When they came to the main room, Ziyan had just arrived, and the brother and sister bent down to greet their father and mother, "The child greets his father." ”

"Well, let's get up. You have to be careful when you go to school, the Song family has strict rules, and if you don't learn well, you have to be beaten by the board, but Brother Yan is okay to adapt to? ”

Song Zhengtian asked Ziyan because the Song family's ethnology is very strict, especially for boys, not only to study, but also to learn the six arts of a gentleman, of which martial arts are a must.

The Song family is a big clan inheritance is the old rule, all boys must have both civil and military skills, it is said that there was no unification in the past, when the local separatist princes occupied one side, almost all the children are both civil and military.

Because the family not only has to read and understand the truth, but also learn to manage their own fiefdoms, and even carry a knife to the battlefield at any time to deal with the enemy who invades and forcibly occupies the territory, and protect their fiefdom.

The impression that the literati are weak is not right at all, and the six arts of the gentleman refer to etiquette, music, archery, royalty, calligraphy, and mathematics.

Etiquette is etiquette, five rites;

Music is six music;

Archery is military archery, which is five shots: white arrow, Shenlian, Yanzhu, Xiangqi, and Jingyi.

The royal is to command the military chariot, for the five royals.

Books are calligraphy.

Numbers are arithmetic, and there are nine chapters of arithmetic that are famous.

Martial arts riding and archery is a necessary lesson among the six arts of a gentleman, and the gentleman's gentleman means a noble son, not a weak scholar.

It's just that later generations of civil officials paid attention to Confucianism, and after reunification, there was no longer a need for civilian officials to go to the battlefield, and there were military generals charging ahead, which gradually evolved into a civil death and military death.

And many families still inherit the old rules, attach great importance to their children's martial arts, and are extremely strict and serious about the teaching of the six arts of the gentleman.

Ziyan smiled: "Thanks to the good foundation laid in my grandfather's house, I have become accustomed to martial arts, and I don't feel too hard, and my son can still adapt." ”

"Well, I don't want to be able to go to the battlefield like your uncle, but at least I want to be able to protect myself and my daughter. When I was a father, I also studied boxing seriously.

That set of boxing is the authentic boxing method of Wudang Mountain, Zhongzheng is peaceful and powerful, which is very suitable for boys to learn. ”

Song Zhengtian was smiling, with a look of reminiscence in his eyes, and he always felt a little nostalgic when he remembered the hard work of his youth.

"Dad, you can also martial arts?"

Zilan asked with round eyes in surprise.

"Of course, the six arts of riding and archery are compulsory courses, how can you not learn them."

Song Zhengtian looked at her with a very strange look at the question you asked.

"Oh, Daddy is amazing."

Zilan clapped her hands and smiled, it seemed that she was not good enough at history, she really thought that scholars did not learn martial arts, it turned out to be wrong.

Song Zhengtian understood what was going on when he saw his daughter's expression, and suddenly said with a smile: "It is not easy for a poor child to be able to study the imperial examination, and the six arts of a gentleman can't afford to learn at all, so he can only choose his own existing one, and practicing calligraphy well is already the ultimate."

This is also the reason why it is not easy for the children of the poor family to get ahead, and the scholars are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the famous family must be headed by more than ten generations, and there are talents in each generation; The house of cultivation and reading is second; The family of poetry and books has been lowered by one level, and the rich heirloom is only three generations. ”

Song Zhengtian stopped when he said this, and looked at the two children with a smile.

Song Ziyan thought for a while and said, "Our family is a family of cultivation and reading. ”

"Yes, that's right, we are a family of cultivators, and we are not qualified enough to be a noble family."

Song Zhengtian responded calmly.

Zilan nodded uncontrollably after hearing it on the side, and finally understood why Song Zhengtian was able to face the Hou Mansion calmly, because the Song family was not half a point worse than the Hou Mansion. The Song family relied on the heritage, while the Hou Mansion relied on military merits and the emperor's favor.

The Song family has been inherited for eight generations, and there are no five generations in the current dynasty, so you can imagine where the connotation of this can be explained in one sentence.

The Song family has its own library cabinet, and the collection of books in it has reached the point of a large number, and every year the children go to the library to dry the books and clean up the books to avoid damage to the books, and there is a special person to take care of the library.

Disciples of this family can borrow books but write notes, and if they do not return them within a specified date, they will be punished, and those who damage books will be beaten.

Important books are not borrowed, you can read but you can't take out the library pavilion, foreign disciples can only copy books, and the books copied after learning can not be taken away, this is a resource belonging to the Song family is not allowed to flow out.

"It turns out that our family is so powerful."

Zilan knew something about the Song family for the first time, and she always said that it was a big family, but in fact, she didn't understand what a real big family was.

Yang touched her head and smiled happily, "Otherwise, why would your grandfather do everything possible to make me a registered concubine, I was raised by your grandmother from the beginning of the grass, just hoping to elevate my identity and marry with the big family."

Many intangible benefits after this marriage are also unimaginable to outsiders, so it is said that the rules of reading are imperceptibly brought into the house.

It has played a good role in restricting and promoting children, simply put, it is to follow who learns what to do, and to follow good people to learn the rules. ”

Zilan nodded suddenly, her grandfather is very far-sighted, and there are many benefits to marrying the Song family, the most direct thing is that the rules can be shown from the child's body, and it is also an example for his own children.

"Lan'er will start to learn the rules of the Song family in a few days, it may be more complicated, if you don't understand, just ask, my Song family pays attention to the girl's dignified atmosphere, brave and strong, and I don't like to be soft and soft. No one will blame you for being a little sweeter. ”

Song Zhengtian also mentioned his daughter.

"Yes, my daughter remembers."

After her father and mother finished teaching, she began to have breakfast, and Zilan keenly found that it was different from Yang's mansion, and even the subordinates had many rules for the celadon dishes of Yishui.

When serving, the servants should kneel on the ground and put the dishes on the table with their hands, and the maids should wear narrow-sleeved gowns to facilitate their work. When serving vegetables, hold a small plate in your left hand and pick up the vegetables in your right hand to avoid spilling the soup. After finishing the dish, the body takes a step back.

"Your uncle and grandfather know that we don't have enough minions, so he specially gave us a few, and you should be more familiar with them when they serve in the house in the future."

Song Zhengtian wanted them to be familiar with etiquette and rules, so as not to be ridiculed and sparsely behaved.

In Yang's house, Zilan can be held in her grandmother's arms to eat, but this is not allowed in the Song family.

If you can't be independent, you will be taken care of by your grandmother, and you can eat by yourself when you eat, and your mother can't hold it, for fear that she will be too pampered and her temperament will be too weak.

Yang saw that his daughter was a little uncomfortable, "Don't be nervous, your father said that the family should set rules, so that you can familiarize yourself with the etiquette of the Song family."

You will have to meet many friends in the future, and it will be good for you to familiarize yourself with these things as soon as possible, and you will soon learn these things. ”

"Yes."

After eating breakfast, she rinsed her mouth with mint water, and Mu Xiang put on a silver ratskin cloak embroidered with azure orchids for her, and it was still a little cold in the early spring season.

"It turns out that our family rules are so heavy, I didn't know it before."

Ziyan shook his head, "I don't know, I went and found that my cousins are all lofty, and their gestures are all noble, I think this is because of the immersion on weekdays, this is not something that can be learned in a day or two."

No wonder Daddy doesn't worry about inviting you to grandma, and the Song family doesn't need grandma in the palace. ”