论左宗棠的读书观——以《左文襄公家书》为中心

On Zuo Zong-tang's View on Reading--Centering on Family Letters from Zuo Zong-tang

在《左文襄公家书》中,关于教育、指导子女读书学习的言论占据了一个相当重要的部分。左宗棠结合自己多年的读书经历,对关于读书的目的、读物的选择、读书的态度和读书的方法等问题,提出了许多颇有价值的观点,表现出鲜明的儒家家庭教育特色。在谨守儒家倡导的“耕读家风”基础上,左宗棠的读书观继承、发扬了程朱理学关于读书、修身的优良传统,不仅在教育左氏子孙读书治学方面起到了积极的作用,而且对当前全民阅读事业的推进和学习型社会的建设仍然具有一定的借鉴价值。

In Family Letters from Zuo Zong-tang,the remarks on children's reading occupy a very important part.Based on his many years of reading experience,Zuo Zong-tang puts forward many valuable opinions on the purpose of reading,the choice of book,the attitude of reading and the method of reading,showing a clear Confucian family education features.Zuo Zong-tang adheres to the“family tradition of farming and reading”advocated by Confucianism,and his reading view inherits and carries forward the excellent traditions of Cheng-zhu Neo-confucianism on reading and self-cultivation,which not only play an active role in educating the descendants of the Zuo family to read and study,but also has a certain reference value for the promotion of the current national reading career and the construction of a learning society.