"Big Character Idiom Test" is also "Idiom Test", edited by Qiu Jun (also known as Cheng Yunsheng) in the Ming Dynasty. Formerly known as "Kindergarten Instructions", also known as "Idiom Test" and "Story Search", it is generally believed that the original author was Cheng Dengji (the word Yunsheng) of Xichang in the late Ming Dynasty, and there are also opinions that it is Jinshi Qiu Jun in the Ming Jingtai period. During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, Zou Shengmai (the word Wugang) made a supplementary annotation, and changed its name to "Kindergarten Qionglin", also known as "Kindergarten Story Qionglin", also known as "Story Search", referred to as "Kindergarten". After the Qing Dynasty Zou Shengmai added annotations, it was popularized as "Kindergarten Story Qionglin", which was an ancient Chinese children's enlightenment book. After the Republic of China, it increased again and again, and it was inferior to Cheng and Zou. Some people also believe that this book was developed from the "Mengqiu Collection Commentary" by Li Han of the Jin Dynasty (Li Han of the Tang Dynasty) five generations later, so it has a very long history.
Qiu Jun (Qiu Jun) (1421-1495), a native of Qiongshan (now Hainan), was a famous politician, physicist, historian, economist and writer in the Ming Dynasty, and one of the four great talents of Hainan. The word Zhongshen, Qiongshan, Shen'an, Yufeng, alias Haishan Old Man, Zhenwenzhuang. Jingtai five years of Jinshi, the official banquet speaker, waiter, waiter lecture, Hanlin bachelor, Guozi priest wine, the Ministry of Rites waiter, Shangshu, the compilation of the "Xianzong Record" president, Wenyuange University Scholar, Hubu Shangshu and Wuyingdian University Scholar and so on. Qiu Jun is knowledgeable, familiar with contemporary stories, blind in his right eye in his later years, and his research fields involve politics, economics, literature, medicine, etc., and he has written a lot, and is known as "Hainan Shuangbi" together with Hai Rui.
Zou Shengmai (1691-1762), whose name is Yiyan, alias Wugang, was born in the thirteenth year of Kangxi in Sibao Wuge, Liancheng (formerly Changting). One of the authors of the famous enlightenment book "Kindergarten Qionglin" in the early Qing Dynasty. He was good at calligraphy and was one of the famous scholars of the Qing Dynasty.
The book consists of four volumes, covering all aspects. The whole book is written in the style of pun, the text is concise, and the battle is neat. Common idioms and allusions can be found in almost all books. And his explanation of idioms and allusions is also quite accurate. In terms of sentence structure, only even sentences are required to be paired, not to rhyme neatly. The contents of each volume vary to some extent. The first volume includes astronomy, geographies, the age of the year, the imperial court, and the military position. The second volume includes grandfathers and grandchildren, brothers, husbands and wives, uncles and nephews, teachers and students, friends and guests, marriages, women, relatives, old and young, birthdays, bodies, and clothes. The third volume includes personnel, food, palaces, utensils, treasures, wealth and poverty, sickness, death and injury. The fourth volume includes literature, science, production, skills, lawsuits, interpretations, ghosts and gods, birds and beasts, flowers and trees.
It is said that "after reading "Zengguang", you can speak, and after reading "Kindergarten", you can go to the world". The book makes a lot of introductions to the sources of many idioms, and readers can grasp a lot of idiom allusions, in addition to some understanding of the ancient Chinese code system, customs and etiquette. There are also many aphorisms and aphorisms in the book, which are still recited to this day. Therefore, this book is quite popular in the old township schools, and it is a classic reading of Mongolian studies that has been widely circulated since the Ming and Qing dynasties in China, and has played an active role in the education of Mongolian studies in the township schools of the Ming and Qing dynasties. However, because of the times, there are also some views in the book that belong to the feudal era, which are difficult for modern people to agree with. (Wang Yunbo)
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