Dongshan Culture adheres to the South Normal University's aspiration and practices the South Normal University's educational philosophy, and is willing to promote China culture for public welfare in the way of appreciating elegance and vulgarity, and making everyone Xian Yi. When Mr. Nan talked about the course of "Chinese Studies and China Culture", he once gave you a list of books, and at the same time opened a shortcut for us to enter the cultural treasure house of China quickly.
According to the book list opened by Nanshi, we will recite some China cultural classics and make a series of audio materials, which will be sent to our WeChat official account platform regularly and continuously. And take this opportunity to attract more people to contact and understand the classic Chinese studies, and also drive everyone to contact and understand the chanting method that Nanshi said, "Reciting is like singing without thinking", so that children and everyone can lead to more convenient learning resources.
Our Dongshan culture named this classic chanting sharing activity "Dongshan Classic Chanting Tour".
the contents of this "trip" mainly include: Zhu Xi's family motto, the book of commandments, the three-character classic, the thousand-character text, the university, the poems of a thousand families, the enlightenment of temperament, the book of songs, the golden mean, Laozi, etc. Book of Rites [Selection], Book of Changes [Selection], Compendium of Yi Zhi Lu [Selection], Medical Three-character Classics, Medicinal Fu, Internal Classic, and Fu on Points of Whole Body Meridian.
is this "menu" a bit huge? But if you don't do something, you have to do it perfectly and comprehensively. This will be a long-term project. Please wait and see, and insist on "fighting" with us to the end. I hope that you will join us in "singing" in the classics in the future ...
Chanting is a traditional Chinese poetry reading method in China, which has been handed down from the pre-Qin period. Recitation was once the only reading method used in China's ancient education system. One of the charms of Chinese poetry is that it can resort to cadence and musical beauty to express its meaning, and turn the study of knowledge and culture into aesthetic enjoyment.
However, in the last hundred years, due to the changes in culture and education, chanting was gradually abandoned by schools and was on the verge of extinction. When modern schools explain ancient poetry, they only dig from the meaning of words, and the understanding cannot be comprehensive and in-depth, which is really a great loss for the inheritance of Chinese poetry! As everyone knows, reciting can not only help us better understand ancient poems, stimulate our interest in learning and promote our memory, but also allow us to get in touch with the true spirit of China traditional music, listen to pure and beautiful voices, feel the charm of our mother tongue culture, clean up the grumpy spirit and cultivate a gentleman's style.
Several characteristics of chanting:
1. Chanting is easy to arouse children's and adults' interest in learning. People prefer to study because it is "interesting", especially children.
2. Chanting is a kind of "singing" and is also related to breathing. The ancients called it "mental method"-musical sound, which is helpful for image memory. Learning by chanting is because China people have the idea of "Yin and Yang". If the content of the text is "Yin", which is quiet and profound, Xi Zhi will chant this "Yang" in a rhythmic way. Yin and Yang are born together, and the Tao is not far from people. Students' interest in learning is the best state of learning.
3. The music sounds when chanting will bring emotion. The music of China's literature is inherent in writing. This emotion makes chanting more three-dimensional and vivid, and it is also one of the reasons why chanting makes people deeply love and enjoy it.
4. Compared with ordinary "reading", chanting is of course slow, but modern people's lives are full of fast pace everywhere, so we should find a way to slow everyone down.
it's fun to keep learning to recite. If you persist well, chanting may change the life of an adult or a child.
It should be noted that Mr. nan huaijin has always advocated reading, but what he said is actually chanting. Since ancient times, the so-called "reading" is chanting. "Reading aloud" means reciting aloud, and "reciting" means reciting aloud.
The word "reciting" was referred to by later generations because the two words "reciting" and "reading aloud" were borrowed after the introduction of western reading methods. Mr nan huaijin, like other elderly people, does not use the word "chanting", but refers to chanting by "reading" or "reciting", which has a rhyme and a tune. Please distinguish carefully! (Excerpt from the Chinese Recitation Society)
The following excerpts are some words related to recitation and reading mentioned in Mr. Nan's book.
Students, when studying Chinese studies, you should recite poems and poems. Please pay attention! What are the advantages of recitation? You don't care whether your voice is good or not. It's not singing. Songs are for others. Therefore, the ancients called reading, and reading poetry in the study was called "moaning without illness."
sometimes, when I see it, I feel something, and I recite "I can only see grass growing when I open the curtain", which is my appreciation. If you study once like this, it is equivalent to reading a hundred times now. Please pay attention! Otherwise, you have read too many books, remember? Can't remember. This is about Chinese studies, so the ancients called it "reading". The method of reading is a meditation, a recitation, and a recitation is an opening reading. This is called reading.
If you study in this way, you will have a deep memory in your heart and mind, and you will be happy, and your psychological mood will be naturally adjusted. This is the first step in learning Chinese studies.
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A ramble on China culture Mencius and Gong Sunchou have just said that poetry is a kind of verse. Ancient prose also contains rhythm to some extent. Why are there so many auxiliary words in ancient Chinese, such as "Zhi, Hu, Zhe, Ye, Ran, Yan, Zai", etc.? They are recited, which can restrain, raise, pause and frustrate, help long and slow chanting, and emphasize the tone, which also deepens the impression and is easy to remember.
I think the ancient reading method is better than the modern one, which not only has the above advantages, but also can blend in with the characters in the book by chanting aloud and putting your feelings into it. If you read the Analects of Confucius, sometimes it seems that you are Confucius, but in the invisible, it is also a subtle moral education. Physiologically, it means taking a deep breath and practicing Qigong.
unlike modern people who read books, they don't chew silently with their heads down, cram knowledge into their brains and force them to memorize it. How painful it is!
There are so many nearsightedness among young people today, which has a lot to do with reading methods. When we were young, we sang knowledge into our minds like singing. Of course, this era can't be pulled back. Compared with the past and present, the organization method of literature has been very different. Nowadays, the style of writing is the same as speaking. For example, "Zhang San walks faster" can be said with his mouth or written, but if he recites it like the way of reciting ancient Chinese, it is not "faster" but "thirteen"-neurotic.
-"nan huaijin's Lectures"
Confucius is very fond of music. Music and poetry, in modern terms, are a blend of art and literature. In the past, intellectuals attached great importance to the cultivation of art and literature. Since the Han and Tang dynasties, the route has gradually narrowed, from Yuefu to poetry.
life is very painful without a little literary accomplishment. Especially those who are engaged in social work and political work are quite lonely mentally. People in later generations, without this kind of cultivation, mostly took to the path of religion. But pure religion, that kind of restraint is also uncomfortable. So only the realm of literature, art and music is more suitable.
But in the field of music, vocal music and playing instruments are not suitable for people in their later years. Only instruments played by hands, such as playing the piano and playing drums and instruments, are suitable. Therefore, the poems that later evolved in China have the artistic conception of music, but they don't need to sing loudly. They can croon, immerse themselves in the artistic conception of music, and revel in the world of literature ...
Personally, they have almost entered the realm of old age, but I found that many friends over middle age, in their forties and fifties, are very lonely because of their lack of spiritual cultivation.
If we recite ancient poems in Mandarin, we will often mispronounce them. For example, the four tones of a word are the first, second, third and fourth tones in modern times. But the fourth tone (entering) is often no different from the peaceful tone, so the original four tones are equal to only three tones. The original three tones of going up, going, entering, etc. were all puckered, but now I hear someone reciting poems in Mandarin, and I pronounce the words of entering into a flat tone. This is because it is difficult to distinguish one from four in Mandarin. "
-nan huaijin's lectures.