The study career of the third year officially began, although I was reluctant to give up the unrestrained life during the holidays, but I finally had to re-enter the state of study. In my freshman and sophomore years, although I listened more carefully in class, I forgot it quickly after class, and my partial subjects were still very serious, so my grades were not particularly ideal, and the experience of failing the course twice made me feel uneasy. Fortunately, the number of open-book exams and essay-style exams began to increase in the sophomore year, so that the terrible thing of failing the course gradually moved away from me. However, the grades given by the teachers in this way of inspection are similar, so I can only maintain them at an average level. Therefore, I urgently need to get a few high grades in the exams to improve my GPA. Everything was arranged for the best and it came!

"Distinguish the academic chapters, test the mirror and the stream", this is the first sentence that our teacher of "Ancient Literature" taught us at the beginning of the class, and I seriously wrote it down in my notes. Since ancient literature and history are not separated, I have always been a representative of history class in middle school, and I have been a representative of history for five whole years, so I have a special feeling for history. What's more, this course will be offered for a whole academic year, and I will be able to satisfy my desire to study and improve my GPA. Thinking of this, I couldn't help grinning, but I was afraid that the female classmates next to me would see me giggling, and then destroy my perfect image of a good student in their hearts, so I quickly rubbed my distorted face with my left hand, pretending to be tickling.

The teacher is a handsome young man who has just graduated from graduate school, wearing glasses and looking like a good teacher, and he should be about thirty years old. For our teachers, we usually call them "brother" and "sister", so we call him Brother Zhou in private.

When Brother Zhou first started lecturing, he still followed the ideas of the textbook, what introduction, learning foundation, learning methods, etc., I also took notes while listening carefully. I began to learn about the four major library buildings of the late Qing Dynasty, the oracle bone inscriptions, the Dunhuang scrolls, the Juyan Han Jian, and the Qing Cabinet library are known as the four major archaeological discoveries, and I also knew that the excavation of the three items of Mawangdui Silk Book, Wangjiatai Qin Jian, and Shangbo Chujian had an important impact on ancient literature...... My knowledge of literary history has been constantly refreshed in the lectures of Zhou Gekou. Unconsciously, the bell rang after class, Brother Zhou didn't delay the class, everything came to an abrupt end, and he left the classroom after sorting out his belongings. I couldn't get enough of it, so I had to close my notes and textbooks, and reluctantly followed Da Biao's squad leader and them back to the dormitory.

In the second class, Brother Zhou asked where we were, briefly ended the last class, and then continued to fill my blank brain with literary knowledge (from our professional point of view, it should be some common sense). Like the history of literature in other countries, the literature of our country also begins with mythology, so this is destined to be a fun class.

Brother Zhou tells us that the difference between Chinese mythology and other regional myths is that there is no complete genealogy of the gods, which is mainly influenced by the Confucian "Yaxun", that is, "Zi Bu Silent Strange Power Chao God", and many of them have been "immortalized" by Taoism. The most preserved of our myths is the Classic of Mountains and Seas, in addition, in books such as "Chu Ci", "Huainanzi", "Corpse", "Liezi" and "Zhuangzi".

The content of what Brother Zhou said is too attractive, and every time he talks about a topic, he will diverge and tell us a lot of the history, literary knowledge, and even wild history. And the board books he wrote often only had a title, and sometimes I didn't even have time to copy the board book, and I often sat alone in the first row, without even a table, so my notes were extremely difficult to remember.

"There is still a certain difference between mythology and our ordinary folk tales and legends." Brother Zhou wrote a few words on the blackboard as he spoke, "Their times have a sequence, and the events of mythology are more singular and authentic ......."

Facticity? I had doubts in my mind, and then I made a bold assumption that if all the myths and stories we know are true, then ...... A picture opened up in my mind:

The descendant of the Yellow Emperor, Dayi, was brought to the Xuanyuan Sword, and when Dayi put his hand on the gene identification device, there was a "drop" sound, and the launch button was unlocked!! Dayi pressed the launch button, and a missile shot into the sky in an instant, pointing directly at the sun. After a loud bang, the sky darkened a little. In Dayi's opinion, this artifact called the Xuanyuan Sword was more like a huge bow and arrow, and he was the one who shot the arrow. As a result, Dayi continued to shoot eight "giant arrows" at the sun in the sky, and the remaining eight artificial suns were also shot and exploded. The surface temperature is finally back to what it used to be. Later, people called the sun-shooting artifact the "Sun-shooting Bow". And because it was the descendants of the Yellow Emperor who shot the sun down, this incident was called "descendants shooting the sun", in order to commemorate Dayi, it was also called "Houyi shooting the sun".

“…… Relative authenticity, strong structure of mythology...... "I was pulled back to reality by Brother Zhou's words. ((I can't let go of the fantasy picture in my mind for a long time, and sometimes I even dream of it, until many years later I wrote it into an article, and the obsession in my heart was slowly resolved, and then there were many short videos about the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" on "Douyin", which made me complacent about my original thoughts.) ）

When I looked up, I found that Brother Zhou was wiping the blackboard again! While some parts have not been wiped yet, quickly straighten up and copy it down. Some of them really can't be rescued, so I thought about copying the textbook, and then I realized that Brother Zhou didn't follow the textbook at all! At least 80% of the content is not in the textbook. But strictly speaking, he is teaching us knowledge in the order of the outline in the textbook, but he directly ignores some irrelevant content. Later, when I thought about it, it was true that it was possible to tell all aspects of Chinese mythology in 90 minutes. Besides, the class time in our junior year is very small, and we don't have the course of ancient literature every day, so how can we teach four textbooks if we don't save some content?

Unexpectedly, while I was flipping through the books, Brother Zhou had already begun to introduce us to the scattered genealogy of the gods in various eras in ancient times, the Fuxi era, the Shennong era, and the Yellow Emperor era...... He was leisurely in front of the podium while writing the board book, and I was already sweating profusely, and I had to straighten up and read the contents of the board book and copy the notes, and then I had to make eye contact with him to make him feel that he was fully respected, and then I had to answer the questions he threw out to deepen my impression in his mind......

In the end, Brother Zhou wrote many names and books on the blackboard, so that if we are interested, we can step on the shoulders of giants, I wrote them down one by one, thinking that I would go to the library to borrow a copy when I have time.

The bell rang again for the end of class, and Brother Zhou, who was writing a board book, stopped his pen directly, and threw the chalk into the chalk box on the podium handsomely: "Get out of class!" Then he packed up his things and went out in style, leaving us to continue copying the unfinished book. Although it has been said since ancient times that the master leads the door to practice in an individual, this kind of shallow way of tasting and stopping makes me, a "little fan", very uncomfortable, and I actually began to dislike the end of class. The three classes of "Ancient Literature" every week have become my motivation for studying, and my notes have become one of the few high-quality editions in our major, which is often favored by girls, and they also start to mistake me for a "scholar".

"Learning makes me happy!" I didn't expect this sentence to be true, studying in high school was purely for exams, and even the history you love needs to learn routines. Under the leadership of Brother Zhou, I greedily shuttled through the 5,000-year-old literary river of China, listening to myths, reciting Chu Ci, chanting Han Fu, reciting Tang poems, singing Song Ci, and tasting novels...... Day by day with Kua's father, he sacrificed to the Eastern Emperor with Qu Yuan, bragged with his son, and accompanied the poet to appreciate the Tang Dynasty...... At that time, I often listened to Chinese style, and there were a lot of poems in the game "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", and soon, writing lyrics and composing pairs became my new hobby after school, and I even fought with my classmates majoring in Chinese language and literature.

In fact, ancient literature has influenced me much more than that......