Vernacular interpretation:
When I was four years old, my mother taught me a few sentences from the "Four Books" every day. Because I was too young and couldn't hold a pen, he cut the bamboo branches into filaments, broke them, and bent them into strokes, strokes, and strokes to form a character. He held me on his knees and taught me how to read.
Once you recognize a word, tear it down. She taught me ten words every day. The next day, my mother asked me to take bamboo silk and spell the words I knew the day before. She didn't stop until there were no mistakes. When I was six years old, my mother asked me to pick up a pen and learn to write.
I recall that when my mother taught me, all the embroidery and textile tools were put aside. She put a book on her lap and asked me to sit on a small stool under her knees to read. While my mother was operating it in her hands, she was teaching me every sentence. The sound of reading was mixed with the squeaking sound of weaving.
When I slacked off, she would hit me a few times with a ruler. After the beating, she hugged me and cried, saying, "Son, if you don't want to study hard at this time, how can I go see your father!" "In the middle of the night, the weather was very cold. My mother sat on the bed, covered her feet with a quilt, untied her clothes, warmed my back with her chest, and read with me. When I was tired from reading, my mother He fell asleep in his arms.
After a while, my mother shook me and said, "Wake up!" I opened my eyes and saw tears streaming down my mother's face, and I started crying too. Take a break and ask me to read again. My mother didn't sleep with me until the rooster crowed for the first time.
Original text:
When Quan was four years old, his mother taught his four sons a few sentences on the day of the birth. The poor boy was unable to hold a pen, so he carved bamboo branches into silk, cut them, interrogated and bent them to make waves, taps, dots, and paintings to combine them into characters, and taught him while sitting on his knees with Quan in his arms. Once you know it, remove it.
If you train the cross on the day, tomorrow, order Quan to hold the bamboo silk and combine the words he has read, and it will be correct. At the age of six, he was allowed to write and learn calligraphy. When I remember that my mother taught Quan, she put all the embroidery and spinning tools on his left and right sides, put a book on his knees, and ordered Quan to sit on his knees and read it.
The mother's hands are left to operate, and sentences are dictated and read, with sounds alternated between babbling and rolling. If the child is lazy, he will add less Xia Chu, holding the child back and crying, saying: "My child doesn't learn from this, how can I see your father!" At night, it was very cold, and the mother sat on the bed, hugged her feet, and The clothes warm the children's backs with their chests, and they recite it loudly.
When I was tired from reading, I fell asleep in my mother's arms, and my mother shook Quan and said, "It's time to wake up!" Quan Zhang looked at his mother's face, tears falling vertically and horizontally, and Quan also cried. After a while, I ordered you to read again. The cock crows and lies down.
This article comes from the extended information of the work "Zhongyatang Ji·Mingji Night Class Illustrated Notes" by the Qing Dynasty writer Jiang Shiquan
Writing background:
Yongzheng III of the Qing Dynasty On a rainy night on October 27, 1725 (December 1), Jiang Shiquan was born in the old house in front of Xiaojintai, Yuandong Street, Nanchang. There was a thunder, so he got his nickname "Thunder". His father, Jiang Jian, was a scholar with a good nature and a chivalrous nature. He was good at the study of criminal names and had the legacy of ancient martyrs. He served in Zezhou, Shanxi Province for a long time and solved many mysterious cases. There are two volumes of "Jinchang Prison", one volume each of "Iron Case", "Poems by the Sword", and "Collection of Calligraphy Guides".
His mother Zhong Lingjia was also knowledgeable in calligraphy and etiquette, and was good at poetry and prose. She wrote "Chai Che Juan You Ji". When Shiquan was born, his family was poor, but his parents' knowledge of books and etiquette enabled him to receive a good family education since he was a child. When Jiang Shiquan was four years old, his mother cut off bamboo strips to make dot paintings, gathered them together to form a text, and taught him how to read. When he grew up a little, he was taught the "Four Books", "Book of Rites", "Book of Changes", "Mao Shi" and other classics so that he could recite them. The mother taught her son how to learn the Dharma, and she was very strict in supervising the lessons. Even in the scorching summer and cold, he never became tired. Even when he was ill, he still wrote Tang poems on the walls. His mother carried Shiquan and walked among them, teaching him to whisper for fun.
About the author:
Chiang Shiquan (December 1, 1725 - April 3, 1784), also known as Xinyu, Taosheng, Taosheng, also known as Zangyuan, also known as Zangyuan. Qingrong layman, later named Dingfu. Dramatist and writer of Qing Dynasty. A native of Qianshan, Jiangxi (now part of Jiangxi), his ancestral home is Changxing, Huzhou (now Changxing, Zhejiang).
In the 22nd year of Qianlong's reign, he became a Jinshi and edited the Imperial Academy. After resigning in the 29th year of Qianlong's reign, he presided over the lectures in Jishan, Chongwen and Anding academies.
Proficient in opera, poetry and classical prose, he was known as one of the "Four Talents of Jiangxi" together with Wang Xian, Yang Jie and Zhao Youyi.
Shi, Yuan Mei and Zhao Yi are collectively known as the three great masters of Jiangyou. It goes out and in sharply, and it is vast and vast. It does not follow the old routine. It is influenced by the Yellow Valley and pays attention to the strength of the bones. He also worked on ancient Chinese diction, and was elegant and upright. His pen and ink are unbridled and unbridled, and he is truly a genius. Opera was also popular in the Qing Dynasty. There are 2,569 poems in "Zhongyatang Poetry Collection" written by Shiquan, thousands of unpublished poems in manuscripts, and 49 kinds of opera creations including "Nine Kinds of Songs in Hongxuelou".
Jiang Shiquan authored 43 volumes of "Zhongyatang Collection", including 12 volumes of collected works, 27 volumes of poetry collections and 2 volumes of supplements, 2 volumes of collection of lyrics, and also included Northern and Southern Songs. Jiang Shiquan also writes lyrics and prose. In addition, he was also an important opera writer. He wrote 16 kinds of dramas and legendary operas, all of which are extant. Among them, there are 9 types including "Linchuan Dream" and "Holly Tree", collectively called "Nine Types of Tibetan Garden Songs".