Poetic Education

1. You must choose poems that are acceptable to children and easy for them to understand. In this regard, we can learn from the educational experience of Huang Zunxian’s great-grandmother. According to legend, Huang Zunxian, an outstanding patriotic poet in modern times, was raised by his great-grandmother since he was three years old. Huang Zunxian's great-grandmother came from a family of intellectuals and loved folk literature, especially the popular Tanci at the time. She began to enlighten Huang Zunxian with children's songs when he first learned to speak. "The moonlight shines brightly, and the talented lady rides a white horse across the lotus pond. On the back of the lotus pond, she grows leeks and chive flowers, and gets married. There is a pond in front of the in-laws' house. Put a carp eight feet long." This style is bright, relaxed and imaginative. Children's songs full of interest in life left a profound impact on Huang Zunxian in his childhood. It has a positive effect on inspiring his intelligence and cultivating his sentiment. Huang Zunxian's father was a well-known poet at the time. He not only influenced the young Huang Zunxian with his poetic temperament and character, but also paid special attention to using poetry to inspire children's wisdom. He deliberately selected and collected catchy and easy-to-understand poems like "Poems of a Thousand Families" for his son to learn and recite. Under the enlightenment education of his great-grandmother and father, Huang Zunxian loved poetry since he was very young. When he was ten years old, his school teacher asked his students to write poems with the poems "All the way in the spring doves cry and the flowers fall" and "Looking at all the small mountains". Huang Zunxian immediately wrote "Where does the spring go? The doves also cry to their heart's content" and "The world "You are still small, why don't you talk about the mountains behind your eyes" was a poem that was well-known among celebrities in his hometown at that time.

2. You must choose poems with healthy content that can promote the healthy physical and mental growth of children for enlightenment. In order to enlighten his son, Zheng Banqiao in the Qing Dynasty specially copied some folk songs with progressive ideas and healthy content for his son to use as teaching materials. For example:

"Sell new silk in February, sell new grain in May; heal the sores in front of your eyes, but cut out the flesh in your heart."

"It is noon on the day of hoeing, and sweat drips from the grass. Soil; who knows that every grain of food on the plate is hard work."

"Anyone who went to the city yesterday and came back with tears in his eyes and clothes all over his body is not a sericulture person."

" In ninety-nine and eighty-one, the poor man had to put his feet down to sleep, and the mosquitoes and fleas came out."

Zheng Banqiao copied these popular folk songs to educate his children, in order to let his sons understand the sufferings of the people. , cultivate the ambition to serve the country by caring about the masses and transforming society since childhood, and know how to behave.

Wang Anshi in the Song Dynasty often used the form of copied poems to persuade his children to work hard. His younger brother Wang Anguo liked horse riding and fencing when he was a child, but did not like reading. Wang Anshi repeatedly advised him to cherish his time, but he still wandered around all day and had no intention of studying. Therefore, Wang Anshi copied a poem "Time" written by his predecessors and posted it in his younger brother's study. The poem reads:

The river will never turn back, and the people will never be young again.

If your years are wasted, you will regret it when you grow old.

Time passes easily, so don’t let the years pass by.

Life is worthless if you are busy and do nothing.

Wang Anguo read this poem and regretted that he had wasted his years and did nothing in the past. He determined to cheer up his spirit and make his life more meaningful. With the encouragement and help of his brother Wang Anshi, he studied hard and finally became a Jinshi and was reused by the court.

Another time, in order to encourage his grandson to study diligently, Wang Anshi copied two lines of Yuefu songs on his desk: "If a young man does not work hard, the old man will be sad!" Wang Anshi's grandson read these two lines. From then on, he took the time to study and made great progress in his knowledge. Later he became a learned and talented person.

Another form of poetry education is for teachers to personally compose "educational poems" for their children. This form is more targeted and flexible than using previous poems. According to legend, the great poet Lu You often used this method to educate his children. Looking through Lu You's collection of poems, among the more than 9,000 poems he left behind, about a hundred are written for children. In order to educate his children to study seriously and inherit his poetic style, when he saw his seven-year-old son writing a poem, he happily wrote a poem to encourage his son:

I am happy to see my Jade Xueer,

Nowadays, bamboo horses play around the corridor;

It is also known that Lize's family tradition is still there.

He was able to recite poems when he was sick at the age of seven.

In order to introduce his learning experience and teaching methods to the children, Lu You told the children in a poem: "The exegesis of this book is to understand the classics, and the words are extremely phonetic and graphic." But poverty comes from no doubt." In order to educate his sons to have a clear purpose of learning and tell them that studying is not to become an official, but to save the country and the people, he wrote: "It is not enough to say that a good grade is not enough, but Su Yuanyuan was surprised." He paid special attention to it. Use poetry education to cultivate children's character and enable them to form good ideological and moral qualities. He told his children that they must apply what they have learned and put it into practice: "What you learn on paper will only make you realize it, but you must practice it if you know it." Mourning is never easy to judge." Once, when his son Zi ① asked him for advice on how to compose poetry, he specially composed an educational poem "Shi Zi ①" to summarize his experience in learning poetry. The poem talks about how he started to learn poetry and only paid attention to technique and vocabulary, but he took a detour. It was not until middle age that I gradually glimpsed the vast artistic conception and gained a profound understanding. He clearly instructed his son: "If you want to learn poetry, you have to work on poetry.

"It means: If you really want to learn to write poetry, you should first put more effort into it besides poetry and books. This is a wise saying left to future generations by the great poet Lu You.

Lu You also often teaches his children to maintain peace and harmony. Carry forward the fine family tradition of the Lu family: "You must not fall into the family tradition. "In his poems, he repeatedly explained the contents of his family tradition to his descendants, and also hoped to set an example for his descendants: "We always encourage each other day and night, and our descendants look for role models." "

What is particularly valuable is that Lu You persisted in educating future generations with patriotic ideas throughout his life. Even when he was critically ill, he wrote a "Poetry to Show Children": "I know that everything is in vain when I die, but I am sad that I will not see the same people in Kyushu. . Wang Shibei set the Central Plains Day, and he never forgot to tell Nai Weng about family sacrifices! "Today, seven hundred years later, when we reread this "Poetry for Children", we are still moved by the poet's great patriotism. We can imagine how profound it was for the education of Lu You's children.