Prime Minister

Chapter 18 Female Classmates

Can men and women in the Song Dynasty be classmates?
The answer is yes.

However, most of them are homeschools. During the Xuanhe period, a talented girl wrote a poem 'Less classmates with cousins, elegant writing is good', which is about this hazy love affair.

But is it not possible for a home school?

Song people's notes all record that the daughters of ordinary people went to the school to study with the men.

As recorded in the Drunkard's Talk Records, a wealthy household asked his daughter to go to school to study in order to facilitate the recruitment of his son-in-law into the family.

If the above may be a joke, then in the Southern Song Dynasty, an official named Zhang Youqian and a neighbor girl Luo Xiyi were classmates, and they secretly fell in love with each other and finally got married. This is history.

When Zhang Yue saw this girl, he couldn't help but look forward to it in his heart, but he suddenly put his mind off when he saw the tall servant who was following behind the girl.

There are also bodyguards to read.

After Guo Xuejia spoke to Zhang Yue again, Guo Lin said, "This is Miao Sanniang!"

But seeing the woman timidly approaching Zhang Yue, Guo Lin saluted, "Hello, two gentlemen!"

"Hello, Third Lady!" The two hurriedly saluted.

Guo Xueyan coughed lightly: "Although Sanniang is younger than you, she is not less knowledgeable than you, mainly focusing on arithmetic."

Zhang Yue knew that although co-education between men and women was not uncommon in the Song Dynasty, the emphasis was different.Most of the girls who come to the school are to read and write, and the most important thing is to learn to calculate accounts, which will be used in the future to preside over the inside and outside of the family and take care of the family property.

It seems that Li Zheng sent his three girls to the school, and it seems that he also has this plan.

"Guo Lin, you have studied a little, you will teach him first, if you don't understand, ask me again."

Guo Lin was left with a stunned look on his face.

Because you simply don't.

There was an extra fir chair in the hut, and the servant who came here with Miao Sanniang stood outside the door.

When Zhang Yue saw this, he immediately looked at his nose and heart.

Miao Sanniang took out a book from her sack, which surprised both Zhang Yue and Guo Lin. It actually had a textbook, and it was a 'book class' that made them jealous.

Then Miao Sanniang took out a neatly carved bamboo stick from the bag, and placed the bamboo stick in front of the book.

Zhang Yue, Guo Lin glanced at it and continued reading.

About half an hour later, Miao Sanniang asked Guo Lin, "Master Guo Dalang... can I ask you something?"

Guo Lin raised his head, saw the face of the other party, and said a little at a loss, "Uh, what's the problem?"

Zhang Yue thought to himself that Guo Lin, despite his honest appearance, was actually a sullen person. At this moment, he might even have thought of the child's name.

"Now there is a section of Niujiao Tian, ​​the horn is [-] paces long and the mouth is [-] paces wide, ask the field geometry?"

Fujian has many mountains, so the cultivated fields are irregular in the east and the west.The classics of the Song Dynasty were a little too out of touch with reality, while arithmetic was too realistic and only focused on solving the daily problems of ordinary people.

"This...this...I'll try..."

In a short time, Zhang Yue had calculated properly, but Guo Lin took a piece of paper and wrote the manuscript for a long time, Fang said: "110 four steps."

"Thank you, Dalang-Jun, for clarifying my doubts."

Guo Lindao said: "We are all called brothers and sisters. I came first, so..."

Miao Sanniang nodded and said sweetly, "Eldest brother."

Guo Lin nodded embarrassedly.

Miao Sanniang said again: "Senior brother, today there is an embankment that is two feet wide, eight feet wide, four feet high, and [-] feet and seven feet wide. How much is the area?"

Guo Lin calculated for a while, and then asked without confidence: "The product is 620 feet."

Miao Sanniang glanced at the book, shook her head and said, "No."

Guo Lin was so embarrassed that he got into the ground and said, "Otherwise you can ask Junior Brother Zhang, he is very good at sutras."

Guo Lin remembered what Zhang Yue wanted to teach himself to do.

Miao Sanniang turned her head to look at Zhang Yue, but saw that he was reciting the scriptures without any distractions.

Miao Sanniang hesitated for a moment, then shouted, "Two..."

Zhang Yue, who was studying, quickly interrupted: "My surname is Zhang, and I am three in the family. You can just call me Brother Zhang!"

It turned out that he had already heard this.

Miao Sanniang couldn't help but pursed her lips and smiled, and then thought again, he didn't let me call him second senior brother, does it mean that he and I are generally ranked third?

This guy is so rude, but he seems to be doing okay.

"Is there a problem?"

Miao Sanniang blushed slightly and immediately said, "Yes, Senior Brother Zhang, this question..."

"Seven thousand 110 two feet!" Zhang Yue finished answering.

This time, it was Miao Sanniang's turn to be confused. She looked at the book and said in surprise, "Senior Brother Zhang, not yet..."

"When I listened to your question just now, it was already over."

"Have you figured it out? But Senior Brother, you didn't use pen and paper, and you didn't use any calculations."

Zhang Yue said helplessly, "Mental arithmetic!"

"That's okay? But that's not what the book says."

"give it to me!"

Seeing Zhang Yue reaching out, Miao Sanniang hurriedly handed over the book.

Simple, simple, too simple, give me ten such questions!

Zhang Yue subconsciously pushed the tip of his nose, but found that he forgot to wear glasses, which made him feel a little imperfect.

"In the words of the book, it means that there are two broad areas for the pit, first combine them and then half of them, so as to achieve the wideness of the middle level. Now this is the wideness of the middle level, so doubling the two is the combination of the two broad areas. Therefore, the upper wide area is reduced, and the remainder is the lower wide area. ."

"But don't be so troublesome, remember that the trapezoid formula is the upper base plus the lower base multiplied by the height and divided by two, and all calculations of the trapezoidal product can be incorporated into it."

"Still don't understand? Well, the upper and lower fields are divided by two, and then the height is multiplied, and finally the expanse is multiplied. That's it! You can do the math yourself!"

Miao Sanniang listened for a while, but felt that she could hear every word Zhang Yue said clearly, but why didn't she understand?
Zhang Yue looked at her dull expression and couldn't help but ask: "How many years have you studied sutras? You must remember that you will be in charge of a family in the future, and sutras will be used from time to time. Such as the multiplication and division of land and acres, Business merit, millet, labor, salary are all available. I don’t understand this, how will I be the mistress of the family in the future?”

"Me? Me? Me?" Miao Sanniang's ears were all red, she was embarrassed and angry at the moment, what did you mean by your words?When am I going to be the mother of the family?What has I to do with you as a mistress?

"Thank you, Brother Zhang."

Miao Sanniang sullenly retreated back to the table and began to swing the count.

???

Where did I say something wrong?Zhang Yue showed this expression.

Guo Lin shook his head, and also showed a 'you deserve that you don't have a beautiful woman's heart' expression.

In fact, Zhang Yuefang did it on purpose. He wanted to impress Guo Lin and his sister as a scholar, and then use his words to strike gently, so that Miao Sanniang would not have anything to do to ask her homework to interrupt her thoughts.

It's a bit selfish to say, but it's important for a girl to learn by herself (you're not my dish).

Isn't it a single dog?There is Yan Ruyu in the book!
The arrival of the junior sister was an episode, and did not interrupt Zhang Yue's homework.

Zhang Yue did his homework, and now Guo Xueyan saw Zhang Yue's homework on the scriptures of filial piety and the Analects of Confucius, and felt that there was a lot of room for improvement in his calligraphy, so he asked him to practice one piece of calligraphy every day.

What Guo Xuejian taught Zhang Yue was the Eight Dharma of Yongzi.

It is very mysterious, but it is actually repeated practice of the word 'yong'.

Although the word yong has only five strokes, it contains eight characters such as dots, horizontals and verticals, including all the changes in calligraphy. Therefore, there is a saying that a well-written 'yong' character can pass everything.The first character of the Lanting preface is the character Yong.

The Eight Techniques of Eternal Characters have also become a good way for beginners to get started in calligraphy.

Today, Zhang Yue's homework is to write one hundred eternal characters.

In the previous life, Zhang Yue also learned a piece of calligraphy and copied the Lingfei Sutra, but his level was the same.

It is said that the poems, songs and articles of the Tang and Song dynasties have reached a height that is difficult for later generations to look up to.And calligraphy is the same, especially in regular script, it can be said to be the pinnacle.

Chen Yinke once said that the culture of the Chinese nation, after thousands of years of evolution, was created in the era of Zhao and Song Dynasties.After that, it will gradually decline, and eventually it will re-emerge.

This is the evaluation of later generations. From a utilitarian point of view, being able to have a good character will be a great bonus for the future system.Several officials in the Song Dynasty were calligraphy lovers, and it is absolutely indispensable to mix a good calligraphy on the court in the future.

Zhang Yue, according to Guo Xueyan's teaching, should let go of everything he had learned in the past, and learn to write the word "Yong" from scratch, stroke by stroke.

There is a set of rules and regulations from researching ink to writing.

In the last life, Zhang Yue learned calligraphy by enrolling in extracurricular tutoring classes, using ink, but now he must start learning from ink.

But seriously, if you really want to learn calligraphy, researching ink is better than ink.

When you open a pen, grind ink first, grinding ink is like grinding your heart.

The speed of grinding the ink will affect the final writing, so some scholars grind the ink for three to four 10 minutes before writing.Rich people always leave this job to the book boy.In the Song Dynasty, there was no book boy in this year's school.

After the ink is ground, the pen is dipped in the ink, and the pen is trimmed, and then the pen is put on the paper.

Of course, before writing it down on paper, Zhang Yue had to take a branch and go to the sand to practice a few hundred words. He had a general idea in his heart, and everything was aimed at economical saving.

After the practice, Zhang Yuefang went back to the fir table and pressed the four corners of the paper with pebbles to prevent the characters from slipping.When writing a pen, it is necessary to teach the law, but it is not possible to completely teach the law, but it should be in the direction of making the empty and wide.

One hundred eternal words are not many, but the difficulty is to be slow and use all your mind.After writing like this for a few days, my fingers and palms are very sore, but it is clear at a glance whether a word has been written carefully.Although Zhang Yue sleeps all day, he does not dare to slack off in writing.

At the end of writing, you must wash your pen. The more you put the chapter in the previous life under the tap, it's almost like washing a mop...

A sophisticated scholar would buy a pen and wash, while Zhang Yue only had a flat-bottomed bowl.

The water for washing the pen should just cover the tip of the pen, soak it for a while before washing it, and wait until the ink on the belly of the pen is also washed.Guo Xueyan will check, and if Zhang Yue is not washed well, he will wash it again by himself.

Zhang Yue studied in Guo XueJun, ate, lodging, and the four treasures of the study, all included in the bundle repair.

Guo Xueyan is extremely stingy in terms of food, food and accommodation on weekdays, but he is not stingy when it comes to pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and uses all the best things.It is just that Zhang Yue cherishes paper and pen and ink repeatedly. A scholar must start by cherishing paper and writing, and the four treasures of the study. First, these are really expensive, and second, reading must first start with Cunjing.

ps: In the past two months, the judges have been satisfied, please send the recommendation ticket to happiness, okay?

(End of this chapter)