Chapter 26 Chapter Twenty-Four

On a rainy day, how does Gao Kangda spend his time When it is rainy or the weather is abnormal, the time before lunch is arranged as usual, except for an extra fire to remove some moisture.But after lunch, they stay at home instead of exercising, and take the following kinds of labor as a good way of exercising their bodies: binding hay, chopping firewood, sawing logs, and threshing grain in the warehouse.They also learned to paint, to sculpt, or to play the ancient game of bone-throwing, which was described by Leonigus, and was often played by our friend Lascaris.As they played, they reviewed several passages of ancient writers about this game, or related to it.

Likewise, they go to see how metal is smelted, how guns are forged; otherwise, they visit artisans who handle jade, silver, and precious stones, or chemists and coin miners, or they visit carpet makers, weavers, etc. Weavers, velvet masters, watchmakers, mirror makers, printers, violin makers, dyers, and other craftsmen in various industries, wherever they go, Gao Kang will reward them. They take the opportunity to learn and observe industrial technology. and create. They also go to listen to other people's public speeches, participate in commemorative gatherings, literary debates, speech exercises, lawyer defenses, missionary lectures, and so on.

After passing the fencing room and the martial arts training place, Gao Kangda competed with the teachers there on all the weapons, proving that his martial arts skills were as good as theirs, or even higher than them. In such weather, instead of collecting plants, they visit pharmacies, medicinal material stores and pharmacies where medicines are prepared. They carefully observe various fruits, roots, leaves, gums, seeds, and oils imported from foreign countries, and study how they are prepared together. They also went to see performers, jugglers, and wild drug sellers, observed their movements, techniques, and fighting skills, and listened to their lip service, especially the people in the area around Seoul, Pycardia Province. They are naturally eloquent and fabricated , Eloquent.

When you come back for dinner, eat simpler than on other days. The meat should not be fatty, but easy to digest. Not so uncomfortable. Under such teachings, Gao Kang made progress day by day.You can imagine that a young man of his age, who is determined, persevering, and persevering, though it may seem difficult at first, will feel relaxed and happy if he persists. It is not so much a student who is learning. Said it was a king's pastime. However, in order to rest his tense spirit, Bonnocrates appointed once a month, on a sunny day, that everyone left the city early in the morning for Gentilly, or Brauny, or Montrouge, or Saranton ⑤, or Van Wo ⑥, or Santa Cruz ①.There they tried their best, ① a game that existed before the Trojan War, kind of like throwing dice.

② Leonigus: An Italian humanist writer who discussed the "bone-throwing game". ③ Lascaris (1445-535): Greek scholar, the author of this book once knew him in Rome. ① In the fourteenth chapter of this volume, Gao Kangda only spent fifty-three years, ten months and two weeks on his studies. When he started studying with Master Tuba, he was at least five years old. Therefore, when the teacher died in 1420, Gao Kangda was fifty-eight years old, so it was not a problem.Since 1420, he has read books for another sixty-five years (including "Greek Word Explanation", "Selected Works", "Addendum", "Questions and Answers", etc.), so this young man, in He must have been at least one hundred and twenty-three years old before he was taught by Bonokrates.Of course, the so-called young is relative to his entire life span. When his son Pagoda was born, Gao Kangda was already 524 years old.

② Gentilly: A small village near the Seine River, where Parisian students often go to play. ③Blaoni: A small village in the Seine River area, formerly known as Moni Village, changed its current name after the building of a Bulaoni-style church. ④ Mengluri: It belongs to Old City, Seine Province. ⑤ Sharangtong: the name of the village on the right bank of the Marne River. Enjoy yourself, tell jokes, play, drink, play games, sing, dance, roll in the grass, pick sparrows, catch quail, catch frogs, touch shrimp. This day, although they did not touch the book or read the article, it was not in vain, because on the grass they would recite a few paragraphs of Virgil's "Agricultural Poems" or Hesiod's verses, or else they would recite Pollitian's "Idylls," and a few amusing little verses in Latin, which they then translated into French into rhymes and folk songs.

When drinking, they use a cane cup to decompose the water in the wine according to the method taught by Gaddo in the "Agronomy" and Plinius. They first fill a basin with the wine, and then Strain the wine through a funnel and pour the water from this container into the other.They also made several kinds of little automatic machines, that is to say, gadgets that move themselves. ⑥ Wanwo: A small village near the Seine River. ① Santa Cruz: On the left bank of the Seine, it belongs to Versailles.The above places are all scenic spots in the suburbs of Paris. ② Hesiod: An ancient Greek poet, some say he was before Homer, some say he is at the same time as Homer.

③ The fifteenth-century poet Politian imitated the Latin poems written by Hesiod and Virgil. ④ Gadot (232-147 BC): Ancient Roman consul, author of "Agronomy". ⑤ It is said that rattan has the function of avoiding water, see Chapter 111 of Gaddo's "Clothing Science", and Plinius' "Compendium of Natural History" Volume 16, Chapter 35.