Hundred Surnames - A Must-Read Selection of Classical Chinese Classics for Children (Exquisite Color Illustrations and Pinyin Edition)

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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: In the Chinese surname culture, "The Hundred Family Surnames" is one of the most popular and widely influential elementary education textbooks in China. Its compilation and popularity preceded that of "The Three-Character Classic." "The Hundred Family Surnames" was originally compiled by a scholar from Qiantang (Hangzhou) in the early Northern Song Dynasty as an elementary education reading material. It organizes common surnames into four-character lines of rhyming prose, resembling a four-character poem. Although its content lacks logical coherence, it is easy to recite, learn, and remember. Together with "The Three-Character Classic" and "The Thousand-Character Classic," it became a fixed textbook in ancient Chinese elementary education and has thus been passed down to this day with profound influence. To help modern children understand and learn this traditional textbook more accurately, we have specially compiled this book. We hope it can become a good teacher and friend for the children.