The child asked, why should we learn Chinese?

As soon as school started, parents and readers left a message: Children asked, why should we learn Chinese? This is actually a very powerful title to deceive traffic. Similar titles include “Children asked, why do we still need to learn ancient Chinese”, “Children asked, why don’t foreigners learn Chinese but us learn English”, “Children asked, Dad, have you ever used mathematics above elementary school addition and subtraction since you started working?\” Everyone can confidently give their own answers to this series of questions, and they will quarrel with each other when answering, so it will become very lively. When the popularity reaches a certain level, more people and celebrities will join in, and eventually everyone will sing a chorus of \”Encouragement to Learn\”. I don’t advise, I don’t know what to say when faced with beautiful scenery, I can’t learn Chinese well and can only lament the words “I fuck you”. If a child talks endlessly like Dong Yuhui, I will have goosebumps all over my body. , I feel that this scenery is better to just blow up, and only saying \”I fuck\” is at least sincere. Even if it is written as \”fuck\”? That can be regarded as the use of the Chinese language\’s articulation and consonance skills. As a science student, my Chinese was never very good in school. I\’m personally quite satisfied with this. This means that I don’t need to spend too much time on this subject, but I can get high marks every time. At the same time, because except for the English paper, all the test papers are in Chinese, I can read and understand the questions faster than most of my classmates. Before they have finished reading the questions, I have already solved one-third to half of the questions. Then, I also helped my classmates write many love letters and earned a lot of snacks and pocket money. I was able to live a middle-class life in school and knew a lot of gossip that other classmates didn\’t know. When I was in college, because my Chinese score in the college entrance examination was high enough, I was exempted from the \”College Chinese\” course that is required by the majors and departments, but the credits were still given. After I got to work, I read documents and \”A Letter to All Colleagues\” and I was able to read a little more from them than most of my colleagues. This helped me escape from several projects that were destined to become fire pits. Bottomless unit. Because they feel that they can use words to hide their true intentions, make funerals happy, make big mistakes, and mislead people who read these words. This does not work for me. I am good at Chinese. But I would not use these to persuade a child to learn Chinese well. Using benefits to persuade others is a way to tame an animal. What\’s more, individual differences are huge. My reading volume in middle school has exceeded that of many Chinese teachers. Chinese textbooks are just my extracurricular readings. Not everyone is like this, nor does everyone need to be. A large number of students have hated Chinese since elementary school, hated reciting, hated filling in the blanks, hated making sentences, and hated composing. They equated Chinese with these things and couldn\’t get any fun from them. This is a fact. The fact is that education destroys school children\’s interest in their mother tongue. Therefore, the question arises: Why should we learn Chinese? At the practical level, it is asking: What is the value of learning Chinese to daily life? That is indeed of little value. Now I no longer write messages asking for leave, nor do I write love letters. The former only needs recordings and photos, and the latter only needs WeChat payment and emoticons. Text is purely redundant.At the literary level, it is asking: What is the value of learning Chinese for text writing? That\’s really of little value. Because the entire Internet is full of bad Chinese, but it does not prevent users from making money at all, and they make a lot of money. It\’s so bad that as long as a person can use four words in a row, everyone will exclaim that he is full of knowledge and can actually use idioms, so literate. Is that right? Can\’t tell the difference between \”log in\” and \”log in\”, \”please wait\” and \”please wait\”, did it delay an Internet company\’s listing and gain a market value of 100 billion? To continue talking like this is a bit cynical and should not be said to children. Let’s talk about something positive: Why should we learn Chinese? Because language, like history, exists beyond time and secular life. In the past, the biggest threat to Chinese language was the corruption of language, which made language unable to truly express the wishes of users and reduced it to rigid form and empty content. However, this kind of corruption comes from the erosion of power. The simplest examples are Internet slang such as \”aligning granularity\”, \”forming a closed loop\”, and \”supply and demand resonance\”. When such Internet companies collapse, the company\’s executives will run away. , when power disappears, this kind of linguistic corruption will naturally disappear. As I said before, language transcends time and secular life, and is much longer and more stable than this small change of power. The biggest threat to languages ​​now is the abolition of writing, that is to say, digital illiteracy is a trend. In everyone\’s daily life, there will be less and less text on all content interfaces, and eventually they will become images and sounds. Where one needs to read, one will gradually change to listening and watching. Therefore, reading, books, and language will all remain as a privilege in the future. If power cannot destroy language, then it will incorporate language into itself. So, why should we learn Chinese? Because reading, books, and language will all exist as a privilege in the future. Most people don\’t need it at first, and then gradually lose access to it. Just look at the screen and look at the images. This is not alarmist, this is how personal computers have retreated. Personal computers are production tools for people of my generation. Nowadays, children only need mobile phones. It is enough to ask which APP to download. No personal computer is needed. So can we say the other way round, children don’t need production tools? Furthermore, there are not many production and job opportunities for them? Play gold coins on your mobile phone and then spend them on your mobile phone. This is a perfect closed loop. Three or five apps can arrange your life. Those who arrange everyone to spend their lives on the mobile phone screen and three or five apps need to read, need books, and learn Chinese, because they are the ones who need to think, and others only need to be responsible for receiving the results of thinking. If these people actually read and think, and can use the abstract symbols of words to perform complex calculations through learning Chinese, and have independent self-will, then that will be a real big trouble. The child asked why we should learn Chinese. At present, this is a matter of choice, choosing what kind of future you will enter. There may be no need to choose or learn Chinese in the future.Being hidden, if you want to look up the meaning of some specific words, you may be offline together with the machine, and you will be forced to watch 1,000 hours of short dramas to restore your permissions. Now, we can recite those two words in unison: I fuck!