The begonia leaf and the old mother hen Comparative research on Chinese language and literature textbooks by Taiwan's National Institute for Compilation and Translation shows that in the texts selected for use in the mainland's textbooks, there is less classical Chinese and poetry and more vernacular writing, prose fiction and drama.
秋海棠和老母雞國立編譯館在語言科的比較研究中發現，大陸所選的課文，古文、詩詞較少，白話文及小說、戲劇較多。