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迨至隋，一土宇，不再傳，失統緒。
Then came Sui, which made the land one. It did not last past its second ruler and lost the line of succession.
唐高祖，起義師，除隋亂，創國基。
Gaozu of Tang raised a righteous army, cleared away the disorder of Sui and laid the foundations of his state.
二十傳，三百載，梁滅之，國乃改。
Twenty reigns over three hundred years; then Liang destroyed it, and the dynasty changed.
Draft translation; it will be revised when the lecture is filmed.
From the Father's Lecture Notes
After more than three hundred years of disorder, Sui gathered the pieces into one and then quickly fell; Tang took over and held on for three hundred years. Sui is uncannily like Qin: each tidied up a broken realm, each was short, and each laid the ground for a long-lived dynasty after it.
Translated from Yikonglu's Father's Lecture Notes for the Three Character Classic, written for a parent teaching a child.
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