Dogs will watch the house at night, and cocks will break dawn every morning. How can people be called people if they can't study hard and live in a daze? Silkworms spin silk to make clothes, and bees can brew honey for human consumption. If people don't know how to learn and realize their value with their own knowledge and skills, they are really inferior to small animals.

Source: Saint Amethyst by Wang Yinglin in Song Dynasty.

Excerpt from the original:

In the Tang Dynasty, Fang was seven years old. Raise prodigies and do orthography.

Young as he is, he is an official. If there is a promising person, so is it.

Translation:

During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, there was a seven-year-old child named Ada. He was chosen as a child prodigy and became an official in charge of correcting Chinese characters. Although Ada is so young, he has become an official, shouldering the heavy responsibility entrusted to him by the state. If he wants to be a useful person, if he is diligent and studious, he can be as famous as Ada.

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Creative background:

There are different opinions about the time and author of the book "The Holy Amethyst". Most scholars in later generations tend to think that "Mr. Wang wrote a biography of the Holy Family", that is, in order to better educate children to read, he wrote a three-character classic that integrates classics and history. ?

Wang Yinglin was a native of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the historical part of the original sacred amethyst didn't end until the Song Dynasty. With the development of history, in order to reflect the changes of the times, people in various dynasties constantly supplemented the sacred amethyst. He Xingsi added 24 sentences about the history of Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties during the reign of Qing Dynasty. ?

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