How do we read the classics today?Chinese Book Company organizes first -tier scholars to write a general letter to the public ｜ Cultural observation

Cover news reporter Zhang Jie

Mark Twain once said: "Classics are books that everyone thinks should be read but not read." Although this is a ridicule, it also tells some facts: Although the classics are good, but there is a threshold for classics, but there is a threshold for classics. of. For example, most of the heads like "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" and the mysterious and mysterious philosophical works like "Lao Tzu" are really like a mountain for non -professional people. As a result, inviting experts and scholars, facing the public readers, and the work that explained and repeated the classics, it is very necessary. The Chinese Book Company is a recognized academic publication town in ancient books in China. It has contributed a rich contribution in classic inheritance and convenient communication. In recent years, while the Chinese Book Company still attaches great importance to academic publishing, it has also combined its own advantages to increase the pace of public publishing and start the transformation of academic resources.

On August 15th, the "Chinese Classic General Capital" published by the Chinese Book Company held a new book conference in Shanghai, and held a seminar on the theme of "Classic becoming a general". "Chinese Classic Generals" is published by the Chinese Book Company, and a set of contemporary famous masters interpret the traditional classic "everyone". Professor of Fudan University, Director of the China Civilization International Research Center of Fudan University, and Chen Yinchi, director of the Library of Fudan University as the editor -in -chief. The author of the series covers Fudan University, Tsinghua University, Peking University, East China Normal University, Tongji University, Shanghai Normal University and other colleges and universities across the country. This series is open. The first batch of five types of "" "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", "Lao Tzu" generally "," Zhuangzi "generally", "Journey to the West" "," Dream of Red Mansions "" Consciousness, it is expected to publish two to three types this year.

▲ At the press conference site

Tear in the weighing of popularization and academic middle

Take the reader as a dialogue

The amount of "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" is too large, and general readers usually cannot read it directly. How to pass the essence of "Zi Zhi Jian Jian" through a general book with a length of only 100,000 words, which is the author of the author of "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" and the senior professor of liberal arts of Tsinghua University, Mr. Zhang Guogang, focusing on Essence He introduced him at the seminar to conceive the position of the book "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" generally. He said that when this set of books received writing invitations, he considered how to present ideological and academicity in a 100,000 -word book while taking into account both. what. He pointed out that the general education courses of universities across the country are very valued. This set of books is a good reference text for general education.

There are too many books and selection books of "Lao Tzu". How to write a unique general book for "Lao Tzu"? Guo Yongbing, a professor at Fudan University and the author of "Lao Tzu" General ", used a series of thinking, and adopted the balance of the early writing of the early writing book and pursuing the new knowledge and the old knowledge. It is not simply reconciled, but to have a spiral improvement, and entrust the real "general" and the real "general" and the real "Lao Tzu" book and Lao Tzu's thoughts. For example, in the book, we focus on the relationship between Lao Tzu and the relationship with the famous figures (Confucius, Peng Zu), the origin of thoughts, the position of the book "Lao Tzu" and the characteristics of the editorial characteristics. It does not open to analyze the traditional literature, but to a large extent depends on the new knowledge brought by the early writing books and related information. For Lao Tzu's main ideas, core terms, and read analysis of some key chapters (such as inaction but nothing, often, good water, and humiliation), all of which are communicated with ancient writing and various old bodies in history. Studies are mainly written by philology.

Guo Yongbing mentioned that we must let our readers really get close to the classics, especially young people, and are willing to appreciate it. "On the one hand, we must write with a slightly relaxed pen. Rigidity and cutting -edge, do not go on the way. My little book is conceived at the beginning: never take some common sense to check, and then write something to please or even charming readers. Oxford, Oxford, Oxford, Oxford, Oxford Generally, we should be the target of our catch -up. In popularizing the weighing of the middle of the academic middle, I finally made such a small book. I treat the reader as a dialogue or even an opponent. The writing attitude is serious and serious. "

In order to allow readers to appreciate the classics, Guo Yongbing used a large number of color pictures of "Lao Tzu" text in the book to perceive the process of the text of "Lao Tzu". As far as I read, it seems that there is no popular book of "Lao Tzu" to present these images in a complete and comprehensive manner. We hope to let readers return to the scene of history to touch this ancient classic.

Zhu Hongbo, a professor at East China Normal University and deputy director of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Journey to the West, is the author of the "Journey to the West". Zhan Dan, a professor at Shanghai Normal University and vice president of the Chinese Red Mansion Dream Society, has written the writing of "Dream of Red Mansions". They also shared the importance of classic popularization.

Classic is "boundary"

Rising from knowledge to wisdom

Professor Chen Yinchi, director of the China Civilization International Research Center of Fudan University and Director of the Library of Fudan University, is both the editor -in -chief of "Chinese Classic General Inspection" and the author of one of the volumes of "Zhuangzi General". He believes that the status of classics in culture is beyond doubt. For example, the older generation of historians believe that the "first four history" ("Historical Records", "Han Book", "Hou Han Book" and "Three Kingdoms") is a historic classic. Reading, because only the four books were read, the later history books would be "trend as broken." This is the classic positioning role, and the classic is the "boundary". As the editor -in -chief of the "Chinese classic" of the Chinese Book Company, Chen Yinchi made the request that the author must first provide the most basic and important knowledge about this classic, and then rose to the so -called "wisdom". "How to write wisdom is also particular about. For example, the" Zhuangzi "generally wrote about wisdom, but not only focused on" Zhuangzi "itself, but from the comparison of Laozhuang and the comparison of Confucianism and Taoism. In the comparison of other cultures in the world, let's talk about the 'wisdom' embodiment of "Zhuangzi". "Secondly, Chen Yinchi also mentioned that there is another requirement for this" general "writing. "I used to say that" Zhuangzi "was not written by Zhuangzi in the lecture. Many readers were surprised. I also talked about this question in" Zhuangzi "General. 》 The formation of this book is mentioned that in fact, the thirty -three articles of Guo Xiang, who are passing today, is a selection book. The sources of each article are different. Only in this way, the relationship between "Zhuangzi" and Zhuangzi can be clear. "

As a planner of this set of "Chinese classics", the publisher Jia Xuefei said when introducing the original intention of this set of books, how to interpret the Chinese classics with new ideas, new perspectives, and new academics to the public. It is the issue that they have been thinking. "Based on the successful experience of building academic research and mass reading for many years, after two years of market research and visitors from various fields, we have determined to make a set of Chinese traditional books. The general must read the knowledge framework of readers, especially contemporary youth and adolescents, and the knowledge framework of traditional culture. "

Zhou Xuanlong, an executive director of the China Book Company and secretary of the party committee, mentioned online that 2022 is the 110th anniversary of the Chunghopathic Book Company, and they have organized a series of celebrations one after another. At the beginning of the founding of the Chinese Book Company, the founder, Mr. Lu Feiyu, said that he should open the wisdom with education and inherit civilization. "As a publisher, I have been thinking about the function of our publishing house? Publishing as an industry, the purpose of its appearance in Chinese history is to solve the problem of dissemination. In the past few years, the Chinese Book Company has been published by ancient books. In addition, we have been considering how to serve the general public, how to turn academic achievements into public knowledge, and express the academic achievements in a popular way to understand more people. The Chinese Book Bureau · Shanghai Juzhen planned This set of books is a result of solving such problems. "

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