1. What are disciples' rules and three-character classics?
Disciples' Rules, Three-Character Classics, Hundred Family Names and Thousand-Character Works are called "books for enlightening children", that is, books for enlightening children in the past. These books are still used by some people as children's books on Chinese studies, especially in the context of "Chinese studies fever", and they are still very popular in some places and in some periods. Now many parents are also wondering whether to let their children learn these enlightenment books. They think that children have too much to learn. To teach children these ancient things is to increase the pressure, but they don't know if it is useful to spend time learning these things. If you don't learn, you are afraid that your child will be missing something. Let's take a look at these enlightenment books first.
Disciple Rules was originally named Xun Mengwen, and was written by Li Yuxiu, a scholar in Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty. His job is to teach. After teaching, he organized what he summarized in his teaching practice into a textbook, namely Xun Mengwen. Later, during the Qianlong period, a man named Jia Cunren adapted Xun and renamed it Disciples Rules. "Disciples" refer to those brothers and sons, generally referring to young people; "Rules" are "rules", "rules" and "norms". It is called Disciples' Rules, which is actually a book to regulate children's words and deeds. Simply put, it is a book of "making rules".
So, what are its rules? In fact, it is based on a sentence in the Analects of Confucius, "Disciples are filial when they enter, and filial when they leave. They are sincere and believe that they love all people and are kind. Learn from the literal meaning of this sentence if you have spare capacity. Confucius translated this sentence into vernacular Chinese: children should honor their parents at home, respect their brothers when they go out, be cautious, be honest and trustworthy, love others with kindness, and be kind to the people. If you still have extra energy, then learn cultural knowledge. It can be seen that this is a "moral reader" with Confucianism as the core to train children how to behave.
Saint Amethyst is one of the three most influential children's enlightenment books in China. Together with money and hundreds of surnames, it is called "three thousand". There are different opinions about the author of this book. Today, people generally think it is Wang Yinglin of the Southern Song Dynasty. Like Disciples' Rules, Saint Amethyst is a moral reader containing Confucianism and a cultural reader containing many knowledge such as history and geography. Therefore, the ancients said: "If you are familiar with the three-character classics, you will know what is going on in the world and pass the ceremony of saints." "If you can explain every sentence, you can pass the Purple Stone Classic." Among many books on Mongolian studies, only three-character classics can be called classics, which shows its great influence. It should be said that it is the most authoritative and exemplary work on Mongolian studies, and it can be called "the crown of Mongolian studies".
Second, what have you learned from today's ancient enlightenment books? Disciples' Rules and San Zi Jing are both ancient books of enlightenment. So, is it necessary for children to learn now?
To treat ancient cultural heritage, we should make the past serve the present, that is to say, we should take its essence and discard its dross, or to use Lu Xun's classic saying, we should take its content that is beneficial to our development, instead of accepting it completely and discarding it completely. This is the correct attitude we should have. Knowing this, we don't have to worry about learning these ancient books.
1. First of all, it is obvious that Disciple Rules and Saint Amethyst are both worth learning, and learning the essence of them is beneficial to children. Being sought after by the ancients and modern people, there must be something worth exploring. There are many ancient books on Mongolian studies, but such books as Disciple's Rules and Saint Amethyst can be recognized by people today. In addition to "morality and ethics", there are other rich ancient knowledge contents, which are helpful for learning ancient cultural knowledge. At the same time, because its language is short and pithy, catchy and easy to recite. Therefore, children should learn the knowledge of ancient culture and absorb the excellent nutrients of ancient times. Besides studying classic poems and articles, these things called "enlightenment" are certainly worth learning and learning from.
? 2. At the same time, we should also understand that learning ancient books is to take its essence, and we must never "accept it all". Different times have different knowledge systems. Today's learning content is massive, which is by no means comparable to ancient times. Ancient people mainly read books by sages, and scientific knowledge such as mathematics, physics and chemistry was basically not involved. Moreover, in ancient times, there were not many other choices except the books of sages, so people often concentrated on those books, which led to the saying that "the Analects of Confucius ruled the world". Now the knowledge system that children have to learn in school is very substantial and complete. In this context, it is unrealistic to spend a lot of time on the so-called classics in ancient times. Therefore, for children, they can spare no effort to learn ancient books, such as disciple rules and St. Amethyst. But you don't have to stick to whether you need to recite or whether you want to enter the Chinese studies class. Of course, you can't be superstitious, because with the changes of the times, children's thoughts are active, and children can't be restricted and bound by ancient thoughts. As for outdated ideas, it is even more difficult to instill them in children. For example, such words as "none of your business, don't worry about it" and "it's not a holy book, don't read it" are obviously unacceptable.
In short, reading ancient classics must absorb the essence through identification. The ancients said that "it is better to believe in books than to have no books". We cannot be superstitious or copy them. Children are still young and may not be able to distinguish the content. Moreover, even if ancient books are easy to understand, they often have the color of classical Chinese. And in order to ensure three words and one sentence, some of them don't read smoothly. As for many of them, they have dyslexia. Therefore, children had better read under the unified arrangement of school teachers. The current teaching materials are quite rich and comprehensive. As long as it is suitable for children to learn ancient cultural knowledge, it will generally be included.