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Part 3 · Knowing numbers · lecture 5 · 3 groups · not yet coveredOne to ten

The video for this lecture is still in production. For now this page gives the text, the base-edition pages, a recording and a translation.

一而十,十而百,百而千,千而萬。三才者,天地人,三光者,日月星。三綱者,君臣義,父子親,夫婦順。
Text from Yikonglu's Father's Lecture Notes, checked line by line against the base edition, Wang Xiang's Sanzijing xungu (1831 Japanese reprint). The page scans are from that edition; click a group to frame it on the page.

TrTranslation

一而十,十而百,百而千,千而萬。
One to ten, ten to a hundred, a hundred to a thousand, a thousand to ten thousand.

三才者,天地人,三光者,日月星。
The Three Powers are Heaven, Earth and Humankind. The Three Lights are the sun, the moon and the stars.

三綱者,君臣義,父子親,夫婦順。
The Three Bonds: between ruler and minister, rightness; between father and son, closeness; between husband and wife, harmony.

Draft translation; it will be revised when the lecture is filmed.

From the Father's Lecture Notes

Here the book changes face. Until now it argued; from here on it counts, from one to ten, hanging what a child should know about the world on the numbers. This is a memory frame the old teachers built for children, not filler.

Translated from Yikonglu's Father's Lecture Notes for the Three Character Classic, written for a parent teaching a child.

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