45. A Teacher Who Is Crazy and Worthy of Love (1)
Just like Wang Zhenbai, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty who was born and buried in Si, he wrote a poem in the White Deer Cave of Lushan Mountain: "Reading is not aware of the deep spring, and every inch of time is golden." It's not the Taoist who comes to make the joke, Zhou Qing Kong Si is pursuing. ”
This sentence "an inch of time and an inch of gold" has been handed down, Sangou was first read in the "Zengguang Xianwen" that "an inch of time is an inch of gold, and an inch of gold is difficult to buy an inch of time", and later Mr. said that this is written by Wang Zhenbai, a native of our county, in more than 900 years.
Therefore, Sangou pays more attention to this, so that he can recite these verses casually, which is what the locals will do, many people know this famous sentence, but they don't know who wrote it, and it doesn't matter.
It is estimated that the first person to write it did not necessarily let future generations remember who wrote it, but hoped that the sentence written could be circulated, which is the real value of the famous sentence of the article.
This Wang Zhenbai also has the backbone of a literati, after becoming an official after the middle jinshi, because he was dissatisfied with the corruption of the dynasty, he resolutely resigned and returned to the country in his prime.
Later, Wang Zhenbai died of illness in his hometown, buried in the moat outside the West Gate, the imperial court gave the title, and built the "Taoist Ancestral Hall". It's been a long time since wars and disasters, and now it's gone.
In order to commemorate, the descendants opened the "Fengxi Academy" in the place where Wang Zhenbai gave lectures, which has evolved into the current "Xishan School".
Maybe people who are not here will not pay attention to these allusions, but the school where Sangou is located probably also wants to educate students to always remember the teaching of "cherishing time is like gold", so they will tell these historical allusions to students.
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As if a conditioned reflex, Sangou followed the road to the school gate, but found that the school gate was closed, and the school was empty, only the sound of cicadas in the shade of the trees under the scorching sun.
After hesitating for a while, Sangou knew that it was impossible to get in, so he had to turn around and leave, originally wanted to live in the school dormitory, and he could read a book when he had nothing to do.
At that time, students in middle school were very busy with schoolwork and had a heavy academic load. Courses include Chinese, arithmetic, foreign languages, history, geography, physics, chemistry, animals, plants, civics, health, ethics, drawing, music, gymnastics, military training, etc.
Sangou had the foundation of studying private school when they were young, and they were relatively relaxed in Mandarin; I thought it was easy to do math in elementary school, but I didn't expect it to be difficult in middle school, and I was a little caught off guard at first.
Foreign Chinese language is mainly English, this is a new subject, everyone is on the starting line, whoever is diligent will have better results; History and geography are divided into domestic and foreign, the history and geography of the country are relatively much easier, but the history and geography of foreign countries feel that they know a lot, but as long as you work hard, you can get better results, and the exam requirements are not very high.
Physical chemistry belongs to the science category, for the three dogs, they were simply confused at first, but fortunately, the school does not attach much importance to this, there are not many class hours, and the exam requirements are not high.
Animals, plants, civics, hygiene, ethics, drawing, music, etc., these are all supplementary courses, and the content is also simple, and there is no problem with a little effort.
However, gymnastics and military training, the school arranges a lot of class hours, gymnastics is similar to the current sports, military training is to line up, walk and walk, at most running, climbing and running.
As the name suggests, the mountain behind the Xishan School must be called Xishan, but it is also called Huaguo Mountain and Zhuhang (hang) Mountain, and there are long thin bamboo poles on the mountain, which are picked by the local people to make bamboo rows (clothes poles), so it is called Zhuxing Mountain.
The saying of Huaguo Mountain is that there are flowers and fruits on the mountain, but most of the mountains have flowers and fruits, and it is estimated that which literati named them; As for the connection with Huaguo Mountain in Journey to the West, I don't know, and they haven't heard of Sangou.
The biggest amount of military training is that from the school all the way to the top of Huaguo Mountain, there are instructors on the roll call to sign, although Huaguo Mountain is not very high, only more than 200 meters high, but it is very difficult to run up without stopping.
This makes many people miserable and too tired, but the advantages of the three dogs from the countryside are reflected, the three dogs they have been crawling and rolling in the mountains since they were children, and compared to the heavy farm work in the countryside, this thing does not feel bitter, but takes bitterness as pleasure, because they can easily get the top few.
Another point, the three dogs walked from the east gate to the west gate, just to find those respectable and lovely teachers in the school, such as Chinese teacher Liu Xiaoqian, history teacher Xu Xingzhi, arithmetic teacher Qi Sijing, foreign Chinese teacher Zhuang Shuxian and others, they usually live in the school.
Especially Mr. Liu Xiaoqian, a very cute and weird old man, a widow of the previous dynasty, with a gray and white beard, often wearing a big coat, wearing a melon skin hat, and sometimes a wig braid tied behind the hat.
Don't underestimate this old man, he is famous locally, not only the ancient poetry is powerful, but also writes a very superb brush word, specializing in willow style, the penmanship is crisp and beautiful, the bone strength is strong, and the strength is through the back of the paper.
Many local literati are proud of having a pair of Liu Xiaoqian's characters, but this old man is very willful, writing for people, it all depends on the mood, the mood is good, you can write as much as you want, if you are in a bad mood, the emperor Lao Tzu comes to ask for words, and he will not give half a word.
Coincidentally, he was in a good mood, but once someone asked him for words, the old man's mood was not good, so he didn't write.
The local calligraphy and painting shop also specially invited people to imitate his characters and sell fake ones; Once, when the old man Liu had no intention of strolling, he actually looked carefully one by one, who he didn't know in the county, especially in the calligraphy and painting circle, the shopkeeper stood nervously next to him and rubbed his hands, and watched the lively and idle things, so he asked: "Old Liu, is this what you wrote?" ”
He didn't raise his head, smiled slightly, and said, "It's better than I write," and everyone laughed. After a while, he changed his tune again and said, "I wrote these things." Later, someone asked why, and he said: "People write well, if it weren't for the fact that they don't have much money at hand, they wouldn't do this kind of thing, and it would be good to be able to make more money by hanging my name."
There are people who know this old man Liu, and they know that he likes to eat stinky things, such as local moldy sauce, stinky bean curd, rotten eggs, etc., so they brought some to the door.
Don't open it first, just let the smell inside come out, as soon as the old man Liu smelled this smell, he couldn't help but want to eat it, but the people didn't say that it was given to him, and the old man was as anxious as a monkey, and he was uncomfortable.
At this time, the person who came only cared about talking to him about calligraphy and painting, how could this old man Liu have the heart to talk about this, and said impatiently: "What words do you want me to write, just speak", after writing, I couldn't wait for the guests to go out, and began to eat those stinky things; In this way, I was "tricked" by the guest into going to some calligraphy and paintings.