First-year Chinese classical text supplementary reading

Author: Deng Jianlie
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: This series of "Chinese Classical Text Reading for Middle School Students" includes books such as "In-depth Translation and Analysis of High School Classical Chinese," "Detailed Translation and Analysis of Junior High School Classical Chinese," "Reading Training for High School Classical Chinese: From Classroom to Extracurricular," and "Reading Training for Junior High School Classical Chinese: From Classroom to Extracurricular." Among these books, especially "In-depth Translation and Analysis of High School Classical Chinese" and "Detailed Translation and Analysis of Junior High School Classical Chinese," have achieved high sales, become popular both inside and outside schools, and are widely favored by teachers and students. The reason is that these books provide a comprehensive and detailed translation and analysis of the texts. The books have the following features:
1. Bilingual (Chinese-English) comparison.
2. Content analysis. The key points in the text are clearly explained, accompanied by concise appreciative comments.
3. Structural analysis. Diagrams are used to illustrate the structure clearly, and poems are accompanied by "explanatory notes."
4. Word, phrase, and sentence analysis.
- Words: include homophones.
- Phrases: include (words with different meanings in ancient and modern Chinese), polysemous words, and word-class conversion.
- Sentences: include several sentence patterns that must be mastered according to the teaching syllabus. Junior high school material on word-class conversion and sentence patterns is briefly mentioned because the junior high school exam does not require these, but they are introduced when necessary and not presented as a fixed section.
5. The high school section includes "Reading Guidance," a column that is particularly popular because it covers common etymology knowledge, literary (common literary knowledge), and classical Chinese rhetorical knowledge.
6. Famous quotes from the texts and must-be-memorized passages are all mentioned.
The "Detailed Translation and Analysis of Junior High School Classical Chinese" series has the following features:
1. It retains the popular structure of "Detailed Translation and Analysis of Classical Chinese."
2. It combines "Detailed Translation and Analysis of Classical Chinese" and "Reading Training for Classical Chinese: From Classroom to Extracurricular" into one book, grouping classroom training together first to consolidate and then extend to extracurricular content.
3. The organic combination of classroom and extracurricular content is primarily reflected in the scientific and typical selection of materials. Taking this book, "Supplementary Reading for Junior One Classical Chinese Texts," as an example, the classroom text "Ten Aphorisms from the Analects" discusses learning attitudes and methods, while extracurricular reading still selects the Analects, focusing on moral cultivation. These poems and articles with the same name and author differ in content and selection angle.
From the perspective of the new curriculum standards and the trends of junior high school exams across various regions, the assessment of comparative reading of classical Chinese is an emerging direction.