Thursday, 6 March 2025

Di Zi Gui 弟子規 Rules for children-- Two English translations

in this post I will present two nineteenth century English translations of the the book called 


弟子規

CR: Rules for Sons and Younger Brothers 

H: Rules of behaviour for children 


https://www.google.com/books/edition/%E5%BC%9F%E5%AD%90%E8%A6%8F/PzZqH5F7hPwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%E5%BC%9F%E5%AD%90%E8%A6%8F&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover 

This book is one of the more popular primers that is still in circulation today. aside from teaching children the language, it also teaches them tradtional standards of conduct. The language of this text is simple; tit is written in rhyming verse, each line being 3 characters long