In China, for children, their homeland begins with this book. She is a thousand years old. It is called "SAN TZI JING" or "Three Words". It contains 124 lines of instructions, which, like bricks, create the foundation of the worldview and morality of a Chinese child. This contains the main information that China believes children should receive about the culture and history of their country. It seems that our readers, first of all, everyone who is interested in China, studies China, studies the Chinese language in schools and universities, such a book is simply necessary. The appendix presents Bichurin's translation.

CONTENTS: Preface 6 TRIPLE 9 Comments 141 APPENDICES 257Three-words (in Chinese, 1155 hieroglyphs) 260Three-words (translated from Chinese by Iakinthos (Bichurin)) 273Chronological table 291Maps 293