Chen Ya can understand that everyone has their own answer to these things. Even if it is two identical answers, the subtleties are very different because the people who answer the questions are different.

In the eyes of others, Shi Youliang is an extremely smart person, and she is an extremely hard-working person, but in fact, Chen Ya feels that she is also extremely smart, much smarter than most people.

Chen Ya feels that she may not be a genius, but she is by no means a stupid person, and she is by no means an ordinary person. Because she used to be smarter than everybody. You have to work hard.

In National No. 1 Middle School, among the 12,000 or so students in the school, Chen Ya saw only those who were smarter than her. She admits that she is not as smart as Wen Linxi in many ways, but she does not admit that she is not as smart as Wen Linxi.

She just doesn't have Wen Linxi's courage and courage, and she is very willful without Wen Linxi's family background.

Moreover, she spends too much of her mind on 'folklore'. To put it mildly, folklore is something that has nothing to do with exams.

Chen Ya works hard, at least in the eyes of others. But in fact, few people know that the reason why she works hard in the eyes of others is because she spends her mind on other things where most people can't see.

Chen Ya's secret, even Dong Lin and Wen Linxi don't know, and Wen Yu doesn't know. Among her high school classmates, only Shi Youliang knows, and Shi Youliang can know her secret because Shi Youliang is really knowledgeable, and she can chat with Chen Ya with interest every time.

At the beginning, Chen Ya didn't talk much about these issues, but several times when Shi Liang talked about what he was interested in, Chen Ya couldn't hold back and talked endlessly.

Thus, her interest was revealed.

She thought that Shi Youliang would say: "It fits your image very well" or something like that, but Shi Youliang only said: "Since you like it, why don't you work harder." ”

Shi Youliang said: "Our life is full of uncertainty, no one knows what tomorrow will be like, maybe aliens will invade, maybe the earth will blow itself up." If you are interested, you must do it early. ”

Of course, aliens will not invade, and the Earth will not blow itself up.

However, life is full of uncertainties, for sure.

Shi Youliang told Chen Ya: "Perhaps, after five or ten years, you will never pick up a book about folklore again, and your likes will only be buried in the firewood, rice, oil and salt of life." So, while everything is still what we imagined, let's do it desperately. ”

Shi Youliang gave her a lot of encouragement, so that Chen Ya worked harder to focus on her interests.

Spending more attention on interests did not affect Chen Ya's grades, nor did it make her life tense. On the contrary, Chen Ya felt that she knew more about life than before, and was smarter and smarter than before.

Because Chen Ya did not spend her time studying on her interests, but put her cranky thoughts on her interests. The work efficiency has improved a lot, and the work is more vigorous.

And she felt noticeably more time.

It was also at this time that Chen Ya realized that it was she herself who pushed herself into the fire kang in the past, and she could have lived as she should be, but because she was bound by the chains of the world, she had to cater to the needs of others.

When she broke free from this chain, the sky was clear, and she was finally able to live as she should be.

Shi Youliang looked at Chen Ya's scroll, and said for a long time: "The second question is 'about the folk customs around you'." Your answer surprised me a little, or rather, your answer made me feel like it wasn't your answer.

I know that you have a talent in this area that no one else can match, but from this answer, I think it's really mediocre. Of course, if this is someone else's answer, the answer of someone who doesn't like folklore, then it's already very good. But you're Chen Ya, and your interest and talent in folklore weren't much at the time, I'm sure.

And you have answered this question with such an answer, which is really sorry for your past efforts and wasted your talent. ”

Chen Ya was a little aggrieved and silent.

It's not because Shi Youliang said too much, but she knows that everything Shi Youliang said is the truth.

She has a talent for it, and it's the proudest of all her talents. However, she answered this answer. I thought it was good at the time. But when the roll came down, she saw that there were only eight points, and when she saw her answer, Chen Ya asked herself|: What did you think at that time? Why do I write that, I should have a better answer. I already have a better answer.

She remembered: during the exam, she kept thinking in her heart: This is the field I am best at, so I have to rely on it better than everyone else, at least this question is better than all the answers.

She first wrote the answers on scratch paper and then on a paper.

Of course, the answers written on the paper were revised, and she thought they were perfect. Because in this school, there will definitely be no one who knows folklore better than her, and even if she is good, she will definitely not be better than her in this area.

When she confidently wrote her answer on the paper, she didn't even think, "Is my answer so perfect and appropriate?" ”

Because she's very confident, she's confident that it's all perfect. And perfection doesn't need any reason, no need for any change, because we ourselves are constantly striving for perfection.

Chen Ya didn't expect that the 'most perfect' answer she wrote was precisely the most imperfect part of this volume. Because it is so perfect, there is not a single flaw in perfection, so the imperfection is also exposed.

Imperfection is rejected by her like garbage on the road. However, even the garbage on the road is still packed in beautiful garbage cans.

Therefore, imperfection cannot be rejected, it must be covered up, this is the only way to cover up imperfection.

Shi Youliang looked at the scroll and said to Chen Ya: "What you write is the folk customs that everyone in this city can see, indeed, even if you are a foreign teacher, as long as you wear it in this city for a year and a half, he will know these things you write, and in terms of words, you do reflect the most real situation in the most concise language, which can be said to be an answer to 'Lu's Spring and Autumn'."

However, this is where it fails the most, because you write the best answer, so teachers may feel that this is not your answer. Because, you have never shown knowledge of this. Moreover, the answer to this question is obviously different from the previous one. The specifications are not half a star. That's all I have to say. ”

Of course Chen Ya knew, she already knew these when the curls came down.

She didn't call Shi Youliang out for this, but for something more important, and first, she hoped that Shi Youliang could expand her knowledge in this area. Chen Ya is confident that no one is better than her in terms of folklore. But when it comes to the breadth of knowledge, she is much better than she was.

In addition, for Chen Ya, this is also an opportunity to be alone with the times. The excuse is reasonable, the reason is legitimate, what can be done, who wants to give up.

Chen Ya said, "Well, I know. I want you to tell me about this, about sacrifice in a wide breadth. ”

Shi Youliang had already guessed that this was the result, and nodded:

The different nationalities constitute the sacrificial culture of each style. The sacrifices of various ethnic groups throughout the ages are a historical and cultural art. Since ancient times, the objects of worship have been divided into three categories: heavenly gods, earthly gods, and human gods. The gods are worshipped, the earth is only sacrificed, and the temple is enjoyed.

In ancient times, "the gods are not of the same kind, and the people are not of the same race", and there was a strict hierarchy of sacrifices. The gods and the earth are only sacrificed by the monarch, the princes and doctors sacrifice to the mountains and rivers, and the shishu sacrifices to the ancestors and the god of the stove. Therefore, "sacrifice" also means to worship the gods, pray to the gods, and worship the ancestors.

The word sacrifice focuses on reporting to the ancestors to heaven and earth.

The focus of the ritual is to hope that the ancestors of heaven and earth will give new guidance, teachings and inspiration to their new work in the future. In the upper part of the sacrifice, on the left is the flesh, on the right is a hand, and below is the god. Worship, on the left is the god, and on the right is the temple.

Si also, April, Yang Qi out, Yin Qi hidden, all things see, into an article, so Si is a snake, pictogram. In Chinese culture, yang is auspicious and yin is evil.

The gods in history and culture do not refer to the kind of monsters that are personified, but the natural forces that dominate the creation of yin and yang.

The object of sacrifice is the gods, and the generation of the gods has its own development process.

In the early days of mankind, people were mysterious and fearful of natural objects and all natural phenomena.

The changes in the heavens, the movement of the sun and the moon, the mountains, rocks, trees, birds and animals on the earth are all regarded as dominated by gods, so the concept of animism has emerged.

These gods both nurture the growth of mankind and pose a threat to the survival of mankind; Human beings are grateful to these gods, but at the same time they are afraid of them, so they worship these many gods and ask them to be blessed and spared.

The goodness of creation can be called gods, and the hidden traces of creation are called ghosts. Feng Zen refers to the sacrifice to the heavens and the earth, the monarch reports his work to the heaven and the earth, and the objects of sacrifice we usually mention are the gods of nature and the gods of ancestors.

The Book of Rites. Qu Li said: "If it is not sacrificed but sacrificed, it is called obscenity." Obscenity is not blessed. In other words, this kind of obscenity will not only not be blessed, but on the contrary, it will cause disaster.

Animism forms polytheistic worship, and the most basic three elements of the ancient Chinese cosmology are heaven, earth, and man.

"Zhou Li, Chun Guan" records that the highest priesthood of the Zhou Dynasty, "Da Zongbo", was "in charge of the heavenly gods, human ghosts, and earth gifts of the state". "Historical Records and Book of Rites" also says: "The heavens and the earth, respecting the ancestors and honoring the monarch are the three books of rites."