Chapter 37 School
"How could there be a Han school here?" Every scholar who has received enlightenment education will be familiar with this poem "Three Character Classic". Therefore, Quandong and others have the illusion of returning to the Central Plains and Han areas.
But the tent with distinctive Mongolian characteristics reminded them coldly that this is the Eastern Mongolian grassland, not the Han land where farming is passed down from family.
"Are you interested in going in and having a look?" Hunur asked directly when he saw that everyone had the idea of exploring the truth, without hiding it.
"Don't you need that pass here?" With the experience of being stopped by the guards before, Song Defang looked at a serious-looking guard standing in the place known as the school gate. Although he seemed a little older, his hair was fifty years old, and his back was a little hunched. But he tried hard to stand up straighter. Seeing Hunur and his group approaching, the old guard still maintained a solemn face, like a sculpture.
"Hey! Old Li, you are on duty today!" Hunur shouted loudly as he walked.
At this time, the old man seemed to notice someone approaching, and his solemn expression suddenly melted like the ice and snow of spring. He then squeezed out a flattering smile and said, "Is it Hunur's face? Is it the prince who ordered you to see the children to go to school?"
"This is Amurg. He has been leaving the sheep for a lifetime. Now he has bad ears and eyes. The prince is kind-hearted and gives him an errand to guard the door in the school." Hunur introduced to Quandong and the others, and almost shouted at the old Amurg: "It's me! But this time it was not the prince who asked me to come, but there were several prince's guests who wanted to go in and take a look."
Amurg reacted for a while before finally coming back to his senses. He said in a voice that was also shocking to make people's ears numb: "Oh! That's it! Then you go in. But the children are in class, just don't disturb them from reading and literacy. Otherwise, the teacher will be angry."
"Okay! We won't bother, we won't bother!" Hunur responded, and the old Amurg had slowly opened the school gate.
It was the time for class, and each tent seemed to be an independent classroom. Quandong and the others walked to the nearest classroom and lifted half of the door curtain from outside, and the sound of reading became clearer.
He saw hundreds and a half-old children sitting cross-legged inside, including men and women. Most of them were wearing common gray Mongolian robes, but there was not much oil and they looked pretty clean. At this moment, everyone was placed in front of them with a few books stacked on them. One of them was open, and everyone was reading the contents of the book aloud.
In front of all the children, there was a large wooden table. Behind the wooden table was a rectangular wooden board, painted black. A middle-aged teacher was writing something on it with a white pen. After careful reading, he realized that it was the whole chapter of the Three Character Classic.
After reading for a while, the teacher asked the children to go on stage to write the "Three Character Classic" in Mongolian language. Song Defang didn't know much about Mongolian characters, so he didn't know whether the children were writing right or wrong. Although Quandong knew Mongolian characters, he was a little unfamiliar with these simplified Chinese characters.
"I wonder why the Chinese characters taught by this gentleman is so strange?" Quan Dong could not bear the education of typos, and finally couldn't help but say.
"This is a simplified Chinese character created by the prince. He said that we Mongolians were not very good at reading and literacy. If we stroke too many times, we would be even less likely to learn it. Therefore, some commonly used characters were simplified. Children are learning quite quickly now!" Hunur had seen such literacy achievements, so he was a little proud when introducing it.
However, their voices were heard by the children inside, so some children who couldn't help but be curious kept turning their heads and looking at them.
"Ahem......" The teacher immediately coughed twice in dissatisfaction. Hunur immediately smiled and bowed, then left and closed the curtain again.
"The two don't know. The school organizes exams every month, every three months, and every six months. Teachers who are responsible for generally low scores will be recorded as negative scores. If the number of times is too many, the teacher's responsibilities will be removed from the choreography." Hunur knew that Quandong and the others would have doubts, so he took the initiative to explain.
In the Ulutus department, the treatment of teachers is a few who can be equivalent to ordinary craftsmen. Not only can they receive a salary comparable to a sheep every month, but they also have a small amount of tea from the south, new clothes for changing seasons, and special rest time on five or one day.
Since the Ulutus tribe still implements a system of big pot meals, food and accommodation are not expensive. The salaries of the teachers can be saved. Therefore, such errands are already a good errand that everyone in the tribe has snatched the heads.
Then Hunur led them to see other classrooms. Although their ages were different, the teaching content was almost the same. They all used bilingual Chinese and Mongolian teaching, and created the spelling of pinyin letters, so that the children basically became consistent in pronunciation. However, due to the difference in age, they were probably divided into four grades. From low to high, the content and subjects they learned were also becoming more and more.
Based on Quandong and others' preliminary understanding, in addition to being named "Mandarin" Chinese and Mongolian subjects, there are also two subjects: mathematics/science. In addition, there are archery, horse riding, running, gymnastics and other sports subjects. Basically, you can learn horse riding and archery in the upper grades, and run and gymnastics in the lower grades.
At this time, a lower-grade student was in sports classes and gymnastics. The movements were a bit similar to the "Five Animal Show". I saw the little guys doing the same movements in a stern manner under the guidance of his husband. They couldn't help laughing at Quandong.
When it was time for dinner, Hunur led them to have dinner in the school.
But at this time, the person who went to retrieve his passes came back and told them that the prince was back in panting.
The so-called important thing is! Although I am very interested in the food in the school, it is absolutely amazing compared to meeting Ulutus. Therefore, neither of them wanted to stay for too long and urged Hunur to take them to meet Ulutus.
Finally, they came to the cafeteria located in the living area!
Compared with the deserted and quiet situation I saw before, the living area at dinner time was obviously more popular. However, there were not many adult men and women, most of them were elderly or old men, or pregnant women and women holding children. From Hunur, Quandong and others knew that these people who stayed in the living area had no errands or did not work that day. Generally, those who had errands would return to the living area until the sun sets at night.
It was the meal time now, and all the people who usually stayed in the tent came to the nearest cafeteria. They lined up one after another, and received the meal in an orderly manner.
Chapter completed!