Who is the author of the Three Character Classic.

About the "Three Character Classic" of the book age and the author of different generations, but most scholars tend to "Song Confucian Mr. Wang Bohou made the "Three Character Classic", to class home school". In his later years, when educating the children of his family, Mr. Wang Yinglin wrote a book of three-word recitations, which is rumored to be the "Three Character Classic," combining the classics, history and literature.

It is said to have been written by a Song Dynasty man, Au Shizi. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Mr. Qu Dajun wrote in "Guangdong New Words", Volume 11, "The Three Character Classic recited by the children was compiled by Mr. Au Shizi at the end of the Song Dynasty. Shizi, Shunde Dengzhou people, the word is uncle, into the Yuan resistance not to serve," that Shunde people in Guangdong District Shizi is the real author of the "Three Character Classic".

One said that it was the Ming Dynasty person Li Zhen. Qing Dynasty Shao Jin Han poem: "read the three words of Zhenli training", note: "Three Character Classic", South China Sea Lai Zhen compilation. That is to think that the Ming Dynasty Lizhen compiled.

China's Ningbo University College of Letters Professor Zhang Ruan in the "Journal of Peking University" published in the second issue of 2009, "the earliest record of the history of the "Three Characters Classic" literature - "Three Characters Classic" written in the Southern Song Dynasty in the middle of the new "article," the judgment that the "Three Characters Classic" should be written in the Southern Song Dynasty in the Shaoxi (1190 - 1194 years) The article judges that "Three Character Classic" should be written in the Southern Song Dynasty between Shaoxi (1190-1194) and Jiading (1208-1224), which is earlier than the era of Wang Yinglin (1223-1296) and the district of Shizi. And Ningbo is the earliest known area where the Three Character Classic was circulated.

Expanded Information

The Three Character Classic has a history of more than seven hundred years since the Song Dynasty, and it can be called a household name and popular. *** More than 1,000 words, the three-character rhyming text is extremely easy to recite, and covers traditional Chinese education, history, astronomy, geography, ethics and morals, as well as some folk legends, etc. It is broad and vivid, yet concise and concise.

The Three Character Classic has long since become more than just a Han text; it has been translated into Manchu and Mongolian. The Three Character Classic no longer belongs to China alone, but has been translated into English and French, and the new English translation published in Singapore in 1990 was selected by UNESCO as part of the "Children's Moral Series", which is being promoted worldwide and is a must-read and memorize book for children.

On April 25, 2008, China's new revision of the "Three Character Classic", adding 49 changes, changes accounted for only 10% of the original text, by the People's Education Publishing House debut, and strive to promote the primary and secondary schools throughout the country. 2009 Spring Festival to the same year, May, CCTV's Hundred Lecture Theatre aired "Qian Wenzhong interpretation of the Three Character Classic," a series of programs.

To this day the Three Character Classic still has great vitality. In the past, many knowledgeable scholars, including Zhang Taiyan, devoted themselves to commenting on and renewing the Three Character Classic. Reading materials that simulate the form of the Three Character Classic, such as the Three Character Classic for Women, the Three Character Classic for Geography, the Three Character Classic for Medicine, the Three Character Classic for Western Studies, the Three Character Classic for Workers and Peasants, the Three Character Classic for Soldiers, the Three Character Classic for Buddhism, and the Three Character Classic for Taoism, have come out in an endless stream and have become popular all over the world. Mr. Gao Zhanxiang, former Executive Vice Minister of the Ministry of Culture, also created the New Three Character Classic, which has also received widespread attention. In recent years, China's primary and secondary schools have also compiled the "Three Character Song for Safety Education".

The "Three Character Classic" is a rare and valuable heritage of China, and there are different versions of it, with the number of words ranging from 1,120 to 1,722. The Three Character Classic, together with the Hundred Surnames and the Thousand Character Classic, is one of China's best montessori readings and is known as "Three, Hundred and Thousand".

Baidu Encyclopedia - Three Character Classic (One of the Three Great Readings of Traditional Chinese Montessori)