The Shengxue Hall of Jiujiang Academy sounds like a bookstore, but in fact it is a square courtyard.
There is a portrait of Confucius in the main hall of the courtyard. There are six rooms in each row of the courtyard. It is a school for new students.
There is a half-moon-shaped pool in the middle of the yard. The bottom of the pool is clearly visible, and the word "Panchi" is engraved on the bottom of the pool.
There is a slightly smaller white jade stone bridge above the pool. This arched stone bridge is small but delicate. When the sun is shining, the water light in the pool and the reflection of the stone bridge complement each other.
This entrance hall only opens once a year, and each time it only entertains children who are new to elementary school.
In other words, Shengxuetang is only used for students to enter the Pan ceremony and write pens to break the veil.
At this moment, Sheng Yuan followed the stream and came to the courtyard.
Because there are ninety Mengtong students enrolling this time, and if they all come in, the Shengxue Hall will not be able to accommodate them, so the academy divides them into six groups, and each group has a group of teachers in charge.
Sheng Yuan and his team were the third group to enter the Shengxue Hall.
She was standing in the center of the team, with Anyu in front and Lu Sheng behind.
As for Ouyang Ling and Xia Shuangjun, who were familiar with each other, they stood behind Lu Sheng in turn.
However, even though they were surrounded by friends and acquaintances, the children still calmed down for a rare moment and obeyed the procedures obediently, not daring to make any unnecessary moves.
Unlike her friends and classmates who were restrained, Sheng Yuan's eyes were wide open and she didn't look at all nervous. The reason why she remained silent was simply because she didn't want to cause her friends to scold her husband at this critical moment.
However, she was not talking to her friends, and her eyes were not idle. She was either looking here or there, feeling that everything was strange.
Of course, she soon stopped looking around.
Because, the opening ceremony has begun!
The first step in the opening ceremony is to dress properly.
The master in charge of their group stood in front of them. Probably for the sake of symmetry, the master stood right in front of Sheng Yuan.
The moment their eyes met, Sheng Yuan blinked twice quickly.
I thought, this master is a bit too young.
She guarantees that he will be at most two or three years older than her brother!
The old master who originally had a straight face said: "..."
Taking care of students for the first time made me a little nervous.
Shouldn't a child be nervous when meeting a teacher? Why is this kid more comfortable than him? !
Forcing himself not to look at Master Sheng Yuan, he cleared his throat and raised his voice and said: "The Book of Rites says that the beginning of etiquette and justice lies in correct appearance, uniform color, and correct speech. Therefore, the beginning of enlightenment should start with correct clothes and hats. As the saying goes, first correct your clothes, and then understand your principles. I will correct your clothes one by one, as the beginning of enlightenment."
After finishing speaking, he walked to the first person on the right and straightened the hat, smoothed the collar and corrected the belt of each schoolchild one by one.
This process is said to be slow, but in fact it is very fast. From beginning to end, fifteen schoolchildren took only one-fifth of an hour.
"Get dressed! Next, with classmate Sheng Yuan as the center, with the left as the front and the right as the back, change the rows into rows. Follow me across the stone bridge across the Panchi and enter the main hall to perform the apprenticeship ceremony."
After he said this, the team immediately changed.
Because there was a special master who told them how to change the formation before they came in, so although there was noise when the formation changed, it was not noisy.
Sheng Yuan stood still, happily watching her friends and classmates change positions, especially when she saw them standing in the wrong place and hurriedly finding their positions, she was overjoyed. Sure enough, standing still is the best.
【It makes you lazy! 】The system watched the live broadcast throughout the whole process, and couldn't help but sigh when seeing the happy look of its host.
Sheng Yuan had already followed the team onto the stone bridge, not wanting to argue with the system.
It only takes a dozen or so steps for children like them to cross the bridge, which shows how small the stone bridge is.
After walking past Panchi and entering the main hall, Sheng Yuan found that the Academy Headmaster was already standing next to the portrait of Confucius with a smile and stroking his beard.
It seems that the teacher they want to worship is the mountain chief.
As soon as Sheng Yuan came up with this idea, the master who led the team had already arranged for them to salute Confucius, the most holy teacher.
Then, he went to the apprenticeship ceremony with the mountain chief.
After the salute, it’s time for the ceremony.
Sheng Yuan followed the classmates to take off the bamboo basket on their backs and took out the bundles prepared at home.
[Sister Yuan, haven’t you all taught tuition fees? Two taels of silver per month! 】
"Now this Shu Xiu is just going through the motions and only shows it out once during the initiation ceremony."
Sheng Yuan was talking to the system in his mind, and with his hands busy, he took out the bundle of repairs that he had prepared before.
There are six kinds of bundles prepared, namely celery, lotus seeds, red beans, red dates, longan and ten strips of dried meat.
【It’s really interesting! ] The system looked funny and couldn't help but comment, [The celery here should be to encourage students to be diligent and studious;
As for the lotus seeds, it not only expresses gratitude to the teachers for their hard work in teaching, but also allows teachers to cherish and cherish their students.
The third red bean is to wish the students a bright star and good luck, right?
Now, there are also red dates, red dates...does it mean that students will advance to high school early and gradually?
Hmm... Guiyuan, Guiyuan should mean that the academy, teachers, and students all do their best to achieve perfection?
Hey, there's also dried meat. This should follow the rules of Confucius's training to express students' respect for their teachers...right? 】
"That's all right!" Sheng Yuan secretly gave the system a thumbs up in her mind.
At this time, the mountain chief had already accepted the students' gifts and began to return the gifts.
So, Sheng Yuan put a complete set of pen, ink, paper and inkstone into the newly emptied basket.
After giving each other gifts, the master asked the students to salute each other, which means that the students respect each other, love each other, help each other, be humble, give in to each other, and make progress together.
Several people in this ceremonial garden were particularly happy.
When they salute someone they don't know, they still act polite and look presentable.
But when they turned around to salute their friends, they were not honest.
Either you wink at me, or I smile secretly at you, looking so lively.
After a somewhat messy salute, the former leader showed his presence.
At some point, he actually brought fifteen copper basins filled with clean water and a roll of clean hand towels.
"Dear students, this water is used to purify your hands. It means that you can purify your hands and your mind to get rid of distracting thoughts. This is the teacher's hope that you will go all out to read and read without any distractions."
The mountain chief smiled, stroking his beard, and nodded after speaking.
When Sheng Yuan and others saw it, they immediately stood on the small stool in front of them and started to wash their hands seriously with the copper basin in the hands of the academy boy.
Sheng Yuan still remembered the hand-washing steps taught by her kindergarten teacher in her previous life. She started her performance while the classmates next to her were rubbing the backs and palms of their hands.
[One rub, rub and rub the palms of the hands; two rub, rub and rub the backs of the hands; three rubs, the palms and backs of the hands help each other; four rubs, not letting go of the fingers one by one; five rubs, bend the fingers and rub them against each other; six rub, rub the fingers against each other; Rub, put the fingernails in the palm of your hand and twist; rub seven times, don't miss the wrist. 】The system did not forget to accompany her in its mind.
After this move, she sighed comfortably and picked up the handkerchief; but the master, the mountain chief and the boy in front of her were stunned.
It turns out that hand washing can be so complicated!
The master just felt that he had learned a lot, and thought that it was no wonder that after he passed the examination, the teacher refused to let him continue to take the exam, and insisted on letting him work in the academy for a period of time.
He didn't think so at first, but he didn't expect that he could learn a lot from the students in the academy. No wonder Sage Kong said that if three people walk together, they must have me as their teacher!
At this moment, Master felt that his knowledge had been sublimated, and his heart that wanted to beat finally calmed down.
The child from Shengyuan, who didn't know that he had inadvertently helped a wandering young man, eagerly looked at the brush dipped in cinnabar in the hand of the academy principal.
