First of all, what needs to be realized is that what we call ancient prose is just the daily conversation of ancient people, just like our current Mandarin. Therefore, it is not difficult to learn ancient Chinese well, but the difficulty lies in having literary talent. Based on my own experience, if you have a weak foundation in classical Chinese, it is recommended to follow the following steps to learn:
1. Read aloud "Three Character Classic", "Thousand Character Classic", "Enlightenment of Rhythm", and "Li Weng Dui Rhyme" ", "The Book of Songs", and be able to recite it fluently (all are three-character and four-character short sentences, both melodic and catchy, and can be combined with historical stories)
2, "Primary School Students' Classical Prose" 100 articles" (a very classic short article, first translated by myself, then read it carefully and imitate it).
3. The text of the eleven books mentioned above, "San Yan Er Pai", "Historical Records", "Warring States Policy" and "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" are relatively good. The above-mentioned books are mainly historical books and literary novels, which are easy to understand and interesting. They are also highly literary and readable
4, "Shishuoxinyu", "Yan Family" The above-mentioned nine books mainly involve "Xun Xun", "Xiao Chuang You Ji", "Six Notes of a Floating Life", "You Meng Ying", "Cai Gen Tan", "Dongpo Xiaolin", "Xiao Lin Guangji" and "Zeng Guofan Family Letters" The ancients cultivated their character and cultivated their character, allowing you to feel the simplicity and literary beauty of ancient literature.
5. "Guanwen Guanzhi", "Miscellaneous Notes on Classics and History", "Compilation of Ancient Chinese Ci", " "Collected Works of Tongcheng School Famous Masters", "Collected Works of Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties", "Shui Jing Zhu", "Luoyang Jialan Ji", "Xunzi", "Mencius", "Zhuangzi", "Han Feizi". In my opinion, the three more important stages in the literary history of Chinese civilization are the pre-Qin period, the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the turn of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The eleven books mentioned above all occupy a very important position in these three stages, and they can be said to have their own merits. "Guwen Guanzhi", "Hundred Classics and Histories", and "Ancient Classics and Dictionary Collection" are comprehensive collections of famous works by ancient and modern famous writers, but each of the three has its own merits. "Guwen Guanzhi" is more basic, and the latter two are more difficult; the remaining eight books Each has its own merits. "Mencius" has incisive reasoning, smooth writing, and vivid language; "Zhuangzi" often uses allegories and metaphors, which are unrestrained and extremely expressive; "Xunzi" is good at reasoning, full of clever arguments, profound thoughts, and thorough logic; "Hanfeizi" uses Fables and historical materials are demonstrated in a simple way, and philosophy can be seen in the ordinary; "Collected Works of the Tongcheng School" and "Collected Works of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties" belong to the collection category; "Luoyang Jialan Ji" and "Shui Jing Zhu" have more complicated records, and the mountains, rivers, geography, customs and secular world are all There is dabbling in it, and it is highly literary. By learning from multiple aspects and corroborating each other, an overall view can be formed.
6. In terms of learning methods, there are four magic weapons for language learning: listening, speaking, reading and writing. For ancient Chinese, the most important thing is to read and memorize it. It is recommended that you memorize more classics of ancient Chinese and then read on the topic. Gradually you will be able to find that feeling, that is, you can touch the rules and feelings of ancient people using language, or in other words, the sense of language. Once you find your sense of language, you should have less problems dealing with daily questions.
7. In addition, when learning ancient Chinese, you need to prepare a reference book, just one. It is the "Old Chinese Dictionary" edited by Wang Li.
8. It should be noted that "Guwen Guanzhi" is only one of the anthologies of ancient texts and has a certain representativeness. However, Chinese traditional culture is broad and profound, and more exposure is needed to broaden one's horizons and achieve the goal of "not fearing anything". Floating clouds cover my eyes, just because I am at the highest level."
9. Finally, if you are not interested in ancient Chinese and just focus on solving questions, then my suggestion is to clarify the meaning and usage of some common words in textbooks, such as real and functional words, and Some special sentence patterns, such as the predicate of the true predicate, etc., and some classic passages must be recited proficiently. If you want to get a higher score in the ancient Chinese part of the exam, I suggest taking a look at "Historical Records" and "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" ", read both the ancient Chinese version and the vernacular Chinese version of these two books. It would be better if you can tell the historical deeds of this person by reading the ancient prose. In daily examinations, the questions are often about selecting a person's deeds and then examining them in conjunction with the ancient Chinese knowledge that has been learned. One of the two books is a biography, and the other is a chronological history, which are very representative. Most of the short essays in the exam also choose similar articles for examination.