Today, we are rebroadcasting an episode that we did on the Three-Character Classic in honor of Chloe Zhao’s quoting of the text during the Oscars. The audio quality is a little…well, you’ll hear. We apologize. Just think, it has only been a year since we recorded this and already we are this much better.
Song Dynasty Children’s literature + Communist propaganda + global pandemic = today’s discussion. Last week, we talked about the Three Character Classic (三字經). It is a work of probably Song Dynasty children’s literature that functioned as many young Chinese children’s first Confucian text to memorize. The book is written with three Chinese characters in each […]
The 三字經, usually translated as the Three Character Classic, is a fascinating text because it functions like a “my first Confucian text.” Children were given this text when they were quite young and asked to memorize the book, teaching them moral lessons that would prepare them to master the real Confucian classics later in life. […]