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China has been around for five thousand years, which one do you remember?
Why do you have such a question? Mainly because, in recent years, I have found that students have shown serious learning difficulties in the study of history as a subject.
Many students study history in the same level of difficulty as physical chemistry. They said they studied very seriously, but they couldn't remember.
In my opinion, history is a very interesting subject. Because behind those historical events and people, there are some interesting stories. In the past, when I studied on my own, I always remembered the historical content by reading storybooks.
This also reflects that today's children have less time to read books, and the accumulation of some traditional Chinese cultural knowledge is relatively weak.
In fact, learning is a long road, some parents will give their children a variety of enlightenment when they are young, and some parents will think that when they go to school, they will naturally learn. In fact, reading, there is no distinction between morning and evening, only the formation of habits or not.
On the issue of children's sinology knowledge enlightenment, recently found a good set of children's books, called "Teacher Wu Talks About History", the author Wu Zhi, is the main speaker of the Himalayan APP "Teacher Wu Says History" column, he has been engaged in children's Sinology teaching and curriculum research and development for more than ten years, put forward the view of "combining Sinology education with children's psychology, family education, and parent-child relationship", and encourages the teaching mode of "guidance, interaction and heuristics".
This set of books has a total of six volumes, starting from the Chinese civilization, until the end of the Three Kingdoms, through the easy-to-understand story explanation, with illustrations, but also interspersed with some small knowledge in the historical content, through 119 classic stories, leading children to touch the wonderful history, is a good set of Chinese culture enlightenment reading materials for children during the holidays.
Let's take a look at what this set of books tells us.
01 From the long river of time, understand the pace of history
After entering junior high school, many students are very insensitive to the knowledge point of time in history subjects. However, we all know that learning history corresponds to the corresponding time background is very important.
This set of books is divided into six volumes, and in terms of content arrangement, it is carried out in chronological order. From the beginning of Chinese civilization, starting from the Three Emperors and Five Emperors in ancient times, it has advanced to the Xia Shang Zhou, where civilization can be studied, and then to the Later Spring and Autumn Warring States, and finally the Qin Dynasty unified the world.
After that, there was the peasant revolt at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the struggle for hegemony between chu and Han, the establishment of the Han Dynasty, the rise and fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the formation of the Three Kingdoms and the development to the end. The advancement of history, in this vertical timeline, the rise of each dynasty, the development to decline, with the historical events and characters of the time, so that children have a clearer understanding of the change of dynasties.
In this round of development process, whether it is children reading books by themselves, or parents using it as a story to explain, I believe that children can have a certain understanding of ancient Chinese culture in this way.
On some classic content, there are also illustrations, which are indispensable in the reading process of children's books. The color matching of books is also more suitable for children's reading psychology, and there are more color choices, which can attract children's attention.
Therefore, as the enlightenment book of Sinology, this set of books is a good choice.
02 The Enlightenment of Idiomatic Stories in Sinology Culture
In today's children's learning process, I also find a problem, that is, they know less and less about ancient Chinese culture. For example, I asked them what does it mean to "peach and plum are self-made without words"? Many people can't answer it.
This also explains why children have a hard time learning literature after entering junior high school and high school. Because they are all unfamiliar with some of the quotations in the texts.
In order to deepen our understanding of the content, teachers used to take us to translate them into modern languages.
However, Wen Yanwen is the embodiment of Chinese sinology culture, which represents not only the transmission of ancient culture, but also the ancients' exquisite learning. As today's learners, we have an obligation to carry on the best of it.
Take the jokes seen on the Internet, for example, if you miss a person, many people will probably say: "I want to die you", if this is placed in the ancient literati, they may say: "Wine into the intestines, into the tears of lovesickness." Or: "Red beans are born in the southern country, and a few branches are sent in the spring" and so on.
And if you don't understand these traditional Chinese knowledge, it is estimated that you will not understand what others are saying.
In this set of books, it also conceals the promotion and popularization of Sinology culture. In this 119-year story, it also includes the popularization of poetry, proverbs, and post-break and idioms in Chinese Sinology culture. For example, some people say that "Zhou Yu beat Huang Gai", in fact, the meaning of what he wants to express is that the latter part, "a person who is willing to fight and a wish to be beaten", and people who do not understand this history are estimated to be very confused.
You may even think that why Zhou Yu hit Huang Gai, why would he extend the content of "one willing to fight one wish to be beaten". This has to be understood in conjunction with the history of the Three Kingdoms at that time. If you have read this history, I believe you will understand that this is a ruse.
China's sinology culture has always been broad and profound. Therefore, many old sayings themselves contain a certain philosophy of life. In fact, this can also be used as a reading book for children's educational enlightenment.
03 Small infiltration of historical knowledge in the corner
In the process of explaining the story of each chapter, the author will set up a column of "Hu Xiaotong Loves History", and in this column, the author will use the form of questions and answers to popularize some ancient knowledge and culture to us.
Among them, "Hu Xiaotong" is the questioner, and "Teacher Wu" is the one who answers. This is mainly due to the developmental psychology of children at this age.
We all know that when children are young, it is simply "100,000 whys", so when this set of books is designed, it is also appropriate to design some questions that children are generally curious about, and Teacher Wu also gave corresponding answers.
For example, when telling the story of "Dayu ZhiShui", Hu Xiaotong asked "How does Dayu control water?" Teacher Wu gave an answer from the perspective of the social background at that time and the production tools. After all, in that era, it was impossible to have today's pumps.
There are many more problems like this in books. We all say, "Reading history makes one wise," but in fact, reading history also requires methods.
If there is no main line, like many students, the more chaotic it is, after all, China's history is not hundreds of years, but thousands of years.
For children, starting to enlighten from an early age can help them have an early cognition in their future learning, and when they understand knowledge, they have a certain cultural accumulation.
From this function, this set of books can indeed be used as a good set of introductory books on Traditional Chinese Studies. Children who love to read can use the vacation time to look good, follow Teacher Wu's explanation, and walk into China's ancient history together.