What is the earliest literacy textbook in the world in China?

The world's first word book "and" a thousand words "

Among the above-mentioned ancient Chinese textbooks, thousands of words deserve special mention.

When it comes to Qian Wen Zi, many people know that it is a children's book as famous as The Amethyst and Hundred Family Names. But few people can realize that it is an efficient literacy method summed up by our ancestors after thousands of years of practice. Ancient children can read and write in a year, which is inseparable from the efficient literacy method of thousands of words.

In the history of China, many literacy textbooks have been compiled, but few have been handed down for a long time, with the exception of one textbook, that is, Thousand Characters. Qian Wen Zi was written by Zhou Xingsi in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. It is a poem written with 1000 non-repetitive words. After learning this article, I learned 1000 words, which is a masterpiece of literacy teaching materials. This is the only textbook in history that can highly unify various methods such as centralized literacy, short essay literacy, rhyming literacy and classified literacy. It is also the only literacy textbook selected by the past dynasties. It has a history of 1400 years, which has become a miracle in the history of world education.

In the Ming Dynasty, Wang Shizhen called Qian Wen Zi "a must". Throughout the ages, thousands of words have been rated as "the first word book in the world", and no literacy textbook can win such a high honor.

Why can A Thousand Words win such a high honor?

The most unique feature of "thousands of words" is that the words are not reused. In order to improve the speed of literacy, a thousand-character essay is extremely simple, which makes countless literati flinch. Thousands of words are not heavy and difficult, but in order to facilitate children's memory, they are rhymed, which shows that Zhou Xingsi's Thousand Words is original; What is even more amazing is that under the restriction of not reusing words and rhymes, thousands of words can be divided into many categories, such as astronomy, geography, history, morality, reading, diet, life, gardening, sacrifice and so on. Let children remember lifelong beneficial knowledge while reading. It is this special way of writing that has created an efficient method of literacy.

It is difficult to write thousands of words. According to Li Chuo's Records of the Historian in the Tang Dynasty, the thousand-character writing written by Zhou Xingsi is "all white in the evening". In the Qing Dynasty, people were told that it was difficult to write "a thousand words", such as dancing on an inch of wood and drawing a long line on a random line. No wonder some people say that "thousand-character writing" is "what others can't do"

Mr. Zhou Gucheng said in the preface of the Mongolian traditional series Qianziwen: "Qianziwen compiled by Zhou Xingsi is recognized as the best literacy book. From the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the end of Qing Dynasty, it was popular for more than 400 years, and it became the earliest, longest-used and most influential literacy textbook in the world. It cannot be said that it is a miracle in the history of world education. "

In ancient China, envoys from Japan, Korea and Vietnam all brought thousands of Chinese characters back to their countries to let their citizens learn Chinese characters, which played an important role in the formation of Chinese character cultural circles in the world today.

Although Qian Wen Zi is good, because of its long history and outdated content, most of the words are unintelligible, so it can't be used as a literacy textbook for modern Chinese characters. After the end of the Qing Dynasty, the thousand-character script was no longer used as a literacy textbook, and then the rare high-speed literacy method created by it disappeared.

The disappearance of money is not only the disappearance of a literacy textbook, but also the disappearance of an efficient literacy method. For the Chinese nation, its loss is incalculable. Seriously speaking, it makes the picturesque and beautiful China Chinese characters the most difficult to learn in the world, and makes thousands of China children in Qian Qian bear the heavy burden of learning Chinese characters, which greatly affects the cultural heritage and foreign exchange in China.