What are some ancient Chinese textbooks for monks?

1. The Thousand Character Classic, compiled by Zhou Xingsi, a minister of the Liang Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, is a rhyming text consisting of one thousand Chinese characters (before the Sui and Tang dynasties, a text that did not rhyme or correspond was called "pen" rather than "wen").

The Thousand Character Classic, which is easy to recite and memorize, has been translated into English, French, Latin, and Italian, and is a highly influential children's primer in China.

2. The Hundred Family Names is a work about Chinese family names. According to literature, it was written in the early Northern Song Dynasty. The original collection of surnames 411, later added to 504, including 444 single surnames, 60 compound surnames.

The Hundred Family Names adopts a four-character style, arranges the surnames, and rhymes with each sentence. Although its content is not literate, it has played a great role in the inheritance of Chinese surname culture and the understanding of Chinese characters, which is an important factor that can be passed down for thousands of years.

3. The Three Character Classic, a traditional Chinese enlightenment textbook. Among the ancient Chinese classics, the Three Character Classic is one of the most accessible. The Three Character Classic is based on exemplary materials, including literature, history, philosophy, astronomy, geography, human ethics, loyalty, filial piety and righteousness of traditional Chinese culture, etc., and the core ideas include "benevolence, righteousness, sincerity, respect and filial piety." When you memorize the Three Character Classic, you learn about common sense, traditional Chinese culture and historical stories, as well as the truths of being a human being and doing things in the stories.

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Historical background of the Three Character Classic:

On the date of the completion of the book and the author of the Three Character Classic through the ages, most scholars of the later generations have different opinions. Most scholars of later generations tend to think that Mr. Wang Bohou, a Confucian scholar of the Song Dynasty, made the Three Character Classic to teach the family school, i.e., in order to better educate the children of his own family to read, he wrote the Three Character Classic, which is a compilation of the classics, history, and literature.

Wang Yinglin was a native of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the historical portion of the original Three Character Classic only goes up to the Song Dynasty. With the development of history, in order to reflect the changes of the times, all dynasties have people to the "Three Character Classic" constantly added, the Qing Daoguang years He Xing Si added about the history of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, *** counting twenty-four sentences.

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