Chapter VI Teaching and Learning
"Heaven and earth are yellow, and the universe is desolate; The sun and the moon are shining, and the Chensu column is ......"
In the small courtyard, Lang Lang's voice was loud, and more than a dozen children who were no more than eight years old stared at the wooden board in front of them, listening to the voice of the little gentleman in the courtyard, and chanting along with their mouths. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info are full of words on their wooden boards, four characters in a column, very neat. It's not much, it's just eight columns.
The wooden boards of more than a dozen students were written by Wei Xuan yesterday, and he didn't hold a pen for a long time, and writing so much for a while really made Wei Xuan suffer a little. In the end, this body has not yet grown, and the arm strength is not enough, even if I sleep a night, I still feel that my wrist is sore. But there is no way, the matter of loyalty is also self-inflicted.
The Analects is not suitable for children who can't read, and although it is just some dialogue, there are a lot of rare words in it, and the content is very profound. Wei Xuan also found it on the second day of reading the Analects, and he really had a headache for a while.
The weight of Mengxue can be said to be heavier than Mount Tai, and it is not sloppy. And everything must be paid attention to step by step, so that this group of little dolls learning the "Analects" for the first time is tantamount to one step to the sky in Wei Xuan's opinion. Fortunately, when this "Thousand Character Text" was written in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the reason why it did not have a great name was because it was not widely circulated, and it was not a rootless thing.
Wei Xuan didn't know what the first edition of "Thousand Character Text" looked like, but he knew what was merged and deleted after simplifying the text. In contrast, there is not much difference between the inverted performance and the first version. I didn't bother to find Village Chief Yang and others to find it, the book of Mengxue is good if it can make people literate.
This essay is not complicated, it is catchy to read, and it is easy to remember. Although these children had different intelligences, they all memorized the Thousand Characters after reading through the book two or three times and then working hard. It also coincides with the late autumn, and there is no work at home in the village, so the children are naturally managed by the adults in the family, so why don't they want to die? For a time, the entire Nanshan Village sounded at night with the sound of children reciting "Thousand Character Text", and the children's voices were loud and pleasant.
The article is memorized, but it is extremely difficult to write this step. Wei Xuan will not be the most popular flying white nowadays, and Xingshu is not suitable for these beginners, so he has to teach italics. Italics are suitable for beginners to practice calligraphy, but they are also extremely difficult. Now there is no Yan Jian Liu Gu, but it is not easy. Children learn to write very hard, the wrist strength is not enough to often write the words floating, and they can still make up for it when they are taken out alone, and they are simply unsightly when they are piled together. Wei Xuan was not in a hurry, he just asked these children to write it over and over again.
The so-called practice makes perfect, and if you practice more, you will naturally be good.
As a result, the hard life of the children in Nanshan Village has come. When I go to Wei Xuan every day, I don't do anything else, I first memorize the "Thousand Character Text" one by one, and a wrong word is a ring ruler. Then writing, not in order, Wei Xuan deliberately chose a paragraph for each person, a total of only a dozen people, there is no possibility of repetition, which is the children's mutual "reference". It's just that after all, it's a beginner's essay, and no matter how smart you are, you can't say that you can write the whole article in just a few days.
The straw paper in the village is considered to have suffered, and if you write an unqualified article, Wei Xuan does not approve of it, so she naturally has to rewrite it. However, in the middle of the month, the village chief Yang ran out of ink that he bought from the city, and the straw paper in the village was also wiped out. Children's learning is a top priority, and we can't afford to be sloppy. There is no way, every household in Nanshan Village has money and goods, and they are all handed over to Village Chief Yang to go to the city to exchange paper and ink. After several trips back and forth, the paper and ink pulled back were piled up in a small half room, enough to be used for a while.
Wei Xuan was also teaching for the first time, and he lacked experience, and it was only when Village Chief Yang pulled back the paper and ink that he realized that it was unrealistic to learn calligraphy like this. At this time, why there are so few readers, poverty is a very important reason. Nanshan Village is remote and not rich, even if the whole village raises funds, it is very difficult for people like Wei Xuan to practice calligraphy, and practicing calligraphy is very luxurious.
After thinking about it, Wei Xuan decided to change his approach. I don't use paper and ink when I usually practice, save a province, write my homework every seven days on paper, and practice writing on the sand table with a wooden stick on weekdays. At that time, Wei Xuan was a little tired, and the children couldn't rest when they were writing, so they could only patrol over and over again, and if they made mistakes, they could correct them at the time. In this way, the efficiency of literacy and learning has been greatly improved.
For a whole month, the children were finally able to write the entire "Thousand Character Text" silently, and it was inevitable that there would be occasional mistakes. After this month, Wei Xuan didn't dare to say that these children had memorized all a thousand words, but they were not much worse. You must know that the children are very hard at Wei Xuan, and they don't know how much they suffer when they are at home. Adults can't read and write, but there are a lot of stupid methods. A "Thousand Character Text" written by Wei Xuan himself, and when he compares it with the strokes written by his own children, he can see every stroke he has, let alone ask about anything else. Adults don't want to save trouble with their children, and if they are wrong, they will kick it. If you do farm work with all your strength, you can pout people with one foot, and there is a lot of meat on your buttocks, but you can't stand being kicked several times a night. Wei Xuan's place of residence is on the edge of the village, which is very remote, and sometimes he can be woken up by the cries coming from the village. It's not easy to persuade, how can people persuade their children to educate him, an outsider? Don't look at the people in the village who call him "Mr. Wei" when they see him now, but after all, he is only a fourteen-year-old kid now, who can take what he says?
Wei Xuan saw it very clearly, although he inherited the love of the whole village, only the old couple of the Wu family were really good to him, and everyone else was much worse. Aunt Wu doesn't live with Uncle Wu now, she moved directly to Wei Xuan's hut, cooking for him every day, tidying up the house, sorting out the bookcase, it is not an exaggeration to say that she never leaves, so that Uncle Wu has to come to Wei Xuan every day for dinner. Later, it was also troublesome, so Uncle Wu simply built a small thatched house next to Wei Xuan's house, and the old couple lived in it. As for the old houses in the village, they go back every once in a while to clean up, and they are not empty, they are all used as warehouses, and the paper, pen and ink pulled back by Village Chief Yang are piled up there.
In the blink of an eye, it has been almost three months since I came to Nanshan Village. Life is not good, but there is no need to worry about food and clothing. In terms of food, the people in the village will send it from time to time, it is all good things, and the meat is constant, even the richest village chief in the village Yang can't do this. Wei Xuan didn't have to worry about dressing, and was rounded up by the women of Nanshan Village led by Aunt Wu. This family produces a piece of cloth, and the three or five people who are not alive at home gather in the small thatched hut newly built by Uncle Wu, and a stitch and a thread will be made in a few days. For the rest of the month, Wei Xuan even had several sets of winter clothes, all of which were gray and white gowns, with fine and dense stitches, which was very comfortable.
Wei Xuan's hair grew up, and the back of his head was already past his shoulders. Because he is not yet old, he can't wear a crown, but he doesn't wear it piecemeal. It is neatly combed to the back of the head and simply tied with a piece of cloth, so that it will not fall apart when you walk around on weekdays. Wearing the clothes made by Aunt Wu and them, and then the book, it really looks like a teacher.
After the "Thousand Character Essay" is taught, it is not time to teach the "Analects". First memorize the "Three Character Classic", and then learn the "Disciple Rules". Since he taught other people's children to learn words and literature, he had to teach them well, Wei Xuan didn't want the students he taught to become white-eyed wolves in the future, at least not in his hands. The so-called "into filial piety, out of the brother, cautious and faithful, pan love for the public, and benevolent, the line has spare strength, then to learn the literature", benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith do not require every student to do, but also to know.
didn't dare to teach the "Three Character Classic" completely, from "Tang Gaozu, the rebel division, except for the Sui chaos, breaking into the national foundation" to "revolution and prosperity, abolishing the imperial system, establishing the constitution, and seeing the Republic of China" This paragraph was directly brushed over by Wei Xuan with Spring and Autumn penmanship, and even the words in the later text, including the study of Tang Dynasty characters, were deleted. Wei Xuan is not a fool, it seems that if he says this kind of thing now, he will lose his head, even if he does not die, he will be regarded as a demon, and he is afraid that it is better to die at that time.
Compared with the "Thousand Character Text", the "Three Character Classic" is obviously easier to understand, and the children learn it faster. A few days after Wei Xuangang taught, the entire Nanshan Village could hear everywhere that "at the beginning of people, their nature is good, their sex is similar, and their habits are far away". This thing is not difficult, as long as you listen to it a few times, you can memorize it, even adults can say two sentences casually. When it comes to "Disciple Rules", it is different, although it is still in the format of three words and one sentence, the content is much more esoteric, it is not enough to just memorize it, but also to understand its meaning. Wei Xuanjiao's "Thousand Character Text" took nearly a month, and it took only half a month to teach the "Three Character Classic", and the "Disciple Rules" was talked about for more than a month, but he only finished the three chapters of the general rules, filial piety when entering, and filial piety when exiting. This is also something that cannot be helped, after all, it evolved from the Analects, and there is still depth.