I got a good book called "Nian Lou Xue Short". I decided to buy it because I saw that Mr. Yang Jiang personally wrote the preface to this set of books when he was nearly 100 years old. More than 20 years before that, Mr. Qian Zhongshu also wrote the preface for Mr. Zhong Shuhe's Zhonghua Book Company edition of "Going to the World". As for the preface, Qian Zhongshu, Yang Jiang and his wife wrote prefaces to Mr. Zhong's works one after another, which shows the skill of Mr. Zhong's writing.
Mr. Zhong Shuhe is a famous scholar, essayist and publisher. The "Going to the World Series" he edited in the 1980s caused a sensation in the history and publishing circles and became a very influential book series at that time. Mr. Qian Zhongshu never wrote a preface for him in his life, but he took the initiative to write a preface for the "Toward the World Series".
"Nian Lou Xuesuan" is a set of introductory books on classical Chinese written by Zhong Shuhe for his grandchildren. In order to cultivate children's interest in reading classical Chinese, he chose some short and concise ancient essays with annotations. , translate, write comments, and gradually introduce some classics in ancient Chinese to children. For more than 30 years since then, this set of books has been reprinted again and again, becoming an excellent introductory book on ancient Chinese prose. It is also known as the "hundred-character version of Guwen Guanzhi".
"Nianlou" is the residence where Mr. Zhong lives. His family lived on the twentieth floor, and he named his residence "Nianlou" (a homophone of the number "twenty"). To learn from shortcomings is to learn to write short articles. Mr. Zhong believes that the articles of the ancients are concise, clear, and less nonsense. "This is a specialty of our ancestors and should not be thrown away easily." He advocated learning more from the ancients' articles, and this set of books was named "Nianlou Xueshuan".
There are 530 selected articles in the book, divided into 53 themes. The articles are all within a hundred words, independent, complete, short, and concise. Whether it is stories, poems, letters, literary essays, or notes, they are all good articles selected by Mr. Wang from a collection of classics and history and various classical books. The content includes many aspects such as culture and history, social customs, customs, politics and economy, and the time span is from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Republic of China, covering most of the historical stages recorded in writing.
Some of the articles in traditional classics such as "The Analects", "Mencius", "Tan Gong", "Zuo Zhuan", "Guoyu", "Warring States Policy" and "Zhuangzi" are all studied in textbooks Yes, but most of them are still good articles carefully selected by Mr. There are also "Edicts", "Qin Dui", "Proverbs", "Prefaces", "Sacrificial Essays", and "Short Messages" that I rarely come into contact with. The book also specially selected articles by Su Shi, Lu You, Zhang Dai, Zheng Xie, Wang Kaiyun and other famous writers.
Sorted from long to short, each article has the original text "Learning from the Short", "Reading from the Lou" and "Reading from the Lou", as well as the author, source and annotations of the article. . Mr. Wang's "reading" and "yue" are both within a few hundred words, just as he always advocates "learning from shortcomings". Not only are the articles short, but they are also good articles. Whether it is the original text or Mr.'s interpretation, we can deeply appreciate the beauty of ancient texts and learn the essence of ancient thoughts from them.
Because modern people’s lives are far from the ancient historical and cultural background, it is becoming more and more difficult for us to read ancient texts. Especially when children are learning ancient Chinese, there is rarely a better way than memorizing it. This set of books not only makes people understand and understand it, but also summarizes many excellent traditional cultures. It is different from ordinary collections of ancient texts that only have a large number of explanations and translations. Instead, it vividly presents those principles and wisdom to us in concise vernacular. It is a volume in hand, and we gain a lot.