(Characters of the Two Sessions) Zhuang writer Fan Yiping: The inheritance of minority languages is worrying and should provide "soil" for them
China News Service, Nanning, March 3rd, title: Fan Yiping, a Zhuang writer: the inheritance of minority languages is worrying and should provide "soil" for them
China News Agency reporter Lin Hao
"China is a big country in the world's language resources. It is recommended to increase protection and research efforts to provide 'soil' for the inheritance and use of ethnic languages." Fan Yiping, deputy to the National People's Congress and vice chairman of the Guangxi Writers Association, said in a recent interview with a reporter from China News Agency.
Fan Yiping was born in Du'an Yao Autonomous County, Hechi City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. He has been engaged in education for many years, and has conducted many investigations on the economic development and cultural heritage of ethnic areas.
Fan Yiping said that, taking the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region as an example, it is located in the southwestern border of China, and there are 12 ethnic groups living in the territory, including Zhuang, Han, Yao, Miao, and Dong.
However, due to various reasons, many of the new generation do not use their own national language today, some people can only understand but not speak, and some people can't even understand it.
"The national language is actually very vivid. Take Zhuang as an example. There are various expressions for eating. For example, qiang and gen both mean eating. The former speaks to close friends, while the latter expresses a polite mood. " Fan Yiping said.
Fan Yiping suggested that in order to do a good job in the protection of minority languages, kindergartens, primary and secondary schools should be encouraged and supported to carry out bilingual teaching in the national common language and minority languages.
When evaluating professional and technical titles, in addition to the professional and technical level requirements, other requirements for bilingual candidates are appropriately relaxed.
In order to preserve the endangered languages of ethnic minorities, in recent years, Guangxi has made great efforts to promote the construction of minority language protection projects, intensified efforts to "rescue" endangered ethnic languages, and adopted modern technical means, through real people reading words, phrases, storytelling, daily dialogues and other forms. A corpus was established, and the construction of the "Guangxi Minority Language Resource Database Specification System" was preliminarily completed.
At the same time, Guangxi Radio and Television launched "Zhuang Language News" and other programs to broadcast news information in the form of Zhuang language; Guangxi officials held the China (Guangxi) Zhuang Language Spring Festival Gala for 5 consecutive years; Lu, Mengfei, Huang Peng and other groups Zhuang nationality writers insist on using their mother tongue for literary creation, which has expanded the influence of Zhuang nationality literature and art.
"More people should be encouraged to use ethnic languages." Fan Yiping hopes that the state will continue to encourage and support qualified institutions of higher learning to set up professional courses in literature, education, art, translation, radio, film and television in minority languages, and increase The protection of national cultural heritage has gradually expanded the scope of the use of national languages.
As a Zhuang writer, Fan Yiping's poems, novels and other works are full of strong national feelings. He has won many awards such as the Zhuang Nationality Literature Award and the Bronze Drum Award. The novels such as "The Barber" and "Looking for a Gun" have also been adapted into film and television dramas. on the movie screen.
"Literature is an important indicator to measure the quality and civilization of a nation. National literature can enrich the spiritual world of human beings and build a poetic habitat with its unique cultural texture." Fan Yiping said that the Zhuang people have a population of more than 20 million and should have their own The national literature and culture of China should have a place in the history of world civilization.
Fan Yiping is, through his own efforts, driving a group of national literature and art talents to create, and promoting the prosperity of national culture and international exchanges.
His novels have been translated into Vietnamese, Russian and Swedish.
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