The Eighteenth Century of Xuyang in the Red Chamber

Seeing that Chongya's school was about to start, Ji Shanchang suddenly asked Xu Yang to shorten the time for studying, and freed up time for him to study the six arts suddenly.

Too bad!Obviously Xu Yang's cheap uncle, Lin Ruhai, Ji Shanchang's serious disciple, is a weak scholar, but at this moment, what is required of him, a junior who can't even be called a disciple, is not the primary six arts but the senior six arts! !To put it bluntly, Xiaoliuyi is nothing more than restraining books. "Yi", "Book", "Poetry", "Ritual", "Le" and "Spring and Autumn" are things that scholars should learn.But the big six arts are much more exaggerated, rites, music, archery, imperial, calligraphy, math...

It sounds like there are only six items, but you really only know etiquette, can read music scores, can shoot arrows, can ride a horse and drive a car, and can read and write?Go dreaming!The six arts of a gentleman, those who have these six skills can become a gentleman... Well, this is Xu Yang's nonsense, but these six arts are really too cheating.Because of the difficulty of cheating, from generation to generation, fewer and fewer people learn according to the real six arts, and are limited to those few books, saying that they have all the six arts after reading those books...

The six major arts are really too difficult, and each item has a very detailed classification.For example, ceremony, don't think that "ritual" means how to stand and how to walk... Just like on TV, you can ask an old lady to teach you, it's pure nonsense!Is the head of the six arts just for fun?This is a series of etiquette systems! (Note 1)

Ji Lianjiang himself didn't have time to teach Xu Yang, so he discussed with Lin Ruhai and invited an old Confucian scholar, Mr. Meng, to teach him these trivial things. When Xu Yang inquired, this Mr. Meng was actually the direct descendant of Yasheng's family tree. Xu Yang was so frightened that his legs trembled before going to class.

Lin Ruhai is also helpless: "These things, if you have a serious teacher, you should have taught them slowly while teaching the Four Books and Five Classics since you were a child... But now that you are so old, but you have only been enlightened not long ago, you just want to I’m sorry to ask you a famous teacher! Fortunately, the teacher spoke for you and invited Mr. Meng to come over. Mr. Meng just lost his grandson last year. He was in a bad mood and in poor health. He didn’t have the energy to continue in the academy Teaching, I feel even more miserable when I am free. The teacher and Mr. Meng have been friends for many years, and I also want to find some fun for him to distract him. Naturally, you are not qualified to be his disciple. It is just an old man who has nothing to teach when you are idle. You can relax by the way! You can just call him Grandpa Meng."

This Mr. Meng is a well-known Confucian, he indulged in mountains and rivers all his life, and played around.Although he has never participated in the imperial examination, he has taught 9 Jinshi, one of whom is still the number one scholar.When I was old, I lost my energy and walked around. When I passed by Yangzhou, I was invited by my old friend Mr. Ji Lianjiang to stay and teach at Chongya Academy. Who knew that a while ago, I got news from my hometown that the prodigy grandson who was only 14 years old and was admitted to the scholar actually left. , the old man collapsed all of a sudden, and it took him a long time to get up, but he didn't have the energy to go to class.

Although Chief Ji Shan hired someone to take care of him, the old man was in a bad mood and couldn't be happy at all. Most of the students in the academy were adults, and even if they were by his side, few were lively.Finally, I remembered that Lin Ruhai complained a while ago, saying that his nephew had been in Fanbang for a long time, like a living monkey... So he slapped his head and called Lin Ruhai, and asked him to personally invite Mr. Meng to live in his house, by the way Teach nephew.Ji Shanchang’s mind is indeed different from that of ordinary people. He thought that since Xu Yang came back from Fanbang, he must know a lot about the local customs and customs outside. Mr. Meng likes traveling the most, and the two donkey friends must speak the same language, how wonderful !There is no need for his old man to teach Xu Yang anything else, just teach him our etiquette, and the work is quite leisurely...and Xu Yang tells him the customs of foreign countries, how happy it is!

Mr. Meng's work is really leisurely, and he is happier. This kid has a very lively personality and knows a lot of things, but it's really interesting!But Xu Yang really felt that he was suffering to death.After such a great master came to teach him, Alexander, can you not be forced?

What's even more tragic is that the courses that the old man needs to teach are relatively loose, but the old man kept asking him about the customs of Fanbang, which made Xu Yang really want to kneel.Can you ask me something normal, sir!The queen gave birth and asked the ministers, knights, jockeys and the emperor to come to see it. That's right, it's France, and it's indeed a barbaric rule, but hey, old man, you said contemptuously, "It's really a barbarian", while your eyes are full of eyes. What's with the curious look?Hey, you are eighty, don't be so wretched, okay?

That's why Xu Yang felt more and more that the ancients really talked about etiquette and obscenity.Seeing that the old man's snow-white beard is almost a foot long, when asked about Fanbang's etiquette, it's either a sauna or a woman giving birth...

To be honest, Xu Yang really wronged Mr. Meng to death. He has only had an old wife all his life, and he doesn't even have half a confidante. The three sons and two daughters are all lived by the old wife alone. He travels around because of him. It happened after his wife passed away 36 years ago. At that time, Mr. Meng was only in his 30s, but he refused to remarry.The old man really couldn't be more serious, he is really a model of morality.It's just that the old man is open-minded, likes to travel, and his favorite thing to explore is the customs and customs of various places.He is very interested in Europa, but he really doesn't understand it. He has never been abroad, and the information in this era is really blocked.So Mr. Meng has always felt that those yellow-haired, red-brown, white-skinned and tall people seem to be from the same country. Occasionally meeting someone who can speak Chinese is like a treasure.

But who are the Europeans Mr. Meng met?He is a sailor or something. He has stayed in Guangdong for a while. Dajiang's business policy is relatively loose. There are also missionaries there, but most of them are sailors and businessmen.Ask them about the customs, aren't these people good gossip?Gossip, this thing is naturally gossip about other people, for example, the Italians will say that the British are small island turtles, and they are the ugliest in Europe; those who come from Bavaria will curse the French for being barbaric, and the queen has to give birth to a child. A group of people can only confirm that it is not a wild species; of course, there are proud Finns who claim that their people will be steamed in a steamer and then jump into the ice hole to swim to exercise, and someone took a vase with a nude woman to sell it to the old man …So really don’t blame the old man for always asking about these weird customs. In fact, the people who told him are picking up these messy things and talking about them. In his eyes, there is nothing normal about Europa.

At this moment, Xu Yang heard Mr. Meng finished a bunch of etiquettes for greeting people, his eyes became mosquito-repellent eyes, and then he saw the old man ask someone to bring a lyre over.I almost vomited blood immediately, didn't I say that I would learn the piano again after a while?The old gentleman said: "You will go to Chongya tomorrow, but your mountain chief doesn't have many classes, and you don't go there for two hours every day. Learn the rhythm early, so that you can get acquainted with everyone later and sing a tune. It would be too embarrassing!" Xu Yang burst into tears, not only to practice the piano, but also to learn to sing ditties?Is it easy to be a cultural person these days?But thinking about Jia Baoyu having to drink and sing with those friends at a party, I suddenly feel that this skill still needs to be burnt...

Xu Yang has a good voice, but he is so entangled in reading the score... I know the stave notation, but what is this thing?Hey, I just want to be a scholar first, not going to be a musician!And this piano, my hands hurt from playing it!Seeing that sister Lin can play fluently at such a young age, hey, is there anything else she can't do?Xu Yang gritted his teeth and thought to himself: Sister Lin, what is her IQ?How old are you, this kind of versatility is really against the sky!

But grumbles are grumbles.Xu Yang's life is really fulfilling, Lin Ruhai's communication level is several grades higher than his parents in the 21st century!I also want to know, his own father is just a bureau chief, what level is it in this era?Master Wang in Yangzhou city is the assistant official of Lord Gu, the magistrate, and under the magistrate, he is in charge of Yangzhou's grain, tax, household registration and other affairs. Now he is equal to the sum of several bureau chiefs in a big city, more than Xu Yang. My father is a polished bureau chief with a lot of cows, what grade is it?Positive Qipin.At the same time, Zheng Qipin is also the grade of the county magistrate. Of course, the county magistrate also has a master book, but this master book is completely different from the Yangzhou master book...

Saying this is just to emphasize one point, Xu Yang's parents are also doing well, but they really can't compare with Lin Ruhai!He is a third-rank official, half a rank lower than the secretary of the provincial party committee (from the second-rank governor)!So Lin Ruhai hired him a few teachers casually, and it is impossible for him to be an ordinary person...Of course, this is an accident for Mr. Meng. It is definitely not qualified to be someone else's apprentice, but this kid is really lucky.Ji Shanchang originally asked him to follow because of his affection, but he just happened to catch up with Mr. Meng's current special state. As a result, Xu Yang was taken advantage of. Before he went to school seriously, he had another old man who was not a teacher but a teacher.

It was only these few days that Xu Yang found out that his riding teacher, Mr. Hu, was actually a retired Imperial Army instructor!God, isn't this a master of Lin Chong's level?After asking, I found out that the instructors of the Imperial Army are not that great. There are thousands of instructors in the 10 Imperial Army, which is equivalent to the current platoon leader.However, the cavalry platoon leader of the Imperial Army, um, is quite awesome!This instructor Hu is a native of Yangzhou. He retired and returned to his hometown when he was in his 30s because he felt that his physical fitness had declined and he missed his hometown. His wife is the daughter of his old colleague. She is also good at riding and martial arts, so I made it for Lin Daiyu by the way. Riding teacher.

Of course, Coach Hu’s work is much more arduous than his wife’s. In addition to teaching Xu Yang how to ride a horse, he also has to teach him archery and some simple martial arts. He spends an hour and a half every day dedicated to practicing. When Xu Yang goes out, he has to follow him from time to time. , can be regarded as half a bodyguard; Mrs. Hu just led Lin Daiyu for a walk every morning before she went to school and played a few tricks.Therefore, the salaries of the two are also very different. Teacher Hu is 12 taels, and Mrs. Hu is 5 taels. The couple can get 17 taels of silver a month together, and each of them has two sets of clothes from the inside to the outside for each season. Living in the mansion, the Lin family's big kitchen delivered the meals, and sent two women to wait on them.Xu Yang was speechless when he heard it, what a high salary and high benefits!

So Lin Ruhai is really a rare and peerless good father!Although this era is not as strict as the Qing Dynasty's rules for women in history, but the father who is an official can hire a master for his daughter to let her learn how to ride a horse, that is really one in a million!

Although Xu Yang wears wrist guards, his hands are constantly being scarred by reins, bows, and pianos these days.Mrs. Xu was so distressed that she burst into tears. She hugged him several times and said that she would stop studying. This was more suffering than Lin Ruhai suffered when she was a child.

But although Xu Yang is delicate, he is not a person who gives up halfway. On the one hand, he hopes to integrate into this world quickly, so he is tired, but he still dare not relax.On the other hand, Lin Ruhai even told him about his health problems. Lin Ruhai is not in good health, and their family is not in good health, so I hope Xu Yang will be healthy and healthy, and he will always support him!Xu Yang also agrees very much. When he was ill, he deeply felt that the medical conditions in ancient times were really unreliable. A single cold could kill a person. It is better to exercise well and not get sick at all.

The ancients did pay attention to morality and believed that morality was more important than talent.When Xu Yang was ignorant and ignorant, he had already left the impression of "benevolence" in Mr. Ji's heart. Otherwise, Lin Ruhai's face alone, no matter how smart he is, after all, he was delayed for too long, so he was not a serious apprentice. It is not so easy for Mr. Ji to take the juniors casually.

Lin Daiyu goes to school happily every day, and Xu Yang is also very busy. He gets up in the morning to run to warm up, and then practice riding and archery for a while. Back to Lin Mansion for lunch. After lunch, there is a short noon nap, and then I have to go to Mr. Meng to learn etiquette, learn how to play the piano and sing little songs (hey!!!), and tell cute stories to the old man by the way. Of course, most of the time is also Studying, after all, Mr. Meng is also a great Confucian. He said that he came to teach for fun, and he was serious when he taught, so he taught everything.Xu Yang didn't want to waste his eyes too much. It's not easy to wear glasses when his eyes are broken in this ghost age, so he spent most of his time practicing riding and archery in the dark. If he still has energy after training, he will go again. Playing the piano, singing, and howling ghosts and wolves made it impossible for the whole yard to go to bed early.

Time is such a thing that the busier you are, the faster it will pass, and it will soon be Jingzhe, so Xu Yang happily changed into a plain cotton robe, ran to Mr. Ji's house, and followed him to Chongya Academy.

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The author has something to say:

Mr. Meng, he is also a relatively important person, who taught Xu Yang many things.

Under his seemingly free and easy appearance, there is a traditional and upright heart.

Speaking of etiquette, I suddenly remembered that yesterday a relative asked me if I like Twelve Kingdoms?

I said I like it, I like it very much.

And the biggest reason why I like that work is because of the character Yoko, especially, she was pardoned for the first time when she ascended the throne and abolished Fuli's declaration:

People, when they really thank and respect each other, they will naturally bow their heads,

It is wrong to use status to force others to bow their heads in order to maintain their dignity.

Treating others with appropriate etiquette is a matter of course,

Whether or not you do this depends on your personal qualities, and it's not a serious matter!

Man is no man's slave, and was not born to be a slave,

Don't give in even if you are oppressed, don't be discouraged even if you encounter disasters,

When encountering injustice, you can correct it without fear, and you don't bow to the beasts,

Become a unique monarch who rules the territory of 'your own'!

Start with resolutely raising your head and being a human being!

"Become the unique monarch who rules the territory of 'yourself'! Start by resolutely raising your head and being a human being!" This sentence, everyone should firmly remember it!

Speaking of which, I was an early anime fan, and I really feel that it is not only China's film and television culture that has gone downhill, but also other countries, such as Japan's animation industry.Twentieth-century sports comics had Slam Dunk; the 21st century only had Prince of Tennis stuff.I don't mean to belittle Wang Wang.But to be honest, except for groups of beautiful men with different styles, the plot and so on, I really can't compliment it.And let's talk about the image, to put it bluntly, it's really the same...Maybe I'm old, but I really always think that Slam Dunk is the real sports cartoon, and I don't like the earlier ones. "Soccer Boy".It is really a story of enthusiasm, youth and sweat, laughter and tears.It's not the superposition of a group of so-called beauties with individuality that let a group of little girls only remember which school has the most beautiful boys.