. For the definition of "Jing", its level is higher than "Dian". Historically, according to the development of the cultural system, especially the humanistic system, Jing is a model or article that all nationalities in the world can play an educational role in both spiritual nutrition and acquired wisdom. Look at the classics of China and the world-class classics. Most of them have an important feature, that is, they can accommodate our three-dimensional knowledge and provide us with spiritual nutrition. In other words, they can cross the chords of Yin and Yang in the center of the Taiji diagram, and improve our wisdom and wisdom simultaneously, so that the two systems of wisdom and wisdom can be improved simultaneously. That is, we often say that the brain is responsible for memory, thinking and judgment, while the brain is responsible for feeling and capturing intuition. If we want to improve people's knowledge, culture and quality at these two levels, we must pay attention to the reading of "Jing". As for the function of "Dian", it focuses on reflecting some written records produced by historical predecessors under the condition of great wisdom, which are basically at the knowledge level, not at the cultural level. In other words, the cultural connotation is less, and it doesn't have some knowledge or nutrition that experiences Yin and Yang at the same time, including black and white. It has no dual function, only unilateral function. In other words, the Canon contains more Taibai Guo. Moreover, the concept of "point" explained by people in modern society has usually changed the definition of "point" in ancient times. Modern people's general definition of "Canon" is to analyze and understand "Canon" equally with the concept of "book" defined in ancient times. Classics, which are generally said in society, have become synonymous with books in the classic system. We should also pay attention to this difference between academic and popular.
For us, people tend to pay more attention to acquired knowledge than intuition and inspiration. Therefore, in the historical period of our country, the country was strong and the politics was clear. For example, in the Han Dynasty, the classic of "Huang Lao" was used to guide officials to study, and talents were selected to govern the country according to this classic, which brought the glory of the rule of culture. In the Han Dynasty, due to the autocratic role of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu's ban on words, and Tian Fen (then the prime minister and uncle of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty) came forward to jointly clear the Four Classics of the Yellow Emperor, and translated the 5,000-word version of Laozi, which was close to the original, into the Tao Te Ching, and made some modifications to the contents of the scripture, which became the paragraphs of the Tao Te Ching in later generations. However, in the Tang Dynasty, under this background, Laozi's 5,000 words were still used to educate the whole people, which still brought the glory of the Tang Dynasty, and this glory has far-reaching influence all over the world.
From this good historical phenomenon, we can see that people who really attach importance to classic reading education can not only improve the humanistic quality of the whole people, but also greatly help the prosperity of society. However, after the Song and Ming Dynasties, eight-part essays appeared, reading only "books" but not "classics", reading only "four books" but not advocating classics, and the most famous Book of Changes was also eliminated from "classics". At this time, China's education basically entered a rigid period. Therefore, when history develops to the May 4th period, there will inevitably be a historical phenomenon of opposing reading "books". At that time, due to the influx of western culture, people suddenly woke up from the imprisonment of stereotyped writing, and there were also some phenomena of "splashing children with water".
According to our modern understanding of reading "books" and "classics", reading "books" and "classics" basically appeared at the same time in society, starting from the end of last century. However, if we only look at the "books" represented by Confucianism, it seems not enough for us to improve children's humanistic quality and character through subtle ways. Because some places in the country have been engaged in it for ten years, and some places have been engaged in it for seven or eight years, books and other classics have been specially selected to guide children in moral education. At a certain level and stage, due to the profound connotation of books and the subtle influence on the spiritual level, children can only be cultivated and educated in character, while the improvement of internal material energy is affected by the simultaneous development of moral mind and intelligence.
Whoever can properly combine "Jing" and "Shu" for reading can break through this bottleneck stage. Just like Professor Wang Caigui in Taiwan Province, how did he promote classic reading? In Chinese mainland, he advocated reading "books" instead of "classics", but if we look at his own speech, there is a phenomenon: he instructed his son to read "classics", especially reading five thousand words of Laozi, which changed his original mentally retarded son's status quo. This son is still drooling at the age of seven or eight. At first, his expression ability and thinking level were not good, but he used a summer vacation to guide his son to recite 5,000 words of Laozi. As a result, his children's intelligence and wisdom have entered a new stage simultaneously. Through his own examples and many such experiments in China, the experience summed up over the years proves that if you read a book, you can only read "1000 words". Disciples' Rules and other contents about "books" can play a good role in regulating children's morality, but they have encountered obvious limitations in improving children's humanistic quality and truly changing children's wisdom, and the effect is not good. If we combine "classics" with "books", especially for children after the age of eight, we can not only shape moral character, but also gain wisdom and nutrition. Their intelligence level has also risen to a new height, because there is spiritual nutrition energy in "Jing", which is invisible and intangible, but it is objectively combined in the word structure of ancient Chinese. As long as we read aloud, we can activate some doors and windows that connect our internal environment with our external environment. Once this warehouse channel is activated, the creation of this character and the energy gained from nature will also be significantly improved. This is also some experience and verification gained in a large number of classic reading promotion. On the two levels of "classics" and "books", only by grasping these two points can children's humanistic quality, moral norms and moral quality be improved in the process of education, and their intellectual ability of learning knowledge can also be improved.
In the process of promoting moral, intellectual and physical education, from many experiences, there is a difference between reading five thousand words of the original Tao Te Ching and reading five thousand words of the Tao Te Ching. Why do you want to read the Classic of Virtue and Taoism? The difference here is that in the process of writing, Laozi's 5,000 words were written before the moral chapter and after the Taoist chapter. It is to let people first cultivate the moral character of the soul and gain moral energy, and then understand the way of nature and the natural laws of heaven and earth, so as to easily read and understand the Book of Changes. You see, when people talk about the Book of Changes, most of them think that it is a stall for divination, and we all think so in China. But why in the west, people think the Book of Changes is a science when they see it? The west quickly combined his mathematical theory with scientific theory and produced a large number of inventions. Westerners can understand scientific truth from simple symbols, but we can't. What's the reason?
In fact, after China's stereotyped writing education, we lack intuition and inspiration, so we can't interpret profound scientific truth from the simplest, most primitive and closest symbols of our ancestors. Therefore, if we can really cultivate the intuition and inspiration of our whole nation and children, we should read the original Tao Te Ching, which is the original intention of Laozi's five thousand words. At present, there is a period of history in which our academic circles have not done much textual research, that is, there are not many historical materials about ideological education, social education and cultural education in the Yellow Emperor era, only sporadic records. This is because in the Han Dynasty, there was a general cleaning. In order to truly respect Confucianism and oust a hundred schools of thought, Confucianism destroyed Huang Lao's theory, so we don't know much about the educational theory and technology of the Yellow Emperor in that historical period. However, since Mawangdui excavated the silk editions of Laozi and Yijing, it can be found that the education in that historical period attached great importance to classic education.
For example, the Book of Changes, which mainly opens every child's scientific mind, uses his intuition and inspiration in the simplest way to discover the most basic operating rules between heaven and earth, so as to interpret, understand nature and know the world. The original mode of the Classic of Virtue and Taoism is to advance the Tao with virtue. Only with virtue and energy can we understand the laws of nature. At the same time, mastering the Book of Changes for deduction and calculation basically constitutes a system of our moral root culture. In the process of studying history, we can use two works, one is the Four Classics of the Yellow Emperor and the other is the five-thousand-word silk book of Laozi, to basically straighten out this historical overview and let us know the moral root culture. Why was our nation always ahead of the west in comprehensive national strength and scientific inventions before the16th century? However, after16th century, we abandoned the Four Classics of Huangdi and the Classic of Morality of Laozi, and only adopted the Four Books of Confucianism for national education, so our national creativity obviously shrank and fell behind western countries. The reason for this is that we don't pay attention to cultivating intuition and inspiration in the national spirit, but only pay attention to learning the accumulated experience of predecessors through acquired wisdom, lacking the ability to invent and create. Because the invention is based on the knowledge of predecessors, and then on this basis through their own intuition and inspiration. In fact, our thoughts on moral, intellectual and physical education are also based on the context of history and historical education, and they are analyzed layer by layer, which leads to our present thoughts.