From Confucius's Analects to the Dream of the Red Chamber Grand View Garden, to Sha Weng's poetry and drama world... The "Reading Classics" series of books published by China Children's Press and Publication Corporation Co., Ltd. was launched at the Beijing Book Ordering Fair on March 31.
At the launch ceremony, the authors of the "Reading the Classics" series of books, three experts and professors from national institutions of higher learning and research colleges, sat in the salon, talked freely, and shared their creative process and original intentions with the guests and readers and friends present. The other three authors who could not come to the scene in person due to business trips also specially sent videos for exclusive sharing.
They said that the original concept of creating this set of books was to select those important outstanding figures in human history and their great works, combined with the review of their life experiences for analysis, hoping to help the majority of young readers stand on the perspective and height of the development of human civilization, understand that the emergence of these classic works is not accidental, but an inevitable product of the social environment at that time, is the precious crystallization of the development of human civilization corresponding to it.
Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter learned that this set of "reading and understanding classics" series has a total of 5 volumes, of which "Perseverance in a Troubled World - Confucius and" tells readers to learn Confucius and the "Analects" that carry his thoughts, and it is necessary to constantly discover and inherit the spirit and wisdom of Confucius's thought that transcends the times, and use it to enrich and nourish our modern life.
The "Sacred Canon of Military Studies - Sun Tzu and" is divided into two parts: the first part mainly tells the life deeds of Sun Wu, the author of "Sun Tzu's Art of War", the great ancient Chinese military figure, and at the same time explains the background and historical inevitability of sun tzu and the birth of "Sun Tzu's Art of War" from a historical point of view; the second part mainly introduces the content of the thirteen articles of "Sun Tzu's Art of War", and at the same time centers on the ideological system and values of "Sun Tzu's Art of War", including the war concept, strategic thinking, the way to defeat the enemy, the management ideology of the army and its status and influence.
Shakespeare, who was hailed by Marx as the "greatest theatrical genius" in Western literature, did not leave pen and paper in his life, but did not leave a diary, essay or letter, or make a comment on other people's works. It is not easy to understand Shakespeare's confusing life and read his works, and readers may wish to turn to the book "Theater Wonders : Shakespeare's Plays and Poems".
Edited by Zhang Yun, Secretary General of the China Society for the Dream of the Red Chamber, "Dreaming Around the Grand View Garden - Cao Xueqin and the Dream of the Red Chamber" is an intellectual reading book integrating literature, history, literary and artistic theory, and ancient humanities, mainly from the two aspects of literary value and ideological implications, and interprets "Dream of the Red Chamber" to young readers in the form of narration; what is written in the book is the core and essence of the Dream of the Red Chamber, supplemented by the "text appreciation" of the original work, so as to clearly confirm and explain, which is conducive to readers reading and understanding the original content. In addition, it has also made serious attempts to meet the reading tastes of young readers and enhance the storytelling and interest of the manuscripts, and uses stories to present the essence of the Dream of the Red Chamber with story literature, emphasizing the plainness and rhythm of language.
Qian Yingchao, the author of "The World of Heroes - Into Homer's Epic", a professor at Beijing University of Foreign Chinese, interprets "Homer's Epic" with storytelling style, tells the ten years of heroic war of "Iliad" and the ten years of "Odyssey" to return home, clearly sorts out the complex relationship between man and God and the long story development timeline in the epic for young readers, helps readers to initially understand the story line, feel the colorful epic characters, and the epic picture of the turbulent situation.
At the event site, Wang Zhigeng, director of the Capital Library, also analyzed how to cultivate the humanistic qualities and life character of a new generation of young people from the perspective of social education; Mei Zihan, a famous reading promoter, and Lu Qin, a famous family education expert, discussed how schools and parents should correctly guide children to read and learn this type of historical and cultural classics from the perspective of school education and family education.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Zhang Enjie
Editor/He Mengyu