Inheriting and developing language and culture, exploring the code of Chinese civilization
2026-01-23
When it comes to language and culture, people will think of oracle bone inscriptions on turtle bones, classical poetry with profound artistic conception, popular folk arts and operas, vivid and lively dialect expressions, and rich and colorful customs and famous objects. In the context of rapid development in the digital age and increasingly rich online language life, how to make these precious cultural heritages that have been passed down for thousands of years string together and strengthen their voices, promote the integration of language and culture into the education system, and transform them into cultural development advantages, is a major issue worthy of attention. Recently, the Ministry of Education and other departments issued the "Opinions on Deepening the Inheritance and Development of Excellent Chinese Language and Culture and Improving the Language and Cultural Literacy of the Whole People", which will implement a series of projects, promote relevant action plans, and implement a number of pilot projects to implement and refine various arrangements for the inheritance and development of excellent Chinese language and culture, and promote the improvement of language and cultural literacy of the whole people, especially young people. Firstly, building a systematic governance system guided by activating static resources, promoting creative transformation and innovative development of language and culture, and creating diverse application scenarios is key. Nowadays, accelerating the integration of technology and culture, and creating typical cultural scenes that benefit the whole nation, especially those that can enhance the participation and creativity of young people, has become a new trend. With the help of the cultural and museum fever, many places have used cultural relics, industrial heritage, campus facilities to create new language and cultural heritage venues such as language resource museums and language and cultural parks, promoting the transformation of language and culture from "rescue records" to "activation and utilization", making language and cultural materials in academic works come alive, and transforming them into new cultural products and creative spaces that can be experienced and created in production, life, teaching and research, and economic development. For example, the Wuzhou Dialect Museum located in Wuyi, Zhejiang Province, was transformed from an idle ancient house. With the help of fresh language materials collected by the "Zhejiang Team" of the Chinese Language Resource Protection Project, the traditional farming tools and old objects in the museum can be touched with fingertips to produce authentic local dialects, sparking a craze among local people to search for nostalgic memories; Zhengzhou University Chinese Character Culture Park fully utilizes the existing landscape facilities on campus to explore a five in one educational mechanism of "research teaching science popularization experience viewing" and a multi-dimensional integrated exhibition system of "physical display+language interaction+manual practice". Since its opening three months ago, it has organized nearly 100 language and culture themed lectures and research practices, serving tens of thousands of teachers, students, and the general public both on and off campus, and transmitting, learning, and spreading the beauty of language and culture in multiple dimensions. Secondly, the dual empowerment of language and technology innovation is the core engine for inheritance and development. On the one hand, the forward-looking deployment and construction of vertical domain language models have explored new paths for the inheritance and development of language and culture. Some ancient Chinese language models support tasks such as interpreting ancient Chinese words and phrases, translating between Chinese and white, analyzing sentence and punctuation, and analyzing allusions in classical Chinese. They also add the ability to translate classical Chinese into multiple languages such as English, French, and Russian; The Oracle AI intelligent agent integrates core functions such as Oracle character recognition, retrieval, research, generation of rubbings and replicas, and reconstruction retrieval, allowing 950 lost overseas oracle bones to be digitally restored. Digital technology has stripped away the difficult and incomprehensible shell of ancient Chinese and characters, helping traditional language and culture become the "top stream" aesthetic pursued by young people. On the other hand, advocating people-oriented and intelligent goodness, language governance in the digital age provides a safeguard for the inheritance and development of language and culture. As of March last year, the domestically produced big language model technology was first used for rescue in the earthquake stricken areas of Myanmar. The China Myanmar English multilingual translation emergency language service system redefined international rescue with "hourly response". China's technology, national responsibility, and language emergency response received unanimous praise from both domestic and foreign people. Improving the language and cultural literacy of the entire population is a systematic, fundamental, and long-term project that cannot be built solely on reading and acquiring knowledge. It requires integrating language and culture into the entire field and process of education, guiding the integration of knowledge, belief, and action in silent nourishment, connecting large, medium, and small schools, and promoting collaboration between families, schools, and communities. At present, Beijing has launched a program to enhance the language and cultural literacy of young people. Several kindergartens and primary schools have jointly piloted the "Children's Language and Heart Language" project, focusing on the cultivation of children's language ability to "listen and speak". Through activities such as Beijing's central axis thinking map, the integration of football competition and moral education, dialogue between famous writers, and traditional festival poetry and music clubs, language learning has moved from the classroom to society, and a new vision of language education integration is slowly unfolding in the sound of books. In Meizhou, Guangdong, some schools use singing Hakka nursery rhymes, performing Hakka mountain operas, and telling traditional stories of the Hakka people as a starting point to deeply integrate folk allusions, folk art, cultural anecdotes with language, history, music, and other teaching methods, continuing the spark of civilization. Language and culture are passed down orally and heart to heart, engraving the genes of China's excellent traditional culture into the bloodline of the nation, enduring for a long time. Promoting the inheritance and development of language and culture is not about holding onto nostalgia and nostalgia, but about exploring the code of Chinese civilization contained in every Chinese character, every local dialect, and every poem, and injecting strong elements of the times into it, so that generation after generation can remember where they come from and firmly know where to go. (New Society)
Edit:Momo Responsible editor:Chen zhaozhao
Source:Guangming Net - Guangming Daily
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