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Life in Chang'an Chapter 8 Pheasant Slaves and Si Zi

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    There are not many people in the primary school. There are more than thirty students in total, plus two bachelors and two school secretaries, the total number is less than forty.  There are all little kids under the age of ten here. Li Min, who is already fourteen years old, is walking among them, and he really feels like he stands out from the crowd.  The little guys around also looked at this 'big classmate' with great curiosity, and a few naughty ones came over to ask Li Min if he had gone to the wrong place.  This made Li Min feel so depressed that he wanted to hit the wall.

    The primary school classroom is very spacious. When you enter the door, there are rows of individual low desks. Students have to kneel and sit behind the desks when studying.  Li Min found a desk in the corner and sat down to try it out. He found that it felt okay. After all, his body had already adapted to this kind of kneeling.

    "Brother Six, didn't you expect it to be so early? I haven't had time to thank you for the mother-in-law thing!" Just when Li Min was about to pick up the book on the table and read it, a **-year-old young lady ran up to him  He sat down next to him and said.  Li Min recognized him at first sight. He had just met him yesterday. This little guy was his ninth brother, who would later become Tang Gaozong Li Zhi.

    "Oh, Pheasant Nu, the queen mother is the queen mother of all of us. What words of thanks can our brothers say?" Li Min patted his shoulder and said solemnly. Pheasant Nu is Li Zhi's nickname.  Regardless of whether Li Zhi will ascend to the throne in the future, it is necessary to build a good relationship now.

    "Hehe, Brother Six is ??right, then I won't give this piece of osmanthus cake to Brother Six." A little head stuck out from behind Li Zhi and said, with a round face and big eyes full of laughter.  expression.

    "You why did you bring Si Zi with you?" Li pointed at Li Zhi in surprise. The three-year-old Si Zi came out from behind Li Zhi, and he was now chewing on his hands with a face full of snack residue.  The last piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake.

    Seeing the naughty look of little Sizi, Li Zhi couldn't help but said with a grimace: "Brother Six, you can't blame me. Ever since my mother got sick, Sizi has no one to take care of her. I usually play with her, but I  If you come here to study, you can't bring her here. Yesterday, my father asked Brother Six to come here to study, and Sizi made a fuss and wanted to come, but my father couldn't get her to do anything, so he had to agree."

    I¡¯m dizzy!  When Li Min heard that Sizi came here because of him, he immediately had a headache.  Although the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty was open, the upper class society still attached great importance to the defense of men and women. Women were not allowed to study with men. Princesses were generally educated by their mothers or specialized maids.  But now it's good that his emperor father actually agreed to let Si Zi come to school here. Doesn't this really pamper this little princess too much?

    "I want to sit with Sixth Brother, Ninth Brother, please sit in front of me!" Sizi finished eating the osmanthus cake and wiped his hands on Li Zhi and said.  It was obvious that Li Zhi doted on his sister, so he pinched her little face and gave her seat to Si Zi.

    "Brother Six, are your injuries healed?"

    "Brother Six, do you really not know how to read?"

    "Sixth brother, can you take me to play? It's suffocating in the palace?"

    "Sixth brother"

    The little girl hasn¡¯t stopped since she sat down. One question after another poured out of her little mouth, which made Li Min very tired to cope with it.  Fortunately, the master came in at this time. Although the little girl was naughty, she knew etiquette and finally shut her chattering little mouth.

    Li Min has already inquired about it. The old master who gave the lecture was named Kong Yingxue. He was from the Kong family in Qufu, Shandong. He was also a cousin with Kong Yingda, one of the eighteen bachelors. Although he was not as famous as Kong Yingda, he was also a learned man.  old scholar.

    The curriculum in primary school is very simple. You read in the morning and practice calligraphy in the afternoon. Those who have just entered the school start with the Thousand-Character Classic, and then study Sima Xiangru's "Fan General", Cai Yong's "Encouragement to Learning", etc., until they are ten years old.  After graduation, they will transfer to Chongwen Hall or Hongwen Hall for secondary and higher education.

    Schools or private schools in this era were not divided into classes. All students studied together, and each student's learning progress was different. This also resulted in a limited number of students for one teacher. This is what Li Min and others do here.  Condition.

    Old Master Kong first learned about the academic progress of the students one by one, and then delineated the content to be studied today. First, let them familiarize themselves. Later, he would explain them one by one. When he finally saw Si Zi and Li Min, the old Master frowned.  , His Majesty Taizong had already informed him of these two 'special' students before, and now he was having a headache on how to teach them.

    "Both Your Highnesses are literate, right?" Old Master Kong walked up to Li Min and Si Zi expressionlessly, holding a ruler in his hand and asked. The ruler in his hand was not just for show. Don't look at the people sitting here.  The princes and nobles, but if anyone makes a mistake, they can be beaten without fail, and they don't even have a place to file a complaint.

    "Literacy, literacy! Sizi already knows" The little girl counted with her fingers, and found that her fingers were not enough, so she simply spread her hands and said crisply, "Sizi knows many, many words, even his father praised Sizi  Smart!" The little girl looked proud.??, the children of the royal family were taught to read by their mothers before they went to school. By the time they were sent to the elementary school, they could almost read and write. However, the little Sizi was only three years old, and Li Min was also known to have amnesia, so Old Master Kong  Then I asked them if they knew how to read.

    "Ahem~ Master, you also know that I have suffered from amnesia, and now I don't know most of the words, so" Li Min said with a blush, even a three-year-old child can read more than him,  No matter how thick-skinned you are, you can¡¯t hold it back!

    "Well, both Your Highnesses have some foundations, so let's start with the Thousand-Character Classic and learn to read as you go. Now read one sentence after me and you read one sentence." Old Master Kong thought for a moment, and then made up his mind.

    "The Thousand-Character Classic" has four characters per sentence, and it rhymes very well. It is catchy to read. Together with the Hundred Family Surnames and the Three-Character Classic that appeared in later generations, it is called "Three, Hundred, Thousand". It is a standard enlightenment book for children in ancient times.

    Possibly because he was afraid that Li Min and Sizi would not be able to remember it, Master Kong taught them a total of four sentences and sixteen characters, and told them to copy them several times after they were familiar with them. As for the literal meaning, he did not force it, and he would explain it later when he had time.  This left Li Min very speechless. It seemed that this old master really treated him like a three-year-old child.

    Li Min didn¡¯t dare to say anything else, but he had learned the Thousand-Character Classic, the Hundred-Character Surnames, and the Three-Character Classic since he was a child. Memorizing them backwards may be a bit exaggerated, but there is absolutely no problem in memorizing them fluently. All these are thanks to his grandfather in his previous life.  In his previous life, Li Min's ancestors were landowners. I heard that one of his ancestors passed the Jinshi examination. Li Min's grandfather received an authentic feudal private school education when he was a child.

    The old man usually lives in the countryside. One time, Li Min's father took him to see the old man. At that time, Li Min just entered elementary school.  The old man was very happy to see his eldest grandson, and asked him if he had learned anything in school. When the old man heard that Li Min had never learned three, one hundred, and one thousand, he was immediately furious.  In the old man's mind, how can a child go to school without learning the three hundred thousand left by his ancestors? This is the most authentic enlightenment education. For this, Li Min's father was even punished.

    At that moment, the old man made a decision: Since your school doesn¡¯t teach it, I will teach it myself.  Regardless of his old body, the old man rummaged through the box and found a few tattered books and started teaching from the Three Character Classic.  As a result, Li Min spent almost all the winter and summer vacations in elementary school at his grandfather's house in the countryside. Unfortunately, the old man's health collapsed just after teaching the Thousand-Character Classic. Before leaving, Li Min had to recite the Thousand-Character Classic that he had just finished teaching.  This went away in the sound of reciting, and Li Min felt his nose sore every time he thought about it.

    After the old man passed away, Li Min's academic pressure began to increase, so his study of ancient Chinese was abandoned. However, he did not forget the three books: Thousand-Character Classic, Hundred-Character Surnames, and Three-Character Classic. Whenever he thought about the old man, he  I always recite a few paragraphs. Every year when I visit the old man during the Qingming Festival, I recite it again in front of his grave. This can be regarded as a sign of filial piety for a grandson.

    "It would be great if I could learn calligraphy from the old man, even just to lay a foundation?"  Li Min couldn't help but sigh.  At that time, the old man was afraid of delaying Li Min's normal studies. Apart from requiring him to recite and understand the contents in the book, he did not teach him anything else.  As for being so embarrassed.

    After the old master left, Li Min flipped through the book. Although the traditional Chinese characters on it were very unfamiliar, he had already memorized them by heart, so he could guess what they were.  The Thousand-Character Essay was written by Zhou Xingsi of the Southern Dynasty, and not a single word in the book was repeated. However, later I heard that someone found some repeated characters, but Li Min was not very clear about this.

    Li Min read a few sentences out of boredom and then gave up. He secretly looked at the little Sizi and found that the little girl was memorizing the words very seriously, shaking her head like that. This made Li Min couldn't help but think of those in later generations who were carrying the heavy burden.  The flowers of the motherland creeping forward under the examination-oriented education.  At a young age, it¡¯s time to have fun. Wouldn¡¯t it be a waste to read every day?

    Thinking of this, Li Min had an idea. Seeing that the old master didn't pay attention, he picked up the paper on the table and folded it. After a while, a beautiful paper crane appeared in his hand, and then he gently threw it to the little girl.

    The serious little girl who was reading was stunned at first. When she saw the exquisite paper crane, her little face immediately lit up with joy. She picked it up and looked around, and she couldn't put it down. As for the book, she had already thrown it away.  With the rise of Li Min's play, paper frogs, paper rings, paper lilies and other small things have emerged one after another. He has folded six or seven types of paper airplanes. Unfortunately, he can't test fly them now.

    Little Sizi was attracted by the various origami papers in Li Min's hand. As soon as Li Min folded something, he was snatched away by the little girl. He looked at each item and was reluctant to put it down. Li Zhi also noticed the movement behind him and saw  When Sizi saw the exquisite origami in his hand, he was also curious. He wanted it but didn't dare to ask for it, so he could only look at it eagerly.

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