Chapter 883: Dad's Small Lecture Hall on Chinese Studies (2/3)
Although Yang Yi didn't understand anything at first, so far his education of Xixi is quite good, while doing it himself, he is also good at learning, combining a variety of children's education concepts, encouraging Xixi to learn and experience the wonders of different cultures more inclusively, this kind of education can be said to be very modern!
However, it is not without shortcomings, for example, his education of Xixi rarely involves traditional Chinese culture, and other people's children can memorize poems at the age of three - such as Nan Zhaoyu, don't look at this little boy is shy and shy, in fact, he has to test poetry, calligraphy and painting, he can definitely be called a "scholar" - but Xixi can now speak many foreign languages fluently, but he can't memorize a few ancient poems.
It's not that Yang Yi discriminates against traditional Chinese culture, there are many reasons for Xixi's situation!
On the one hand, it is because Yang Yi does not have a deep understanding of the traditional Chinese culture of this world, even if the cultural development trajectory is similar, first poems, then lyrics, and then songs, and finally a hundred schools of thought contend...... But after the Three Kingdoms, Yang Yi almost couldn't recognize it, and he himself was not sure how to understand it, how to teach Xixi?
Of course, the reason for this reason is not deep, and the reason for the deep impact is that Yang Yi found in his research on a number of modern educational concepts: many education experts believe that it is not appropriate for children to memorize ancient poems too early.
Especially before the age of three or four!
Because memorizing poems is not beneficial to children at this stage, they are too young to understand the beauty of rhythm and artistic conception in these poems, on the contrary, for children other than Xixi, their memory is not good enough, they can only simply imitate and memorize, this kind of obsessive memory, on the contrary, will have a certain degree of damage to their brains!
And forcing children at this age to do things they don't like can also make them resistant. Even if they can recite some poems, it is with impatience, and over time, they will form the impression that they hate poetry, and when they can understand poetry in the future, I am afraid that they will not want to learn poetry.
In addition, don't think that children at this stage have a good memory and can memorize a lot of poems, and one day they will understand the beauty of these poems. When children reach the age of four, their memories will be reshuffled, and few children can still remember the events before the age of four when they grow up!
Even Xixi, who has a good memory, her memories before the age of four have gradually become blurred by now.
It is precisely because of these reasons that Yang Yi forgot to cultivate Xixi in this regard.
That's right, he really forgot!
Because Xixi is now six years old, she has developed some of her comprehension skills, and she has reached the age where she can memorize poems!
Now, Yang Yi saw through the rearview mirror that Xixi was enthusiastically asking his mother to read the poems in the "Book of Songs", and he remembered this stubble in a trance.
It's time to teach Xixi something unique to the Chinese!
In addition, Yang Yi also remembered that because of the old man's reprimand, he interrupted the martial arts for two years for Xixi to learn. Xixi has started to learn to dance, there is no reason why she can't learn martial arts!
......
When Yang Yi was thinking about it, Murphy was proudly selling some simple poems that he had memories to Xixi.
Xi Xi admired again, and said happily: "Ma Ma, you are so powerful." However, what does the poem that Sister Xiaowei reads mean?"
This is what Xi Xi never forgets.
"What do you mean? The meaning is very simple, it is...... It is...... It's good to say something......" Murphy seemed to be on a cassette, and he couldn't even say it.
Yes, everyone knows the gist of this poem, there is a girl you like on the other side of the water, but if you really ask Murphy to summarize its gist, Murphy finds himself in a state of only half-understanding.
Not to mention the translation!
What is a canopy? Murphy couldn't tell.
"Yang Yi, tell your daughter what this poem means?" Murphy had to ask Yang Yi for help in shame.
This explanation is complicated, and it needs to be explained word by word, and then the whole sentence is understood. Yang Yi came back to his senses, smiled slightly, and said, "Xixi, will Dad come home and talk to you slowly?"
"Okay!" Xixi smiled sweetly, not caring, but she still cared about her little friend very kindly, "But Xin'er can't hear it." ”
"I'm going home for dinner, Xixi, you can tell Sister Xiaowei!" Lan Xin was still not interested.
"Hey, is this Sister Xiaowei the one you met last time?" Murphy curious.
"That's right, today our teacher asked Sister Xiaowei to read to us, she is a nice person and speaks beautifully!" Xixi and Lan Xin said babblingly.
"I remember the last time you said she didn't like to talk. Yang Yi said with a smile.
"Said!" exclaimed Xixi.
"She spoke later!" Lan Xin also nodded seriously, if she didn't speak, Lan Xin wouldn't like to be friends with her, and now it's much better.
......
Although it was Friday night, and there was a holiday for the next two days, Yang Yi still asked Xixi to finish his homework first, and wait until after dinner and returning from a walk, and his small class of Chinese studies began.
Without too complicated equipment, Yang Yi just took out a large whiteboard that was usually placed in the storage room, took a marker, and gave Xixi a lesson in the living room.
Dad has always been very interesting in class, Xixi not only did not get bored, but also sat at the small table where she wrote her homework early, happily watching Dad write down the whole poem of "Qin Feng Pu Jia" on the whiteboard.
Murphy didn't like to go to class, but she wanted Xiao Yu to also accept the influence of "Chinese Studies", so she hugged Xiao Yu and sat on the sofa near Xixi.
But Xiao Yu couldn't sit still, and he longed to climb outside. It's a pity, where can he escape his mother's Five Finger Mountain?
"This poem comes from the Book of Songs, which is the earliest collection of poetry in our country, and its poems were written more than 2,000 years ago by many unknown authors among the people, which can be said to have a very long history. Yang Yi briefly introduced its history.
"Was it a long, long time ago?" Xixi thought of the mythical story her father told her, "Is it longer than Monkey King?"
"It's not comparable, but it's all ancient. Yang Yi said with a smile.
Speaking of the meaning of the poem, Yang Yi first drew a bush of reeds and a puddle of river water behind him with a few brushes on the whiteboard.
I have to say that Yang Yi's stick figure painting skills, after several years of training in telling stories to Xixi, have become perfect.
"It means reed, a reed that has not yet grown, and it is a grass that grows by the river, in the swamp, and if it grows, the spike will have hairs as soft as the tail of a bun. Yang Yi tried his best to speak more vividly, and it was easier for Xixi to accept.
In fact, these sentences, the meaning of these sentences, the cang, the grass, the rice planted by your grandfather, those plants grow a lot, very lush. Yang Yi smiled and underlined the three lines of the poem separately.
"That's ......," Xixi muttered to herself, listening attentively, her eyes staring at the blackboard, or at the poems, or at the pictures her father had drawn.
Perhaps, in her mind, a beautiful picture has taken shape and is slowly unfolding.