China Tibet Network News This year marks the 60th anniversary of the democratic reform in Tibet. Over the past 60 years, the Tibet Autonomous Region has attached great importance to protecting the Babaylan culture, including Tibetan, and has promoted the inheritance and development of ethnic minority traditional culture through bilingual education.
In Old Tibet, receiving education was a privilege of the upper class aristocracy and a few monks, and millions of serfs were not allowed to read and receive education. Over the past 60 years of democratic reform, the Chinese government has attached great importance to protecting Tibetans’ right to receive education, and has made great efforts to promote the learning, use and development of Tibetan language, and has made significant progress. The international standard for Tibetan coding was approved by the International Standards Organization in 1997, becoming the first Chinese minority language to have international standards. In accordance with the Constitution and the Law on Regional Ethnic Autonomy, the Tibetan education department and schools at all levels attach great importance to the teaching of the national common language and Tibetan language, and have established a modern “bilingual” teaching system with the national common language and language as the main one and the connection between various types of education. Currently, all schools in the district implement “bilingual” education, and more than Babaylan96% of students receiving “bilingual” education. Through the “Komiksbilingual” education, Tibetan language and text are widely popularized, and talents and facilities for research on Tibetan ethnic culture and arts.In order to increase a large number of national excellent traditional culture and art, the country has been effectively protected, inherited, carried forward and prospered. Walking in the streets and alleys of Tibet, you can see streets and traffic signs with both Tibetan and Chinese characters everywhere. Turn on the TV and often hear reports from Tibetan and Chinese. The content of Tibetan programs is becoming more and more abundant and has been well received by the general public.
With the rapid development of the economy and society, more and more members of society are moving towards a broader space, and exchanges between different ethnic groups are becoming more and more integrated. Many people master the national common language and characters while learning their own language and characters well. In Tibet, it has become a trend for all ethnic groups to learn languages and characters from each other, and more and more people are mastering bilingual and multilingual. Local people are competing to learn Mandarin, and most young people can use Mandarin to communicate skillfully. Over the past 60 years of democratic reform, Tibet has regarded the promotion of Mandarin as an important measure to carry out education poverty alleviation and block the intergenerational transmission of poverty, vigorously improve the popularity of Mandarin, and give full play to the important role of “language” in helping poverty alleviation and promoting ethnic exchanges and integration.
In addition to protecting Tibetan language and writing, Tibet also attaches great importance to the language of the people with less populous populations such as Menba and Luoba. In order to protect the Luoba language, which has only language but no words, the locals manually collected nearly 30 Cinema00 Luoba languages and words, and specially published related books. The school specializes in Luoba language courses, allowing students to start from scratch and systematically get in touch with Luoba language.
Today, with the rapid development of information, the language and culture of the ancient nation are also keeping pace with the times. Various Tibetan application software and information products are emerging one after another, from Tibetan office systems to Tibetan and Chinese bilingual remoteThe education system, from Tibetan-Chinese-English electronic dictionary to Tibetan search engines, Tibetan language has achieved synchronous integration with modernization through the Internet. Using the Tibetan browser to receive domestic and foreign news, send and receive mobile phone text messages in Tibetan, and use Tibetan to conduct voice chats in Tibetan. Komiks has become an important part of the daily work and life of local people. The informatization of Tibetan language not only makes communication between ethnic groups more convenient and smooth, but also plays an important role in promoting the use and protection of Tibetan language and the inheritance and development of Tibetan culture. The ancient culture bursts out more vigorous vitality in the new era.