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In September of the fourth year of Zhenguan, the Royal Academy of the Tang Dynasty became lively again.
In addition to the old students returning to school, after a test and screening, [-] new students were admitted to the academy.
After the academy started, everything went on in an orderly and orderly manner.
Under Xu Jingzong's arrangement, it was finally time for Li Wangyou's "Encyclopedia" to teach.
Li Wangyou, a scumbag of later generations, stepped onto the podium for the first time in his life and started a glorious career as a primary school teacher.
Although this guy is basically "job without a certificate", in the newly built auditorium of the academy, thousands of students from the academy all stared at Li Wangyou on the podium with expressions of admiration.
Even the newly enrolled students, these six or seven-year-old Mongolian children, are familiar with Li Wangyou's name.
They naturally knew what it meant for Li Wangyou to teach them in person.
What is "encyclopedia", no one knows.
Not to mention these Mongolian children, even Xu Jingzong didn't know what Li Wangyou planned to teach.
But no matter what Li Wangyou taught, this kind of opportunity to listen to Li Wangyou's lecture is very rare.
After Li Wangyou traveled to the Tang Dynasty, although he had seen a lot of big scenes, when he stepped onto the podium of the auditorium and looked at the dark crowd below, he still couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
This guy is also a whim, and he planned to come to the academy to teach on a whim.
But where did he have such experience.
In later generations, Li Wangyou also explained the plan to clients, but in the conference room, only a dozen people listened to him.Like today, facing thousands of people, Li Wangyou still felt a little stressed.
Knowing that Li Wangyou is going to teach today, and that he is teaching a course called "Encyclopedia", which no one has ever heard of, the first and second graders in the academy auditorium are not the only ones who come to attend the lecture today. s student.
Including Xu Jingzong, all the professors and teaching assistants of the academy rushed into the auditorium, ready to listen to the lecture.
The professors and teaching assistants in these academies admire Li Wangyou very much. Everyone holds a pen and ink, and has the attitude of a good student who is ready to listen carefully and take notes.
For this, Li Wangyou was also a little ashamed.
In his original plan, even if he didn't speak well, it shouldn't be a problem to fool these six or seven-year-old children.
But now so many employees of the whole academy come to his class, if he can't speak well, or if he is questioned by others, it will be a shameful thing.
Li Wangyou stabilized his mind, coughed lightly, and the huge auditorium became completely silent, and a needle could be heard, and everyone's eyes were focused on Li Wangyou.
"Students, the course I'm going to teach today is called Encyclopedia. So, what is Encyclopedia?"
"Encyclopedia refers to the general term for knowledge in all disciplines such as astronomy, geography, nature, machinery, medicine, and literature."
As soon as Li Wangyou said this, the students of the academy below didn't feel anything, but the professors and teaching assistants of the academy who heard him explain the meaning of the encyclopedia for the first time couldn't help but gasped.
Grandpa has such a big tone...
935 Naturally, Daoya!
Xu Jingzong had the same thought when he heard Li Wangyou's words, and felt that Li Wangyou's bragging was too much.
Astronomy, geography, nature, machinery, medicine, literature...all inclusive, all-encompassing...you have to be talented in order to dare to teach this knowledge, otherwise you will bring shame on yourself.
Since Li Wangyou dared to speak like this, all the professors and teaching assistants in the academy, including Xu Jingzong, held their breaths and prepared to listen carefully, whether Li Wangyou could really tell some knowledge that no one knew about.
"What I am going to tell you today is nature."
"Nature is everything in the universe, nature is Tao!"
Li Wangyou's words were not foolish.
Datang advocated Taoism, so he naturally explained what nature is based on Taoist concepts.
Naturally, Dao Ye's words also come from the book "Lao Zi Xiang Er Zhu".
Taoism believes that nature, like vitality, is something higher than heaven and earth, which is also in line with the concept of natural philosophy of later generations.
The opening words of his speech were half-understood by all the Mongolian children, but Xu Jingzong and the others didn't realize what was going on, and listened more seriously.
Li Wangyou roughly explained what nature is, and then asked everyone: "Students, let me test you, who can tell me what color the sun is?"
After he asked this question, the students in the auditorium didn't know how to answer.
Light is light, where does the color come from?
It took a while before someone raised his hand timidly, stood up and replied after being allowed by Li Wangyou: "Sir, the sun has no color."
Li Wangyou looked at the other students with a smile: "Do you think what he said is right?"
The students nodded in agreement.
Even the professors and teaching assistants of the academy were a little puzzled by Li Wangyou's question and didn't understand what it meant.
No one has ever thought about what color the sun is.
Everyone's reaction was naturally within Li Wangyou's expectation, and they were very satisfied.
"Students, you may not know that sunlight not only has colors, but also has seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and purple." Li Wangyou said firmly.
With his words, the originally quiet auditorium could no longer maintain order, and there were buzzing voices everywhere.
The students were fine, after all, they were still young, so they didn't dare to question Li Wangyou's words.
But the professors and teaching assistants in the college couldn't bear it anymore. After discussing with each other for a while, some people raised their hands and stood up to speak and question.
"Sir, where does the sun come from in seven colors? Why have we never seen it before?"
Li Wangyou laughed: "Nonsense, why haven't you seen it? Haven't you seen the rainbow after the rain? Did the rainbow have a color that day?"
The rainbow he mentioned is what the ancients called rainbows, and there are similar names like Feihong and Changhong.
The man was taken aback when he heard the words, and couldn't help retorting: "Sir, a rainbow is a rainbow, what does it have to do with the color of the sun?"
It was not until the Northern Song Dynasty that Huaxia had a certain correct understanding of the appearance of the rainbow.
For example, Shen Kuo wrote in "Mengxi Bi Tan", "Rainbow is also the shadow of water in the middle of the day. When the sun shines and rains, there will be it."
But in China's cognition since ancient times, Rainbow is generally regarded as a god with two heads that can drink water.The rainbow character in oracle bone inscriptions is in the shape of a two-headed dragon.
In future generations, if there is a rainbow after the rain, everyone's first reaction may be to take a photo and post it on Moments to show off their good luck.
But in Datang, the rainbow is not a good omen.
The rainbow is commonly known as "bar draft" in the folk, because it is believed that the rainbow will suck up the water source somewhere.Therefore, when the rainbow appears, the common people will knock on the pots and pans and make various noises, intending to scare the rainbow away.
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