Mencius

Author: Beijing Si Hai Classic Culture Communication Center
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: This series follows a format of original text with pinyin annotations. Ancient characters and variant characters are marked with black squares in the lower right corner, while proper nouns such as names of people, places, and dynasties are highlighted by changing the font style. To protect children's eyesight, we have adopted a large-character layout, hoping that children can memorize the content while reading in a relaxed manner. To ensure the quality of this series, professional scholars have been engaged in pinyin annotations and proofreading based on authoritative editions, and authoritative experts have reviewed them to guarantee the quality of the illustrations. Reading requires a method. When the method is correct, the effort is doubled. Some great masters have advised that reading classics is valuable, and reading classics is valuable only when one reads them thoroughly to gain understanding, understands to apply, applies to master, masters to innovate. This is also the original intention behind the Classic Reading Project. In short, it boils down to six words: refined, thorough, insightful, applied, skillful, and innovative. Among these, the processes of "insightful," "applied," and "innovative" are explained. However, these explanations should be based on "refined" and "thorough" foundations. As for achieving enlightenment or profound understanding in a state of undisturbed focus and dedicated reading, that is truly remarkable. In such cases, conventional explanations are no longer necessary.