184, free teaching
184, free teaching
From that day on, the four of them began their formal study career in the Imperial Academy.
There were doctors of the Five Classics in the Imperial Academy, who specialized in teaching poetry, book, ritual, the Book of Changes, and the Spring and Autumn Annals.
The poems here refer to the "Book of Songs", which contains poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. It is divided into three parts: "Wind", "Ya" and "Song", with a total of more than 300 poems.
Li refers to the "Book of Rites", which records the ritual system and social norms of the pre-Qin period. Together with "Yili" and "Zhouli", they are collectively known as the "Three Rites".
The book refers to the "Shangshu", which records the political decrees and dialogues between the monarch and his ministers from the period of Emperor Yao and Shun to Duke Mu of Qin. It is divided into "Yushu", "Xiashu", "Shangshu" and "Zhoushu".
Yi refers to the "Zhouyi", also known as the "Book of Changes", which expounds the laws of change of yin and yang, as well as the contents of hexagrams and hexagram texts, etc.
The last "Spring and Autumn Annals" is a chronological history book of the State of Lu, which records the major events of various countries from the early Eastern Zhou Dynasty for more than two hundred years.
Before the academy examination, they only had to take the Four Books test, but after the academy examination, that is, starting from the provincial examination, they had to take the Five Classics test. This meant that the content and scope of their examinations became wider and more in-depth.
Compared with the Four Books, the Five Classics cover a wider range of content and are more difficult to learn.
Moreover, arithmetic was added after the provincial examination, which was a difficult subject for a group of liberal arts students. This is why many people could pass the academy examination but never passed the provincial examination.
However, for Lu Mingfei, who had studied advanced mathematics, he felt that the difficulty of arithmetic in this era was only average, and arithmetic was not a very difficult subject for him. Arithmetic, which was difficult for others, became a free-point subject for him.
Among the Five Classics, he had previously studied some poems from the Book of Songs and read some passages from the Spring and Autumn Annals. The other books, including the Book of Rites, the Book of History, and the Book of Changes, were also relatively unfamiliar to him. Of these, he found the Book of Changes to be the most difficult.
Fortunately, he was not the only one who found the Book of Changes difficult to learn.
On this day, the four of them went to listen to the class taught by the teacher who taught the "Book of Changes". After coming out of the classroom, the four of them all looked troubled.
Ye Zhuoran asked the others with a sad face, "Did you understand the teacher's lesson today?"
Fu Boming shook his head.
Zhang Lingxuan didn't say anything, and he didn't understand either.
Finally, Lu Mingfei glanced at the expressions of the other three people and comforted them, "This is only our first day of this class. Don't be discouraged. It's normal not to understand. If we understood everything, why would we be here today?"
"Come on, let's go eat first. Studying is not something that can be accomplished overnight. We still have so much time, so just learn slowly."
Lu Mingfei reached out and patted Ye Zhuoran's arm, and also comforted the other two people.
Then the four of them went to the side gate of the Imperial College to get their lunch.
His mother arranged for Zhang Qi and Ruxia to set up a stall here to sell braised pork rice and sesame cakes. It's true, their stall is doing pretty good business.
Ye Zhuoran's father also arranged for someone to sell snacks here, and he would deliver them to them every day. So, except for the first morning when he got up and made breakfast, he didn't cook for the rest of the day, because their dormitory was filled with all kinds of snacks, dry food, and fruits.
Arriving at the side door, Lu Mingfei took the basket handed to him by Zhang Qi and said to him, "Then let's go in."
"Okay, okay." Zhang Qi looked at their eldest young master with some reluctance.
Ye Zhuoran also brought a basket of fruits and snacks from the servant sent by his father.
As for Zhang Lingxuan and Fu Boming, their families were not in the food business. They just gave one month's food expenses to Lu Mingfei and Ye Zhuoran respectively, and left the rest to Lu Mingfei and Ye Zhuoran to arrange. They ate whatever the Lu and Ye families sent them.
After getting food from the side door, the four of them returned to their dormitory to eat.
Since the four of them came to the Imperial College to study, they have basically been together.
Lu Mingfei didn't want to spend too much time on socializing. He came here to study, not to make friends. For him, as long as he had a decent relationship with the people around him and greeted them when they met, that was enough.
Because the courses offered by Taixue are actually too many and too complicated for them, and many of them are difficult to learn.
Although the classes at the Imperial College are relatively free, there are exams every month. Moreover, the exams here are quite random. You will be tested on whatever you draw. Not only the students, but even the teachers don't know what the students will be tested on.
I should also add that in addition to the Five Classics, students at the Imperial Academy also studied the Six Arts, which are etiquette, music, horseback riding, calligraphy, painting, and arithmetic.
Therefore, the examinations in the Imperial College also included the Six Arts, so the scope of the examination was very broad.
With so many new exam subjects added at once, not only Lu Mingfei, but also Ye Zhuoran, Zhang Lingxuan, and Fu Boming would have to spend a lot of time to cope with the current studies. After all, if the ranking in each monthly exam was too bad, it would not look good on the posted list.
Moreover, if you are ranked last for three consecutive times, you will be persuaded to leave the Imperial College.
These people have worked hard to come to the Imperial Academy to study, and no one wants to be persuaded to go back. Not only will they lose the opportunity to study, but it will also be embarrassing if the news gets out.
At this time, instead of spending time socializing with strangers and wasting time and energy to maintain relationships, Lu Mingfei still prefers to be with a few familiar friends and put more thoughts and time on reading.
Their lunch that day was quite sumptuous.
Although their family sells braised pork rice, his mother doesn't always prepare it for them. Today, his mother specially prepared stir-fried chicken with mushrooms, scrambled eggs, and braised lamb.
Four people ate it with sesame seed cakes as side dishes.
There was also a folding table in their dormitory that was used for eating. This table was brought from their home by Zhang Qi. It was a small wooden table that his father had made. However, his father was busy with the workshop now and had not made any small handicrafts for a long time.
With this table, it is more convenient for them to eat.
If the sun wasn't shining, they would eat in the yard. For example, at noon when the sun was strong, they would set up the table in his house to eat, because the other three people liked to come to his house.
Lu Mingfei had no objection to this, as long as everyone didn't drop food on his bed while eating. Fortunately, the four of them ate very politely, and no one dropped food while eating, so his worry was a bit unnecessary.
As usual, they would eat together and talk about the classes they had that day.
Lu Mingfei has been here for so many days and has been in class every day. He has not had time to go to the library of their Imperial College. Today he plans to go to the library to see what books are there and borrow a few books to read.
When they were almost done eating, he asked the others, "I want to go to the library later. Do you want to come with me?"
"Go ahead, I'll go too." Ye Zhuoran was the first to speak.
Fu Boming and Zhang Lingxuan also said they wanted to go.
So after dinner, the four of them packed up and washed up, then went out together.
They lived in the southwest of the Imperial College, and the library was in the north of the Imperial College. If they wanted to go to the library to read books, they had to go through the Imperial College to get to the library, and it would take almost half an hour just to walk there.
When he got here, Lu Mingfei remembered one thing, that is, this place was the Imperial College.
Ever since he met Zhao Lang that day, he hadn't seen the young master for several days. He didn't know how the food was like at the Imperial College and whether he could eat his fill.
As they were walking, Ye Zhuoran noticed that Lu Mingfei suddenly laughed. He looked at Lu Mingfei with puzzled eyes and asked, "What are you laughing at? What's so happy about it?"
Hearing Ye Zhuoran's voice, the other two people who were traveling with him also looked at Lu Mingfei.
"..." Lu Mingfei had already put away the smile on his face. Facing the gazes of the three people, he said seriously, "I'm just happy to think that I can read a lot of books soon."
But it was obvious that Ye Zhuoran didn't quite believe Lu Mingfei's explanation. How to put it, the smile on Lu Mingfei's face just now made him feel like... like a mouse fell into a honey pot, not a library!
However, whatever Case Chief Lu says is what it is!
Four people stood in front of the door of the library, looking up to see the three-story attic. On the door of the attic hung a plaque with three large characters "Book Collection Pavilion" written on it.
Lu Mingfei estimated that the area here was at least 500 to 600 square meters, and possibly even larger.
What they didn't expect was that there were quite a lot of people coming in and out of the library at this time.
"Let's go in and take a look. Can we meet at the door in half an hour?" Lu Mingfei asked Ye Zhuoran, Zhang Lingxuan and the other two before entering the library. He was afraid that they would get separated and lost.
"Okay." Zhang Lingxuan responded.
The four of them entered the library together. Looking at the rows of books in front of them, their mouths opened slightly.
All four of them had ignorant looks on their faces.
Everyone here was reading quietly, no one was talking. Lu Mingfei made a gesture to Ye Zhuoran, Zhang Lingxuan and the other three, and he took the lead in choosing a direction and walked away.
Seeing that Ye Zhuoran was about to follow, Zhang Lingxuan pulled Ye Zhuoran and took him in another direction.
The last one left, Fu Boming, also chose a direction to go.
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