What are the Montessori Classics

The eight classics of monastic learning are, Three Character Classic, Hundred Surnames, Thousand Character Classic, Zengguangxianwen, Disciple's Rules, Little Children's Words, Sound and Rhythm Enlightenment, and Thousand Family Poems. These classics have had an extremely important influence not only in China, but even in the whole world, and are well-known reading materials that have been widely circulated. The Three Character Classic, in particular, has been recognized by UNESCO as the standard textbook for children's enlightenment around the world.

The Chinese Traditional Montessori Classics is a book published by the Golden Shield Publishing House in 2007, written by Niu Siyao and Yue Zhixian. The eight classical readings selected in this book basically include the main contents of China's ancient children's enlightenment education, among which the Three Character Classic has been included in the "World Children's Moral Education Series" by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

This book brings together the wisdom of ancient sages and sages, including knowledge of astronomy, geography, history, literature and other aspects, as well as traditional Chinese virtues. It is not only suitable for children to learn, but also for adults to read and appreciate.

Ancient China attached great importance to monastic education. China's monastic education goblet in the Zhou Qin and Han, formed in the Sui, Tang, Song and Yuan, prosperous development in the Ming and Qing dynasties, can be said to have a long history. According to Mr. Zhang Zhigong's Montessori Bibliography, there are as many as 580 kinds of Montessori teaching materials in the past 2,000 years, starting from the Zhou and Qin Dynasties and ending in the Republic of China. Mr. Xu Zi's "Bibliography of Traditional Chinese Montessori (Preliminary Draft)" has been supplemented on the basis of this bibliography, and it has reached more than 1,300 kinds of textbooks. In fact, it may be much more than that.

In recent years, with the rising fever of national studies and traditional culture, hundreds of monastic books have been published in various places in response to the times. Confucianism's high textbook, it is difficult for the general public to learn to understand; and this kind of monastic reading materials to those difficult to understand the high head of the high speech chapter with vulgar rhyming language expression, and closely linked to the real life of the world, easy to learn, easy to understand, easy to recite and easy to remember, more intuitively, more vividly embodies the essence of traditional Chinese culture.