To contemporary children and children:

Hello, my dear brothers and sisters! I am Ci Liansheng, the author of this book. As a contemporary young and young child, you are the flowers of the motherland and the future of the motherland, just as the teacher said to you.

In elementary school, you may have been exposed to the contents of "The Rules of Disciples", "Thousand Character Classic", "Three Character Classic", and "The Lotus Talk", "The Analects of Confucius (Excerpts)" and other articles that need to be memorized with great brains. At the same time, I believe you have also been exposed to "The Song of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms": "Spring rain shocks the clear valleys in spring, summer is full of light and summer is connected. Dew in autumn falls in autumn, frost falls in winter, snow in winter, small cold winter."

When you reach junior high school, this fear and even disgust for ancient Chinese will further increase. At this time, the four great classics will also be mixed up, and it will even lead to the "Journey to the West" that you may like to read at a very young age.

Of course, these will change when you are in high school, because you will find that the elementary and junior high school are simply too kind.

In addition, you may also be taken by your parents to interest classes such as "calligraphy class", "art class", "guzheng class", "people opera class", and "martial arts class". As for whose interest it is, it is often difficult to determine.

I wonder if the above words have been mentioned to your hearts? Of course, I hope you like our excellent traditional Chinese culture and will not have the mentality of rebellion due to these forced rebellion.

I have followed all the way through you to understand some of your psychology, some of your interests and the inheritance of excellent traditional culture are obviously not something that forced can achieve. This kind of coercion often leads to an opposite result, and then this coercion further intensifies, gradually forming a vicious cycle. At the same time, in addition to this kind of coercion, there is also a factor that does not "teach according to your aptitude". Perhaps the part of the traditional culture you like has no chance to get in-depth, but has to learn what you don't like.

As contemporary teenagers and children, you and we will also receive criticism from parents, teachers and even society against our generation, which further aggravates the current situation of "you are reluctant and I am unwilling to do so".

From a personal perspective, Chinese traditional culture is undoubtedly what we contemporary young people and children should understand, because this is the soul of our nation and the cohesion of the country.

However, I hope that you can better understand the excellent traditional Chinese culture while being "willed".

Therefore, before writing this children's literature work, I set the theme on "traditional culture" without any hesitation, and then I came up with this book "The Sea, the River, the Four Seas and the Sky". My purpose is to bring you happiness and cultural knowledge at the same time.

Dear brothers and sisters, if you see this book in your spare time, I hope you can continue reading it and let me lead you to a lively world of Chinese traditional culture, and let excellent Chinese traditional culture become a part of your life. Let the interests you will naturally get bring a lifelong gift to your hopeful future.

I wish you all can fall in love with our excellent traditional Chinese culture because of this book or other opportunities in life, because this is something that our Chinese nation has passed on for thousands of years. I don’t want it to disappear in the hands of our generation of teenagers and children, and it should not be thrown into the corner of the times by us.

After reading this , if you feel that it is just like your real situation, then maybe you can try to show it to your family and let them give you an environment without restrictions to contact with Chinese traditional culture, which may have different effects.

Finally, I wish you all happiness and healthy growth in life, and I wish you success in your studies!

Author: Ci Liansheng

Date: October 23, 2020

Written in: Beijing
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