编辑同志: 记得我在上学期间,老师谆谆教导:写文章时有关数字要用汉字。所读课本、书刊、报纸也一律是这样,特别诗词里全用汉字。多年来已养成习惯,教书时教育学生也如是说。但去年秋季教材发下来,一看颇不是滋味:很多数字换成了阿拉伯数字,如《老山界》这篇传统课文里:“我们决定要爬一座30里高的瑶山”“下山15 Editing comrades: I remember that during my time at school, my teacher taught me to use Chinese characters for numbers when writing articles. This is also true of textbooks, books, and newspapers that are read. Special characters use Chinese characters. Over the years, I have become accustomed to teaching students to teach. However, the fall of the textbooks last fall was not a taste at first sight: Many numbers were replaced with Arabic numerals. For example, in Laoshanjie, the traditional text: “We decided to climb a 30-mile high mountain” and “Down the mountain 15