"Nian Lou Xue Duan" Author: Zhong Shuhe Publisher: Yuelu Publishing House

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2020 New Revised Edition

530 selected articles on 53 topics, 100-character version of "Gu Wen Guan Zhi"

The best reading material for traditional cultural enlightenment brings you closer to classical Chinese

When reading ancient Chinese and learning to write essays, one should first learn its shortcomings.

☆Editor's Recommendation

◎89-year-old editor, 71 years of publishing experience

This is a collection of ancient Chinese essays compiled by the famous publisher Mr. Zhong Shuhe for the purpose of educating his grandchildren. Each selected essay is carefully selected by Mr. Zhong, including the original classical Chinese text, the vernacular translation [Nian Lou Du] and the commentary [Nian Lou Yu].

◎53 topics, 530 selected articles

The content spans multiple fields, including the Four Books and Five Classics, notes and novels, prefaces and postscripts, literary criticism and poetry, and celebrity poems, covering various literary styles and all aspects of ancient people's lives. Each article is short and concise, and each sentence is catchy.

◎ Recommended by Yang Jiang, a good choice for beginners of ancient Chinese literature

This book is recommended by the famous translator Mr. Yang Jiang. Reading it will broaden your knowledge and bring you endless fun. It is suitable for school-age children and traditional culture enthusiasts with a shallow foundation. It is conducive to cultivating children's cultural heritage and laying a solid foundation for Chinese language learning.

◎29 years of popularity, enduring charm, newly revised

It was first written in 1991 and serialized in newspapers and magazines. In 2002, it was compiled into a volume "Learning from its Shortcomings", which contains 190 articles. It was reprinted in 2010 and renamed "Learning from the Shortcomings of Nianlou", expanding to five volumes and 530 articles. It was reprinted in 2018 and the structure of the five-volume book was adjusted to two volumes. This time, the author reviewed and corrected the errors word by word, and launched the new revised edition of 2020.

◎Beautifully bound, a great gift for visiting relatives and friends

This book is a cloth hardcover with a red background and black hot stamping. The two volumes have a total of more than 1,200 pages. It feels heavy in the hand and is a decent gift for relatives and friends. What should I do if my child is not good at Chinese and has difficulty reading ancient Chinese? What gifts should I bring to relatives and friends when visiting relatives and friends? Choose "Reading the Building and Learning Short" to feel the sincere and innocent heart of the older generation of intellectuals.

☆Recommended by celebrities

The collection of "Nianlou Xueduan" has good topics, good vernacular translation, good annotations and comments. Reading it can increase your knowledge and is also very interesting. If you don't believe it, just try reading one or two articles and you will know that this is true.

——Yang Jiang

☆Introduction

Chinese characters are very difficult to write, especially when carving on oracle bones or writing on bamboo slips with lacquer. It is impossible to write a large version in a few minutes like using a computer today. Therefore, ancient Chinese is the most concise and has less nonsense. This is a specialty of our ancestors and should not be easily discarded.

Zhong Shuhe has copied a number of short articles over the years. The standard for being short is that the articles are no more than 100 Chinese characters and must be independent. I have selected some of them and explained them briefly for the readers. To borrow a sentence from Zheng Banqiao: "If there are some benefits, you can read them; if there are no benefits, they are just used to paste windows and walls, or cover jars and pots."