Chen Xiaoyun didn't expect that telling her daughter the Analects was her own business, and she accidentally contributed to a bestseller. Over the past 12 years, from "Teaching Daughters to Learn" The Analects "to" Speaking to Children "The Analects", a total of more than 100,000 copies have been published, which has quietly become a well-known strength bestseller in this field.
Time goes back to 2004. Chen Xiaoyun accidentally discovered that the daughter of elementary school memorized the Chinese text at home, and in less than 10 minutes, she wrote a text of three or five hundred words. He thought that such a good memory, instead of memorizing texts that soon lost meaning, would be better than memorizing something that was still meaningful to her 20 years later.
But what's the back? Searching, filtering, tangling for months, and what finally settled in Chen Xiaoyun's brain was The Analects. Chen Xiaoyun and her daughter "appoint": spend half an hour a day; read one chapter at a time; formally recite each chapter after reading it 20 times; briefly explain and discuss the meaning before reading each day; complete one year.
In order to stimulate children's interest and train their thinking, he guided the children to express their opinions boldly. However, during the discussion, the daughter would also comment on some characters and quotations in the Analects from time to time. Some questions were very interesting, and some were unexpected. There was no answer in the commentary. Chen Xiaoyun had to think about how to respond, which forced him to look at this classic born 2500 years ago from another perspective. He found that those seemingly random arguments were lost over time, so he chose to write them down, and gradually formed an idea: If a book that reads Analects in the form of a dialogue between father and daughter is written, it will definitely show A different perspective.
At a party, President Liang Guangyu of Unity Publishing House happened to be next to Chen Xiaoyun, and inadvertently asked about Chen Xiaoyun's writing plan. I heard that he was trying to write a book on the Analects from a new perspective. Liang Guangyu's eyes brightened. Immediately encouraged him to publish.
After the manuscript was completed, Chen Xiaoyun named it "Teaching the Daughter to Carry" The Analects of Confucius "," with the intention of emphasizing classics like "The Analects of Confucius". Liang Guangyu suggested to change the word "back" to "learning" after reading.
"I remember he said two reasons at the time: first, from the cultural perspective, the words" teaching "and" learning "are the core and essence of the Analects; second, from the reader's perspective, there are" backs " After all, the readers required by The Analects were a minority, and more readers needed 'learning.' "Chen Xiaoyun recalled that Liang Guangyu's change made it suddenly bright. He wrote in the postscript of the first edition: "Although the title of this book is" Teaching Daughters to Learn The Analects ", the process of 'teaching' is also the process of 'learning.' For The Analects, this may always be the case. "
Due to the unique perspective and form of "Teaching Daughters to Study The Analects of Confucius" and the effective promotion of the publishing house, many readers have affirmed it. This book also launched its second edition in January 2015. In May 2019, the second edition was renamed "Speaking to the Analects of Confucius" after being revised, and it was divided into four volumes. The new edition once again attracted readers' attention.
Chen Xiaoyun said that he hopes that through this parent-child book, the child will be encouraged to express his opinions and develop the child's ability to think independently. At the same time, combining the school affairs and the things around them to bring them closer to the classic works, and apply what they have learned.
Zhang Zhensheng