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香九齡，能溫席，孝於親，所當執。融四歲，能讓梨，弟於長，宜先知。首孝悌，次見聞，知某數，識某文。TrTranslation
香九齡，能溫席，孝於親，所當執。
Huang Xiang, at nine, warmed his father's bed. Devotion to parents is what everyone should hold to.
融四歲，能讓梨，弟於長，宜先知。
Kong Rong, at four, gave up the bigger pear. Respect for elders should be learned early.
首孝悌，次見聞，知某數，識某文。
First, devotion to parents and respect for elder brothers; then, wider knowledge. Learn to count; learn to read.
Draft translation; it will be revised when the lecture is filmed.
Compared with Wang Xiang's edition
Group 11 首孝悌，次見聞，知某數，識某文。
Wang Xiang's edition writes 弟 for 悌 (“respect for elder brothers”); the two characters were used interchangeably.
From the Father's Lecture Notes
Being a decent person comes before book learning. Two children, one nine and one four, neither of them much read, yet the book puts them ahead of all learning. The third group, “first devotion to parents, then wider knowledge”, fixes the order: first learn to be a person, then learn your characters.
Translated from Yikonglu's Father's Lecture Notes for the Three Character Classic, written for a parent teaching a child.
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