What does "elementary school" mean in traditional Chinese academia? What is it for?

The word "elementary school" did not refer to schools at first. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was called "elementary school" for "literacy", and after the Tang and Song dynasties, it was also called "elementary school" for self-study. To read, one must first recognize the characters, master the shape, sound and meaning of the characters, and learn to use them. Zhou Dynasty children enrolled in school, first learn six A six books (six A refers to children's practice with the simpler strokes of the six groups to A beginning of the stem. The six books are: fingerprints, pictograms, morpho-sounds, ideograms, transcription, and pseudo-borrowing), which is why they used to call "writing" "elementary school", and this is how they got the name "elementary school".

Guy primary school is the foundation of the national history, the end of the king's education, the upper in order to push the school canon, the lower in order to facilitate the people and the common people, is not only the introduction of the brush strokes of the seal script, the text of the payment around the only. If you lose the original, you will have to be very skillful.

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Anciently, six books were taught in the elementary school, so the study of text, exegesis and phonetics was called elementary school.

Each character has three parts: 1. character shape; 2. character meaning; 3. character sound.

During the Han Dynasty, the distinction was not very significant.

Wang Yinglin's Yuhai (Jade Sea) at the end of the Song Dynasty had been divided into three kinds: institutional. Exegesis. The phonetic and rhythmic.

The Siku Quanshu of the Qing Dynasty divided the elementary books into: exegetical. Character book. Rhyme book three categories.

Primary school attached to the scriptures, the scriptures as a university, so called the language and writing of the study of elementary school. Phonetics, words, exegesis