Traditional Primary Education Series (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: Guangling Shushe Editorial
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: "The Traditional Primary Education Series," is another classic work of folk primary education that our press has published after "Three Hundred Poems of the Tang Dynasty" and "A Thousand Poems." This book mainly collects eight classic works of traditional primary education from the past, including "Three-Character Classic," "Hundred Family Surnames," "Thousand-Character Classic," "Zhuzi's Sayings," "Rhythm Enlightenment," "Revised and Expanded," "Thousand-Character Classic," "Zhuzi's Sayings," "Rhythm Enlightenment," "Dragon's Whip Shadow," and "Youxue Qionglin." Among them, there are rhyming books for traditional literacy training, such as "Dragon's Whip Shadow" and "Youxue Qionglin"; as well as philosophical maxims and for handling affairs, such as "Zhuzi's Sayings" and "Revised and Expanded." The content is rich and practical, with simple and easy-to-understand language, making it easy to recite and remember. "Three-Character Classic" is said to have been written by Wang Yinglin of the Southern Song Dynasty. "Hundred Family Surnames" is believed to have been compiled in the Northern Song Dynasty, with an anonymous author. "Thousand-Character Classic" was written by Zhou Xingsi of the Liang Dynasty. "Zhuzi's Sayings," also known as "Zhuzi's Family Instructions." "Rhythm Enlightenment" was an introductory book for learning poetry and couplets in the past. "Revised and Expanded" was composed of rhyming proverbs and excellent literary sentences. "Dragon's Whip Shadow" was written by Xiao Liangyou of the Ming Dynasty. "Youxue Qionglin" was written by Cheng Dengji in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. It consists of four volumes. These readers were once popular across the country and remained influential for a long time. As ancient Chinese primary education materials, they played an undeniable role in popularizing cultural knowledge and governing the state and nurturing people. Even today, they still hold reference and inspirational value.