In ancient times, educational institutions, from Central Business School, imperial academy, etc. To the local state schools and county schools, there are different levels of education. However, even in the most basic county schools, most of the students are prestigious scholars or adults, with the purpose of imperial examinations. But what if it is not for the imperial examination, but for "literacy"?
There was no such thing as "nine-year compulsory education" in ancient times. Ancient private schools were responsible for "compulsory education" and aimed at "literacy". Rich families, teachers, private schools and children at home can come to study. Ordinary families send their children to private schools in villages or towns to study. But what if I am poor, unable to let my children go to private schools for several years, and I don't want my children to be illiterate in the future?
Another way is to send children to "winter school" on this day in early winter.
The so-called "winter school" is a school held in winter. Why at this time? For a poor family, a few acres of land at home is the livelihood of the family. Although the child is young, he can help a little. In other seasons, you must sow in spring until summer and harvest in autumn. You are so busy that you don't even have time to send your children to school. Only in winter, when the year's hard work comes to an end and the slack season comes, will there be time for children to know a few words.
How long will this "winter school" last? According to today's statement, less than a semester. It takes three or four months from the day of beginning of winter to the end of the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month. On the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, I graduated from "Winter School". After finishing winter school, although he is not a scholar, he is at least decoupled from "illiteracy".
Of course, you don't have to ask what you can learn in three or four months. Nothing more than reading the three-character classics and learning some common words in daily life, so as not to be illiterate, that's all. For poor families, "winter school" does not delay farm work, and the cost is lower. It is enough to help children know a few words.
However, this "literacy class" also produced "celebrities", such as Li.
As a child, Li Jiali was too poor to attend a private school, so he was sent to a "literacy class" at home. However, Li's ability to read words and perceive emotions has emerged. In the "literacy class", he arrives at school first every day and cleans up the school before other students arrive; When it is cold in winter, he is always the first to light the stove. All the other students went home after school. Only Li always remembers to stay and warm the kang for the teacher before going home.
Can such students be unattractive? Therefore, Li is particularly satisfied with the teachers of "Winter School", who are willing to teach him more knowledge.
Of course, Li's versatility is more tempered in the environment.