The Creation Background of Thirteen Classics of Mongolian Studies
In ancient China, Mongolian education was highly valued. China's Mongolian education originated in Zhou, Qin and Han Dynasties, formed in Sui, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, and flourished in Ming and Qing Dynasties. According to Zhang Zhigong's "Bibliography of Mongolian Studies", there were 580 kinds of Mongolian textbooks from the late Zhou and Qin Dynasties to the Republic of China for more than 2,000 years. On this basis, Xu Zi's "China Traditional Literature Catalogue (First Draft)" was supplemented, reaching 1300. In fact, it may be much more than that.
In recent years, with the increasing popularity of Chinese studies and traditional culture, hundreds of books on Mongolian studies have been published everywhere. Confucian classics are difficult for ordinary people to learn and understand; This kind of reading for the ignorant expresses those profound and high-level lectures in popular rhyming language, which is closely related to the human world in real life. They are easy to learn and understand, easy to recite and remember, and more intuitively and vividly embody the essence of China traditional culture.
For this reason, among ordinary people, its spread is even wider than that of Confucian classics, and it is also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. However, it is not satisfactory that some publishing units often pay more attention to the design of binding and layout, but not enough attention to the processing of content. Even there are some defects in reading materials, such as incorrect words, inaccurate pronunciation, inaccurate quotations, careless annotations, blunt translation, etc., which are always "unsightly" to read, making people unhappy, and even spreading fallacies and misleading.
As the editor-in-chief, Zhang Shengjie said that the reason why this series of books on Mongolian studies is based on the name of Thirteen Classics is that we should understand Mongolian studies from the height of classics, and at the same time, it also shows our pious attitude of annotation, and we should compile a set of classic books on Mongolian studies that are "well-known, tenable and handed down from generation to generation" and "present a letter to the academic circles and a masterpiece to the readers".
Differences in thirteen classics of Mongolian learning
Zhang Shengjie said that the Thirteen Classics of Mongolian Studies pays special attention to pronunciation, considering that the focus of children's education is reading first. Thirteen texts are marked with Chinese phonetic symbols and ancient Chinese pronunciation. At the same time, the author also makes accurate and detailed notes on rare words, words, difficult sentences, paragraphs, rules, celebrities, classics, anecdotes, important historical events and people, and tries his best to check the first-hand materials of people and things involved, so as to "discard the false and preserve the true" in the spirit of historians.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-thirteen classics of Mongolian learning