关于今天可否使用文言文写作的辩争——与郑全和先生商榷

The Debate with Mr. Zheng Quan-he: Classical Style of Writing is Still Acceptable

郑全和"不能适当使用文言"的观点有失偏颇。历史上曾为剥削阶级所使用并被进步思想家批判过的文言文,在现今民众知识水平普遍提高的情况下,不会成为开发民智的障碍,而可以成为广大劳动群众濡染民族历史文化、开展交流交际的工具和陶情冶性的文化快餐;文言文写作也能创新,并不违反规范;在今天仍可承载发展民族文化文学的重任。因此,应该为文言文在文化文学领域讨回一席之地。

It is not convincible of Zheng Quan-he's view that'Classical Chinese is not acceptable in writing.' It is true that the classical style of writing had been monopolized by the exploiting class and was repudiated by the progressive thinkers in the early 20th Century, but it cannot be the barrier for the development of people's intelligence any more for the fact that today our people's cultural knowledge has been raised to a new level. In this case, throngh it, our people can savour the national history and culture, carry out the interchange and communication, mould the temperament. Renovation can also be performed in classical Chinese writing withour violating its rules. Classical Chinese can still take on the heavy task of the development of the national culture and literature. Hence, it should regain its position in the field of Chinese culture and literaturd.