"The Four People's Moon Order" has clouds: before the agricultural work started, the children were ordered to enter the Taixue and learn the "Five Classics"; Learn the law and be prepared, don't read books. Yan Bing released and ordered young children to enter primary school and learn chapters. ”

After the morning meal, Wu Yong took He Lian, Cheng Zhao and his two younger sisters He Ye He Cao to the Mengxue School in Lizhong, and on the way Wu Yong asked what the education was like at this time.

The group was the oldest in the group, so they opened their mouths to answer Wu Yong's questions.

After hearing this, Wu Yong asked suspiciously, "What is the Five Classics?" ”

He felt as if he had heard the name of the Pentateuch in later generations, but he was afraid that it would be different from what he remembered, so he asked He Lian.

"The Five Classics refer to the five classics of the Book of Songs, the Book of Songs, the Book of Rites, the Book of Rites, the Book of Changes, and the Spring and Autumn Period." He Lian didn't want to answer.

After Wu Yong heard this, he thought to himself: "Isn't this the poetry and book ceremony Yi Chunqiu mentioned in later generations." Unexpectedly, there were five classics at this time, and the five classics plus four books have been passed down for more than 2,000 years. ”

However, he still had a question, so he asked He Lian: "How is this adult child and a young child distinguished?" ”

At this time, there was no need for He Lian to answer, Cheng Zhao interjected: "Young children are nine to fourteen years old, and they have been studying for five years. Adult children are between 15 and 19 years old, and men can go to Taixue for five years.

When he was nineteen, the man saw the right and crowned. After the crown, after another year of study, the study of the Five Classics is enough, and after that, there is no need for the teacher to teach, and it is all on your own to study and become enlightened. ”

After listening to Cheng Zhao's words, and then according to the information in his memory, Wu Yong suddenly realized that children nowadays are adults after they reach the age of fifteen. At this time, the rule of the imperial court was that when you were a child, you should be lightly punished.

The man is to dissolve the original horns, tie them into a bunch, and tie up the hair and coil it on the top of the head, which is referred to as a bundle of hair. Of course, after this bundle of hair, it is also to identify himself, and he will no longer be an idle person in the future.

For example, those whose families are relatively wealthy, after they become children, they can go to Taixue for study.

However, this Taixue is generally in the county seat, and it is not possible for the children of ordinary people to go to the county seat to study. This is not only a lot of cost, but also has a certain social relationship, after all, there is a Taixue in a county, and not anyone who wants to study can enter it.

Adult children who can enter Taixue to study, the next five years of reading career. Adult children who cannot enter Taixue are just like ordinary children, getting married and having children, and passing on their ancestry.

There are also those adult children who are not well-off, and after the man ties his hair, he has to contribute to the livelihood of the family, and most of them will soon get married and have children, and they will have to run for the livelihood for the rest of their lives.

After becoming children, men still have a variety of choices, but women are different, there is only one way waiting for them, and that is to get married.

After a girl becomes a child, that is, when she is fifteen years old, she will hold a coming-of-age ceremony, which is called "and 笄", and "笄" is a hairpin, and the hair is tied up, indicating that she has become an adult. And after the ceremony, the woman can get married.

If a woman says I won't marry at this time, then you can't help it. The government stipulates that if a woman does not marry after the age of fifteen, she must pay an additional fine of 600 yuan to the court every year.

You must know that nowadays, these 600 yuan actually still have considerable purchasing power, and ordinary people only have 5,000 yuan a year.

If an ordinary person is fined because his daughter is unable to marry, it is very unwilling, so the people nowadays have already found a good in-law before their daughter is fifteen years old, on the one hand, to find a relatively suitable home for their daughter, and on the other hand, to avoid the government's punishment for themselves.

Thinking of this, Wu Yong thought of He Lian's life experience again. He's father died of a sudden illness, so he didn't have time to set up a family affair for He Lian, which was also the main reason why He Lian would be kicked out by his uncle.

Because it won't be long before He Lian will reach the year of Ji Lu and will have to pay taxes. Someone should ask, why do you have to drive people out if you marry out?

Nowadays, people pay more attention to filial piety, parents die, children have the rule of keeping filial piety for three years, and they cannot talk about marriage during the period of filial piety.

At this time, Wu Yong suddenly thought that it seemed that in the Han Dynasty, women could also be educated, so he didn't care that the four people who followed him were all girls, so he couldn't help but ask.

He Lian glanced at him and said softly: "Where did you hear this fallacy, who said that women can't be educated." Empress Deng opened an official school in the sixth year of the early Yuan Dynasty, and ordered that men and women over the age of five could enter the Mongolian school, but this official school accepted all the daughters of the clan and relatives. Later, the folk imitated that when children were in school, both men and women could go to school, so you should not underestimate women. ”

"I'm not ashamed, my brother is not as literate as my little sister Cao'er now." The eldest sister He Ye grimaced at Wu Yong, obviously Wu Yong's words made her angry, and she didn't care about He Lian's lesson in the morning.

Wu Yong realized that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly apologized to the four girls, and then boasted: "Don't look at me that I haven't entered Mengxue, in fact, I have learned all those bamboo slips in Taixu, and I can recognize many words, but I can't write them, and I plan to give my name a word, called Wu Yanzu." ”

He Lian taught angrily: "How can anyone choose words for themselves!" Since ancient times, men have been crowned at the age of twenty and given by their teachers. Don't mess around, or I'll have to deal with my mother. ”

Wu Yong knew that she wouldn't report it, so she didn't take it seriously, and asked with a smile: "What about the woman, when will there be words?" ”

He Lian glanced at him, then lowered her head and whispered: "It is recorded in the Book of Rites and Qu Lishang, 'When a woman is married, she will be written'. ”

This is very easy to understand, that is, a woman must have a husband's family in order to have words, so in the period after the ceremony and before marriage, the state of an adult woman is called "waiting for words" or "waiting for words in the boudoir".

When the woman finds her husband's house, she should choose a 'word' for the woman to facilitate the title between relatives in the future.

Like He Lian, whose biological father died and lived with his stepmother, it is very unlikely that he will take the 'word'. And she seems to like this titular brother now, which makes her very entangled.

Wu Yong saw her lost expression, so he joked: "Why don't I give you a word, and you will be called He Yuhuan in the future!" ”

After He Lian heard this, she looked at him blankly, and all kinds of feelings came to her heart, some ashamed, some happy, and a little confused.

The two young girls quit and clamored for Wu Yong to give them words too.

Wu Yong thought for a moment and said, "Since Sister A's name is Yuhuan, then He Ye is called Golden Lock, and He Cao is called Silver Butterfly." ”

Seeing the envy in Cheng Zhao's eyes again, he said, "Sister Xiao Zhao, I will be called Sister Yuanyuan in the future." ”

The four of them talked and laughed and soon came to the Mengxue School, in fact, the school was in the middle of Fuwang, that is, the location next to the Zhuo family.

At that time, the Zhuo family was not prosperous, and Zhuo Wenxuan's father discussed with Lidian at that time and built a school for the remaining homestead of the Zhuo family.

Another advantage of this location is that when the villagers come to the well pavilion to draw water, they can hear the sound of children reading aloud.

No, as soon as Wu Yong arrived at Zhuo's house, he heard a burst of crisp voices.

"Song Yannian, Zheng Zifang, Wei Yishou, Shi Buchang, Zhou Qianqiu, Zhao Ruqing, Zhan Zhanshi, Gao Pibing......"

Wu Yong walked to the door with the four sisters, and saw Zhuo Tao kneeling in front of a low table, on which a bamboo slip was placed, and he led the children to read it over and over again while comparing the contents of the bamboo slip.

Seeing that the room was full of children younger than Zhuo Tao, Wu Yong did not disturb them reading, but continued to walk to the next room.

There was also a recitation, "Ninety-nine-eighty-one, eighty-nine-seventy-two, seventy-nine-sixty-three, six-nine-fifty-four......"

Wu Yong listened to it for a while, but he was reciting the ninety-nine multiplication formula, just "one by one" with later generations...... The difference is that they recite in a completely opposite order, that is, from "ninety-nine-eighty-one" to "one by one".

Wu Yong left again and came to the door of the third room, where he was also reciting, but his voices were inconsistent with each other, "Jiazi, Yichou, Bingyin, Ding Mao, Wuchen, Jisi, Gengwu, Xin Wei......"

Wu Yong listened for a while and didn't understand what this was for.

At this time, He Lian saw that his brows were tightly knit, so he reminded in a low voice: "This is the Liujia book, which is the ten heavenly stems (A, B, C, D, E, G, G, XIN, REN, and 癸) and the twelve earthly branches (Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai) in turn to obtain sixty Jiazi. ”

Wu Yong was stunned. Nodding to her, he made his way to the door of the last room.

At this time, his uncle Zhuo Wenxuan was kneeling in front of the low desk and explaining to the children below.

"The three cangs belong to Li Si's "Cangjie Chapter", Zhao Gao's "Calendar Chapter" and Hu Mujing's "Erudite Chapter", all 3,300 words. Today, let's review the fifth chapter of "Cangjie Chapter", Han and the world, and the sea and the toilet......"

Zhuo Wenxuan's explanation was very vivid and interesting, and he quoted allusions, not only the children were very fascinated by it, but Wu Yong at the door was also stupid.

Unconsciously, Zhuo Wen's lecture ended, and then he found Wu Yong and his party at the door, so he asked the children in the house to continue to study, and he walked towards Wu Yong.

Although the children in the house also saw Wu Yong and the others, none of them dared to talk to each other, so they all picked up the bamboo slips in their hands and read them in a low voice.

Zhuo Wenxuan called the five people to a place where the children on the side could not see, and then asked, "How many of you are here to study?" ”

Wu Yong and the four nodded, only He Lian shook his head and said, "Don't hide it from uncle, He Lian has finished studying Mengxue, so there is no need to read it again." ”

Zhuo Wenxuan nodded and said with a smile: "It's okay if you come, there are a lot of children, I'm a little too busy, you can also help take care of these children, I see that they listen to you very much." ”

He Lian nodded and agreed. Since Wu Yong came to Mengxue to study, she must follow every day, rather than doing nothing, it is better to help Zhuo Wenxuan take care of the children and study.

Zhuo Wenxuan was also very happy to see He Lian agree, but he had seen He Lian's knowledge, and even he admired it a little. Turning his head and saying to Wu Yong, "I know that you have learned a lot of inheritances in the Taixu Immortal Realm over the years that even I don't understand, but don't be arrogant, there is no one in your eyes. ”

After a pause, Zhuo Wenxuan asked, "Do you know why you want to learn?" ”

Wu Yong shook his head, in the later life, he studied just to be admitted to the university, and as for why he studied, he never seemed to have failed to take the exam.

At this time, I heard Zhuo Wen sigh: "When people are naïve and childish, they can't stand up for their whole nature unless they seek the original teacher." The young and the young will be foolish, and the foolish will act in vain; A fool walks in vain, and cannot protect himself. This is the foundation of Mongolian learning, and you must remember it in the future. ”

Wu Yong nodded, indicating that he would do so.

Then Zhuo Wenxuan asked again: "I guess you also passed by the first few schools just now, do you know why you want to teach children to learn ninety-nine and memorize Liujia?" ”

Wu Yong shook his head, how can there be anyone who will learn Liujia in the future, there is no need to learn the ninety-nine formula, and a calculator can do it.

Zhuo Wenxuan saw that he didn't know anything about it, so he said helplessly: "The ancients said: Learn the Liujia and Wufang calligraphy, and know the festival of the parents and children in the room. You should follow Zhuo Tao and recite "First Aid" first. ”