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TrTranslation
經子通，讀諸史，考世系，知終始。
With Classics and philosophers mastered, read the histories: trace the lines of succession, and learn how each age began and ended.
自羲農，至黃帝，號三皇，居上世。
From Fuxi and Shennong to the Yellow Emperor: these are called the Three Sovereigns, and they belong to the remotest past.
唐有虞，號二帝，相揖遜，稱盛世。
Yao of Tang and Shun of Yu are called the Two Emperors. They yielded the throne to one another with courtesy, and their age is called a golden one.
Draft translation; it will be revised when the lecture is filmed.
From the Father's Lecture Notes
History starts here, but the start is legend, not record. Fuxi, Shennong, the Yellow Emperor, Yao and Shun all lived before writing. The historians knew that and still put them first, because there has to be a beginning.
Translated from Yikonglu's Father's Lecture Notes for the Three Character Classic, written for a parent teaching a child.
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