The story of Empress Dowager Cixi and the calligrapher. Once, someone gave a very fine fan as tribute to the Empress Dowager Cixi. According to the rules, ancient people did not wave white fans. White fans are very impolite. The two sides of the fan should be painted on one side and written on the other side, which is very elegant. The Empress Dowager was also very particular, so she hired a courtier, a famous calligrapher, to write poems for her exquisite fan. A calligrapher wrote a poem. Which poem did he write? He wrote a very famous poem by Wang Zhihuan: "Far above the Yellow River among the white clouds, there is an isolated city on Wanren Mountain. Why should the Qiang flute blame the willows? The spring breeze does not pass through Yumen Pass." After it was done, he stamped it and sent it to the Queen Mother. Cixi opened it and saw that there was a word missing. This calligrapher missed the "Jian" between the white clouds far above the Yellow River. The seven-character quatrain became the first sentence of six characters. Cixi was furious: "You are a minister, but you are not serious about writing a fan to my queen mother. Aren't you committing the crime of deceiving the emperor?" Also, Cixi was not highly educated, so she was particularly afraid that others would think she was uneducated, so she drank He ordered: "Come here, drag him out and chop him!" When the calligrapher saw that his head was about to fall off, he was very anxious and said quickly: "Queen Mother, wait a minute, I didn't write Wang Zhihuan's poem." Cixi said: "You are not doing this. Is it a poem by Wang Zhihuan?" The calligrapher quickly said: "No, no, I just want to create a creation so that I can report it to Lafayette better. I want to ask you for advice. This is not a poem by Wang Zhihuan. I changed it based on Wang Zhihuan's poem. I changed it and composed it into a poem, and asked the Queen Mother for your advice. You are indeed wise." Cixi was stunned at that time: "What kind of word is this? Please read it and let me listen." I read: "Far up the Yellow River, there are white clouds, an isolated city on the Wanren Mountain. Why complain about the Qiang flute, the spring breeze of willows does not pass through Yumen Pass." How good? There is nothing wrong with it. Cixi was dumbfounded by him, so how could she kill him? The calligrapher went back triumphantly. These are all issues of sentence reading, and they can all tell us how important sentence reading is to reading ancient books. Therefore, the "Three Character Classic" emphasizes "clear sentence reading", which is no joke.