Chapter 203: The Six Arts of Confucian Students and the First Class Scholars
In the small courtyard of Maple Forest, in front of the stone table.
When a woman like Lan said the Chinese character "The road is long and blocked", the air became quiet.
In the teacup on the table, the curls of white smoke gradually became thinner.
At the entrance of the courtyard, the two academicians who were waiting in front of the teacher both looked inside the door, and then looked at each other with curious eyes.
Beside the stone table, the two academy gentlemen were speechless.
Yan Jidao stared at the woman in Confucian shirt with bright eyes.
He knew that the trend of their conversation at this moment was to ask questions, and what would follow was likely to be a serious discussion, describing one's own Confucianism and Taoism, questioning each other, and demonstrating, so that both parties would be sharpened.
Even if they talked for three days and three nights, Yan Jidao wouldn't find it strange.
However, he was not prepared to agree.
Yan Jidao picked up the teacup, touched the rim with his lips, and then put it down. He raised his head and looked at Zhu Weirui, nodded, and shook his head.
Zhu Weirui's bright eyes gradually dimmed, and she nodded and smiled slightly, "I'm sorry to bother you today, but I will return to the academy another day. Weirui will come to the door with a gift to apologize. If nothing happens, I will leave first."
"Mr. Zhu, you're welcome. I will send this piece of paper to Zhao Ziyu. Please go slowly."
Zhu Weirui put away her own tea cup, stood up and bowed, then turned and left.
Yan Jidao stroked his beard and watched Zhu Weirui's leaving figure.
He did not ask Zhu Weirui, not only because he was very unfamiliar with calligraphy and did not know much about it, but also because Yan Jidao was not optimistic about Zhu Weirui's "leftist path" and did not believe that calligraphy could give birth to a new style of calligraphy.
In his view, isn't calligraphy just a text carrier for poems, songs, and classics?
Official script, cursive script, regular script, as long as the writing is correct, clear and not ugly, it is not necessary. As for how beautiful these characters are, it is not necessary. Excessive pursuit is just putting the cart before the horse and a waste of energy.
Can you still write flowers?
There are no requirements for calligraphy in the Taoist articles written by hundreds of scholars from Jixia Academy who founded the school. As long as you can understand the way of heaven through your knowledge and articles, God will have to hold your nose to recognize your handwriting even if it is a ghost or a symbol.
Besides, let’s not mention the special characters of the ancient tribes. Let’s just talk about the creation of characters by the ancestors of the human race. The original intention was just to use them as a way and tool to record the language and spread it for a long time.
Nowadays, the calligraphy that has developed over tens of thousands of years, which is particular about writing characters, is nothing more than the idle and boring study of ordinary scholars in the Yamashita Dynasty.
The hundreds of monks on the mountain all focus on the ultimate way of heaven and earth. I have never heard of any mortal who can study calligraphy and become a Taoist. How can the monks of the hundreds of monks care about such a small skill under their noses.
These are not just Yan Jidao's understanding, this is actually the default common sense of the entire Xuanhuang cultivation world.
Calligraphy is not like the Tao of painting or the Tao of music. The latter two can concretely manifest the "dao" and are recognized as the path of monks. As for calligraphy, apart from the meaning given to it, how can a single word be understood?
Self-revealing meaning, like a complete article, containing the great truth?
Historically, there were people who did not believe in evil and wanted to give it a try. They also wanted to enter the Tao through the Dharma. However, in the end, they hit the wall and suffered a bloody head. One of the more recent and famous "examples" is in
Linlu Academy.
In front of Yan Jidao.
Yan Jidao watched Zhu Weirui's back disappear from sight and sighed softly.
This woman must be very lonely. She is in a Confucian academy, surrounded by people from the same school, but she can't find a "fellow-minded person"...
He slowly withdrew his gaze.
Confucianism in the Xuanhuang Realm has six arts, which have been explored by Confucian sages over tens of thousands of years.
Classical meaning and art.
Poetry and art.
Etiquette.
Musical arts.
Chess.
Painting art.
For these six arts, Confucianism has corresponding paths of cultivation and mature cultivation methods for Confucian students to choose and practice and study.
These are also the six arts that new students in Confucian academies must learn in the first year after entering the academy.
Among them, it is divided into two major arts and four minor arts.
The two major arts are classics and poetry.
The four small arts are the remaining four.
Zhu Weirui gave up his promising career in Confucianism and Taoism, and instead devoted himself to the "little art" of calligraphy. This incident not only spread widely within Confucianism, but also had great repercussions among hundreds of other schools of thought.
"First-class Confucian scholar, why bother? Leave Jixia Academy and come to this small Wangque Island..."
Yan Jidao turned his head and stared at the distant mountains, muttering.
For monks from hundreds of schools of thought, the transition from scholar to gentleman is extremely difficult.
Take Confucianism as an example. New students who enter a Confucian academy can obtain the title of scholar as long as they can be accepted as disciples by the academy masters.
However, the title of gentleman is very difficult, and the proportion is very small. There are only a few middle-level Confucian academies, and they are all the mainstays of the school.
Once awarded the title of Gentleman by the temple, even an unknown person can instantly become famous in Jiuzhou Seventy-Two Academy.
Just like the new gentleman from Siqi Academy whom Zhao Rong learned about in the Shandi newspaper not long ago.
The first-class Confucian scholars are a special existence among the vast number of Confucian scholars.
The temple divides a period into a certain number of years. Among all the young Confucian scholars in this period, the handful of scholars with the most potential are selected and included in the roster, marking them as first-class scholars.
The Confucian Temple focuses on observation and training.
They are all potential candidates for a gentleman.
Zhu Weirui is such a person.
Scholarly talent and great cultivation.
They are all top Confucian scholars of the same generation.
Originally, the future was promising, gentlemen were expected, and female gentlemen could be recorded in the annals of Confucianism, becoming a rare existence and remembered by future generations. However, what makes people laugh or sigh is that Zhu Weirui happened to be one of the most famous Confucian scholars in the history of Confucianism.
After a while, there will be a few people who hit the wall.
Yan Jidao, who had been silent all this time, suddenly frowned slightly.
This time Zhu Weirui came to Linlu Academy, but for some reason the principal asked her to also serve as an art teacher.
This matter has gradually begun to be criticized and discussed in the academy.
It's not that she is not qualified to be the art teacher of the new students. If even the first-class Confucian scholar is not qualified to teach the new students art, then the other ordinary gentlemen can simply dismiss their posts and go home.
What made everyone in the academy complain was that the mountain chief actually approved Professor Zhu Weirui's seventh art besides the "Six Confucian Arts", which was the calligraphy art she named.
Looking at Jiuzhou Seventy-Two Academy, this behavior is the first time.
Even if you are Mr. Youlan, who is welcomed by all the men in the academy, you cannot act like this and break the rules.
Suddenly, Yan Jidao seemed to remember something. He got up and went to the house, taking out the homework papers handed in by his former disciples.
Disciple Li Jinshu had been correcting this for him before.
Yan Jidao rummaged around and pulled out a particularly conspicuous piece of paper. He opened it and saw that it was signed Zhao Ziyu.