What is the content of the Three Character Classic?

1. In the beginning, human beings are inherently good.

Similar in nature, but far apart in habits.

It explains that all people are good when they are born, but due to the different learning environment acquired during the growth process, there are differences in temperament between good and bad.

2. If you don’t teach, your nature will change.

The most important thing in teaching is specialization.

Explain that if you are not educated well from childhood, your good nature will turn bad.

In order to prevent people from becoming bad, the most important way is to educate their children with concentration.

3. Xi Meng’s mother chose a neighbor’s place.

If you don't learn, you will lose your chance.

Explain that during the Warring States Period, Mencius' mother moved three times in order to provide Mencius with a good learning environment.

Once Mencius skipped school, Meng's mother cut off the loom cloth to teach him.

4. Dou Yanshan has a righteous prescription.

Teach five sons and they will all become famous.

Explain that during the Five Dynasties, Dou Yujun, a native of Yanshan, was very good at educating his sons. The five sons he educated were all successful and became famous in the imperial examinations.

5. It is the fault of the father to raise but not teach.

If the teaching is not strict, the teacher will be lazy.

The explanation is that it is the father's fault that he only provides food and clothing for his children but does not educate them properly.

It's just education, but if you don't have strict requirements, you are lazy as a teacher.

6. It is not appropriate for a child not to learn.

If you don't learn when you are young, what will you do when you are old?

Explain that it is very inappropriate for children to refuse to study hard.

If a person doesn't study hard when he is young, and he neither understands the principles of life nor has knowledge when he is old, what good will he do?

7. If jade is not polished, it will become useless.

If a person does not learn, he does not know righteousness.

Explain that if jade is not polished and carved, it will not become an exquisite utensil; if a person does not learn, he will not understand etiquette and cannot become a talent.

8. To be the son of man is to be young.

Close teachers and friends, etiquette explanations, as children, should be close to teachers and friends from a young age, in order to learn a lot of etiquette and knowledge about how to deal with others from them.

9. The fragrance is nine years old and can warm the mat.

Filial piety to relatives is what Huang Xiang, a native of the Eastern Han Dynasty, knew when he was nine years old. He knew how to be filial to his father and warm his bed.

This is what everyone who is filial to their parents should practice and imitate.

10. Three Character Classic: If you are four years old, you can make pears.

The younger brother is the elder. The prophet Yi explained that when Kong Rong in the Han Dynasty was four years old, he knew how to give the big pears to his elder brother. This kind of respect and friendship for the elder brother should be known by everyone from an early age.

11. Filial piety and brotherhood are the first, followed by knowledge and knowledge.

Knowing a certain number and knowing a certain article explains that the first thing a person should learn is to honor his parents and brotherly love, and then to learn the knowledge he sees and hears.

And you need to know basic arithmetic and advanced mathematics, as well as understand words and read literature.

12. Three-Character Sutra: One makes ten, ten makes one hundred.

Hundreds and thousands, thousands and thousands explain the decimal arithmetic method used in our country: one to ten are the basic numbers, then ten ten is one hundred, ten one hundred is one thousand, ten one thousand is ten thousand... It keeps changing.

Go down.

13. The three talents are the people of heaven and earth.

The three lights, the sun, the moon and the stars explain. You should also know some common sense in daily life, such as what are the "three talents"?

The three talents refer to the three aspects of heaven, earth and man.

What are the "three lights"? The three lights are the sun, the moon, and the stars. 14. The three cardinal principles are the righteousness of the king and his ministers. Father and son, husband and wife. Explain what the "three cardinal principles" are? The three cardinal principles are the three principles that should be observed in the relationship between people.

This code of conduct means that the words and deeds of the king and his ministers must be consistent with justice, parents and children should love each other, and husband and wife should live in harmony. 15. Spring and summer are called autumn and winter. Let us take a look at the explanation of luck.

The surrounding environment, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are called four seasons. These four seasons are constantly changing, spring goes to summer, autumn goes to winter, and so on, and it never stops. 16. The three-character sutra: north and south, west and east.

Ying Huzhong explains that east, south, west, and north are called "four directions" and refer to the positions of each direction. There must be a central position corresponding to each direction. 16.

, said water, fire, wood, metal and earth. The five elements are basically explained. As for the "five elements", they are metal, wood, water, fire and earth. This is an abstract concept used in ancient China to refer to various things in the universe.

It is generated based on the five numbers and combinations of one, two, three, four, and five. 17. The ten stems are from A to Gui. Zi Zhihai explains that the "ten stems" refer to A, B, C, and so on.

Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, and Gui are also called "Heavenly Stems"; the "Twelve Branches" refer to Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai.

Also called "Earthly Branches", it is the mark of ancient timekeeping. 18. The ecliptic is where the sun is located. The equator explains that the earth revolves around the sun, and the sun's orbit around the center of the galaxy is called the "ecliptic".

, there is an imaginary large circle perpendicular to the earth's axis in the center of the earth, which is the equator. 19. Below the equator, the warm pole. I explain that in the northeast, the temperature is the highest and the climate is particularly hot, from the equator to the north and south.

direction, the temperature gradually becomes lower. Our country is located in the northeast of the earth. 20. The river is called Huaiji.