After resting in Bailu Village for a few days, Zhou Yuan from Pangjia Village in Nanyuan came to Bailu Village and invited them to go to Xi'an Mansion together so that they could have company on the way.
Zhou Yuan came with him, not only the horseman driving the car, but also a little girl of eleven or twelve years old. She was young and beautiful, and her feet were not bound. This should be related to the fact that the Zhou family was doing business in the city.
The three of them agreed and packed their bags together.
Before leaving home, Bai Youde was a little reluctant to leave. He touched Bai Gui's smooth forehead and said nothing more.
When a few people walked downstairs, Bai Gui was quite surprised that Lu Zilin and Liu Mouer rushed over and gave him the half-sized black horse that he had been raising in the stable, saying that he was used to raising it.
The newly hired groom couldn't breed the fat he had raised back then. If he hadn't seen a black horse that was even stronger than a few months ago, Bai Gui might have believed this nonsense.
A carriage, followed by several strong horses.
Going to a higher education institution to study is not just about teaching Western learning. People from wealthy families will prepare horses, and there will be teachers to teach horse riding in the academy. Speaking of horse riding, it is also one of the six Confucian arts, including etiquette, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics.
This can be regarded as a characteristic of the northwest. It is located in a border area and has experienced constant wars for thousands of years. Basically, wealthy households in the Guanzhong area with a little wealth can ride horses.
"Is this the third girl of your family?"
Bai Xiaowen sat on the carriage shaft, leaning against the carriage door, holding back a smile and said. He still remembered that during the spring outing, Zhou Yuan said that he would betroth his sister to Bai Gui as his wife.
However, he also knew some etiquette. Men and women were not allowed to be intimate. Although the feudal ethics at this time were not as strong as in the past, it would not be a good thing if gossip ruined the chastity of a daughter's family.
So he spoke in code.
Only a few men present knew about this.
"My sister originally hired Mr. Xi to teach at home, but a few days ago I went home and told my dad about the government examination. My dad felt that times have changed now, and my daughter can't stay at home all day.
at home……"
"So I have inquired about the girls' schools in the city and plan to send my sister to the Yage Girls' School to avoid her future husband's family from disdaining her for being uneducated."
Zhou Yuan said after careful consideration of his words. He is going to Xi'an to study. He has to get rid of the habit of always speaking in dialect, otherwise the students in the higher education institution will laugh at him.
If you speak dialect occasionally, it will enhance your nostalgia. But if you speak it all the time, you will inevitably be looked down upon.
Yage Girls' School is the first private girls' school opened in Qin Province five years ago.
Following the defeat of the two wars, missionaries came to China to preach. In order to facilitate preaching, they often established missionary schools. For example, the first girls' school in the Qing Dynasty was the Ningbo Girls' School founded by the English female missionary Edward in Ningbo.
For example, the seventh stipulation in the 1868 Continuation Treaty between the Qing government and Amei-Ken was that Amei-Ken people could establish schools in places where Chinese foreigners lived.
The uneducated people here in Zhou Yuan also have to be put in quotation marks. Knowing some of the Four Books and Five Classics does not seem to be considered literate now.
"Isn't it considered cultured to ask a teacher to study?"
Bai Xiaowen was surprised.
Put this way, he seems to be almost illiterate.
"Different!"
Bai Gui, who was learning to ride a horse on the side, shook his head, "Many international students who have returned from studying abroad are unwilling to get married arranged by their families. The families of those girls who are engaged may not be uneducated, but they do not have Western culture, so we can't talk to them.
Go, brother Zhou and his father must have thought the same way. Nowadays, anyone with a little bit of family wealth will send their children to study abroad. After they come back..."
He paused and said, "High status! Quick promotion!"
For example, in 1871, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang proposed in the "Regulations on Selecting Young Children to Study in the United States": "After fifteen years, thirty people will return to China every year, and the overseas committee members will list their personal directors.
, and after listening to them, they will be sent out to reward the top officials, official ranks, and errands..."
There are also the 1904 "Regulations on Rewarding Graduates from Study Tours" and so on, which have given great convenience to these international students who have returned from studying abroad. They only need to pass certain assessments to be appointed as officials.
So if you have the conditions, you have to work hard to get your children to study in the West. At this time, studying in European powers is the first class, studying in Kenya is the second class, and studying in Japan is the third class.
"Yes, my father also has this consideration."
"That's why we let him go to Yage Girls' School to study."
Zhou Yuan paused and said thoughtfully.
On the one hand, he didn't say that he wanted his sister to marry a good husband. Going to a women's school will undoubtedly add a resume. When talking about marriage in the future, the threshold will be much higher.
After some girls learn it, they become a preparatory school for official wives.
As soon as I graduated, I was robbed!
Any handsome man who doesn't marry a female student is as if he is a head shorter than others in his life.
"I heard from my dad that there are several cases of abandoned marriages in the city. The families of those girls whose marriages were regretted couldn't bear the accusations from others, so they died!"
"The reason why you go with me is so that I can take care of her."
Zhou Yuan sighed.
"I can't tell who will take care of whom!"
The girl Wednesday who was in the carriage had her head pop out from the curtain, her cheeks flushed, she gritted her teeth and looked at Zhou Yuan and said.
Several people burst out laughing.
There are several roads from Bailu Village to Xi'an City, but at the moment we are taking the road from Chang'an County. Chang'an County is to the south of Xi'an City, the cultural and educational center of Xi'an Prefecture, where most colleges and universities, such as Xi'an
Fu Xue, Guanzhong Academy, Chang'an County County School, Xianning County County School, and the Confucian Temple are all on the southwest side.
In the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an County and Wannian County were Fuguo County of Chang'an.
The current Wannian County is called Xianning County, but was later abolished. Most of it is the Forest of Steles area, and the Forest of Steles is the Confucian Temple of Xi'an Prefecture.
Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty basically included Chang'an County and Wannian County, with Zhuque Street as the dividing line. However, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Zhaozong of the Tang Dynasty was carried to Luoyang by Zhu Wen, and Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty was also demolished by the Jiedushi stationed there.
Most of the residents were moved to Tang Imperial City.
The current Ming City Wall was built separately based on the Tang Imperial City. The inside is made of rammed earth from the Tang Imperial City Wall, and the outside is made of bricks from the Ming Dynasty.
With a carriage, it is much faster than walking.
After walking for more than two hours, we arrived at Yongning Gate in Xi'an City.
Yongning Gate is directly south of Xi'an City.
After the population explosion since Kangxi and Qianlong, the originally small Xi'an city could no longer accommodate so many residents, so buildings were built outside the city wall.
Where you enter, you will find a dazzling array of things to see.
There are peddlers and vendors everywhere, and there are also some who perform acrobatic skills, the most common of which are breaking large rocks on the chest, swallowing swords, and some Western gadgets, such as dioramas and the like.
There was also a juggler holding two coarse porcelain bowls, a bamboo chopstick in his right hand, and a few peas placed on the red silk table. In an instant, the peas disappeared. This was the fairy picking beans.