{"id":767,"date":"2010-05-04T08:50:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T13:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/?p=767"},"modified":"2010-05-04T08:50:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T13:50:41","slug":"chinese-one-room-schoolhouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Chinese one-room schoolhouses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what &#8220;schools&#8221; looked like 100 years ago. This is an old school on the outskirts of Yilan. From a distance, it looks like a temple.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-768\" title=\"school1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/school1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/school1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/school1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In fact, up close, it looks like a temple, as well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-769\" title=\"school2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/school2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/school2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/school2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As soon as you walk in the front door, you see a shrine to Guan Yu \u00e9\u2014\u0153\u00e7\u00be\u00bd, also called Guan Gong \u00e9\u2014\u0153\u00e5\u2026\u00ac. So far, this is a lot like typical temples.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-769\" title=\"school2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/school3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But if you look at the right and left wings of the temple, instead of other shrines, you see tables and stools.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-769\" title=\"school2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/school4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is where classes were held. Not unlike church-based schools hundreds of years ago in Europe. This is the Chinese version of the one-room schoolhouse.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-769\" title=\"school2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.denniehoopingarner.com\/taiwanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/school5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is what elementary school was like. If you wanted to get education  beyond the provincial schools, you had to take tests. There were several  levels of test, that peaked with civil-service exams. Passing the  top-level test was a ticket to a government job, usually as a provincial governor or court official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what &#8220;schools&#8221; looked like 100 years ago. This is an old school on the outskirts of Yilan. From a distance, it looks like a temple. In fact, up close, it looks like a temple, as well. 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