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Part 3 · Knowing numbers · lecture 8 · 2 groups · not yet coveredSix grains, six animals

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稻粱菽,麥黍稷,此六穀,人所食。馬牛羊,雞犬豕,此六畜,人所飼。
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

稻粱菽,麥黍稷,此六穀,人所食。
Rice and sorghum, beans, wheat, broomcorn millet and foxtail millet: these six grains are what people eat.

馬牛羊,雞犬豕,此六畜,人所飼。
Horse, ox and sheep, chicken, dog and pig: these six animals are what people raise.

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

From the Father's Lecture Notes

The easiest lecture in the book: twelve characters, all things we eat and animals we keep, which the child sees every day. What matters is matching the old names to what is in front of him: foxtail millet is 稷, broomcorn millet is 黍, beans are 菽. Match one, and the lecture comes alive.

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

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