Chapter 101: The first test case of Xiao Sanyuan County (Part 1)

The title of a current article is "Is it a human but a bird?" The poem says: King Mu Muwen.' The five-character and eight-rhyme poem with the title of a test poem "Autumn light comes to the wild man's house first"... According to the Ming Dynasty, it is only focused on the current article, and the standards are for two eight-part essays, but the county government level exam is very free, so the county magistrate can produce a test poem instead of the current article.

As soon as the test questions came out, an irresistible gasp sound came out in the silent examination room. County Magistrate Li saw many students' faces pale and as if they were betrayed. They were obviously shocked by the questions they had asked, and couldn't help but smile smugly...

Although the county examination was the first exam in the Ming Dynasty, it was the most unreliable exam because it was set by the magistrate and had great autonomy. Some county magistrates were very lazy and found sentences from the scriptures to deal with, and sometimes they were even the same as the Chengwen that candidates usually recited. Because the law does not stipulate that "suppression and attacks" are not allowed, so the candidates who have just memorized that article just need to write it down, and no examiner dared not to take it - you should know that not everyone can call it "Cheng Wen Cheng Mo". They are all written by Hanlin masters in the past dynasties. Do you dare to say the word "bad"?

It is not illegal to take it. But it is very embarrassing for the questioner... The country has spent so much manpower and material resources to hold the exam, and you have just found such a question with Chengwen flying all over the sky. What can you get?

In fact, this is also inevitable. As the question bank, the Four Books and Five Classics are only tens of thousands of words. There are so many exams in the country that all have to be drawn from them. Except for those words that are not used?

It was a bit better to say at the beginning of the country. After all, there were not many questions at the beginning. As long as you go to the bookstore to buy the full set of Chengwen and search the catalog, you can do it differently. But in the Zhengde period of the previous generation, the question-setting officers began to feel embarrassed... Because there were too many backlogs of Chengwen over the years, they could not afford it. In fact, even if they were not short of money, they could not buy it.

But living people cannot suffocate their urine, so a man who was forced to extract half of two sentences that were incompatible with each other and formed a new sentence that no one had seen before to give the title, called "intercepting topic". You must know that the arrangement and combination are endless, so you immediately created a new world.

After the middle of Jiajing period, the court simply admitted this approach and issued a decree saying: "The main examination must be given big questions, and the pre-examination can be given small questions." The provincial examination is called the main examination, and the following is the pre-examination. The so-called big questions are sentences with complete form and meaning, and the small questions are interrogative questions.

Even those who have never done eight-legged essays can see that the small questions are divided into verses and the body of a deer is often difficult to understand the meaning of the question and the feelings of the question are rare. When solving the question, there is a slight difference, and the articles written go thousands of miles away. Therefore, people at that time think that "small questions are more difficult than big questions."

What Magistrate Li now gives is a piece of paper, and it is a perverted "book" and a mixture of "scriptures". It is no wonder that most candidates want to go home as soon as they see the questions.

But there are a few exceptions, such as Tao Dalin, who was sitting in the four rows, pondered for a moment, then smiled and began to lift the pen and write it on the manuscript paper. It was obvious that he had successfully solved the problem. For example, Shen Xiang, who was sitting in the eight row, had already started to lift the pen and write with a serious expression after some hard thinking.

Several older children also completed the problem solving and began to conceive articles.

But in terms of relaxation and ease, no one is as good as the one sitting in the second row and eight rows. Even Tao Dalin is one step behind him.

But when I saw the title of silence, I immediately positioned my own source in my heart... The first sentence, "Is it a man but a bird?" comes from "The Great Learning", and the second half of the poem says: King Mu Muwen" is a poem in "The Book of Songs", which seems to be thirteen.

But he only pondered slightly, and then picked up the pen and wrote, "It's shameful that a wife is not as good as a bird; it's shameful that he is ashamed of, and there is no better than a teacher Wen." He then combined the two unrelated sentences, reasonable and seamless!

In fact, this kind of interrogation seems unreasonable, but it can really test the candidate's level. Not only do you have to understand the scriptures thoroughly, you can understand the meaning of the two distinctions, but you also have to use your brain to cleverly connect them, and at least make up for your own conclusions. This is clearly a test of the candidate's ability to adapt to changes, and it is precisely the reason why most candidates are afraid of it...

You should know that after learning the Four Books and Five Classics and related works, most scholars devote all their energy to the eight-legged essays, recite high-tou sermons all day long, recite the scriptures of Cheng's texts, and do not read the three-dimensional and four histories, and do not know that Qin and Han Wu, their heads were as stiff as granite. It would be better to let old sows climb trees to adapt to the situation.

The reason why silence responded easily was because his head was not rigid and he would not be rigid, and he could easily bring together two irrelevant sentences... This kind of association ability was not special, but among a group of unscrupulous scholars, it seemed so special!

At this moment, Chen Si finally understood why Mr. Chen was unconventional and refused to teach himself Shiwen - because he saw unique creativity and unrestrained thinking ability from him. The natural enemy of this characteristic is the dogmatic eight-legged essay. If he is addicted to exam-taking articles, over time, it will be as old-fashioned as most scholars, and will be useless.

Although Mr. Chen is old-fashioned, he has rich experience and knows that no matter how many nerds read, he is useless. Those who can do good things are still smart and clear-minded people like silence, so he abides by Confucius' teachings of "teaching according to his aptitude". On the one hand, he hones his silent mind and eliminates the impetuousness and opportunism in his personality; on the other hand, he expands his textbooks to various schools of thought, classics, history, and collections, and uses the wisdom and experience of all generations to enhance the silent mind.

Only by tempering the mind and mind can the heart become truly strong. A truly powerful mind will not be disturbed by any external objects. No matter how many eight-legged essays you read at this time, it will not change his personality. Moreover, as the heart becomes stronger, he can face it calmly and look at it calmly in the future, no matter how big the changes, how many temptations, or how difficult the difficulties are.

There are more than a thousand teachers in the world? There are very few teachers like Mr. Chen teaches and educates people!
Chapter completed!