To the current generation of children and young people:

Hello dear brothers and sisters! I am Ci Liansheng, the author of this book, and as contemporary children, as the teacher told you, you are the flowers of the motherland and the future of the motherland.

In primary school, you may have been exposed to the contents of "Di Zi Gui", "Thousand Character Text", and "Three Character Classic", and you may also have come into contact with a series of articles such as "Ai Lian Shuo" and "Analects (Selected Passages)". At the same time, I believe that you have also come into contact with the "Song of the Twenty-four Solar Terms": "The spring rain shocks the spring and the valley sky, the summer is full of mangs, the summer and summer are connected, the autumn dew and frost fall, the winter snow and the winter are small and the big cold." ”

In junior high school, this fear and even dislike of ancient texts will grow further, and at this time, the four famous novels will also come to mix, and even the "Journey to the West" that you may like to read when you are very young will become a burden.

Of course, that changes in high school, because you'll find that elementary and junior high school are just so kind.

In addition, you may also be taken by your parents to interest classes such as "calligraphy class", "art class", "guzheng class", "Peking Opera class", "martial arts class", etc., as for whose interest it is, it is often difficult to determine.

I wonder if the above words have spoken to your hearts? Of course, I hope that you will like our excellent traditional Chinese culture, and you will not rebel because of these compulsions.

From all this I have gone through, I understand some of your psychology, and some of your interest cultivation and inheritance of excellent traditional culture are obviously not forced to achieve. Such coercion also tends to have the opposite effect, which is then further exacerbated and gradually forms a vicious circle. At the same time, in addition to this compulsion, there is also a factor of not "teaching students according to their aptitude", maybe the part of traditional culture you like does not have the opportunity to get in touch with deeply, but you have to learn what you don't like.

As today's teenagers and children, you and we will also receive criticism from parents, teachers, and even society for our generation, which further aggravates this status quo of "you are reluctant and I am unwilling".

From a personal point of view, traditional Chinese culture is undoubtedly something that our contemporary children should understand, because it is the soul of our nation and the cohesion of our country.

However, I hope that you can better understand the excellent traditional Chinese culture if you are "willing".

Therefore, before writing this work of children's literature, I did not hesitate to set the theme on "traditional culture", and I have this book "Haiyan River Qing Four Hours", my purpose is to bring you happiness and cultural knowledge at the same time.

Dear brothers and sisters, if you have read this book in your spare time, I hope you can read it and let me lead you to a lively world of traditional Chinese culture, so that excellent traditional Chinese culture can become a part of your life. Let the interest that comes naturally to you bring you a lifelong gift of hope for the future.

I wish you all can fall in love with our excellent traditional Chinese culture because of this book or other opportunities in life, because this is something that has been inherited by the Chinese nation itself for thousands of years, and I don't want it to disappear in the hands of our generation of teenagers and children, and it should not be thrown into the corner of the times by us.

After reading this message, if you feel that it is just like your real situation, then maybe you can try to show it to your family, so that they can give you an unconstrained environment to get in touch with traditional Chinese culture, maybe it will have a different effect.

Finally, I wish you all happiness and healthy growth in life, and I wish you all success in your studies!

Author: Ci Lian Sheng

Date: October 23, 2020

Painted in: Beijing