So how did the ancients carry out literacy education? They are very simple, using a word "thousand words" to solve the problem!
Speaking of thousands of words, we should first talk about an emperor, namely Wu Liang-Emperor Xiao Yan. He was the first emperor of the Liang Dynasty, that is, he was born in fire.
Liang Wudi is a man of great cultural taste. He is good at chess, painting and calligraphy, especially calligraphy. He also attached great importance to the education of princes. In order to let his children know how to write well, he found a famous calligrapher named Yin and asked him to carve 1000 of the most commonly used words from Wang Xizhi's works, and make each word into a card to teach the king calligraphy. But this practice is too boring, there is no connection between words, the order is chaotic, it is difficult to remember, and it is even more difficult to arouse children's interest. So Liang Wudi found a wise man named Zhou Xingsi, who was a minister at that time, equivalent to the emperor's secretary and adviser. Liang Wudi handed 65,438+0,000 literacy cards to Zhou Xingsi and assigned him a task. He used these words 1000 to form an easy-to-remember and easy-to-read article, and no duplicate words are allowed.
When Zhou Xingsi returned home, he held his breath, thought hard and deliberated repeatedly. It took him one night to finish his homework and handed it to Liang Wudi the next day. Zhou Xingsi Liang Wudi was so tired that his hair and beard turned white. Read the article he handed in, four words and one sentence, two sentences and one rhyme, all-encompassing, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, cleverly arranged in a thousand words, beautiful words, golden voice and jade response, wonderful music. Can't help but like it! Since then, the thousand-character text has been circulated for more than 400 years, becoming the most successful and oldest primary school text in history.