Each of them carries the hopes of too many compatriots.
This is true for the students of Peking No. 4 Middle School, this is true for all middle school students in Beiping City, and it is true for all students in China.
Time passed, and at ten o'clock in the morning, more than 120 third-year high school students who arrived at the school early attended the opening ceremony held by the No. 4 Middle School. Principal Qi Meige and the dean of academic affairs delivered speeches one by one.
The whole ceremony was very simple. First, it asked students not to participate in rallies and anti-Japanese demonstrations and try to ensure their own safety. Second, it asked students to study hard, not slack off, and strive to be useful to the country and nation.
Nearly two years have passed since the Ho-Mei Agreement, and the clouds of war between Beijing and Tianjin have spread. Principal Qi Meige and other school leaders can naturally smell the air in Peiping, which seems to be filled with a faint smell of gunpowder smoke. The Japanese
Getting more and more restless.
After the speeches and the opening ceremony, all the students dispersed and started busy with the complicated matters at the beginning of the semester.
The first thing is to pay.
The tuition fee is twenty yuan, the tuition and miscellaneous fees are ten yuan, the room and board fee is twenty yuan, and the book fee is twenty-five yuan. The four major expenses total seventy-five yuan. Yu Hua has not covered the tutoring fees he earned from Tan Qing.
It was so hot that I sent it directly to the school.
I have to say that schools during the Republic of China were really not accessible to ordinary people, especially high schools.
As a top public school, the tuition fee for Peking No. 4 Middle School is already at the lower level of the public school system. The total cost per year is only about $150. If it is a regional middle school or a private middle school with less government funding, then it will be less.
Call it expensive.
Of course, this one hundred and fifty oceans is only the minimum consumption for students. Three meals a day are eaten in the cafeteria. If you want to go out to eat, the annual cost will start at least two hundred oceans, and the total cost in three years will be about six hundred oceans.
Six hundred!
A seemingly small but astronomical fee.
How much does the average person earn per year in this era?
As the most prosperous place in the country, the situation in Peiping is pretty good. Middle school teachers, engineers, editors, reporters, lawyers, ordinary government employees and bank employees belong to the middle class. The total annual income is maintained at 400 yuan to 1,200 yuan according to different occupations.
meta interval.
The income of ordinary traders, workers, coachmen and other classes ranges from about 60 yuan to 150 yuan.
It seems like a lot, but don’t forget this is Peiping.
If we zoom in to the whole country, a small number of rich peasants and small landowners can only earn about 30 yuan a year and can only maintain food and clothing. The big landowners are considered relatively well-off and can only eat white flour and rice for a few months. Poor peasant families like Xu Rui's family cannot worry about money all year round.
, as long as we can eat wild vegetable soup when we are dry, we will be a great happiness.
After paying the money, Yu Hua took the payment slip to the Academic Affairs Office to complete the formalities, and then went to the dormitory to check in. The whole process was basically the same as the beginning of the school in later generations.
Peking No. 4 Middle School is a full-time management school. Students are required to study in school full time and are not allowed to leave school except for important and urgent matters. They are allowed half a day to leave school every weekend to visit relatives.
After arriving at the dormitory and completing the check-in formalities, today's busy schedule for the start of school is basically over. There will be no classes on the first day of school. Yu Hua took his books and headed to the library to continue working on his holiday homework.
Yu Hua prefers the quiet and spacious environment of the library to the classroom.
Arriving at the Western-style library, there were already many students studying and reading, most of whom were students in the literature class. Yu Hua looked around, stayed away from the area with more students, carried the books and went deeper, looking for
In a relatively remote area with few people, I sat down quietly and opened the Chinese language.
With more than an hour of self-study time in the morning, Yu Hua has mastered the two subjects of arithmetic and physics. The homework load during the holiday is not heavy, but the types of questions are still not difficult for him.
"This traditional Chinese is really hard to read. Let's copy it first from Young China." Yu Hua opened the Chinese textbook. There were three requirements for the Chinese holiday homework. The scribe said, Young China said, write a composition about the most unforgettable thing.
Copying texts and writing compositions is not difficult in nature. What is difficult is the complex structure and uncommon traditional Chinese characters. Although vernacular texts have been circulating for a long time, the official format still uses traditional Chinese characters.
Opening the Chinese book "Young Chinese Stories", Yu Hua can recognize the two initials of "Japanese" at a glance. The rest of the traditional Chinese characters need to be carefully identified in order to accurately know their meaning.
The first is that it is difficult to recognize, and the second is that it is difficult to write. If you are not careful, you will write it in simplified Chinese characters.
Bite the bullet, Yu Hua held the pen in his right hand and began to copy slowly in his notebook.
A top student will not be afraid of difficulties, and he, who is a scumbag in a small school, will not be afraid of difficulties either.
The Japanese also call us China, one is the Big Empire, the other is the Big Empire...
If you want to talk about the old and young of the country, please first talk about the old and young of the people...
Therefore, the responsibility today does not lie with others, but with my young man.
The wisdom of young people will lead to the wisdom of the country, and the wealth of young people will lead to the wealth of the country;
If young people are strong, the country will be strong; if young people are independent, the country will be independent;
If young people are free, the country will be free; if young people make progress, the country will progress;
If the youth is better than Europe, the country will be better than Europe...
Carefully copying what Young China said, Yu Hua suddenly felt someone standing next to him. He looked up and saw a familiar women's coat with short hair and a pair of clear and bright eyes. This person was the person standing next to him.
Lin Wan served as host on the podium at the opening ceremony.
"Classmate, don't you know how to write traditional Chinese characters?" Lin Wan held the "Oxford English Dictionary" published in 1895 in her hand, stood on the right side of the table, and said with a smile.
She had been standing here for a while. Just when she was borrowing the dictionary, Lin Wan saw Yu Hua writing something hard and fast. She glanced at it as if she was just passing by, but found that Yu Hua didn't seem to be able to write traditional Chinese characters. When he wrote, he didn't write strokes.
Walking error is to write it directly in simplified Chinese characters.
A No. 4 middle school student who can’t write traditional Chinese characters?
Quite interesting.
"Well……"
Yu Hua was a little embarrassed. The core reason why he avoided classrooms and crowded areas in the library was because he couldn't write traditional Chinese characters. He never expected to meet this big boss directly.
"There is a copy of "Luo Shi's Traditional Chinese Encyclopedia" in the sixth column of the third row, and a copy of "Ancient and Modern Classical Chinese Narratives" in the eighth column of the sixth row. I think you should need it."
Glancing at Yu Hua who was a little embarrassed, Lin Wan pointed to the bookshelf behind her: "Classmate, it's the last semester, come on."
Hearing this, Yu Hua was stunned for a moment and thanked him softly: "Thank you, Chairman Lin. Come on, too."
"If you want, just call me classmate Lin Wan. Chairman Lin is too bureaucratic. Okay, I won't disturb your studies, classmate." Lin Wan was stunned for a moment when she heard Yu Hua's name, and shook her head with a smile, speaking generously.
Naturally, I shook the thick "Oxford English Dictionary" in my right hand, sat on the desk next door, and studied quietly.
Chairman Lin?
Although she is the chairperson of the joint committee, she doesn't like this kind of bureaucratic title. Just call her classmate.