Chapter 198: The Three Character Scripture
Sima Kang walked briskly into the study.
An old man in front of the table in the study walked with a dragon and snake, Sima Kang looked at it, and saw the words 'jade is not cut, it is not a tool, people do not learn, and ...... do not know righteousness' and other words written on the snow-white rice paper.
"Father, the "Three Character Classic" you compiled is easy to read. Sima Kang looked at it from the side and exclaimed, "It's a pity that it's a little too short, otherwise if you take it out now, it will definitely shock the world, and in the future, it will be difficult to dominate the world with enlightenment reading materials like "Thousand Character Text". ”
"A Thousand Words is still a classic. Sima Guang put down his pen and said with a faint smile, Sima Guang was still very satisfied with the "Three Character Classic" he had written.
"Even if Qin Xianao will come up with any goods in the newspaper today, if his goods are not enough, the old man will have no choice but to throw out this "Three Character Classic". Sima Guang's eyes sparkled, and he was very emotional, when he had nothing to do, he also tried to compile enlightenment textbooks, but he didn't succeed, after all, it is not easy to compile enlightenment textbooks that are distinctive and can compete with "Thousand Character Text" and "Hundred Family Names", but this time......
"People are all forced, if it weren't for Qin Xianao and Lu Haowen, Chen Qiang, Huangfu Zhou, and a few of them, my "Three Character Classic" would really not have come out. Sima Guang sighed slightly, his eyes fell on the manuscript paper next to him, and a trace of regret flashed.
"It's a pity that this "Three Character Classic" is still a little bit short, but if you give me three days, you can take it out and see people, give me a month to carve it, and become a famous enlightenment article. ”
In order to wipe the butt of his disciples, Sima Guang also fought this time, at first Sima Guang wrote an article similar to "Thousand Character Text", after all, now the Great Song Dynasty enlightenment textbooks "Thousand Character Text" and "Hundred Family Names" are all four words and one sentence, which are catchy to read, easy to remember and easy to memorize.
But the more Sima Guang wrote, the more he felt that something was wrong, and he felt that no matter how he wrote, he could not surpass "Thousand Character Essay". The idea is not as good as "Hundred Family Names", so I finally gave up decisively and tried to fill in with three words and one sentence. There is no deep knowledge foundation, and it can't be written for a long time, but Sima Guang's foundation is there, so he has been writing to the current version.
"By the way, today is Qin Xianao's ......"
"Well, I told Uncle Chong to buy it. ”
......
In Mr. Yichuan's mansion, Cheng Yi put the manuscript in his hand on the shelf and walked out of the room.
"It is easy to make up preschool learning, but it is difficult to surpass predecessors. Cheng Yi sighed slightly. What he wrote was a four-character and one-sentence "Disciple Rules", if this book was brought to the academy, it would definitely kill Chen Qian and Huangfu Zhou in seconds, but Cheng Yi was like garbage in his eyes.
If you are not satisfied, you will naturally be in a bad mood.
"This book talks about the rules and norms that disciples should abide by at home, when they go out, when they treat people, when they receive things, and when they study, they should be promising, but unfortunately the old man has not done much research on this before, so he was forced to write it in a short time. After all, it's a little bit worse. Cheng Yi sighed in his heart and looked out of the house. "Today is the release day of Qin Xianao's new work, I don't know ...... his enlightenment textbook"
Cheng Yi, Sima Guang, and Lu Gong...... The enlightenment textbooks compiled by the martial arts bigwigs in private are really of a much higher standard than the textbooks of the disciples of their academies, but as academic leaders, the requirements are naturally extremely high, so although they are all well compiled. But he was still not satisfied, and now Qin Xianao was about to release his works, so he put down his writing one by one and waited for the newspaper to come out.
The scholar class, the martial arts world is like this. The common people were even more excited and waiting, and soon the newspaper was published on time.
In front of Songyang Academy.
"Senior Brother Yingyu, give, newspaper, this time Qin Xianao really did not lose his trust, and the newspaper seller said that there were enlightenment teaching materials. ”
"yes, then I'll have to take a good look. Chen Qiang's eyes were shining, full of confidence and fighting spirit, he took the newspaper and flipped to the front page, only to see the three big characters of 'Three Character Sutra' jumping into his eyes.
"The Three Character Sutra, could it be that this is Qin Xianao's work?"
Chen Qian looked down, and sure enough, the inscription written below indicated that this was a book written by Qin Xianao for kindergarten enlightenment.
"I am the "Five Character Classic", and he is the "Three Character Classic". A smile appeared at the corner of Chen Qiang's mouth, and even looked at the text, only to see:
"At the beginning of people, nature is good, sex is similar, and Xi is far away......"
After reading it for a while, Chen Qiang's face changed.
If you read a three-word and five-word article, you don't feel it, but if you read a few more sentences, the feeling of superiority and disadvantage will come out.
"Sure enough, it's Qin Xianao's handwriting, three words and one sentence, it's fresh, but this is also normal, it's strange that Qin Xianao doesn't innovate. Chen Qian took a breath, "It's that I'm making a fuss, if Qin Xianao's article is not new, not funny, not funny, but reasonable and reasonable, it is not normal, he can't read these three words one by one, and he can't read it catchy, and it rhymes, so he can't stand his fame." ”
Chen Qian looked down.
"The way of teaching, you are specialized, the former Mengmu, choose the neighbor ......"
"Dou Yanji, there is a righteous party, teach five sons, and the name is famous......"
"If the jade is not cut, it is not made, people do not learn, and they do not know the righteousness ......"
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After reading for a while, Chen Qiang's face turned pale.
"The Book of Three Characters" is to use concise and popular vernacular to tell the eternal philosophy, is the most well-known traditional children's enlightenment book, this book is the Southern Song Dynasty Confucian King Yinglin to his own disciples to write the textbook, because it is so good, it has been reprinted one after another, widely circulated, enduring, become the most important Tongmeng Yangzheng textbook in all dynasties.
Because it is so good, it has spread to Italy, Russia, Japan, and Goryeo in the Ming Dynasty...... and other countries outside China, among the Chinese preschool enlightenment books, this book also has the greatest international influence.
Because it is so good, since the book was born, it has been constantly revised and polished by the great Confucians of all dynasties, although some places are only changed by one word, but every time it is perfected.
So this version that the Qin Dynasty came up with is the perfect version, not the original version of the Southern Song Dynasty Wang Yinglin.
"How can this be, this enlightened book actually contains everything, astronomy and geography, and a subset of scriptures and history......"
If Chen Qian is just an ordinary person, he will only think that this book is good to read, feels very comfortable, and is easy to remember, but he is a great talent, an elite figure of the younger generation, and his knowledge is naturally extremely profound.
"Four books. Six Classics, Three Changes, Four Poems, Three Biography, Five Sons......"
The more Chen Qian read it, the cold sweat on his forehead fell, and he only felt that this book seemed simple, so simple that every sentence was a popular vernacular, which could be said to be broad but infinitely broad.
in the quiet room.
An old man looked at the newspaper in his hand and smiled from time to time, and the emperor in front of him, Zhou also looked at the catchy three-character scripture of the newspaper in his hand. His face was a little tight.
After a long time, the old man sighed: "It is worthy of Qin Xian's pride, a small preschool enlightenment textbook can see the level, reasonable, how about this "Three Character Classic"?"
"I didn't embarrass Qin Xianao. Huangfu Zhou said in a low voice, "His "Three Character Classic" is all-encompassing, and he has some skills. ”
"That's all?" Shao Bowen frowned, he knew that his second-generation disciple had always been arrogant, and this time he had made up his mind to compete with Qin Xian. Wrote the "Ming Shijing", this "Ming Shijing" Shao Bowen also read, it is indeed wonderful, but unfortunately there are too few to really be written as a preschool enlightenment book, otherwise it is really ......
The disciple admitted that he had lost this time. Huangfu Zhou said in a deep voice, "Although the disciple's "Ming Shijing" is good, it uses poetry. And it's too short, not like him. He can actually use the vernacular to exhaust the Confucian classics, but the disciple is not far from him, if my "Ming Shijing" is really written, the achievement may not be under his "Three Character Classic". ”
"Yes!"
Shao Bowen's face was ugly.
"Teacher, didn't you also say that my "Ming Shijing" is very well written. Isn't it perfect?" Huangfu Zhou didn't understand why the patriarch respected this three-character scripture so much.
"Hmph! If your "Ming Shijing" is written, it will naturally be excellent, but if you want to write it, don't think that the old man doesn't know, and you can't do it if you give it a year. ”
Huangfu Zhou's face turned as white as paper, originally he just felt that he was becoming more and more unable to write the "Ming Shijing". I didn't think there was anything wrong, as soon as Shao Bowen said this, it was like an initiation.
"One year, one year, no ...... Is one year really enough?" sweat oozed from Huangfu Zhou's forehead.
And these three "Three Character Classics", do you really think they are simple? Don't say that all the knowledge in them, just say these three words and one sentence. Shao Bowen snorted coldly, "Before the appearance of this "Three Character Classic", was there any three characters and one sentence? "Thousand Character Text", "Hundred Family Names", and other Mongolian reading materials are all four characters and one sentence, why not use three words and one sentence? Have you thought about it?"
"Why?" Huangfu Zhou looked at Shao Bowen blankly.
"Why, you yourself adapted your "Ming Shijing" in three words and one sentence to understand, and you still use the old man to instruct?"
"Adapting the "Ming Shijing"?" Huangfu Zhou lowered his head slightly, and his body trembled after a moment.
"I understand, three words and one sentence, easy when it is easy, and extremely difficult when it is difficult, this kind of refining skills, not only to read more than 10,000 volumes, but also to travel thousands of miles, to quench the writing skills to perfection. ”
"Not to mention, as long as you have the heart, you can still succeed in three words, but Qin Xianao is the first to do this, this is why he is Qin Xianao, the first to run a newspaper, the first to use vernacular, the first to overthrow the emperor with the people's movement, and the first to eat crabs is a really capable person. ”
What's more, this "Three Character Classic" is a group of three words and a group of four sentences, like a poem, reciting it is like singing a nursery rhyme, catchy and very interesting, and it can also enlighten the mind, what is a children's book, this is a children's book. ”
"The book...... The old man asserted that it will definitely replace "Thousand Character Text" as an enlightened textbook for young children to read!" Shao Bowen said in a deep voice.
"Teacher, is this scripture really so good?" Huangfu Zhou raised his head.
Shao Bowen is Shao Yong's son, Shao Yong is the world's first easy number master, in the eyes of ordinary people, he is like Zhuge Kongming, pinching his fingers to count the characters who knew 500 years before and 500 years later.
Although it is a bit exaggerated, Shao Yong's prediction is never wrong and is well known.
Shao Bowen may not be as good as Shao Yong, but what he said.
If Qin Xianao didn't have these sentences at the end of this article, the old man's assertion would never be wrong. Shaw Bowen pointed to the newspaper.
Huangfu Zhou's breathing was slightly short, and in this issue of the newspaper Qin Xianao, in addition to publishing the "Three Character Classic", he also wrote a notice-
"I always feel that I am still unfinished when I write this "Three Character Classic", and I can't express my heart to the fullest, but I feel that it is too bloated and redundant to add what I think to the "Three Character Classic", which destroys the beauty and artistic conception of the "Three Character Classic", and the gains outweigh the losses, so I make another "Ancient and Modern Sages", which has been largely written and will be published in the next issue of the newspaper......"
"This Qin Immortal is proud ......" Huangfu Zhou gritted his teeth, a "Three Character Classic" is shocking enough, but it is not enough, and what "Ancient and Modern Sages" is going to be thrown.
"Ancestor, it's impossible, Qin Xianao's "Three Character Classic" has been perfected, how can there be enlightenment readings that exceed the "Three Character Classic" come out?" Huangfu Zhou said in a low voice.
"Impossible?"
Shao Bowen shook his head slightly.
"It's impossible to put it on someone else, but ......" Shao Bowen walked out of the ashram with his hands behind his back. (To be continued.) )