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The Original Text and Translation of Raozhou Prodigy

The original text and translation of Raozhou prodigy are as follows:

Since Raozhou in the last years of Yuanfeng, Zhu Tianxi, as a prodigy, has been admired by the common people. Children can learn without asking how to learn. From the age of five or six, they began to teach the Five Classics, sitting on a raft in a bamboo basket, absolutely listening and watching. The teacher paid the price in advance, but after paying some money, he suffered day and night. The middle subject has been abandoned for a long time, and politics has recovered a little, so it happens occasionally. Tradition makes Raozhou a child prodigy. However, children are not their nature, they suffer too much, and the dead build more than the middle.

At the end of Yuanfeng in Raozhou, a child named Zhu Tianxi got an official position with the help of a child prodigy, and all the folk people admired him. In any case, when children are probably able to read, they should be taught to read the Five Classics from the age of five or six, and bamboo baskets should be hung on the treetops for them to sit in, so as to cut off their communication with the outside world (let them concentrate on reading). The teacher negotiated the price in advance, and after teaching a classic, he gave them some money to study hard day and night.

During this period, the child prodigy department was abandoned for a long time, and then it was gradually restored after years of governance, so there were also children who were accidentally admitted. People say Raozhou is a child prodigy. But many children are not material for reading, and there are far more children who study hard to death than those who take exams.

About the author:

Yao Silian (557 ~ 637) was born in Xing Wu (now Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province). His father, Yao Cha, went to the Sui Dynasty as an official after the demise of the Chen Dynasty, and then moved to the north. Therefore, Biography of Yao Silian in two books of the Tang Dynasty called him Jingzhao Wannian (now Chang 'an County, Shaanxi Province). Historians in early Tang Dynasty.

Yao Silian made full use of his father's old manuscripts when compiling history. It took seven years to complete the writing of Liang Shu and Chen Shu from three years to ten years of Zhenguan. Although Yao Cha and Yao Silian are historians, they both have profound literacy in writing. In terms of historical writing, the writing style is simple and simple, and they do not pursue the floweriness and superficiality of rhetoric. They inherited the style and brushwork of Sima Qian and Ban Gu, which is valuable in the history of the Southern Dynasties.