Yue Fei took part in all kinds of labor since he was a child, such as herding cattle and sheep, collecting firewood and mowing grass, and cooking with a fire. Due to the harsh labor training and other factors since childhood, Yue Fei's amazing physical strength has been created.
Yue Fei likes martial arts very much. Yue Fei, who is under 20 years old, has been able to bow 300 Jin (one Jin in Song Dynasty is about today 1.2 Jin) and open eight stones at the waist (one stone in Song Dynasty is 92.5 Jin, and now it is about1/kloc-0 Jin). According to the military system of the Song Dynasty, "one bow shooting one stone and five fights" is considered to be superior in martial arts, and you can choose to be the "squad leader" to be the emperor's bodyguard. The highest record of samurai bowing in the Northern Song Dynasty is only three stones ⑾. It can be seen that Yue Fei's bow drawing ability has reached its peak.
As a teenager, Yue Fei learned archery from "hometown hero" Zhou Tong. Zhou Tong performed in public and shot three arrows, all of which hit the bull's-eye. Yue Fei picked up a bow and shot two arrows, which actually broke Zhou Tong's arrow. Zhou Tong got a fright and immediately presented Yue Fei with two beloved bows. It took Zhou Tong only a few days to teach Yue Fei all archery skills. After hard practice, Yue Fei can open the bow left and right, hitting every shot.
Later, Zhou Tong died, and Yue Fei was heartbroken. On the first and fifteenth day of each month, we will visit Zhou Tong's grave. Due to financial constraints, Yue Fei even sold his clothes and buried meat in front of the grave. Yue He found that his son's clothes suddenly disappeared, so he questioned Yue Fei and even scolded him, but Yue Fei neither blamed his father nor told the truth. After secretly tracking, Yue He discovered his son's secret and praised Yue Fei instead.
Yue Fei's family has been plowing and hoeing fields for generations, and it is impossible to have much culture. There was a so-called "winter school" in the rural areas of Song Dynasty. From 10 to 12, poor scholars have classes during the slack season. The textbooks include Hundred Family Names, Ganzi Wen and Zazi, which are called "village books". Children of farmers who know some words may be less deceived by some officials, Bao Zheng, Chang Bao, Lan Hu (who contracts other people's taxes) and landlords. Farmers' children are not "officials" for their careers.
Yue Fei may also have studied village books in winter school. Although he was hungry for cultural knowledge, it was generally impossible for farmers' children to get further education in culture under the social environment at that time. The Yue family is too poor to buy candles and so on. In addition to working hard during the day, Yue Fei often learns to read and write by burning dead branches and leaves, and even stays up all night. He is brilliant, has a strong memory and perseveres. Later, when he became a general, he finally had a considerable cultural level. "I know a little about book biography", that is, I know some Confucian classics, and I can write poems, lyrics, essays and running scripts. My calligraphy is stone, "the word is better than Su Shi's style".