If; Suppose.
if you don't teach, if you don't have a good education.
It's from Wang Yinglin's San Zi Jing in Song Dynasty. The original excerpt:
beginning of life is good in nature; The same nature Varies on nurture.
if you don't teach, your nature will change; To teach well, You deeply dwell.
In the past, Meng Mu chose its neighbors; At Mencius sloth, She cut th' cloth.
Dou Yanshan has a righteous side; Teaching five sons is famous.
Translation:
People are born with good natures and similar natures, but their habits are greatly different because of their different environment and education.
if you don't have a good education from an early age, your good nature will deteriorate. In order to keep people from becoming bad, the most important way is to educate children wholeheartedly.
During the Warring States Period, Mencius' mother moved three times in order to give Mencius a good study environment. Once Mencius played truant, Meng Mu broke the loom to educate Mencius.
In the Five Dynasties, Dou Yujun, a native of Yanshan, had a good way to educate his sons. All the five sons he educated were very successful and became famous in the imperial examinations.
Extended materials
Creation background:
There are different opinions about the date of the book "San Zi Jing" and the author's past dynasties. Most scholars of later generations tend to hold the opinion that Wang Yinglin compiled a three-character song formula that integrates a subset of the classics and history in order to better educate his children to read.
Wang Yinglin was a native of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the historical part of the original San Zi Jing only ended in the Song Dynasty. With the development of history, in order to reflect the changes of the times, people in various dynasties constantly supplemented the San Zi Jing. He Xingsi added twenty-four sentences about the history of Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties during the light years of sweeping the road. ?
About the author:
Wang Yinglin? (1223-1296) was a famous scholar, educator and politician in the Southern Song Dynasty. The word "Bo Hou", the number of Shenning lay, and the number of Houzhai. Qingyuan prefecture Yinxian (now Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province) people. He is knowledgeable and versatile, learning from Zhu Xi, dabbling in hundreds of classics and history, astronomy and geography, familiar with the system of anecdotes, and good at textual research.
after the demise of the southern song dynasty, he lived in seclusion in the countryside, closed the door and thanked guests, and wrote books. Handed down calligraphy includes "Writing a Book" and so on. He is the author of San Zi Jing, Ji Wen of Sleepy Learning, Zhu Zhu in Primary School, Yuhai, Answering Questions as a Mirror, Shen Ning Ji, and Textual Research on Poetic Geography. The Three-Character Classics, a book of Mongolian studies, has been popular for more than 7 years and spread in many overseas countries. It is an excellent teaching material for children's moral education.
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