What about those children who read classics in their early years?

At this time four years ago, we went back to China for the summer vacation. In order to let children learn more Chinese, I send them to Chinese studies. Read closed books every day. They have no problem listening and speaking Chinese. Although they can't recognize a few big characters, it doesn't prevent them from reciting several chapters of The Analects.

It was the first time that they left home to live in a collective life, and it was in a completely unfamiliar environment, and the time was longer, for a whole month. Afterwards, they recalled that although they missed the fun of playing with their friends, they were not interested in the kind of reading that was unhappy all day and kept indoors.

Some children in the school are studying full-time, and their goal is to keep copies, that is, to memorize several Confucian classics, such as The Analects of Confucius, The Doctrine of the Mean, Mencius and Laozi, word by word, and keep videos as witnesses.

According to the theory of Mr. Wang Caigui, the pioneer of children's Bible reading education in the world, that is to say, before children are 13 years old, all classics should be infused into their minds, so that they can lay a solid foundation at the best age to recite. When they grow up, explain the meaning of classics to them. The essence of China's culture will be an inexhaustible treasure for their life.

Mr. Wang spent 654.38+0.2 billion yuan to build a college, which is Harvard in the field of classic reading and the Millennium College in Professor Wang's ideal, "training great talents to guide mankind in the future". Only by completing the 300,000-word classic recitation of capital preservation can you enter the academy.

A few years ago, I took my children to see the Analects of Confucius, Mencius, Laozi and Zhuangzi. But as the child grows older, it becomes more and more unable to call. What's the use of watching these? I once told them that reading a book 10,000 times is self-evident. What you read now will be understood when you grow up.

But when the children grow up, it is perfunctory to say so again. They must know the real purpose and significance of reading these classics, and what is hidden in that book, which is worth reading again and again.

So I explained the ancient prose to them seriously, and they didn't like it. It seems that only I am touched. When they listen to it as a joke, they want me to finish it quickly. When I finish reading, they can go to play. I have grown up in the past two years, but I don't even want to talk about the way to cope.

I think I'm not the only one in this embarrassing situation. I watched a Singapore film Tropical Fish the other day, which profoundly revealed the embarrassing position of Chinese in Chinese-speaking areas. The heroine in the film is a Chinese teacher in a middle school in Singapore. This position is unpopular in schools, and both principals and students are full of contempt for China people. Inferiority at work leads to her having no position at home, and her husband simply ignores her existence.

If the status of Chinese people in Chinese-speaking areas is still so humble, let alone in other parts of the world. In recent years, many Confucius Institutes overseas have been cancelled one after another. Chinese schools, which China people reluctantly support, teach Chinese characters and phrases, but don't teach reading classical Chinese.

For most people, learning Chinese is only for the convenience of doing business with China people in the future and learning some simple daily expressions. Few people are really interested in China culture and these classics that shape China Thought.

So I really want to ask what happened to those children who read classics in their early years. I wonder if Professor Wang's College of Arts and Sciences has cultivated a pillar of practical talents?

Seriously, I really hope to hear positive examples of success in this respect, so that we can maintain confidence in China's education and let the 5,000-year-old civilization proudly face the new wave of global informationization.