Chapter 47 Do not read "Three Character Classics"

Some ancient Mongolian books have friendly titles, like coaxing people over with candy, and then saying to him, welcome to the prison, baby.For example, there is a book "Little Children's Talk", the author claims that "the sound is as harmonious as it is slang", it is specially compiled for children, "to make it easy for children to understand", but when you open it, it is "everything you say or do Be serene, make mistakes, just for panic; stand quietly, speak calmly, don't be frivolous, make people laugh and scold", etc.; and "Primary School Poems", it should be "Moonlight in front of the bed", right?But it is "Since ancient times, virtuous and powerful people have been valued, and poetry and books have taught you. There are things in life, and self-cultivation is the highest."

Those who don't know the inside story will think that the editors of textbooks in ancient times, like people today, hated children.actually not.At least, in ancient times, taking Kaimeng to his son was more loving than taking Xunzi today. What's wrong?Nothing bad.We can't blame the outdated principles in it. After all, it was something hundreds of years ago. If we replace our similar teaching materials (such as various newly compiled Three-Character Classics) with hundreds of years, it will be more than obsolete!We can't say that the content of the ancient Mongolian books is monotonous, they were compiled for the ancient society, and you can't expect any physical chemistry in the four subjects of Confucianism.

If there is any opinion, it is that almost none of the ancient Mongolian books are for reading ("Twenty-Four Filial Piety" may be an exception).The famous "Children Learning Qionglin" talks about a lot of personnel affairs, but it goes like this: "Wang Yanqing talked, often holding a stag tail; Hengqu talked about changes, and every time he embraced a tiger. Weisheng died holding the bridge, stubbornly unable to understand; the concubine of Chu died keeping the amulet, and her chastity can be recorded. Wenqiao used to burn the rhinoceros, and see the water tribe ghosts and ghosts; Qin Zheng has a square mirror, which reflects the evil minds of the world."

what is this?Only listen to the teacher.The ancient elementary school students didn’t have any stories to read before they could read "Historical Records" by themselves, and we know that reading stories is a training of imagination. Fortunately, the ancients had grandmothers who would tell their children strange stories , there are social operas in the village, full of sensuality. Did the ancients loathe the process of narrative?Maybe a little bit.During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the most popular enlightenment reading was "Taigong's Family Education". The author said that compiling this small book, "discusses the tomb scriptures, briefly selects poems and books, relies on the scriptures and history, and makes appointments with rituals and appropriate times", which is almost all-encompassing. As a result, the treasure book only has more than 2,000 words, and the sentences can only be like "Caofu lives in the mountains, Lulian seawater, Kongming lingers, wait for the time to go", just like that, it is also accused of being shallow.One of the great pleasures of being a child is to open an interesting book, like entering a new world, and read every word and sentence in it with heartbeat. Did children in ancient times have such fun?I'm a little skeptical.

The spiritual food that the ancients provided to children is compressed biscuits.The earliest "Cangjie" and "Shizhen" and the like are four words and one sentence, which is understandable, because they are literacy textbooks.Later, when I told stories and reasoned, why was it so dry?Young students in ancient Rome can read passages adapted from Homer, Menander, and Virgil, and perform those scenes by themselves. Why don’t we let children read... What are you reading? In the Three Kingdoms Before novels like Journey to the West, there was really nothing to read. Four words and one sentence, some people think too much.Zhu Xi wrote an epitaph with three words in it, "Zhu's daughter gave birth to Guisi", and so on. In only forty or fifty words, he finished his life.I do not believe that the writer, if he had any enthusiasm for the subject, would be so brief."The First Recitation of the Enlightenment" edited by his student Chen Chun has three words in the whole article, which is the harbinger of the poem.Why use three words?Children, he explained, cannot speak very long sentences—is there any more strange reason?

Then there was.The principle in it is basically the same as "Taigong Family Education" or earlier Mongolian books, except that each sentence is missing one word.It is a pity that the external force in modern times disrupted the progress of our country's culture. Otherwise, it is obvious that the "Two-Character Classic" and even the "One-Character Classic" will appear, until the supreme realm of the Tao without words. It is for reciting, and the problem is that ancient teachers did not provide children with rich and interesting reading books at the same time.But even if it is used for reciting, memorizing is not as good as memorizing more complex texts, because language training is brain training, and only complex sentences can develop order.Some people think about a sentence for a long time, but what they come up with does not match the previous words. In my opinion, if this person is not a leader, it is his school teacher when he was a child, so he only used simple sentences for him because he was afraid that the child would not understand.

Nowadays, children with backs are naturally harmless, because they have other reading materials (although the time for reading idle books is getting less and less), and they have TV to watch (although the people on it are more and more often talking to children), they can still Playing games, there are also dialogues in it (although no one knows what they are talking about).