Chapter 46 The Highest Institution of Learning
Early the next morning, Chong Yanfeng got up, washed and cleaned up and went straight to Guozijian to report, in order to encourage scholars to study, Fan Dasheng once stipulated that candidates must study in Guozijian for a certain number of days before they are allowed to take scientific examinations.
Although the Great Song Dynasty Taixue disappeared in the later war, but the Taixue ruins of the Ming and Qing dynasties are well preserved, not far from the Lama Temple, who would have thought that a very ordinary alley in the center is where the country's highest institution of learning is, Taixue is not very big, if you don't listen to the narration when visiting, you can go shopping in half an hour! In addition to the stone statue of the ancestor Confucius Sage, there is nothing too eye-catching, and the importance of scholars in the Ming and Qing dynasties is far less than that of the Great Song Dynasty, which can be seen from the scale of Taixue.
If you first go to the Forbidden City in Beijing to pay homage to the magnificent noon gate and then come to the Song Dynasty to pass by the Xuande Gate, you will find that the Northern Song Dynasty Palace and the Forbidden City are like a model, it is really small and pitiful, but the situation of the highest university in the Song Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty is just the opposite, the Taixue classroom environment in the Qing Dynasty is very cramped, the table is connected to the left and right of the table, and the front and back of the table are the places where the cushions are placed, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is crowded with people.
However, the highest institution of learning in the Great Song Dynasty is much taller, after continuous expansion and reconstruction, Guozijian and Taixue have been very large-scale, although it is also a structure lined up but it will not feel narrow and crowded at all, carved railings and jade masonry, pavilions and pavilions, beautiful and artistic are also more than 100 times better than later generations.
Chong Yanfeng knew that this would not be the time to sigh, so after showing the relevant documents, he inquired again, and came to the school record in charge of the school rules and motto. A small Northwest general's disciple is not enough to look at others, not to mention that most of the scholars in the Great Song Dynasty have their own pride, and the emperor's relatives may not be in their eyes.
After checking the documents and certificates of the Kaifeng Mansion, Master Xuelu said in his slightly contemptuous tone: "No matter what kind of Yanai and Gongzi you used to be, you are an ordinary student when you come here, and you have memorized the school rules and discipline, and you will be expelled immediately if you commit a crime!" ”
Xuelu is expecting a student like Yanfeng who has nothing to do with the capital to make a mistake, and it is relatively easy to expel him, so as not to affect the passing rate of Taixue, what good seedlings can there be in the northwest, Xuelu doesn't expect it at all!
"Students remember what he taught!" Chong Yanfeng honestly looked so respectful that he had a good impression of Xuelu, and snorted reluctantly from his nose, "Do it yourself!" "It's not that this Xuelu is cold and unkind, it's really because there are too many people like Chong Yanfeng in Dabi's year, and Xuelu is both disgusted and helpless about this, in his heart, a disciple of Ximen Jiangmen should not have any connection with the scientific examination.
Leaving the "Academic Affairs Office", the assistant teacher led Chong Yanfeng to the "class" to report, and the assistant teacher of this meeting was also a little similar to the head teacher of the university in later generations, only in charge of the students' class, accommodation and other trivial matters but not responsible for lecturing, most of the lectures were old scholars with white beards.
Following the assistant professor in the aisle of the college, Chong Yanfeng found that a lot of locust trees and cypress trees were planted in Taixue, which is very similar to Taixue in the Ming and Qing dynasties, you must know that there are also stars in the cypress and locust trees in Taixue in the Ming and Qing dynasties, one is shaped like the famous minister Liu Luoguo, named by Qianlong himself "Luo Guo Huai", and the other is in the Ming Dynasty, according to legend, the branches blown by the wind have taken away the hat of the traitorous Yan Song, and the people behind it are called "touching the adulterous cypress!" ”
After passing through several temples filled with the sound of reading aloud, Tane Yanfeng finally came to his destination "Jinghezhai", which is said to have been originally called Renhezhai, but later changed its name because of Renzong's respect!
During the morning reading time, a white-bearded scholar who was very similar to the image in Chong Yanfeng's imagination was sitting firmly behind the lesson plan, and the old scholar saw the assistant teacher and Chong Yanfeng also got up, but his eyebrows were raised, "Why is there another one?" ”
The assistant teacher briefly talked about the origin of Yanfeng, and the frown of the old scholar frowned deeper, who made it in addition to the special remote places such as Guangnan East, Guangnan West, and Kuizhou Road, Qinfeng Road and Yongxing Military Road are the weakest places in science and education, and the scholars have never had a good face for the students from these places!
The assistant teacher also knew this, and left quietly after leaving an apologetic expression, and the old scholar glanced at the tall and tall Yanfeng, "You generals don't think about how to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield, why do you want to come here, do you think that the scientific examination is so easy!" ”
"We?" Chong Yanfeng was very curious about Xueyu's words, just by literally, it should be a disciple of a general like himself and other people who came to learn, but the other party didn't give him a chance to ask more, only to see the old Xueyu pointed to the empty table at the end, "The Xuelu and Xuezheng must have said it, you can do it yourself!" ”
Chong Da Shao thought that there would be a small test such as an entrance exam, and it was useless to memorize the content of the Great Sutra and the Sutra well, and people would not give you a chance to prove themselves at all, so Chong Yanfeng had to sit silently in his corner.
The morning reading meeting is almost over, and the old scholar has neither bothered to explain the essence of the scriptures, nor has he pulled the calves out of the sky, and directly assigned the homework in the classroom, one on each of the discussion and strategy!
With his ability to remember and memorize, he has a certain grasp of the two major scriptures and concurrent scriptures before the scientific examination, but the policy is still relatively weak, a good article must first be clean, beautiful handwriting, and secondly, the rhetoric needs to be as gorgeous as possible, and the words must also be exquisite, and it is also possible to write some rare words or quote classics beautifully, of course, the most important thing is their own arguments and the theme of the article.
The disadvantage of the big and young is the accumulation of rhetoric, compared to the students who have been prostituting this way for many years, it is somewhat difficult to let the kind of Ya Nei write a beautiful and artistic literary text, and at the beginning, Chong Yanfeng even had to write a draft in vernacular and then translate it into classical Chinese, so that no matter whether or not to write a good article, the time spent alone is also very large.
After a long period of practice, there is no need for this stupid method, but the level is not very high, but the advantages of the two generations and a lot of knowledge in later generations are also many, and there is no one in the world in this regard, and some famous sayings and famous sentences and opinions and arguments of later generations are even more handy.
The articles of Chong Yanfeng will be much richer than that of ordinary scholars, and the frequency of exams in later generations is better than that of ancient times.