Source: Thousand-character writings of Zhou Xingsi in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Excerpt from the original text: the stream is endless and crystal clear. Rong Zhi thoughtful, stable words. Learn to be an excellent official and go into politics. Live with Gan Tang and benefit from going.
Translation: it can also be extended to future generations, as continuous as water; Affect the world, like a pool of clear blue. Appearance and behavior should be calm and serene, words should be steady and appear calm and calm. After reading the book, you can be an official and exercise your powers to participate in state affairs. Good governance that Zhou people miss. When Zhao Gong was alive, he was in charge of politics under Gan Tang tree. After his death, people miss Zhao Bo even more.
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Creative background:
Literacy textbooks specially used for enlightenment have appeared in China for a long time. There were Cang Xie and Gui Li in Qin dynasty, Fan Jiang in Sima Xiangru, Gu Xi in Jia's family, exhortation in Cai Yong and urgent chapter in You's family in Han dynasty, and in the Three Kingdoms period.
Among these works, only Urgent Chapter has an influence on later generations, and the rest have little influence. Although Urgent Chapter is a prominent primary school book after Cang Xie Pian, due to various problems in its circulation, its authority was not as good as before in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and some enlightenment books such as Gu Ting and Friends in this period were limited in readability.
It is against this background that thousands of words came out.
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