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"Shangdaren" playing card is a kind of local playing card popular in the Tujia area in the border areas of Hunan, Hubei and Chongqing. This kind of playing card has twenty-four graphics from beginning to end. These graphics are all artistic. The characters are: "Shangdaren, Qiu Yiji, Hua Sanqian, Seventy Scholars, Er Xiaosheng, Bajiuzi, Jiazuoren, Kezhili". (In some areas, "Shi" is written as "Tu") Each pattern has 4 cards, and the entire deck of cards has a maximum of 96 cards, so it is also called "Ninety-Six" in some areas. Because of its flower-like pattern, it is also called "flower card" in some areas. In the Tujia mountainous area of ????Longshan in western Hunan, they are called "Shangdaren". This kind of "Shangdaren" playing cards integrates enlightenment and entertainment, integrating calligraphy, painting and literacy. Although the ninety-six playing cards are small, they contain mysteries: the simple and vigorous calligraphy is pleasing to the eye, and the exquisite The paintings are breathtaking, each stroke embodying the breadth and depth of Chinese traditional culture.

The group of characters starting with "Shangdaren" has records of children practicing calligraphy in the Dunhuang Manuscripts of the Tang Dynasty. Shangdaren was used as an enlightenment book for children as early as the Tang Dynasty. It was slightly modified in the "Xu Chuan Deng Lu" of the Song Dynasty, and it was gradually finalized into the later twenty-four characters until the Qing Dynasty. These characters have few strokes, rhymes and are easy to pronounce. They are very suitable for enlightenment children to read. Moreover, each character is an alphabet of many characters. One of them can be used as a radical to combine other characters. strokes, thereby connecting many new characters, so that children can achieve the effect of drawing inferences from one example. If the enlightenment teacher tells the children the stories, these seemingly meaningless independent characters actually contain a lot of traditional humanistic principles and principles. The functional purpose of elementary education.

These words are a story that teaches every scholar to respect the most holy teacher Confucius. Confucius is the "Shang Daren" of scholars. His name is Qiu. He ranks second among the brothers, that is, the "B" of A and B. His birth date is the year of Ji. Confucius taught three thousand good students, among whom seventy-two were the most knowledgeable. Among the seventy-two good students, there were eight or nine sub-sages like Zengzi and Zilu. He wanted his Students must be good people, benevolent and righteous, and understand etiquette. In order to play a better and more extensive educational role, the inventor of the "Shangdaren" playing card wrote these twenty-four characters on the playing cards for Tujia people to entertain, so that people can understand them in their leisure entertainment. The humanistic sentiment and moral education of the Chinese nation, and the traditional cultural spirit of the Chinese nation, in this ordinary situation without any profound and cultural burden of "Chinese Studies", are widely spread in the Tujia area in a plain and natural way, nourishing the Tujia people. soul. In the introduction to ancient Chinese primary education in the fourth volume of "History of Chinese Civilization" edited by Yuan Xingpei, Yan Wenming, Zhang Chuanxi, and Lou Yulie, it is also mentioned that these twenty-four characters were used to teach children to write in ancient times.