Gossip | Will the ancients "operate in the summer vacation"?

Before the start of school, some students felt anxious. After all, it has been released for a summer vacation and returned to a regular study life. The more practical problem is that some students have only started to work in the summer vacation until today.

So, does the ancients have anxiety similar to "having to work in the summer vacation"?

No. Because the ancients had no summer vacation. The summer vacation is the product of the west wind in the late Qing Dynasty. In 1928, the educator Cai Yuanpei wrote the summer vacation into the law for the first time. He sets the summer vacation of primary school 45 days, the summer vacation of middle school is 50 days, and the summer vacation of college is 60 days. Why is the holiday of elementary school students so short? Because the students are young, remember to forget it and grow up in the summer vacation.

In ancient times, there were official studies and private schools. As far as the government -run schools are concerned, the holidays of each dynasty are different. Taking the Tang Dynasty as an example, students will have half a month to one month during the summer. It is "Tian Holiday" because the crops are mature, so that students will go home to farmers. Private holidays are more flexible. In the hottest summer, Mr. Mr. for a few days off, and at the same time, you can rest for a few days. However, some parents are unwilling to do so, "Those who have rest in the summer, thin their crickets", if they dare to take a private holiday, then deduct his salary.

There is no summer vacation, of course, there is no summer vacation. But this does not mean that the ancients did not have homework.

There is a saying in "Study", "Time education must have the right business, there must be a student in the return interest." After the rebate, the school can be regarded as family homework.

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So, what do they learn? "Don't learn to fuck, you can't settle; don't learn Boyi, you can't settle; don't learn miscellaneous clothes, you can't be safe; you can't learn to learn," these are the content you need to do outside the class, practice miscellaneous songs , Singing, removing the scanning court, and responding to advance and retreating. Otherwise, it will not be able to reach "Le", "Poetry" and "Li".

In the later generations, under the imperial examination system, students must first enroll in reading and literacy. Children in the Song Dynasty were basically admitted to school at the age of 5 or 7, because the customs at that time were "men's bogey and female bogey", of course, there are exceptions, such as Su Dongpo, which was entered at the age of 8. From the study of Tong Meng's textbooks, and then studying the scriptures, their family homework was hooked with these courses. Getting the homework or having it, but the amount of operations falling will not accumulate a lot.

Source: Yangtze Evening News Zi Niu News Micro Historical Records

Edit: Qin Xiaoyi

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