Chapter 23 Lessons
More than ten meters up the hillside to halfway up, the terrain is slightly flat. There is a bamboo forest in front, and behind the bamboo forest is the school of Shanghe Village.
Zhu Pingan tied the cow to a tree and let it eat young grass leisurely while he continued to walk forward with his short legs.
A path appeared in the bamboo forest. The split bamboo forest spread windingly to the entrance of the school. Zhu Pingan walked along the winding path to the school. All he smelled in his breath were faint bamboo leaves. The fragrance of the fragrant grass gives people the feeling of being in nature, and makes people feel calm without realizing it.
The eight-year-old child entered the classroom as a teacher, had a make-up, sat at a table, and recited aloud. Just as the poem goes, as soon as he left the bamboo forest, Zhu Pingan heard the sound of reading aloud.
"The sky and the earth are dark and yellow, the universe is vast, the sun and the moon are waxing, the stars and constellations are arranged, the cold and summer come, autumn harvests and winter hides"
This is a private school with a wooden structure as the main structure and bricks and stones as the supplement. It has an ancient style and charm. The private school is surrounded by half-person-high windows. The bamboo curtains are rolled up on the windows to let in the sunlight. The whole private school is bright. The bead curtains can be lowered when necessary. There were about twenty children in the room who were shaking their heads and reading aloud. They were all about seven or eight years old. Two children shared a table with stools and pens, ink, paper and inkstones on the table.
There is a portrait of Confucius hanging in the east of the house. Below it is a large table. Behind the table is a chair. In addition to pens, inks, paper and inkstones, there are also poetry and textbooks on the table, and there is also a pot of strong tea.
Sitting on the chair is a vigorous old scholar in his fifties. He should be the old scholar Sun whom the eldest aunt once talked about.
Zhu Pingan sat on the ground and listened for a long time while avoiding the door.
The Thousand-Character Classic taught by Sun Lao Xiucai can be said to be the best enlightenment textbook in ancient my country. It is coherent throughout, has beautiful melody, and is catchy to read.
Sun Laoxiucai's lectures are not as rigid as the ancient lectures that are considered in modern times. He does not simply lead the children to recite them over and over again. He also explains them, which should be rare in ancient times. of.
"The sky and the earth are dark and yellow. This sentence comes from the "Book of Changes". It is wonderful. Xuanhuang does not just refer to the color. It is mysterious and mysterious, unfathomable. This is the way of heaven and earth and the depth of the earth."
Sun Although the old scholar gave an explanation, his language was both ancient Chinese and the Book of Changes. For children who had just started learning, it could be said to be both mysterious and mysterious.
Look, there are children lying on the table and falling asleep.
Uh, wait.
Isn’t that Brother Jun?
Zhu Pingan found that there were more than one child asleep in the private school. They happened to be at the same table, and one of them was his cousin Zhu Pingjun.
If Zhu Pingan can discover it, Sun Lao Xiucai can also discover it.
Sun Lao Xiucai was a person who could not tolerate sand in his eyes. He walked up to the sleeping brother Jun and another child with a ruler, and knocked on the table with the ruler, waking up the two children.
The other child was a little fat boy. Like Jun Ge, he was frightened when he saw his husband and was timid.
“Stretch out your hand.” Old scholar Sun said expressionlessly.
The two of them stretched out their hands timidly.
Pa bang bang
“Listen carefully and never see Duke Zhou again.”
The old scholar Sun also hit the palms of the two of them three times without much force as punishment.
"Gong Zhou, who is Duke Zhou? I don't know him?" Zhu Pingjun touched his head. A monk as tall as two feet was confused and muttered.
The children around heard it and laughed. These children came a few days earlier than Zhu Pingjun. Some of them had been taught a lesson by the Master. Although they did not understand what Zhou Gong meant, they also knew that they were talking about sleeping. Seeing that Zhu Pingjun did not understand, they all laughed.
When Old Scholar Sun heard this, he didn't blow his beard and stare in anger, saying that children cannot be taught, but he helplessly stopped the child's laughter and started to explain.
"The Duke of Zhou was a sage in the Western Zhou Dynasty. He assisted the king as regent and made great contributions to the Zhou Dynasty. Later generations respected him as a sage. The sage Kong respected the Duke of Zhou so much that he often dreamed of the Duke of Zhou. Later generations don't know when he started. ,sleep Jue is also called Hui Zhou Gong. Do you understand, if you want to be a wise man, you must keep your hands on the book and never let down your time. Especially if you two are caught sleeping again, you will be punished. "< br>
After Master Sun finished speaking, he began to teach these children how to read. Recognition is their first step. Only when they can read can they write books.
“Today I learned the eight characters, the sky and the earth are dark and yellow, and the universe is vast. After class, I will check them one by one. Remember not to be lazy. Let’s start with the first character, Tian, which is the highest among humans.”
In modern times, I am accustomed to using simplified Chinese characters. Although I have learned ancient Chinese and know all traditional Chinese characters, there are still some problems when I actually write them. When I write, I must subconsciously use simplified characters. These must be modified slowly to develop the habit of using traditional Chinese characters.
Zhu Pingan was sitting on the ground outside the school, writing and drawing on the ground with a stick, and then erasing it with his feet.
Sun Lao Xiucai also saw Zhu Pingan, but he thought it was a naughty boy from some family who was playing on the hillside, especially when he saw Zhu Pingan scratching around on the ground with a stick and stepping on it with his feet. I thought it was a naughty boy playing with ants or something, so I didn't pay much attention to it.
Literacy is simple, but it will be difficult later when reading, reciting, reciting the Four Books and Five Classics, and composing essays. He could only recognize eight characters in one day, which was not too easy for Zhu Pingan. After listening to it for a while and seeing that there was nothing new, he turned around and went to herd the cows.
Speaking of which, I have to make a simple calligraphy pen. Well, I will also bring a black painted wooden board and practice calligraphy carefully.
Through the bamboo forest, we came to the old scalper. The old scalper was still grazing leisurely with his tail wagging, unaware that his tail had been targeted.
The writing brush is the wisdom of the ancients. It is simple and easy to make. The tip of the writing brush can be made of wool, ox hair, or weasel hair. In fact, any long hair from an animal can be used. The pen holder can be made of bamboo. Making a fine brush requires hundreds of processes, but it can be simple. Just make the pen tip and holder, and then insert the pen tip into the pen holder to fix it. Just use it yourself and it’s simple. To make a pen tip, you need to put the hair into the pen holder in a basin. Go back and do it slowly. Anyway, you don’t ask for anything good, as long as it’s strong and usable.
I don’t know what happened to the scheming little loli down the slope. He wouldn’t really ask his brother to beat me up. Generally speaking, children will not go back after being stimulated.
The cow has been eating grass for a long time, so it’s time to drink water. Anyway, there is a clear stream down the slope. Let’s take the old cow to drink some water. Let the cow eat some salt-rich water grass and take a look at the black-bellied little one. Is Loli still there?
In this era, people usually eat two meals, which makes me very unaccustomed. I feel hungry after noon. If possible, it would be good to catch one or two small fish by the river and grill them.
Untie the rope and lead the old scalper slowly down the slope. (End of this chapter)