Research On Wang Yongchen's "Youth Learning Song"

The knowledge-type Mengshu（Traditional Children Enlightenment Books）refers to a book of knowledge,which covers astronomy,geography,history,humanities,things.morals,habits,etc.This kind has The Children’s Memory-helping Knowledge Book,The Children’s Name-understanding Book,The Three-characters Classics,The Children’s Knowledge Treasury,The Children’s Knowledge Song and so on.The former scholars lack of attention to such books,only focus on the author,version,content and other parts of one but viewed them as an overall study.This paper tries to select some typical literature to sum up and explore the generality of the knowledge-type Mengshu.The first chapter discusses the background of the knowledge-type Mengshu.In the first section,the author probes into the theory of the knowledge-type Mengshu based on the goal,approach and effect of education.The second and third sections outline the formation and development of the knowledge-type Mengshu.Before the Qing Dynasty,there were few the knowledge-type Mengshu preserved,but many in the Qing Dynastywere visible.Therefore,the second section briefly combs the knowledge-type Mengshu before the Qing Dynasty,the third section combs ones of Qing Dynasty,researches the author,the writing background and the visible version,and describes their knowledge system briefly.The second chapter discusses the edit structure of The Children’s Knowledge Song.The first section focuses on the compiling style of The Children’s Knowledge Song,explores the origin,development and academic rationality of the edit style named’abbreviated name with numbers’,studies the knowledge classification,arrangement order,drawings,notes,top annotations and other styles of The Children’s Knowledge Song,and observes its internal logic and inheritance to the previous Mengshu.The second section focuses on the text form of The Children’s Knowledge Song,analyzes the concept and connotation of Gejue（A type of song）,combs the development course of Gejue,and examines the application of the poem Gejue in The Children’s Knowledge Song and its selection reasons.The third chapter discusses the knowledge system of The Children’s Knowledge Song.Discussing the four knowledge systems from the perspective of the four knowledge categories including astronomy,geography,humanities and things.While,summarizing the characteristics and improvement of the knowledge system of the Children’s Knowledge Song in terms of the type,order,proportion and orientation of knowledge.Combining with the theoretical background and the literature of the past dynasties,this paper takes The Children’s Knowledge Song which compiled in the late qing dynasty as the foothold to clarify the basic form of the knowledge-type Mengshu,which is helpful to understand the traditional enlightenment education more deeply and pluralistic.Besides,the induction of the knowledge system of Mengshu is expected to be an immature but inspiring attempt of the study of the traditional knowledge system.