By the time I was seventeen
By the time I was seventeen or eighteen, I loved learning even more. Before I began to deal with government affairs every day, I began to study at night. After dealing with government affairs in the evening, I began to listen, discuss and think again. Although I am overworked, I still have blood in my sputum. Even so, I never gave up. That's how I learned when I was a teenager, and I love calligraphy very much. Academician Shen once taught me calligraphy. He studied the calligraphy of Amin Dong Qichang. Two eunuchs, Zhang Helin, also met famous calligraphers in Ming Dynasty and often gave me advice. This is why my calligraphy is different from ordinary people.
Experience: This is not the all-powerful Emperor Kangxi, but clearly a hard-working teenager. I start reading at five in the morning, which is equivalent to three to five now. Dealing with government affairs during the day and studying at night, not only attending classes, but also thinking and discussing with teachers. This kind of study of getting up early and getting greedy for the dark leads to overwork, even to the point of blood in phlegm.
Kangxi was an emperor who made great efforts to govern the country, and the spirit of self-improvement was vividly reflected in his study. We always say that children nowadays are burdened and stressed, compared with the young Emperor Kangxi? I'm afraid it's not that serious. When you are young, you can't bear hardships and don't know how to struggle. When you grow up, you can endure hardships and struggle. It's terrible.
Nowadays, children are very tired, mainly because they have learned too much, and it takes a lot of time to finish their homework every day. Classroom learning focuses on listening, thinking too little and discussing almost nothing. However, there are indeed difficulties in classroom teaching. A class lasts 40 minutes and there can be 45 children in the class. If the time is even, everyone will have less than 1 minute.
Parents should try their best to make up for what schools can't do, and let children think, express, discuss and communicate.
Finally, look at what Kangxi learned when he was a child. Mainly Confucian classics, and then learn to write poems. Kangxi was a special emperor who mastered the most advanced knowledge of mathematics and astronomy in the world at that time, but all this knowledge was based on mastering the traditional culture of China. When our children arrive in high school, I'm afraid they know more than Kangxi, but what can we say that our children can do than Kangxi?