When September comes, the new term begins. Parents are all excited because their kids are going back to school. There's nothing better than this. Looking back at the online-class period, what woke up the parents every morning was not their alarms, but their kids' coming online classes. Cooking meals, signing-in(登陆) learning apps and handing in homework pictures were daily activities for parents to get everything ready for kids. At the same time, the parents had to pay full attention to their kids because there's no difference between giving a kid an electronic product and ▲ .
What a coincidence! In ancient times, the new term started around White Dew(白露) in September, too. People used to have "four big ceremonies in life" which included the ceremony of "starting school, becoming an adult, getting married and burial". The ceremony of starting school was a big thing. It showed everyone's best wishes for a kid.
Not every kid could go to school. Most of them had to work. But if you were a boy, your father could send you to school. Luckily, beginning in the Han Dynasty, the school fees(费用) were paid by the emperor. Boys studied very hard. They went to school every day, with no weekends, from about 6: 00 a. m. to about 4:00 p. m. The school prepared them for the government tests, and whoever scored high in the tests could get a good job. There weren't any math or science lessons. The students learned how to read, write, and paint pictures.
Education has played an important role in the development of China's society. Nowadays, China has provided nine year free education for each child, and all the kids have a fair chance to enter school.