Chinese books that Lu Xun talked about at that time referred to ancient Chinese books. This meaning was repeatedly clarified in his articles such as "Written Behind the Grave" and "Ancient Books and Vernacular" a year later.

The most arrogant, the Gang of Four talked about criticizing Confucius and destroying the Four Olds, and affectionately called Confucius the second child of Confucius.The book reviewer Cao Juren clearly stated that "cherish the spirit and don't read ancient books", and wrote a series of articles: "My Reading Experience", "Wait another hundred years to understand ancient books", "No scriptures to read", "Advising the world not to read ancient books". "Reading Ancient Books" and so on are eloquent enough to produce an album. The most deeply rooted in people's hearts, lazy people say, there are lions on the road, of course it is better not to read ancient Chinese books.In the bookstore, there are "China Can Say No" and "WTO Handbook" with the national spirit and the awesomeness of the whole people, the fists of Jin Yong and Gu Long, and the pillows of Weihui, Mianmian, Jiudan and Muzimei.Outside the bookstore, there are Internet cafes, karaoke bars, teahouse bars, and hair salon cinemas.In the information age, things are troublesome and sometimes narrow, and difficult things to do. If the predecessors say they can't do it, of course they won't do it.

Now it seems that there is nothing more absurd than "the theory of not reading ancient Chinese books". Lu Xun said "not to read ancient Chinese books" because he is Lu Xun.Not to mention his private school work, but since he worked in the Ministry of Education in Peiping in 1912 and died in Shanghai in 1936, he bought books and read books for decades, and his diary ended with an entry every year.Judging from the current population composition, no one can recognize all the Chinese characters in Lu Xun's books, no one can understand half of the contents of the bibliography, and no one has read half of the books involved in the bibliography.To put it simply, if Du Mu and Liu Yong tell you bitterly that the Goliao nightclub is extremely boring, and the small waist and small fat butt are extremely boring, you have to give a big discount.In addition, Lu Xun said "not to read ancient Chinese books" because of 1925.In those years, in China, it was difficult to set up a desk. "People in the Song Dynasty were still discussing, and the Liao soldiers had already crossed the river." It was important to learn some Western learning such as shipbuilding and artillery, financial accounting, and so on.

Cao Juren said "not to read ancient Chinese books" because he made a logical error.Cao Juren believed in the reading theory of Yan and Li schools.Yan Yuan said: "The more you read, the more confused you become, the more ignorant you are when judging matters, and the weaker you are in managing the economy." Li Wei said: "If you have more experience on paper, you will have less experience in world affairs. If you have more spirit in pen and ink, you will have the spirit of economics." Few. Song and Ming died because of this.” Cao Juren’s reasoning was as follows: Yan Li believed that “opening books is harmful”, Yan Li was an ancient Chinese, and of course Yan Li read ancient Chinese books, so Yan Li believed that they should not read ancient Chinese books.In fact, Yan Li just thinks that "too many books are harmful", and knowledge and action should be balanced.In addition, Cao Juren regards reading ancient books as too sacred. You must read the real scriptures, you must start with textual research and even archaeology, and you must understand the similarities and differences between ancient writers, modern writers, Song scholars, and sinologists before you can read ancient books.To put it simply, no matter how big a beauty is, she has to defecate. In Li "walking is sloppy, the center is swaying, those who know me say that I am worried, those who don't know me say what I want, the sky is so long, who is this", and Cui Jian's " I used to ask endlessly, when will you come with me", there is no essential difference, it is all emotional and expressive.As a younger child, if you are obsessed with the ancients, you just need to read and understand, and just feel the palm of your imagination and let your mind wander. You don't need to know the genus and species of the ancients.

Whether it is for those who rely on writing to subsidize their families or those who do not rely on writing to subsidize their families, it is time to lust for the ancients. Those who do not rely on writing to subsidize their families must be good at managing the world and helping the people.To put it simply, two years of MBA study in the United States is not as good as two years of Ming and Qing history. Chinese cabbage is cuter than Britney Spears, court discussions are tougher than classroom cases, and Ming and Qing history are more transparent than American textbooks about China. Relying on writing to subsidize the family's responsibility is unshirkable. Writing should be your raw material. After mastering it, frying and frying, from the inscriptions of the three generations, down to the bed of the widow next door, should not be taboo.Leaving aside the cunning and gratifying words accumulated by our ancestors for thousands of years, it is a crime.Don't talk about the rebellion during the May 4th period. It was the adolescence of the new Chinese characters. You must kill your father to know your last name.Li Rui said: "Counting from the era of Yan Fu and Lin Shu, it has only been a little over a hundred years. However, this hundred years is the biggest and most profound literary change in square characters. In the past 100 years, we were first forced to change ourselves by others with strong boats and sharp guns, and then we changed ourselves with one revolution after another. For more than a hundred years, we have almost been eager to change ourselves.” Now it is time to go to It's time to go to the ancestral grave, check and see what good things the ancestors have.To give an example to those who are not convinced, has there been any Chinese characters similar to recording human experience in the past few decades: the night comes and the moon falls and wakes up, the flowers and shadows are messy, and the sleeves are full of people, suspicious like washing the soul in a curling pot. (Li Bai)

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