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Chapter 348: Reading And Literacy In The Eyes Of The Princes And Reading And Literacy In The Eyes Of
In Yan Changqing's previous life, there were always people who felt that they were far away from the era of feudal society.
But it’s actually not that far away, from the modern country where Yan Changqing traveled through to the previous feudal society era.
Strictly speaking, the time and years between the two is only more than seventy years.
There are still many people who were born in the old feudal society era and have witnessed the ups and downs of the Yan and Huang Dynasties for hundreds of years and have survived to this day.
The reason why he feels that he is far away from the era of feudal society is mainly because his motherland was under the unremitting efforts of his predecessors in his previous life.
In just over seventy years, we have successively passed through the steam age, electrical age, and information age, and entered a new era of intelligence.
On average, an era passes almost every twenty years, and each generation passes through an old era!!!
In just a few decades, we have completed the journey that took foreign countries hundreds of years to complete, and we have also caught up with them, and even overtaken them in corners, so that we can keep pace with each other!!!
Such a thing is simply an incredible miracle!!!
It is precisely because in a short period of time, it has experienced the impact of several different era changes.
That’s why people have the illusion that Japan’s feudal society is far away from them.
But get rid of this illusion and look back more than seventy years ago to the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
In fact, we can find that from the Ming Dynasty, to the Qing Dynasty, to the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, in the hundreds of years that passed in between.
In addition to the number of ordinary people, the number of people increased from 100 to 200 million to 400 to 500 million due to high-yielding food crops such as rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn in the city, as well as policies such as the abolition of head tax and allotment of land. outside.
In terms of other material conditions, there is at most a slight improvement, but there really is no big, substantial improvement or change.
Because from the Ming Dynasty, to the Qing Dynasty, and then to the founding of his previous motherland, Yanhuang was an agricultural society country!!!
However, an agricultural social country has its limitations and upper limits!!!
A country with an agricultural society, even if it reaches its extreme limit, can barely guarantee the food, clothing and clothing for the vast majority of its people.
This was true for the people in the Ming Dynasty, this was true for the people during the Qing Dynasty, and this was true for the people of the motherland at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
However, his motherland was able to complete such a national literacy campaign at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, under circumstances that were not much different from the material living conditions of the Ming Dynasty today.
This also shows that there is a theoretical possibility that the material living conditions of the people in the Ming Dynasty are not much different from those in the early days of the founding of the country.
If it cannot be done, then it is only a matter of the executor’s ability, not that there is no such possibility!!!
Yan Changqing is not so arrogant as to think that he can recreate the most shocking and incredible miracle in the history of human education.
However, it should still be possible to recreate a "miracle in the history of human education" that was folded in half again and again, to educate tens of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty, and to bring the literacy rate of the people in the Ming Dynasty to about 16%.
At least Yan Changqing feels that he is about 70 to 80% sure.
Thinking of this, Yan Changqing withdrew his gaze from Zhu Xiongying, his eyes fell on Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, and said calmly:
"What do your highnesses think the meaning of reading and literacy is?!!"
"Can everyone read the Three Character Classic, One Hundred Family Surnames, and The Thousand Character Classic?!!"
"Or can everyone read "The Great Learning", "The Analects of Confucius", "Mencius", and "The Doctrine of the Mean"?!!"
"Or can everyone read the Book of Songs, the Book of Documents, the Book of Rites, the Book of Changes, and the Spring and Autumn Annals in full?!!"
"And what requirements do your Highnesses have for the abilities of these literate people?!!"
"Is it possible for everyone to become a child student, pass the academy examination, and become a scholar?!!"
"Or can everyone pass the provincial examination and become a civil servant?!!"
"Or is it possible to pass the joint examination or palace examination and become a Jinshi?!"
"Or is it that he speaks well and has extraordinary literary talent?!!"
Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, you looked at me, I looked at you, they hesitated for a moment, then each of them spoke:
"If you want to learn how to read and write, you should at least read through the Three Character Classic, One Hundred Family Surnames, and The Thousand Character Classic, right?!!"
"Aren't the Three Character Classic, One Hundred Family Surnames, and The Thousand-Character Classic designed to educate children like Xiongying? What kind of reading and literacy does this mean?!!"
"You should at least read through the Four Books or the Five Classics, right?!!"
"."If you don't read the "Four Books" and the "Five Classics" thoroughly, how can you have the dignity to say that you are literate?!!"
"In addition, there is no requirement for their ability to pass the provincial examination and become a scholar, but they must at least become a scholar, right?!!"
"If you're not even a scholar, what's the difference between you and a boy like Xiongying?!!"
After Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes had finished expressing their opinions, Yan Changqing shook his head and said:
"Sure enough, the 'reading and literacy' in the eyes of your highnesses is actually equivalent to those literary scholars today. "
“But in my eyes, ‘reading and literacy’ is really just reading and literacy”!!!”
"They are not required to read through the Four Books and Five Classics, nor are they even required to read through the Three Character Classic, The Thousand Character Classic, and The Hundred Family Surnames."
"Just asking them to understand the notices that are usually posted and write hundreds of Chinese characters is considered "study (Qian Haozhao) literacy."
"The same requirements for their abilities do not require them to be young students or scholars, let alone be successful candidates or Jinshi."
"As long as they know how to write their own names, the names of their hometowns, what they do in their daily lives, and can write IOUs and remember bills and other basic abilities, then in my opinion That’s enough for the seedlings.”
As soon as these words came out, whether it was Zhu Yuanzhang or the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, they were all stunned.
Does this kind of "reading and literacy" really count as "reading and literacy"?!!
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