Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 316 Before Returning Home (Part [-])
Jingxi, see Xinzhai.

Gao Wushi just came out of the palace, he didn't go back to Gao Gong's University Scholars' Mansion, but rushed to this suburban courtyard that he was given.

Yesterday Gao Gong asked him to ask for leave, so he wrote a few reports, except for one that was directly handed over to Gao Gong, and the rest were given to Zhu Xizhong, Shen Shixing and Zhang Siwei respectively—Gao Gong and Zhu Xizhong are the acquaintances of the Prince Jingyan. On the surface, Shen Shixing is the chief civil and military official on the surface, and Shen Shixing is actually the person in charge of the feast of the prince, while Zhang Siwei is Gao Yushi, a "fake bachelor's student" and a serious official, so the leave statement cannot be accepted. Fall, all must be handed over.

Early this morning, Gao Wushi entered the palace again and asked the prince for leave, but Zhu Yijun himself did not dare to be the master, so he asked Chen Ju to go to ask Long Qing for instructions.

Long Qing heard that Gao Yushi was going back to his hometown for an exam, so naturally he wouldn't force him to stay, even if he was allowed to leave.However, Zhu Yijun didn't meet Gao Yushi for a month, and he refused to let him go immediately without saying anything, and insisted on asking him to accompany him to finish today's class before he was allowed to leave.

Although Gao Yushi still had a lot of things to deal with, he didn't want to take the crown prince's face, so he had to obediently accompany him to finish the class.

The lecturer for today's class is Gu Yangqian, who is talking about the Analects of Confucius.To be precise, I didn't really "teach" much, but taught Zhu Yijun to read "The Analects of Confucius Weizheng Chapter II".

Zhu Yijun is of course literate, and there are no characters he doesn't know in Weizheng. However, the arrangement of this lesson is still "reading" taught by the government every day.Here we must talk about the educational methods at this time.

The reason why the ancients read books is called reading, rather than reading and learning books, the key is to reflect the importance of "reading".These ancient articles must be read aloud when studying. The so-called loud book sound and cadence, the more you read, the more vigorous you become, the more you read, the clearer your thinking, and the more you can feel the true meaning of the book.When the reading is extremely smooth, it is like singing, and you can get the feeling directly from the sound.

Since Chinese is a combination of monosyllable words, and there are five tones: Yin, Yang, Shang, Qu, and Ru, this makes the pronunciation of ancient Chinese articles have a distinct sense of musical rhythm.The rhythm reverberates harmoniously, sounds good, reads smoothly, and creates conditions for the appearance of various poems and rhymes, such as the neat confrontation in language and writing, and the balance between flat and flat, which is an art in itself and has a great sense of beauty.The reason why stereotyped essays can be produced is also one of the prerequisites.

Although the use of what the prince learned is different from that of ordinary people, in the final analysis, he still needs to learn to write Zhishiwen.And since it is necessary to learn stereotyped writing, the methods will naturally remain the same.

How to learn stereotyped writing?The first is to have solid basic skills.What is basic skill?At the very least, the Four Books and Five Classics must be memorized thoroughly, especially the "Four Books", including Baiwen and Zhu Zhu (Zhu Xi's annotations), must be memorized, and a sentence must not be forgotten; you must memorize the correct pronunciation of each word; Long pairs of more than two characters to more than a dozen characters (so couplets in this era are very common and trivial, and generally not worth mentioning); you must be familiar with at least a few hundred articles by famous scholars; you must learn to write lowercase, Pavilion style and so on.These are the most basic things.

When it comes to "reading", how to teach it?In fact, the prince's teaching method for officials is basically the same as that of private schools. It is generally calculated by "number of sentences", that is, how many sentences of raw books to read every day.But for the prince, generally speaking, there is one article a day, and occasionally a longer article is taught in divided days.

Since the books read at this time are all without punctuation, when the professor is reading the new book, the lecturer will mark a short sentence with a vermilion brush and read it once. Draw a circle.

For example, at the beginning of "The Analects of Confucius": "Zi said: Learning and practicing it from time to time, shouldn't it be said?" Zi said", then read "Learning while practicing", and then circle "I don't know what to say", and both of them followed suit.

This is the method of teaching reading in official teaching, which is the so-called learning of sentences and teasing.But it is not just one reading. In fact, the lecturer must read it ten times, Zhu Yijun and Gao Yushi follow it ten times, and then the two recite it ninety times to complete the day's homework.

However, in addition to the lectures of the day, there is also a need to review, that is, what you have learned in the previous four days must also be reviewed. The method of review is still reading, ten or dozens of times each.

Learn from time to time, review the past to learn the new.This sentence is not a joke. The ancients read books, regardless of whether they were commoners or princes, they had to follow this rule.

After reading it, you have to recite it.Gao Yushi is very familiar with the method of reciting: just like when he was a child in his previous life, he stood in front of the teacher and recited what he had learned today and what he had learned in the previous four days in front of the teacher.If you can't recite it, or if you recite it stutteringly, without coherence, smoothness, and rhythm, it is considered unqualified, and you have to go back and continue reading until you can recite it proficiently.

This is a dead rule, not to mention high pragmatism, even the crown prince is no exception.

If it cannot be completed, there will be punishment.It's just that the punishment for Gao Yushi's inability to recite is that the lecturer will use a ruler to slap his palms, while the prince will not be beaten. Gao is also pragmatic: no lunch.

At this point, the two of them are brothers in need. Only when the lecturer nods after reciting the recitation can he have lunch.

But the treatment of Gao Yushi is of course incomparable with that of the prince. If the prince can recite but Gao Yushi cannot, the prince can go to eat;

Therefore, it is not an easy task to accompany the prince to study.

Today, Zhu Yijun and Gao Yushi are reading "Second Politics", and Gao Yushi has already been able to memorize it - he can already write stereotyped essays, so it's no problem to memorize it.In fact, during the past six months of reading with him, there was only one time when he lost his mind while reciting and stuttered, which resulted in being spanked once, and he was not punished at all other times.

However, Zhu Yijun’s side is still a bit difficult, because there are 24 short paragraphs in "Wei Zheng Pian", not only must memorize each paragraph, but also the order must not be wrong-if the order is wrong, it cannot be called memorization.So when Zhu Yijun finished reciting it, it happened to be in time for dinner.

Since Gao Yushi was going back to his hometown soon, Zhu Yijun applied to today's lecturer Gu Yangqian to let Gao Yushi accompany him for dinner.

But the so-called eating together does not mean that the two of them sit at the same table to eat, that is not allowed.It's just that the two tables are adjacent to each other, with Zhu Yijun at the top and Gao Wu at the bottom, so that the distance is closer, and they can chat while eating - chatting is not allowed at first, because it is a rule to "not talk when eating".However, the official said that he was a courtier, and Gu Yangqian had already gone to the next door during the meal, so he couldn't see Zhu Yijun and Gao Yushi at all, so they had a chance to talk.

(End of this chapter)