After Han Cheng and Wu confirmed the matter, they called their eldest brother, who was the leader of the tribe, and the three of them discussed and formulated a solution together.
The eldest brother was also very curious about the language and writing of God, but he was not as enthusiastic as Wu.
After all, his main responsibility was not to pass on written language, but to lead his people in fishing and hunting and to find enough food for them.
After Han Cheng expressed the meaning of "Education should start from childhood" through the tribal language and gestures, the minors in the tribe suffered.
In the past, they had nothing to do, especially in winter. They would eat and play, sleep when they were tired, play again when they woke up, and wait for food when they were hungry.
But that’s not possible now, because they need to learn God’s language and writing from the Son of God!
There are quite a few minors in the tribe, as many as thirty-five! This number is almost catching up with the average-aged people in the tribe.
There are only forty adults in the tribe, including the witch and two old men who are responsible for looking after the fire.
Han Cheng was not included.
Because he has the thinking of an adult but the body of a minor, he really doesn't know which category to classify himself into.
Among the thirty-five people, excluding those who are still breastfeeding, those who can just take a few steps, those who are learning to speak, and those who are still in a confused state, there are actually only eighteen children of appropriate age, and this includes three who are almost adults.
Han Cheng had never carefully counted the number of people in the tribe before, so after this count, he couldn't help but feel a little shocked.
He discovered a very serious problem: the number of minors in the tribe was decreasing as they grew older.
Although there may be occasional fluctuations, the overall trend remains unchanged.
For example, nowadays, there are roughly seventeen children between the ages of zero and five, but only eighteen between the ages of five and thirteen or fourteen.
When he first discovered this phenomenon, he was silent for a while, but then he realized that this was not the later times when people have no worries about food and clothing and have advanced medical and health conditions, but the primitive times when the infant mortality rate was high, so such things could happen.
Han Cheng put aside these complicated feelings and began to concentrate on teaching Mandarin and Chinese characters.
After all, he is not the real son of God. He is just an ordinary person from later generations, and he did not use any cheats when he traveled through time.
There are many things that he doesn't know where to start even if he wants to do something. He can only start from some aspects and things that are within his ability, and slowly change the tribe, trying his best to create good living conditions for himself and the tribe.
There are a total of eighteen minors learning Chinese characters and Mandarin with Han Cheng.
Yes, you read it right, all the children of the right age in the cave were caught in one fell swoop.
Han Cheng's education to them, like that of a witch, started with the "gloves" and "socks" that they were already familiar with.
Then come the body parts such as 'mouth', 'nose', 'teeth' and 'feet'.
The limited tools available for writing inside the caves was a problem.
After all, before this, writing was Wu's job, and no one else had ever thought about it.
It would be unrealistic to give each of these children a large stone slab and let them use suitable stones to carve on it, just like the witch did.
Because it is winter now, it is too impractical to go out in the snow and ice to look for slate.
Moreover, they are now learning characters, unlike the witches who want to record some knowledge on stone tablets and pass them on to future generations. Therefore, using stone tablets seems to be a waste of talent.
Of course, another important reason is that writing on a slate can only be done once and is not easy to erase, making it not suitable for multiple uses.
This was not a problem for Han Cheng. After years of burning, a thick layer of powdery ash had accumulated in the cave.
He had people use stones to circle out eighteen one-foot square boxes on the ground in a place he used as a classroom. He then put powdered wood ash into the boxes, smoothed them with branches that were used as pens, and then people could write on them.
After writing, just hold the pen horizontally across the surface, and once it is smooth, you can continue writing.
Of course, such a writing tool also has its disadvantages. Once someone sneezes at it, a cloud of grass ash will immediately fly.
Actually, Han Cheng originally wanted to make a sand table, but now it is winter and the sand is frozen and difficult to take out, so he had to use this "grass ash tray" as a temporary substitute.
Fortunately, this is a primitive age, and having a writing tool is already very good. Who cares about so many things?
If you don't believe me, just look at Wu. After he personally used the "grass ash plate" made by Han Cheng, he immediately realized its magic and asked someone to build one in the inner cave where he lived. He would use branches to write and draw on it when he had nothing to do.
After all, he had been learning the divine writing with Han Cheng these days and had already used up an entire large stone slab!
Wang Qing's writing tool is not a 'straw ash tray'. This is not because he deliberately wants to be special, but because the straw ash tray can only be placed on the ground. If people want to see the words, they need to gather around and stretch their heads to watch, which is really inconvenient.
He wrote on a slate erected in front of everyone. He did not use a slate pen to carve it, but instead used unburned charcoal from the ashes to write on it.
Although my hands would be covered in black dust every time I finished writing and I had to wash them with snow, the advantage was that the writing could be cleaned. Moreover, I could wipe the slate with snow or animal skin and then reuse it, which was quite convenient.
The children in the tribe need to learn to read, write, and speak the language of God, and Han Cheng did not let go of other adults in the tribe either.
However, considering that they need to work and have little time to spend on studying, and their plasticity is not as strong as these children, Han Cheng did not force them to learn to write.
Writing can be done according to personal interest, but learning to speak Mandarin is something that everyone must learn and there is no room for compromise!
Well, everyone has to speak Mandarin.
Because this matter was jointly decided by Wu, Han Cheng and the eldest brother who was the leader, even though many people found it troublesome, they did not dare to disobey.
Especially after hearing that this language is the word of God, the resistance becomes even smaller.
As for Han Cheng, after he broke the ice and caught fish to save the tribe from danger, and made socks and gloves to reduce the suffering of the people from the cold, and especially after he was crowned the son of God by the witch, no one in the tribe dared to look down on him.
Therefore, during the teaching process, there was no incident of students talking back to the teacher.
As for those children who don't study hard and are always lazy, Han Cheng has plenty of ways to deal with them. Just by asking them to write the words they were taught but couldn't write a hundred times, this is enough to correct the bad habit of all of them being lazy.
Of course, Han Cheng has not taught them to count to one hundred yet, but Han Cheng has a way. He found one hundred small bones from the cave and put them in a pile. Every time he wrote a word, he would take a bone from the ground and put it back on the animal skin.
As for cheating, how could Han Cheng, who had been educated for more than ten years, not think of a way to deal with it? When he was punished to write, there was someone supervising him.
Those who know about the cheating but do not report it need to write together with the cheater, and each time they cheat, they will go up 100 words...