Excerpts from the original text:

People on earth are good at living. The same nature varies from upbringing to upbringing.

Without education, there will be deviations. In order to teach well, you should think deeply.

Yesterday, Meng Mu chose a neighbor. In Mencius' laziness, she cut the cloth.

Dou Yanshan has a righteous side. Teach Wuzi to be famous.

What is a father? A good teacher. What is a teacher? A strict missionary.

It is inappropriate for children not to study. Why bother if you are young and don't learn?

The best diamonds must be cut. Unless you learn, you will become an animal.

When you are a child, you have less time. Teachers or peers, please cherish them.

Xiang is nine years old and can warm the mat. Filial piety is more important than affection.

At the age of four, Rong offered pears. Remember, be friendly to others.

Vernacular translation:

At the beginning of human birth, human nature itself is kind. The nature is similar, but the acquired environment and education are different, and the habits are very different. If you haven't received a good education since childhood, your kind nature will degenerate. In order to keep people from becoming bad, the most important way is to educate children wholeheartedly.

During the Warring States Period, Mencius' mother moved three times in order to give Mencius a good learning environment. The child refused to study hard, so Meng Mu broke the loom to educate Mencius. In the Five Dynasties, the Yanshan people had a good way to educate their sons. His five sons were all very successful and made a name for themselves in the imperial examinations.

It is the parents' fault that they only provide food and clothing for their children and have no good education. Only education, not strict requirements, is laziness as a teacher. It is very wrong for children to refuse to study hard. If a person doesn't study hard when he is young, and he doesn't know the truth of being a man and knowledge when he is old, it will be difficult to make a difference when he is old.

Jade will not become a beautiful object unless it is polished and carved; If people don't know how to learn and realize their value with their own knowledge and skills, they won't be polite and can't become talents. Children should be close to teachers and friends from an early age, so as to learn a lot of manners and knowledge from them.

Xiangjiu Huang, a native of the Eastern Han Dynasty, knew how to honor his father and warm his bed at the age of 18. Everyone who is filial to his parents should practice and follow suit. Kong Rong, a native of Han Dynasty, knew when he was four years old that he would give a big pear to his brother. Everyone should know this truth of respecting the old and loving the young from an early age.

This article is from Wang Yinglin's The Sacred Amethyst in the Song Dynasty.

Extended data writing background:

There are different opinions about the time of the book "The Holy Amethyst" and the author's opinion. Scholars in later generations tend to think that "Mr. Wang wrote Three Books to teach his family", that is, in order to better educate his 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 twenty-four sentences about the history of Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties in Daoguang Years.

The arrangement of the contents of The Sacred Amethyst is very orderly, which embodies the author's educational thoughts. The author believes that the education of children should focus on etiquette and filial piety, correct children's thoughts, and impart knowledge second, that is, "filial piety comes first, knowledge comes second." To cultivate children, we should start from primary school, that is, first read books, and then read two kinds of classics: classics and books.

After reading the classics, study the history books. The book says, "Classics are all about reading history". Finally, the three-character classic emphasizes the attitude and purpose of learning. It can be said that The Amethyst is not only a textbook for children's literacy, but also an enlightening book by the author, so we should pay attention to it when reading it.

Saint Amethyst is a book with many allusions and strong knowledge. It was written under the guidance of Confucianism and full of positive spirit.

About the author:

Wang Yinglin (1223 ~ 1296) was born in Yinxian County, Qingyuan (now Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province). A famous scholar, educator and politician in the Southern Song Dynasty. He is knowledgeable, versatile, studied under Zhu, dabbled in hundreds of classics, history, astronomy and geography, was familiar with systematic anecdotes and was good at textual research.

After the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, he lived in seclusion in the countryside, closed his doors and thanked guests, and wrote books. Handwritten calligraphy includes "writing books" and so on. He has written Saint Amethyst, Moon Hee who is sleepy in school, Zhu Zhu in Primary School, Yu Hai, Answering as a Mirror, Shen Ningji, Textual Research on Poetic Geography, etc.