Comment on the most misunderstood common sense of literature and history of China people

In recent years, "Sinology" has been a hot topic in China. With the experience becoming a super bestseller, books under the banner of Chinese studies emerge one after another; Cctv's lecture room, which focuses on history and humanities, has won popular academic stars again and again; Many institutions of higher learning also offer the course of "Chinese Studies", and some even set up a special "China College". The revival of Chinese studies seems to be just around the corner.

It is naturally a good thing to promote and revive Chinese studies, but one of China people's faults is that they like to "follow the trend" and "catch up with the tide". How to avoid the bubble of this round of "Sinology fever" may require further thinking by the cultural circles and even the whole society.

There are two things that can give people some inspiration.

First, a university in Beijing, with the strong support of the president, established the "National College". However, it is the president who supports the national college. In his speech welcoming guests from Taiwan Province Province, there was a joke that "July fever" was used to describe the hot weather in summer.

Coincidentally, also in Beijing, the president of a well-known university, or at the ceremony of welcoming guests, he actually read the white word.

Both events became sensational news. Frankly speaking, the two principals are just unlucky to make such a low-level mistake in public. In fact, a similar situation happens every day in our life. It not only shows how imperfect our local people's traditional cultural literacy is, but also tells us: to revive Chinese studies, please start with common sense.

In the second half of 2006, China Book Publishing House published a book "Common Sense of Literature and History Easily Misunderstood by China People". There was not much publicity and hype when the book was published, but it was welcomed by readers and paid attention to by the industry once it was launched. Xinhua Digest, Youth Digest, Xinhua Daily, Digest and many other well-known newspapers and periodicals were reprinted one after another, and their sales continued to climb, winning the "2007 Best-seller Award".

China people's most misunderstood common sense of literature and history has no profound truth and vague meaning, but it seems trivial but true common sense. The book is divided into five parts: word discrimination, allusions tracing, folklore revealing, character archaeology and etiquette comment. Collected 200 common knowledge of literature and history, such as idioms, allusions and historical figures, which are commonly used and misused in China people's daily life, and spread the basics of traditional culture with a radical attitude.

In fact, whether it is traditional Chinese culture or traditional culture, it is the contemporary China people who seek and continue their own cultural blood with a cultural conscious attitude. Therefore, the so-called national studies, the so-called traditional culture, are not just magnificent classics above the temple, but should be poems and idioms in our speech, the gentleman's style of dealing with people, and the Chinese style of settling down. Then, starting from common sense and correcting mistakes can be called a new idea of cultural popularization.

The book has been welcomed and paid attention by readers and the media, which also shows the public's affirmation of it.

Won the "2007 National Excellent Best-seller Award"!