文言文,又称“古文”。它是指先秦口语为基础而形成的古代汉语的书面语,以及后来历代作者的仿古作品。文言文一直在汉民族书面语中占优势。传统戏剧,主要是用文言文写作。虽则在五四运动以后用白话文取而代之,然文言词汇、文言句式仍被广泛运用。没有一点文言文的基础知识,莫说要看懂《史记》、《三国》、《红楼梦》, Classical Chinese, also known as “ancient”. It refers to the ancient Chinese written language formed on the basis of the pre-Qin colloquialism, and later the antiquity works by the authors of all ages. Classical Chinese has been dominant in Han Chinese written language. Traditional drama, mainly written in classical Chinese. Although it was replaced by vernacular after the May 4th Movement, however, the classical vocabulary and the classical sentence patterns were still widely used. Without any basic knowledge of classical Chinese, we must understand that we should understand the historical records, the Three Kingdoms, the Dream of Red Mansions,