The New Language of the World was compiled by Liu Yiqing during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and mainly compiled the anecdotes and famous sayings of the Han and Jin Dynasties. According to the nature of the facts, it is divided into thirty-six disciplines, which begin with "virtue" and end at "vengeance".
In the previous version of the junior high school Chinese textbook, part of the content of "The New Language of the World" was selected, one of which was "the hour is over, the big is not necessarily better", telling the story of Kong Wenju, and it seems that there is a story about Chen Yuanfang, all involving children around the age of ten, events and social interactions, verbal responses, showing the child's intelligence and flexibility and a certain talent.
This book is suitable for children to read as an enlightenment book for people to behave in the world, guiding them to establish a correct outlook on life and values from an early age, learn to think about problems, and learn some social coping skills.
First of all, there are some stories in the book "The New Language of the World" that inspire people how to behave in the world and how to make friends. For example, when Xun Jubo went to visit a sick friend, it coincided with the Hu people attacking the city, and the friend asked him to flee for his life quickly, Xun Jubo said that he had come to visit him in the same way, and could not abandon him and go to survive alone.
Stories may just be stories, but the idea that stories want to convey to people is to be people who sacrifice their lives for righteousness, not to be ruthless and unjust. "The New Language of the World" also has the story of Chen Yi who collected and kept the jiaojiao rice to his mother to eat, and later saved his life because of his mother's filial piety. This is preaching filial piety and encouraging people to be kind and filial people.
Let's talk about the problem of on-the-spot response to social places, which occupies more chapters in "The New Language of the World". The agility and propriety of the response mainly depends on several factors, such as flexible mind, active thinking, rapid response, and wide range of knowledge.
For example, when Kong Rong was ten years old, he went with his father to Luoyang to meet a lieutenant surnamed Li, and if he wanted to meet him, he had to be either a talented and famous person, or he had to be a relative or friend, and Kong Rong went to the door and told the gatekeeper that he and Lieutenant Li were family friends, and the gatekeeper led him to sit down.
Later, when Lieutenant Colonel Li met Kong Rong, he asked them what the relationship between relatives and friends was, and Kong Rong said that in the past, his twenty-four ancestors Zhongni and Mr. Boyang were teachers and friends, so they were family friends.
Kong Rong said that Zhongni and Boyang were Confucius and Laozi respectively, one was the founder of the Confucian school, the other was the founder of the Taoist school, Kong Rong wanted to say this, although it was a little reluctant, but also reasonable, at the same time, this kind of relationship with relatives and the past is both flattering to others and does not lose identity, and naturally will not be rejected.
In the story of "The New Language of the World", there are also some children who are both smart and astute to deal with the jokes and jokes of adults. Just like the son of a family named Yang, although he is nine years old, he is very smart. When he entertained a guest in place of his father, the guest saw that the host's family had laid out the bayberry, and said to the yang family child, this bayberry is the fruit of your Yang family. The Yang family's children replied smoothly: "I have never counted the days, and the peacock is the bird of Mr. Yang's family." "This guest's last name is Kong. This kind of response can respond well to the other party without losing its alertness.
Many of the stories in The New Language of the World embody the benefits of making good use of metaphors, with Xie Daoyun comparing the white snow that has been promoted to the flying willows in his style, and the eleven-year-old Chen Yuanfang comparing his father and Yuan Gong to Zhou Gong and Confucius respectively. This Yuan Gong asked Yuan Fang, your father does official affairs, and I am doing many things, I don't know if he is learning from me or I am learning from him.
Yuan Fang replied that Zhou Gong and Confucius were born in different ages, although they were far apart but did things very similarly, in fact, Zhou Gong did not imitate Confucius, and Confucius did not effectively imitate Zhou Gong. It is implied that his father and Yuan Gong were praised as officials, and neither of them imitated each other. He not only answered each other's questions, but also maintained his father's dignity, did not hurt decency, and praised the talent and ability of his father and the other party, which was indeed a good way to deal with problems.
In addition, there are some other small stories told in the "New Language of the World", such as when the famous Eastern Jin Dynasty general Tao Kan was serving as an envoy in Jingzhou, he ordered the shipbuilding officer to collect the wood chips. At that time, none of his men knew what the use of the sawdust he wanted.
Later, after heavy snow in the first month, the government hall was still wet and inconvenient to walk after sweeping away the snow, and Tao Kan ordered his men to take out the collected wood chips and spread them on the ground, so that people could come and go freely. Tao Kan also ordered people to collect bamboo heads, and later when assembling warships, he asked his men to make bamboo heads into nails and use them.
Tao Kan's practices were puzzling at first, but it is not difficult to find out that the purpose of his actions is always to accumulate small amounts and reuse waste, and this way of thinking and behavior is worth learning even in today's society, which is both frugal and can make the best use of it. For now, this is a very environmentally friendly way, as long as there is a heart, this waste reuse method is very suitable for us to play freely in life.
In addition, there are other stories in "The New Language of the World", and in general, it is worth making enlightening reading books for young children. In addition, other stories in the "Story China" series can also be read, this set of books with a variety of styles, some are very beautiful, very suitable for children and young people to read.