After having a meal to say goodbye to the old man, Gai Xun took his wife and children to pay homage to the family elders one by one.
There are many people with the Gai surname, but not many relatives within three generations. In addition, medical care in this era is rudimentary, and people cannot live more than fifty years. There are only three or five people who are really worthy of a family visit. After a quick visit to a few uncles and ancestors, we went
From the Father.
He is an uncle from his father, whose name is Chong and whose courtesy name is Yuanhe. He is a biological brother with his father Gai Xun. His wife passed away four years ago and they have two sons. They are both currently studying at Imperial College in Kyoto. As the eldest son of the Gai family, his uncle once served as
He served as county magistrate for one term, but the transition from scholar to politician did not seem to be smooth, so he gave up the idea of becoming an official and lived in seclusion at home to teach the children of his family.
As soon as we entered the courtyard, there was a faint sound of reading coming from the hall, which was exactly what the adult children of the clan were reading. The first month is when farming has not started, and the adult children of the clan must study the Five Classics. When the weather improves, they will stop classes and go home to farm.
Children come to study the chapter at this time. In the scorching heat of July, classes are suspended for young children and they are exposed to the scriptures until the summer heat subsides in August. Adult children, however, cannot come back until the end of farming in October.
Why do wealthy families have so many talented people? The root of this lies here.
Seeing his younger brother and his wife arriving with their children, Gai Chong stopped talking and motioned to the disciples below to figure out the meaning of the scriptures on their own, and invited the four of them into the back hall.
Gai Jun followed his parents and saw several teenagers in the hall winking at him. These people were all his daily playmates.
Gai Jun entered the back hall without squinting.
As the master, Gai Chong knelt down and sat in the main seat with a serious face. He was worthy of being his father's brother. He was 60-70% similar in appearance, but he was different from his father in having a short beard. His uncle Gai Chong had three long beards under his chin, and he was even more scholarly.
breath.
Gai Jun brother and sister obediently came forward and bowed in the manner of father and son.
Gai Chong held up his right hand and said calmly: "Jin Nu's injury has not healed, and He'er is young, so get up."
Gai Jun stood up and led Amei to the right side of the mat and sat down firmly.
The two brothers chatted in a nonchalant manner, with Gai Ma Zhao occasionally interjecting. As for Gai Jun and his sister, they were only observers and had no right to speak at all. They had to pretend to listen attentively.
Finally, when he finally left, his uncle Gai Chong said the second sentence to him, "Jinwen Jingxue is the foundation."
Gai Jun stood there, neither agreeing nor refuting.
Gai's family education has always been the official school of modern classics. Unexpectedly, his father Gai Xun would change his family and study under Ma Rong, a great scholar of ancient classics. Gai Xun and his wife both studied ancient classics, so the son of a man had no choice.
Nowadays, the struggle between ancient literature and classics has been going on for a long time, and it became even more intense in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
In order to control people's thoughts, Qin Shihuang burned books to entrap Confucian scholars. All the books in the world were burned, and the classics were not spared. Since then, the classics have disappeared and only survived in the mouths and ears of Confucian scholars. After the founding of the Han Dynasty, Confucian scholars used Dahan to practice
The official script re-edited the classics into the Jin Wen Jing. Emperor Wu deposed hundreds of schools of thought and only respected Confucianism. Jin Wen Jing Xue thus monopolized official learning in one fell swoop. However, with the development of hundreds of years, Jin Wen Jing Xue gradually fell into rigidity and cumbersomeness, and
It was also combined with prophecies and weaves, which became absurd. In addition, since the Eastern Han Dynasty, scholars could be recruited through recruiting local virtuous and famous people, and it was no longer limited to official studies, so it declined. The ancient classics were secretly buried by Confucian scholars during the period of burning books and entrapping Confucian scholars.
It was discovered by later generations that the classics written in the seal script of the pre-Qin period were different from the monstrous nonsense of modern classics with prophecies attached to them. Ancient classics focused on the exegesis of names and objects, and now it has the potential to overwhelm modern classics.
On the way back, Gai Xun stopped and turned around to tell Gai Jun firmly: "The study of ancient Chinese classics is the general trend."
Looking at his father's firm gaze and his mother's approving look, Gai Jun didn't know why they were so confident. As the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, not to mention that Jinwen Jingxue's camel was not too skinny.
Regardless of whether he agrees with the general trend of classical classical studies, he will continue on this path.
When he returned home, his father gave him a silk scroll with Zuo Zhuan written on it. The full name of Zuo Zhuan is Chunqiu Zuo Shi Zhuan.
The Han Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, so the order for children to study the classics was to start with "The Classic of Filial Piety", followed by "The Analects of Confucius", and then study "Shi", one of the Five Classics. These three should not be reversed or confused. The other Five Classics are "Shang Shu"
》, "Li", "Yi", and "Spring and Autumn" are not in any order. It all depends on personal preference or family learning. Master and disciple come first.
Gai Jun read "The Book of Filial Piety" at the age of five, "The Analects of Confucius" at the age of eight, "The Book of Songs" at the age of nine, "Book of Songs" at the age of eleven, and then "Spring and Autumn" came one after another. By the way, "Spring and Autumn"
"The full text contains only more than ten thousand words. Because the text is too simple and difficult to understand, explanatory works have appeared one after another to explain and illustrate the records in the book, which are called "Zhuan". Zuo Zhuan is the most famous "Chunqiu" biography.
'One of them belongs to ancient classics..
Gai Jun lay on the bed and opened the silk book. He read it quite fluently based on his ancient Chinese skills in his memory. It is embarrassing to say that in his previous life, he was a college student. Not to mention the Five Classics, the first four histories were just because of his feelings about the Three Kingdoms.
I read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms out of interest, and I haven’t finished it yet. But he is not fighting alone. According to the media survey, a quarter of his classmates are not as good as him. They have not read any of the first four histories.
One-fifth of his classmates, like him, only knew one of the histories.
Regarding Zuo Zhuan, Gai Jun just wanted to read it casually, but he soon became obsessed with it, so much so that he couldn't bear to put it down even while eating. Because his right arm was fractured, whenever he read the end of the word, he always put down his chopsticks with his left hand.
Looking through the follow-up, seeing that their son was so obsessed with it and seemed to have found his way back, the Gai couple looked at each other, not knowing whether to be happy or worried.
For more than ten days, Gai Jun was immersed in the book and couldn't extricate himself. Zuo Zhuan's book was about 200,000 words, and he finished it in three or four days. This was the result of his careful reading, otherwise it would have been faster. Then he read again
The second time, the third time and even the fourth time.
If "Spring and Autumn" is a historical outline, then Zuo Zhuan is an encyclopedia, covering politics, military, diplomacy, economy, culture, etc. What he cares most about is military, a way to save life in troubled times, and he doesn't want to learn it.
You have to bite the bullet and learn it. I have to admit that the author of Zuo Zhuan is very good at describing wars, covering everything from strategy to tactics, and it is brilliant. He has always scoffed at the rumor that Zhao Pu "rules the world with half a book of the Analects", but he thinks that if he can understand Zuo Pu,
If you pass it on, you can at least become a general.
After reading Zuo Zhuan, Gai's father began to explain it to him. In fact, according to his opinion, it was enough to understand the general outline of the book, why worry about the details. Of course, he would never dare to mention this to his father.
Just hold your nose and learn.
While accepting his father's teachings, he read through various military books and miscellaneous books. The days passed very quickly, and it was the end of February in a flash.
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Adult children are either over eight years old or over fifteen years old, here we refer to them as over fifteen and under twenty.
In the Han Dynasty, those with a population of less than 10,000 households were called county magistrates, and those with a population of more than 10,000 households were called county magistrates. It is not absolute, but it is roughly the same.