Quote Originally Posted by mig View Post
I thought those were the novel genre or xiaoshuo in baihuawen as opposed to the classical written style as xiaojing, lunyu, zhongyong, the other schools texts and all others from the elite keeping the masses ignorant if you didn't know that kind of script language. Don't know how many kungfu practitioners were scholars from the wenlinyuan or elite schools. Sorry to highjacked this thread.
without a teacher pointing out

it is very difficult to read the old text

zhi fu ye zhe 之夫也者 are usually used as periods or commas

poems are in 4 characters, 6 characters or 7 characters

so it is not that difficult to recite or remember