Now to exaggerate people, there is a saying that praises: the same is the nine-year compulsory education, how can you be so excellent. This has to say that in our country, when the legal school age is reached, we must go to school. From kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, high school to college. In ancient times, schools were also known as private schools, schools, and colleges.
You see we're going to learn Chinese, math, English and so on today. What about them, they will learn something. It's definitely different, needless to say. How much will be different. As far as we understand it, there is at least one literary text and one vernacular language. Let's go, let's see what the kids who were our age at that time were learning.
According to historical records, at the end of primitive society, the mainland had a place for education and learning for young people, where they received some special training, such as building houses, cultivating and harvesting, raising livestock, learning to sing, dance, etiquette and code of conduct. This is the germ and prototype of the school.
In the dream of the Red Chamber, Jia Zheng asked to accompany the reading, where did he read it, and the accompanying reading said, "The third book of the Book of Poetry, what is 'Yo Yo Deer Ming, Lotus Leaf Duckweed'", it can be seen that Jia Baoyu started from the "Book of Poetry" in the Five Classics. And Jia Zheng said, "What is the ancient text of the Book of Poetry, there is no need to respond to the story, but first explain the "Four Books" in one go and memorize it", and asked the teacher to replace it with the "Four Books".
When Dai Yu had just entered jia mansion, Jia Mu asked Dai Yu what book to read, and Dai Yu said, "I just read the Four Books." It can be seen that knowledgeable readers generally start with the Four Books, namely the University, the Zhongyong, the Analects, and Mencius. Generally, there are also five works starting from the Five Classics, the Book of Poetry, the Book of Shang, the Book of Rites, the Zhou Yi, and the Spring and Autumn Period.
In the twelfth year of the Qing Dynasty (1886), xixi private school (in present-day Chashi Street), founded by Xiucai Zhu Xingliu and appointed as a school teacher, had more than 20 students at the time of its establishment, and reached more than 40 at its peak. The juku is usually the same person, and the large village juku is uncertain. After students enter the school, they are individually taught by the school teacher. Young children first recognize the "square characters" (calligraphy written on more than one inch of square paper), and after reading about a thousand words, they are taught to read the "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names" and "Thousand Character Text".
After reading the Four Books, I read the "Five Classics", read the ancient texts, such as the "East Lai Bo Discussion", "Ancient Literature GuanZhi", etc., and began to study composition.
The main thing in the education of private schools is to draw dragons. Li Bai", "a bucket of wine, a hundred poems", is because he has read many classics when he was a child, and his stomach is full of clever learning, called "full belly pearls", and then he can drink a bucket of hundreds of poems.