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Chapter 1170 Postscript 26: Dance for the entertainment of Chinese ancestors

Chapter 1170 Postscript 26·Dancing for the entertainment of Chinese sages of all dynasties

Early summer time.

Xie Yan got up early in the morning to dress up. Chen Shangshu arranged two maids for him and invited a master who specialized in shaving.

Today I want to visit the Confucian Temple!

Xie Yan has begun to grow a beard, which is so hairy that it can only be seen if you get close. Those plush beards have also been carefully shaved.

Next came shaving, eyebrow shaping, and even sideburns.

After washing his face again, the shaving master had left. The maids tied Xie Yan's hair into a bun, and then carefully put on the Confucian crown.

There are two types of Confucian crowns in the Ming Dynasty.

One is the Dongpo scarf from the late Northern Song Dynasty. Officials who passed the Jinshi examination can wear it, and ordinary people can wear it as long as they like it.

One type is modified from the Dongpo scarf, which is shorter and more compact, looks simple and neat, and is exclusive to Confucian students who have not passed the Jinshi examination.

Xie Yan is wearing the second type today.

The Confucian robe on his body is all white, which means being a pure man. This is actually the swan robe worn by Confucian scholars in the Song Dynasty, also called white robe. The swan is the swan, which symbolizes the ambition of the swan.

Hang up the jasper waist badge.

The eyes of several maids were bright as they looked at the handsome young man in white robes!

"Mr. Lang looks even better today." Yan Yan couldn't help but admire, and blamed herself for not being beautiful, otherwise she might be able to please Xie Liulang.

She was brought from Shaanxi by Mrs. Xia. She is already eighteen years old and will be getting married in a few years.

Generally, if you marry the valet of the Chen family, you can continue to work here.

If you marry outside, you may lose your job.

Among the young maids from wealthy families, only a few serve their masters personally and can be used as confidants. More ordinary maids will be fired when they are in their twenties, and when their contracts expire, they will go home to get married and have children.

Anyway, you can recruit at any time, teenage girls are more pleasing to the eye, and serving tea and water when guests come is more honorable.

Of course, the maids who do chores in the outer courtyard are not so particular, and are mainly done by healthy women in their thirties and forties. These healthy women are strong, work quickly, and are not pretentious, making arousal more pleasant.

Xie Hong and Chen Duan were waiting outside. Xie Yan packed up and hurried out.

The Confucian Temple is in the southeastern part of the city.

They first sent Xie Yan to the Confucian Temple, and then left the city to the eastern suburbs dock.

Xie Hong is going back to Hebei and Chen Duan is going back to Shaanxi. The provincial examination will be held in two or three months, and they both have to go back to their hometowns in advance to prepare.

The streets outside the Confucian Temple are densely packed with people.

Xie Yan is particularly eye-catching. He is a young man, wearing the clothes of a Confucian scholar who has not been admitted to the Jinshi, but he has a jasper white belt hanging around his waist. There are many people who have these elements, but some people have both at the same time.

He is the only one.

"But Bachelor Xie Chaozong?" A young scholar came up to strike up a conversation.

Xie Yan returned the greeting and said, "It's just that you are not talented."

The young bachelor was in his thirties, with a white medicinal jade hanging around his waist. He was considered young and promising among scholars.

The two of them didn't chat for a few words when another scholar came over.

Xie Yan could only keep returning the greetings, and then slowly moved towards the gate of the Confucian Temple.

Finally, a junior official from the Ministry of Etiquette came over and shouted: "Fellow bachelors, please arrange your team first and arrange them according to the bachelor's level..."

There are five levels of royal bachelors in the Ming Dynasty, namely: jade, rose, hibiscus, sapphire, and medicinal jade.

In the Song Dynasty, "jade" was already used to refer to jade, but it was not clear what kind of jade it was.

Today's jadeite, the kind of jadeite of later generations, was named by Emperor Taizong himself in order to encourage expansion to the south.

The reason why the Bachelor of Jadeite is designated as the first grade is not only because of its beauty, but also because of its high hardness, which is not easy to carve with ancient techniques.

It’s not easy, it’s a luxury!

The Rose Waist Card is not simply Opal, its main body is Hetian Jade, with a high-quality Opal gemstone embedded in the middle.

The hibiscus waist medal is not an ordinary hibiscus stone, it is carved from the finest pink Dushan jade.

Senior bachelors arrived one after another, including many administrative bureaucrats. But it was difficult to identify them from their clothes, because today they were all wearing official attire, and they were all wearing sacrificial robes.

Although Xie Yan was invited to attend the official meeting, there was no special care for him when he paid homage to the Confucian Temple.

Because there were too many people, he couldn't even enter the inner courtyard, so he could only follow a group of Jasper bachelors to worship in the open space inside the gate of the Confucian Temple.

The lower level Medicine and Jade Bachelors were even lined up outside the gate of the Confucian Temple.

Xie Yan had already heard from his father and brother that the Confucian Temple in Ming Dynasty was not the Confucius Temple.

Confucius's biological father and a large number of Confucian disciples had already been invited out of the Confucian Temple. Instead, sages from all dynasties were invited in. Not only Zhang Heng and Shen Kuo were invited in, but even the much-criticized Cai Lun was invited in.

The last person Emperor Taizong personally ordered to be invited to the Confucian Temple was Bi Sheng, who, like Cai Lun, had made important contributions to the spread of culture.

There are also ancient mathematicians such as Zu Chongzhi and Liu Hui.

There are also astronomers such as Jia Kui and geographers such as Pei Xiu.

There are also many sages in the field of culture. Even Wang Xizhi, Wu Daozi, Li Bai, Du Fu and others were invited to the Confucian Temple.

The memorial tablets in the Confucian Temple are quite crowded.

Only one scholar was enshrined in the dynasty, and that was Zhu Guoxiang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty!

Generally speaking, the emperor should be enshrined in the Imperial Temple. No matter how outstanding his martial arts skills are, he will not enter the Wenwu Temple.

The person who invited Zhu Guoxiang into the Confucian Temple to worship him was Zhu Ming's good grandson, the Yanchun Emperor Zhu Tang, who had reigned for eighteen years.

Zhu Tang has done many similar tricks, such as canceling the Yellow Emperor era, adding magical stories to the history books of the current dynasty, building Ziyun Pavilion to worship the 48 civil and military figures who founded the Ming Dynasty, etc.

He even wanted to invite Ju Ming into the Martial Arts Temple, but he gave up because there were too many people who opposed it.

So, why is there not much opposition to Zhu Guoxiang’s entry into the Confucian Temple?

Because Lao Zhu has many disciples and grandchildren!

At that time, a large number of science scholars, science scholars, and science students broke into fierce debates with the opponents. The science scholars, who had never been very prominent, suddenly united and exploded with great strength. They used rigorous logical thinking to easily refute those who cited classics and classics.

Literati.

"Master Xian, please come forward!"

"Fengxian officer, please go this way."

"Priest-accompanying officer, please come forward and follow me."

"Jade Maester, please move forward..."

The lead students from the Ministry of Rites, accompanied by elegant music, began to arrange the positions of the participants.

Xie Yan lined up with the other Jasper Bachelors and moved forward a little.

Everyone was in place, and Thongtsensheng shouted: "The ceremony is completed!"

Then the song was changed, and Yin Zansheng stood up and guided the sacrificial officer to the place of worship.

The main presenting officer and the sub-presenting officer recited the offering table one after another, praising the achievements of the Chinese sages of past dynasties, explaining the significance of this sacrifice, and finally wishing Chinese academics prosperity.

"Kneel down!" Tong Chansheng shouted.

Xie Yan stared at the Jasper Bachelor in front of him. He would do whatever the other person did and quickly knelt down with him.

"Kowtow!"

After Xie Yan traveled through time, he had never knelt down and knelt down before anyone.

At this moment, he had no psychological burden. What was enshrined inside was the sages of the Chinese dynasties. He should kneel down and worship him due to emotion and reason. Anyway, he was not a living person.

"Kowtow again!"

"Kowtow three times!"

"rise!"

"Dance to entertain the sages!"

Xie Yan followed the crowd to perform radio gymnastics, twisting his whole body and performing square dances for the sages of the past generations.

"receive!"

"It's done!"

The lead students have already run to the outside: "Retreat one by one!"

Xie Yan followed the example of the others, taking a step back while maintaining the bowing posture, then straightened his waist, turned around and walked out slowly.

It's quite interesting. Not only is there a dancing part, but there is also music accompaniment throughout the whole process, with a total of seven different songs.

Walking out of the street where the Confucian Temple is located, Xie Yan heard someone shouting: "For those of you who have invitations to the academic conference, please go to Wencui Street. The carriage is ready. For those of you who don't have invitations, please stay away."

Open Wencui Street, it’s almost blocked!”

Xie Yan did not go directly to the car, but first found his entourage and carried the box containing the scale over.

He picked the nearest one and showed the invitation to the driver.

The coachman subconsciously looked at him twice, then looked at the invitation carefully, and then said with a smile: "Thank you, Bachelor, please get on the bus."

The car is empty.

Because senior bachelors were at the front when offering sacrifices, but were at the end when leaving.

After waiting for several minutes, someone finally came.

"Brother Deguang please."

"Brother Duanzheng please come first."

"Brother Shaoyin should be invited first."

"..."

Several people outside the car were showing humility to each other. After waiting for a long time, no one got on the car first.

"Then I would be rude. Sorry, rude."

Finally, someone opened the side door of the carriage, and the curtain was half-opened. A Dongpo scarf got in first, and then half of his head.

Before his head was fully penetrated, he saw Xie Yan sitting inside.

This was a little old man. He was confused by Xie Yan. He quickly retracted his head and asked the coachman: "Is this the carriage going to Taixue?"

The coachman smiled and said: "My husband found the wrong car. The young husband inside is also a bachelor."

"Brother Deguang, what happened?" asked the scholar next to him.

The little old man laughed: "There is someone inside, and he is still a teenager."

After saying that, he got into the car and sat next to Xie Yan, looking at it carefully with great interest.

One after another, a few more came in.

The little old man raised his hand to Xie Yan and said, "Old man Gu Yu, whose courtesy name is Deguang, is a calligrapher and painter. What do you call me, little friend?"

Xie Yan cupped his hands and returned the greeting: "Junior Xie Yan, courtesy name Chaozong."

Before the little old man could speak, another old man who had just walked in said: "Are you Xie Yan? I heard that this grand meeting was started because of you. Someone used your achievements to create a damping balance, which made many people happy.

Breaking through the bottleneck in physical chemistry.”

"I was scolded badly too," another old man said.

These old men are all engaged in literature, history and art.

They did not understand Xie Yan's academic achievements, but they were more accepting of Xie Yan because of this, and even had a kind of appreciation for the talented boy.

A genius, a young bachelor, how romantic it sounds!

Literati like this tune.

They didn't even have time to introduce themselves before they started talking in the carriage.

"Those science scholars are more clinging to the past than we are. Instead of caring for the good-looking young geniuses, they criticize and abuse them. Isn't this destroying academic talents?"

"Their seniority management is more serious than ours."

"On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, I was invited by my juniors to participate in a literary meeting, and I also met a bachelor of mathematics who came to present a paper. Haha, I heard that he had achieved great results, but he was too unorthodox and was not allowed to present a paper. It was embarrassing for the mathematics school.

We’re here at the Wenhui!”

"I also read that paper."

"How can you, a person who studies epigraphy, understand a mathematical paper?"

"Who hasn't learned mathematics when they were in school? That paper is outrageous. It assumes that a straight line has multiple parallel lines. If his paper is true, wouldn't our middle school geometry learning be in vain?"

"Is this really outrageous?"

"No wonder the School of Mathematics doesn't issue papers, it's just nonsense."

"..."

These old men made some random remarks and did not criticize Wang Daqing all the time. They were more looking at the math school’s jokes!

While he was talking, two more people came in, and finally the carriage was full.

"Masters, take your seats!"

The coachman warned, waved his whip and stepped on the accelerator.

Everyone brought their servants with them. The traffic was not good today, so the servants did not ride in the carriages, but ran behind the carriages.

During the journey, they introduced each other, but Xie Yan didn't remember everything for a while.

Gu Yu, courtesy name Deguang, was a painter, calligrapher, and expert on Qin and Han history.

Liu Ke, courtesy name Xianzhi, was a historian, Confucian scholar, and a great contemporary Confucian scholar.

Fan Zhuang, also known as Duanzheng, is an archaeologist and epigraphy expert.

Wei Zizhi, courtesy name Shaoyin, is a painter, calligrapher and religious scholar.

Wu Songnian, courtesy name Bojian, was a painter and calligrapher who was also proficient in garden design and courtyard decoration.

The last ones to come up were two science scholars.

Xin Bingwen, courtesy name Zhou Chen, was a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.

Tan You, courtesy name Zongji. Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and geographer.

Because they did not study chemistry, Xin Bingwen and Tan You did not have any ill feelings towards Xie Yan. Instead, they greatly admired Xie Yan's damping paper.

Tan You pointed to the box at Xie Yan's feet: "I heard that my little friend was invited to explain molecular theory. Are these all chemical experimental equipment?"

"That's right." Xie Yan smiled.

Xin Bingwen laughed: "If it is, it is, if it is not, it is not. What does it mean?"

Xie Yan explained: "It can be used for chemical experiments and physical experiments."

Tan You asked: "The more you talk, the more curious I become, what exactly are you pretending to be?"

"The balance." Xie Yan said.

"Did you make your own damping balance?" Xin Bingwen asked.

Xie Yan replied: "Yes. But it is a little different from the damping balance of Master Nie."

If it's different, how big of a difference can there be?

The two of them stopped asking for details.

The address of the Ming Dynasty Royal Academy is in the city, but it belongs to the administrative agency and editorial department, and the building area is not large.

This time, the conference was held on the Taixue site outside the city, so all the Taixue students had a few days off.

However, many Taipei students did not leave the school. They were allowed to lie down at the doors and windows to listen. After the meeting, some academic lectures were also organized, which were given by bachelors to Taipei students.

One carriage after another slowly left the city, with many servants following behind, and gradually they saw the Taipei Imperial College building.

Martial law has been enforced nearby.

Because Queen Mother Ye, the young emperor, the eldest princess, the Minister of Rites and other dignitaries will come to attend the opening meeting in the afternoon.

Many scholars rode horse-drawn carriages to the Taixue dormitory area.

Many outside students (self-financed preparatory students) have been evicted, leaving dormitories for invited scholars to live in. These self-financed students have money at home, so even if they have no place to live temporarily, they can find an inn on their own.

Of course, there are also many scholars who live a fastidious life. They pay their own money to live in high-end rooms in inns, and are not willing to come to Taixue to squeeze into dormitories with servants.

Xie Yan and his entourage were arranged into a dormitory, and they had to bring their own bedding and mats.

After stuffing the box under the bed and guarding it with a follower, Xie Yan went to the cafeteria with another follower.

Scholars have free meals.

During the meal, Xie Yan met a few more people, including a chemist who was not very enthusiastic about him.

Shortly after the meal, someone shouted: "The palace carriage is coming!"

Many scholars happily ran to the school gate to greet her, and Xie Yan also went over to watch the fun, wanting to see what the young Queen Mother looked like.


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