The "Three Flavors" of "three pools mirroring the moon"

From Herbal Garden to three pools mirroring the moon: three pools mirroring the moon: It was a famous private school in Shaoxing in the late Qing Dynasty. Lu Xun studied here at the age of 12, and his teacher was Mr. Shou Jinghu. Three pools mirroring the moon, a small drawing room between three long rooms, was originally the study of the Shou family. Mr. Shou Jingwu has been teaching here for sixty years. The flavor of "three pools mirroring the moon": The "three pools mirroring the moon" mentioned by Mr. Lu Xun in his famous essay "From Herb Garden to three pools mirroring the moon" is near the former residence of Mr. Lu Xun in Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, where Mr. Lu Xun studied as a teenager. So, why is it called "three pools mirroring the moon"? It turns out that the "three flavors" are derived from the old saying that "reading classics tastes like rice and beams, reading history tastes like yaozhuan, and reading hundred schools of thought tastes like acyl sugar". The general idea is: reading four books and five classics is the basis of eating rice and flour; Reading historical records tastes like drinking wine and eating delicious food: reading books such as hundred schools of thought tastes like sauce and vinegar (just like the seasoning in cooking). The horizontal tablet of "three pools mirroring the moon" was written by Liang Shanzhou, a famous calligrapher during the reign of Ganjia in Qing Dynasty. At that time, there was such a woodcut couplet hanging on both sides of the plaque: "I am silent and filial, and I am too fond of reading." The "three flavors" in From Herb Garden to three pools mirroring the moon means: reading classics is like eating staple food; Reading history is like eating dishes; Read other things like seasoning. About "Three Flavors": The descendants of Mr. Shou Jingwu, Lu Xun's private school teacher (three pools mirroring the moon), said that "Three Flavors" refers to the warmth of cloth, the fragrance of vegetable roots and the long taste of poetry and books. Cloth refers to the common people, and "warm cloth" means being willing to be a common people and not being an official or a master; "Vegetable root fragrance" means being satisfied with simple food and not longing for the enjoyment of delicacies; "Poetry has a long taste", that is, to seriously understand the profound content of poetry, so as to obtain a deep and long taste.