my scientific age

Chapter 29 Young China Talks

Each of them carries the hopes of too many compatriots.

This is true for the students of Peiping No. [-] Middle School, all middle school students in Peiping City, and all students in China.

Time passed, at ten o'clock in the morning, more than 120 third-year high school students who arrived at the school ahead of schedule participated in the opening ceremony held by the No. [-] Middle School. Principal Qi Meige and the Dean of Academic Affairs delivered speeches one by one.

The whole ceremony is very simple. First, let the students not participate in rallies and anti-Japanese demonstrations, and try to ensure their own safety. Second, let the students study hard, not slack, and strive to be useful to the country and the nation.

Nearly two years have passed since the He-Mei Agreement, and the clouds of war between Ping-Jin and Ping-Jin have filled the air. School leaders such as Principal Qi Meige can naturally smell the air in Peiping. It seems that there is a faint smell of gunpowder smoke. increasingly restless.

After the speech was over, the opening ceremony was over, all the students dispersed and started busy with the complicated affairs at the beginning of the school.

The first thing is to pay.

The tuition fee is 20 yuan, the tuition and miscellaneous fees are 20 yuan, the board and lodging fee is 25 yuan, and the book fee is 75 yuan. The four major expenses total [-] yuan. School.

I have to say that schools in the period of the Republic of China were really not something that ordinary people could read, especially high schools.

As a top public school, Peiping No. 150 High School’s tuition fee is already at a relatively low level in the public school system. The total cost of a year is only about [-] yuan. If you get a regional middle school or a private middle school with less government funding, it is an expensive one. .

Of course, the 150 yuan is only the minimum consumption for students. Three meals a day are eaten in the cafeteria. If you want to go out to eat, the annual cost will start at [-] yuan. After three years, the total cost will be about [-] yuan.

Six hundred!

A seemingly small but astronomical fee amount.

What is the annual income of ordinary people in this era?
Peiping, as the first good place, is still in good condition. Middle school teachers, engineers, editors, reporters, lawyers, ordinary government employees and bank employees belong to the middle class. The total annual income is divided according to different occupations, which is maintained between [-] yuan and [-] yuan. Meta range.

The income of ordinary traders, workers, coachmen and other classes ranges from about 60 yuan to 150 yuan.

Seems like a lot, but don't forget this is Beiping.

If it is enlarged to the whole country, a small number of rich peasants and small landlords can only survive about [-] oceans a year, and they can only maintain food and clothing. Large landlords are considered to be well-off, and can occasionally eat white flour and rice for a few months. Similar to Xu Rui's poor peasant family, don't talk about money all year round. , As long as the green and yellow are not connected, it is a great happiness to eat wild vegetable soup.

After paying the money, Yu Hua took the payment slip and went to the Academic Affairs Office to go through the formalities, and then went to the dormitory to check in. The whole process was basically the same as the beginning of the school in later generations.

Peking No. [-] Middle School is a full-time management type. Students need to study at the school full-time and are not allowed to leave the school except for important and urgent matters. Every weekend, there is half-day time to leave the school to visit relatives.

After arriving at the dormitory and completing the check-in procedures, the busy work for the start of school today is basically over. There is no class on the first day of school today. Yu Hua went to the library with the books and continued to handle the vacation homework.

Yu Hua prefers the quiet and spacious environment of the library to the classroom.

When I arrived at the western-style library, there were already quite a few students studying and reading books, most of them were students in the literature class. Yu Hua looked around, away from the area with many students, and went deep with the book, looking for it. In a relatively remote area with few people, sit gently and open the Chinese language.

With more than an hour of self-study time in the morning, Yu Hua has already completed the two subjects of arithmetic and physics. The amount of homework during the holidays is not large, and the type of questions is still difficult for him.

"This traditional Chinese is really hard to recognize. Let's copy it first." Yu Hua opened the Chinese textbook. There are three homework requirements for the Chinese holiday.

Copying texts and writing texts is not difficult in nature. What is difficult is the complex and uncommon traditional Chinese characters. Although the vernacular has been around for a long time, the official format still uses traditional Chinese characters.

When he opened the Chinese book, the young Chinese said, at a glance, Yu Hua could recognize the Japanese characters beginning with the two characters. The rest of the traditional Chinese characters need to be carefully identified in order to accurately understand their meaning.

One is difficult to recognize, and the other is difficult to write. If you are not careful, it will be written in simplified characters.

Biting the bullet, Yu Hua held the pen in his right hand and slowly copied it on the notebook.

Xueba will not be afraid of difficulties, and as a scumbag of a primary school, neither will he.

The Japanese call me China, one is the Boss Empire, and the other is the Boss Empire...

If you want to speak to the young and old of the country, please speak to the young and old of the people first...

Therefore, today's responsibility does not lie with others, but entirely with my youth.

A young man is wise and a country is wise, and a young man is rich, the country is rich;
If the youth is strong, the country will be strong, and if the youth are independent, the country will be independent;
The freedom of the youth is the freedom of the country; the progress of the youth is the progress of the country;
The youth is better than Europe, and the country is better than Europe...

Copying Young China seriously, I don't know how long it took, Yu Hua suddenly felt a person standing beside him, looked up, a familiar women's coat came into view, short hair, a pair of clear and bright eyes, this person was standing before. Lin Wan, who chaired the opening ceremony podium.

"Classmate, don't you know how to write traditional characters?" Lin Wan said with a smile, holding the Oxford English Dictionary published in 1895, standing on the right side of the table.

She had been standing here for a while, and when she was just borrowing the dictionary, Lin Wan saw Yu Hua was writing something in a hurry, and glanced at it with the attitude of passing by, but found that Yu Hua seemed not to be able to write traditional Chinese characters, and it was not a stroke when she wrote it. Walking mistakes, is to write directly in simplified characters.

A fourth middle school student who can't write traditional characters?
Interesting.

"Uh……"

Yu Hua was a little embarrassed. The core reason why he avoided the crowded areas of the classroom and library was because he couldn't write traditional Chinese characters, so he never thought of running into this boss directly.

"There is a copy of "Luo's Traditional Chinese Encyclopedia" in the sixth row and the sixth row, and there is a copy of "Ancient and Modern Classical Chinese Narration" in the sixth row, I think you should need it."

Glancing at Yu Hua, who was a little embarrassed, Lin Wan pointed to the bookshelf behind her: "Classmate, it's the last semester, come on."

Hearing this, Yu Hua was stunned for a moment, then thanked softly: "Thank you, Chairman Lin, you will also do your best."

"You can call me classmate Lin Wan if you want. Chairman Lin is too bureaucratic. Okay, I won't disturb your studies, classmate." Lin Wan was stunned when she heard Yu Hua's name, then smiled and shook her head. Naturally, he shook the thick Oxford English Dictionary with his right hand, and sat on the desk next door, studying quietly.

Chairman Lin?
Although she is the chairman of the joint council level, she does not like this kind of bureaucratic title, just say a classmate.

(End of this chapter)