In the blink of an eye, it is the end of the semester, most of the classes have begun to end, and the relevant final exam homework has also been assigned. As always, I still want to take advantage of this rare opportunity to improve my grade points. But it's one thing to think about it, it's another thing to do, and the first thing that gives me a headache is the direction of research and the idea of writing.

This semester, in addition to teaching us "Ancient Literature", Brother Zhou also gave us an elective course "Introduction to Confucian Classics", and most of the students took this course. After all, it is "very likely" that we will go to the Confucius Institute to teach Chinese to foreigners in the future, and it is also an important mission for us to export traditional Chinese culture, and the most important representative of Chinese traditional culture is naturally the Confucian classics. But the main reason is that everyone thinks that the credits of this course are easier to get, and there is no need for an exam at the end of the semester.

In addition, I have heard that the salary of university teachers is linked to the number of hours they teach, and many teachers go to other schools to give lectures. Brother Zhou once revealed in class that he had just bought a house, and not only had to repay the loan every month, but also had to spend a lot of money on decoration, so for him, opening an extra course could increase some income. At the same time, being able to take one more class of Brother Zhou is considered a profit for me, so this is a multi-win thing.

The Confucian classics naturally started from the Four Books and the Five Classics, and according to the syllabus of the college entrance examination, the "Analects" and "Mencius" were basically understood when we were in high school, and basically those who took the college entrance examination could blow two sentences with foreigners. And "University" and "The Mean" are from "The Book of Rites", so Brother Zhou taught us to "force" the higher "poems", "books", "rites", "Yi" and "Spring and Autumn" (today's literary scholars believe that there is also "music").

I never dreamed that I would be able to learn hexagram telling from a teacher in a university class. In order to make us have a strong interest in learning this subject, and the "Book of Songs" has been explained in detail in the ancient literature class, Brother Zhou first introduced us to the "Book of Changes", and then divined the hexagram in class.

In the past, when Chinese culture was just emerging, there was such a joke circulating on the Internet, saying that a certain university opened a "Zhou Yi" class, and the teacher took gossip in class, and took the compass to calculate it before class one day and said, "It's not suitable for class today, class is over!" And then it was time to get out of school. I didn't expect me to encounter a similar situation, but Brother Zhou never calculated the hexagram "not suitable for class".

Brother Zhou taught us that plum blossoms are easy to count, which is relatively accurate and the first one, which can be used anytime and anywhere. According to the content of the lecture and notes, when I went back to the dormitory, I tried to take a hexagram for myself, maybe I didn't learn the essence, although it was a hexagram but I couldn't interpret it, and then I even forgot the way to start the hexagram. Divination is only a function of the Xiangshu school, and the Yili school such as Wang Bi, Cheng Yi, and Yang Wanli believe that the Book of Changes has Lao Zhuang thought, Confucianism and even historical facts, which is one of the reasons why it has not become a "feudal superstition".

If you want to say that the Confucian classics that can be used to pretend to be forced, I think it is still the condescending and obscure "Shangshu", first of all, it itself is the most incomplete of the Four Books and Five Classics, and it is also mixed with "Pseudo-Shangshu", not to mention foreigners, even Chinese himself can't understand it. Brother Zhou is also really struggling to talk about this chapter, because he can't explain it thoroughly at all, although he has tried his best to communicate with us in human language, but I am still confused, and I can only take notes carefully.

What interests me the most is "Li", Brother Zhou described to us in detail how people performed the crown ceremony and the faint ceremony during the Zhou Dynasty, and I once began to fantasize that my future marriage would also have to be according to the Zhou Lily: Nacai, asking for names, Naji, Nazheng, inviting dates, and greeting in person...... In addition, Brother Zhou also introduced us to the Shixiang Ceremony, the Township Drinking Ceremony, the Township Shooting Ceremony, the Yan Ceremony, the Big Shooting Ceremony and the funeral ceremony. I think the most fun thing is the village drinking ceremony, the toasting etiquette is quite complicated, if you want to take a sip of wine, you are very particular, and you feel that you are washing the cup throughout the whole process; The most desirable is the village archery, I feel that this is a very positive and healthy party mode, under the auspices of the elders of the archery competition, lose on the drink, compared to the collective mahjong, fight the landlord grade is really more than three levels.

I thought that the part of "Spring and Autumn" was about that period of history, and I thought that I finally didn't have to keep taking notes, after all, I thought I had learned a good amount of history about the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Unexpectedly, the differences and ideas of the five biographies of the main "Spring and Autumn Period" were basically some knowledge that I didn't know, so I had to copy the board book while listening to the lectures, so I couldn't show my "profound" historical knowledge to the "ignorant" female students in class.

Although the course was very interesting, Zhou Geliu's final assignment really bothered me a little, mainly because the topic he gave was too broad, and he only asked us to write an essay with a minimum word count based on the course "Introduction to Confucian Classics". For Brother Zhou's class, I naturally try my best to get as high a score as possible, so I hope that my homework can be extraordinarily outstanding, so I need to write opinions that others can't write.

The first thing that came to my mind was "Shangshu", but after reading two "Yaodian" and "Shundian" on the Internet, I immediately gave up, not only is it difficult to understand the original text, but even if I read the translation, I can't think of any novel ideas, all of which are truths that we have understood since childhood. Later, I thought about writing my favorite "Rites", but I always felt that writing and writing deviated from this course, and it was very likely that it would eventually become a "Zhou Dynasty Wedding Guide". I also thought about the Book of Changes, because I felt that the yin and yang in the eight trigrams were like a binary machine language, and when I played the flute, I found that the number of sound holes on the flute corresponded to the six lines on a hexagram, but I lacked computer knowledge and music theory knowledge, so I couldn't make up the number of words required by Brother Zhou. Besides, I can't even read the hexagrams, if I really want to write about this, I feel that it will only be irrigated, and it will be difficult to win Brother Zhou's favor, and it will even make him think that I didn't listen carefully at all in class, and I still gave up after thinking about it again.

Just when I was at a loss for a clue and started to get anxious, I realized that I was the only one in the dorm room worrying about my final homework, and everyone else was either watching movies or playing games, as if they didn't take the class. After all, in the context of the craze for Chinese studies, the most important thing on the Internet is articles about Confucian classics, and maybe the college itself has the meaning of opening such a course. Anyway, I didn't have an idea for a while, so I put this "task" on hold for the time being.

The squad leader next door came to our dormitory excitedly, and had to take Da Biao and me to see his new game "Ancient Sword Strange Tan". In order to have a good experience, he took up two days of broadband in their dorm room to download the game dubbing. The high-definition picture quality and vivid dubbing made me a little jealous of the display of the class leader next door. Back in my bedroom, I was thinking about my next game, but I just glanced at the game configuration sheet and found that my computer couldn't move at all, so I had to give up. There are three "swords" in domestic RPGs, I played two of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", and I can't play "The Legend of the Ancient Sword", so try "Xuanyuan Sword", maybe this kind of ancient game will have to provide me with some ideas for writing. So I searched on the sharing website of the campus network, and found that there was a "Xuanyuan Sword III: The Other End of the Cloud and Mountain", so I downloaded it first, and then went to Baidu to take a look at the game introduction and strategy.

This game is set around the time of the Anshi Rebellion, and players will follow the protagonist across the Eurasian continent and through the three major civilizations of the East and the West. I was a little nervous because I distinctly remember that there was an important event in this historical and geographical context, and I had been preparing for research since my sophomore year. Sure enough, I saw a very familiar word in the guide: Talas.