Visit Ji Xianlin.
Venue: Ji Xianlin's home in Peking University.
Ji Xianlin: Xin Wei, now that you are the interviewer and I am the interviewee, can you ask me and answer?
Xin Wei: OK.
Ji Xianlin: Then feel free to ask.
Xin Wei: Grandpa, when I was young, you said that when you were young, you were most interested in reading leisure books. You like reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and you can remember the names of fugitives. Grandpa, I'm just like you. I like reading leisure books best. Once in a math class, I looked down at the Water Margin, and while watching it, I recited a hundred seats for eight generals. The teacher found out. Dad hit me for the first time after knowing this. Although it didn't hurt at all, I haven't seen the Water Margin since.
Ji Xianlin: (Laughter) My parents were away when I was a child, and my uncle didn't care much about me, but I wasn't allowed to read casual books. What do we do? We don't go home after school, and we secretly hide in a place to read idle books. I read a lot of light books, including Gong Peng Case, Biography of the Duke of Ji, Shi Gong Case and Three Heroes and Five Righteousnesses. I advocate reading leisure books. Why? Tell me, Xin Wei, how can I write this article well?
Xin Wei: I think it should be a photo.
Ji Xianlin: Well, tell me again, technically, how can I write fluently?
Xin Wei: I need to read more extracurricular books.
Ji Xianlin: That's right. Writer Lu Xun once said that the most reliable thing to write a good article is to read more books. I watched it with a sister when I was a child. There is a big bucket of white flour under the table at home. My uncle came, so we quickly hid the idle books in the vat. All the books on the desk are ordinary classes. (Laughter)
Xin Wei: Grandpa, I like Chinese, but I'm not good at math.
Ji Xianlin: It's good to like Chinese, but Chinese is better and math is better. Young people in 2 1 century should be literate and rational. So, whether you like it or not, you must learn math well. Recently, a class was held in Tsinghua University, and all the students were excellent students. It is proposed to cultivate talents who are well versed in Chinese and western cultures, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign. In my opinion, these two links are not enough, and a link between arts and sciences should be added. Three links, this is the youth of 2 1 century.
Xin Wei: Chinese and western, ancient and modern, arts and sciences, I remember. Grandpa, someone told my mother to find me a good foreign language teacher as soon as possible. I said 12 years old, I never know if I can learn a foreign language. Grandpa, you speak so many foreign languages. Do you think they are right?
Ji Xianlin: Not necessarily 12 years old. Of course, learning early is better than learning late. Learning the pronunciation of a foreign language has a lot to do with the mother tongue. People in some places have too strong accents to learn. Ancient prose is also very important. I think a child should recite at least 200 poems and 50 ancient prose, which is the minimum requirement. A book was recently published to encourage children to recite poems. Let me make a suggestion. We should publish another collection of essays, select some from the viewpoints of China's ancient literature, and add some notes. I recited it when I was a child and I can't forget it.
Xin Wei: Recite 200 poems and 50 ancient prose!
Ji Xianlin: (Laughter) I don't want you to recite it all day.
? Reflections on the Teaching of "Dialogue between Seedlings and Trees" This article is a skimming text, an "interview" between a pupil named Xin Wei and Mr. Ji Xianlin. The full text adopts the form of dialogue, without complicated sentence patterns, excessive rhetoric and abstruse words, and is completely colloquial. Although these two people are different in age, experience and knowledge, they are equal and harmonious in the process of communication. Therefore, in their conversation, we can feel Xin Wei's innocence and loveliness, Mr. Ji Xianlin's kindness and kindness, and his earnest hope and care for the next generation.