http://www.froginawell.net/china/2009/12/a-farmer-learns-his-chinese-characters/ The China History Group Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:35:30 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.froginawell.net/china/2009/12/a-farmer-learns-his-chinese-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-166535 Alan Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:26:33 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/china/?p=1628#comment-166535 I've heard versions of this before, usually unsourced, about peasants who learned the classics while plowing near the Confucian school and listening to the lessons or whatever. Usually they then pass the exams and become high officials. It makes a nice story, since the hero can go right from honest peasant to upright official without having to make a bunch of money or move to the city or whatever. No doubt that's why these sorts of stories circulated. I’ve heard versions of this before, usually unsourced, about peasants who learned the classics while plowing near the Confucian school and listening to the lessons or whatever. Usually they then pass the exams and become high officials. It makes a nice story, since the hero can go right from honest peasant to upright official without having to make a bunch of money or move to the city or whatever. No doubt that’s why these sorts of stories circulated.

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