There are 6 1 ancient poems in primary school Chinese textbooks published by Jiangsu Education Publishing House, including 8 poems in Grade One and Grade Two, 25 poems in Grade Three and Grade Four, and 20 poems in Grade Five and Grade Six. From the content point of view, Tang poetry accounts for 50%, Song poetry accounts for 30%, and there are other folk songs of Han Yuefu, Yuan, Qing and modern poetry.
The Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary schools in Wuhan are mainly Hubei Education Edition. There are six ancient poems in the first volume of Senior One, namely, One Go to Twenty-three Li, Lusu, Silent Night Thinking, Painting, Sleeping in a Mountain Temple and Plum Blossom. The rest must learn 8 ancient poems each semester, accounting for about a quarter of all texts. In this way, a primary school student should learn at least 90 songs in six years.
Eight ancient poems in the first volume of the Chinese textbook for senior one in Shanghai Education Edition are missing, which has caused widespread controversy. In fact, the deleted ancient poems will be presented in another way. Feng Xue, a Chinese teaching researcher in the teaching and research section of Shanghai Education Commission, explained that the revision of Chinese textbooks for primary schools is not to delete ancient poems, but to rearrange them into different semesters and change the teaching methods of ancient poems. Shanghai primary school students will learn 20 ancient poems, and primary school students will learn 80 ancient poems in five years.