teach her own child earnestly(huà dí jiào zǐ)

teach her own child earnestly

Huadi jiaozi (pronounced Hu à D í Ji à oz à) is an ancient folk tale. It means to teach my son to read by painting and calligraphy on the ground. To praise a mother for teaching her children well. This idiom is related to Ouyang Xiu.

Interpretation of Idioms

Amur silver: perennial herb. It is shaped like a reed, with underground stems spreading, long leaves and purple spikes growing near the water. The stem can be made into foil.

source

In the biography of Ouyang Xiu in the history of Song Dynasty, it is said that "if the family is poor, I would like to write a book about Dihua and Geosciences." In the Northern Song Dynasty, there was an outstanding writer and historian named Ouyang Xiu. The article is well written and has made great achievements in literature. When he was four years old, his father died, and life at home was very difficult. His mother wants his son to study, but where can he afford to go to school? She decided to teach her son on her own. When she couldn't afford a pen and paper, she took grass stalks to write on the ground instead of a pen and paper to teach her son how to read. This is the famous story of "painting grass to teach children" in history.

original text

Ouyang was four years old and lonely, and his family was poor. Mrs. Tai painted the land with grass and taught calligraphy. Recite more ancient chapters. If it is a little longer, and there is no book to read at home, it will be read by the family of Lu Lishi, or transcribed accordingly. As a result, we forget to eat and sleep day and night, but reading is our duty. He wrote poems and Fu since he was a child.

translation

Ouyang Xiu's father died when he was four years old. His family was poor and he had no money to study. His mother drew on the sand with reed stalks and taught him to write. He was also taught to read many ancient texts. When he was older and had no books to read at home, he went to a nearby reading house to borrow books to read, and sometimes to copy. So day and night, forgetting to eat and sleep, just devoted to reading. When I was a child, I wrote poems and Fu as well as adults. He is studious and sensible, which is worth learning from. Besides his own efforts, Ouyang Xiu's mother's good guidance is also a reason for his growth.

notes

1 selected from Ouyang Gong's deeds, the title is added by the editor. Ouyang Gong: Ouyang Xiu. Ouyang Xiu, a writer and historian of the Northern Song Dynasty. 3. Orphan: he lost his father when he was young. Capital: finance, money. Mrs. Tai: Ouyang Xiu's mother. D í: reed pole. Perennial herb similar to reed. 7: with Method 8 book: write. 9 Lu Li: neighborhood, village, folk. 10 scholar's family: scholar's family 11 or sometimes. Because: borrow opportunity. Reading is the only thing: only devote to reading. 14 task: committed to, engaged in. 15 words: Article 16 capital: finance, money.

enlightenment

Only by studying hard can we achieve something. A person's family situation is not good when he is young. It seems tragic on the surface, but it is not necessarily a bad thing for the ambitious children. Because the plight of the family will make the children taste the coldness of the world and the hardships of life earlier, and promote the children to be sensible and determined early - the children of the poor will be the masters of the family early. From a practical point of view, the children of some rich families, because they don't worry about food and clothing, lack a lot of motivation to learn, which makes them lack the ideological and personality foundation to achieve something in the future.

allusion

Ouyang Xiu was born in a feudal official family. His father Ouyang Guan was a petty official. In the fourth year after Ouyang Xiu was born, his father died, so the burden of family life was on Ouyang Xiu's mother Zheng. Seeing that Ouyang Xiu was old enough to go to school, Zheng wanted his son to study, but his family was poor and could not afford to buy pen and paper. Once she saw grass growing on the side of the pond in front of her house. She had a strange idea. Isn't it good to write on the ground with these grass stalks? So she began to teach Ouyang Xiu to practice calligraphy by using grass stalks as pens and sand as paper. Following his mother's instruction, Ouyang Xiu practiced writing on the ground one stroke at a time. He practiced over and over again. When he made a mistake, he wrote again until he wrote right and neatly. This is the story of "teaching children through painting". Under the education of his mother, Ouyang Xiu soon fell in love with poetry. Write and read every day, accumulate more and more, very small already can read. Ouyang Xiu's father had been a minor official in charge of administrative affairs and justice in Daozhou and Taizhou before his death. He is concerned about the sufferings of the people, honest and upright, and loved by the people. When Ouyang Xiu grew up and became an official, his mother often told him about his father's official career. She said to her son: when your father was a judicial officer, he used to deal with cases at night. He was very careful about the cases involving the common people and looked over and over again. Those who can be given a lighter punishment will be given a lighter punishment, while those who really can't are often deeply sympathized with and sighed. She also said: your father is an official, honest and selfless, and often helps others with property, like to make friends. Although his official salary is not much, it often does not allow him to have a surplus. He often said don't turn money into a burden. So after his death, he did not leave a room or a ridge of land. She also warned her son that it is not necessary to be very rich in the support of parents, but the most important thing is to have a filial piety. Although we can't give our wealth to the poor, we must be benevolent and righteous. I have no ability to teach you, as long as you can remember your father's teaching, I will rest assured. His mother's words were deeply imprinted in Ouyang Xiu's mind.

Godchild diagram

Because of its good educational significance, Huadi Jiaozi is widely used in the artistic creation of this world, such as the jade carving "Jiaozi Tu" carved by Mu Yujing, a jade sculptor of Haipai school.

Product details

Size: 160mm114mm70mm weight: 1459g jade quality: white, even shining blue, jade lustrous, uniform and delicate, jade condensation, fine connotation. The allusion of Ohm's "painting Dijiao Zi" incisively depicts the Zheng family, the mother of Ouyang Xiu, a great master of literature in the Northern Song Dynasty. She is only 29 years old, and her younger brother and sister, Ouyang Xiu, vow to be faithful in the difficult environment of no tile above and no inch below. Without money to send her son to school, she herself served as the son's first teacher. She had no money to buy Pen, ink, paper and inkstone. She used sand table as paper, and she used silver pole to teach her son how to write. Thanks to Zheng's hard work, Ouyang Xiu eventually became a literary leader in the Northern Song Dynasty and a literary school at home and abroad, which had a great influence in the history of Chinese and even the world literature. Ouyang Xiu's mother also became a great mother respected at all times and abroad. This allusion is a household name and has been passed down in history. the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, which has influenced generations of Chinese children, is a vivid teaching material for enlightenment education, which can encourage the younger generation and young students to study hard, work hard, and be determined to become talents; it is a model of Chinese mother education culture, which is the source of power to stimulate great maternal love, cultivate virtuous mothers, establish harmonious families, and create a harmonious society. The allusion of oumu's "painting the grass to teach the son" has been circulating for thousands of years since the Song Dynasty. It is not only a household name in Ouyang Xiu's hometown Ji'an, Jiangxi Province, but also widely spread throughout the country and even all over the world. The delicate and natural character depiction, smooth lines, exquisite knife technique, natural image, natural, it is worth collecting!

Jade carving Awards

2012 Yuyuan Baihua Cup won the excellent award.

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