Lu Xun's evaluation of the Classic of Mountains and Seas in the "History of Chinese Novels" is "the Book of the Witches of Gaigu", a book that he has longed for for a long time and has been longing for. What if our children read the Classic of Mountains and Seas from an early age?
My cousin is a Ph.D., but she's really ashamed of herself when it comes to her three-year-old, especially when it comes to mythological stories.
One day, Mother J went to her cousin's house as a guest and finally witnessed the "magic" of this child.
As soon as I entered the door that day, I heard my little niece say to my cousin: gun!
When Mother J listened, how could this usually crepe-crepe child still scold people?
It turns out that I have no culture!
My cousin's daughter was sitting in the living room, discussing the Classic of Mountains and Seas with her grandmother. The "gun" she said was Dayu's father, "Cang".
My cousin's daughter explained to me: Big Aunt, Dayu's father, whose name is Cang, but Dayu ran out of his stomach after his father was tortured after he failed to control the water. But how can a man still have a baby?
Then, my niece told me about the "fierce fight" of the Ying Dragon who helped Dayu control the water, the nine-tailed fox that brought the signal to Dayu Xiangrui, and later became the descendant of tengu!
I was amazed that my little niece was only 3 years old and actually knew so much!
My cousin said: Sister, the child can now tell 50 mythical stories, which is better than my doctoral mother. That day in the kindergarten talent show, the children talked one after another, and the children in the same class liked to listen. You don't say, the child's kindergarten teacher is really powerful, as soon as you hear it, you know that our story is in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and the teacher also takes our children as an example, saying that the children have a lot of knowledge, so that parents can also tell their children about the Classic of Mountains and Seas!
I asked my cousin: Your baby has been reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas for so long, is there any actual change in addition to "erudition"?
My cousin began to talk to me, making Mother J feel that when the child was a child, she did not take the child to read the Classic of Mountains and Seas carefully, which was a big loss.
Reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas from an early age, what can it bring to children?
1. Promote children's deep thinking
The cousin gave an example.
After the little niece read the Classic of Mountains and Seas, she said to her cousin, "Mother, you see Jingwei reclamation, Houyi shooting sun, Dayu zhishui, in ancient times, people always relied on their own indigenous methods to fight with nature." Because they didn't have high technology at that time and couldn't defeat natural disasters, they were all written into myths and stories. ”
Seeing the child's words, we adults are not a little blushing.
To be honest, you may have told these myths to your children, but we only read them once in a hurry, but these stories will be deeply rooted in the children's minds, and if the stories accumulate more, the children themselves will compare, analyze, and think deeply.
The future education is to conduct a dimensional assessment of the child's thinking ability.
In this year's college entrance examination mathematics, why many children feel difficult, is to combine mathematical problems with reality, if there is no deep thinking ability, children can not do the correct answer.
2. Stimulate imagination
My cousin's house had a clip, and inside were paintings of my little niece.
After opening it, I didn't see the landscape birds and insects that other children often painted, and some strange things that I had never seen before, such as 10 strange fish with bodies, two heads sharing a snake body, and a cow without horns!
I smiled and asked my cousin, "What do your children draw?" This is not right, this cow must have drawn horns!
My cousin quickly pulled me aside: Sister, this makes the child hear the joke that the aunt has no culture, isn't this the divine beast in the Classic of Mountains and Seas! After the child finished reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas, he relied on his own imagination to draw, and now even the divine beasts that did not exist in the Classic of Mountains and Seas could be imagined by himself. It turned out that it was particularly difficult for her to associate, and now the association ability in the brain is completely stimulated, and the imagination is bursting!
Albert Einstein said: Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited, and imagination encapsulates everything in the world, drives progress, and is the source of the evolution of knowledge.
After the child's imagination is activated after reading the Mountains and Seas Classic, he will see the world that adults have not seen and heard, and experience the novelty and beauty of the world, which is what childhood should look like.
Children who lack imagination have never had a real childhood.
When they grew up, they didn't have such good memories: when I was a child, I saw the bird with wings, the poor tengu, and the country of Oyang!
3. Lay the foundation for big languages
Cousin said: Sister, you see now all speak big language, that day I read the primary school textbook, which compiled a lot of stories of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, my children can tell the myths inside, and can tell the causes and consequences, such as why Dayu cures the water, what did Houyi shoot the day at the same time, why did Chang'e run to the moon, isn't this the big language? Knowing what it is and knowing why it is so.
Indeed, the Classic of Mountains and Seas itself is known as the Book of Ancient Wonders, which includes geography, history, medicine, customs, strange beasts, and so on. Some people also say that the Classic of Mountains and Seas is the earliest world map and ancient encyclopedia, and it is also the source of Chinese civilization.
Many of our current popular stories come from the Classics of Mountains and Seas, including the four masterpieces that also contain fragments related to the Classics of Mountains and Seas.
Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty said that "the fine guard of the micro wood will fill the sea", and Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty said "idle reading of the Classics of Mountains and Seas, scattering and lying on the remote curtain".
A classic of mountains and seas can help children to discuss the past and the present, and the gods are flying around the world, and a classic of mountains and seas allows children to experience the spiritual pleasure of "reading thousands of books and walking thousands of miles"!
But the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", an ancient book, children really can't read it! Fortunately, many publishing houses and writers are thinking hard about how to let children read and understand the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
Before, Mother J also bought children's Shan Hai Sutra for her children, but there were too many words and too few pictures, and the children just couldn't be interested in reading.
But after reading the "Fun Reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas" used by the children of her cousin's family, Mother J has a feeling of seeing each other and hating the night, a children's version of the Classic of Mountains and Seas that can let 3-year-old children tell fifty mythical stories, how interesting, how easy to understand, how useful!
Be sure to buy a copy of "Fun Reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas" for your child
1. The content is rich and interesting
The arrangement of this book is completely from the perspective of children's psychology and age, and selects the content of the Shan Hai Jing that is suitable for children.
What if you ask your child what he likes the most? That must be an animal.
This "Fun Reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas" selects 19 kinds of divine beasts and summarizes the characteristics, characteristics, and functions of each divine beast.
Each mythical beast also has its own unique legend and connection to the real world.
For example, when telling the legend of "He Luo Fish", the legend of the old bird changing into He Luo Fish was first told, but after the child saw the picture of He Luo Fish, he would have a question "How is He Luo Fish so similar to octopus?" ”
At the bottom of the mythological story, the child was answered: Yang Shen of the Ming Dynasty also thought that He Luo fish was an octopus!
Perhaps, the ancients could not explain why a fish had "eight claws", so they made up the legend of the old bird changing into a heluo fish.
In this way, when the children are told the Classic of Mountains and Seas, it becomes a system, allowing children to string the knowledge points into a line and integrate them.
In addition to the divine beasts, the "Fun Reading of the Classic of Mountains and Seas" also introduces places and events, which are integrated with each other and have certain repetitions, which can deepen the child's memory and understanding.
When telling the legend of the "spinning turtle", there is "Ying Long", and when talking about Da Yu Zhi Shui and "Cow", "Ying Long" appears again, although there is no special theme of "Ying Long", but Ying Long, who is always a supporting role, remains in the child's memory.
2. Tell it in the form of a story
The book "Fun Reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas", whether it is about the sacred beasts, introducing places, or reviewing myths, is in the form of a story, with characters, plots, and feelings.
When the original text of the Classic of Mountains and Seas introduces Shengyu, it only says: There are birds, whose shape is like Zhai and Chi, whose name is Shengyu, which is a fish-eating, and whose sound is like a record, see its national water.
But what kind of bird is "Victory" and what kind of story is happening? We have to look at "Reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas".
The book tells that "when Dayu was calculated by his stepmother and brother, it was the victory circling on the barn that saved Dayu".
There is not a child who does not like stories, and there is not a child who does not like myths. "Fun Reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas" takes children to experience the greatness and magic of Chinese culture in one story after another.
3. A large number of exquisite hand-drawn illustrations
Such a peculiar book of the Classic of Mountains and Seas must be accompanied by interesting pictures so that children can like it more.
"The beast with human face, the snake with the nine heads, the bird with the triangle, the man with the wings" is Mr. Lu Xun's Shan Hai Jing, and now, children can also witness their magic in this "Fun Reading The Book of Mountains and Seas".
A tengu that looks like a tanuki cat, a cow with one leg, and a snake that can swallow an elephant!
Each story is accompanied by five or six exquisite hand-drawn illustrations, and the whole book is accompanied by more than 200 pictures.
Parents should always believe that if there is only one ability for children to be better than you, it must be the ability to see pictures.
When Mother J got the book and read it with her child, she turned to the story of "Cow Fighting", and the child said: Mom, I have seen this mythical beast!
Then she immediately turned the book to the cover, and in a very inconspicuous position on the left, she found the "cow".
After getting this book, give your children time to fully enjoy the spiritual pleasure brought by the exquisite hand-drawn pictures, which will not only stimulate their imagination, but also exercise their observation.
4. Knowledge expansion
As a children's book, popular science knowledge should be a must.
This book "Fun Reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas" is very intimately interspersed with "hard-core knowledge" in each story.
Although it is talking about the tengu eating the moon, it throws it without forgetting to tell the child that the lunar eclipse is actually the sun, the earth, and the moon has come to a straight line;
Although it talks about "Shu Deer", it still has not forgotten to tell the child about the "Change of the Dunes" of the Qin Dynasty, which is this conspiracy to let Gongzi Fusu be killed and completely change the direction of the Qin Dynasty.
Although it talks about the "Kingdom of Owl Yang", it still has not forgotten to tell children the eternal "mystery of the wild man"!
5. Zhuyin of strange characters
Because it is a book of ancient qi, the words in it seem very "strange" today, and many names are full of strange words.
But it doesn't matter, "Fun Reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas" gives Zhuyin for strange words, which lowers the reading threshold for children and adults, increases the fluency of reading, and does not interrupt the fun of reading because they do not know the words to check.
A book "Fun Reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas" allows children to appreciate the magic of the world and feel the source of Chinese culture!
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