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), a noted scholar of the Song dynasty. It was used as we use Grimm or perhaps the Little Golden Books; as a basic primer for pre-literate children. Because we now have so many sources of literature and entertainment, we no longer have the Horatio Alger stories, the McGuffy readers, or other common forms of socializing our children. The closest we come to what the San Zi Jing provided is Disney. The San Zi Jing provided a chain of culture and knowledge that linked centuries of children. The children most often learned the San Zi Jing before they could even read a character. The San Zi Jing has been translated many times and into many languages. At the time of Giles' translation there were already many versions of the San Zi Jing in Chinese.

The present version of the Chinese San Zi Jing is an adaptation of the one translated by Herbert Giles. The Internet version used by Smogor was in Big5 and could not show all of the characters.