When I woke up, it was late afternoon and the sun was setting.
Zhu Pingan opened his eyes and saw the test questions of this examination, was placed on the simple table made of wooden boards, with his own side of the ink stone pressed, should be the person who issued the paper to see himself sleeping too fragrant did not wake himself up, then placed on the table with the ink stone pressed.
The exam questioner should be a few examiners, in the Ming examiners once determined, you have to go straight to the Tribute House, the Tribute House will also be the first time blocked up, heavily guarded, birds shall not come out, ants shall not enter! Until the end of the test, corrected the paper, the rankings determined down, these examiners will be released.
This is for the sake of confidentiality, for the fairness of the imperial examinations, to avoid favouritism and leakage of questions.
In accordance with established practice, the first test of the examination and the countryside test questions about the same amount of questions, a total of seven questions, of which three of the four books of righteousness, four of the five sutra righteousness, this is the most important eight shares of the most important examination.
I heard that the main examiner is the history of the famous Xu Jie, which is topple Yan Song’s master, so Zhu Pingan presided over the topic, very interested in him, want to see the master of the vomit of blood and brains out of the topic is what kind of.
Zhu Pingan can not help but gently push away the rabbit fur blanket covered in the body, get up and simply wash up and dry hands, will be the table cleaned up a bit, ink, paper and inkstones and so on in order to put good, formally began their own will be examined Fish Leap Dragon Gate journey.
Open the test paper, the questions of this test will appear in front of their eyes.
If the first test is the most important test, then the first question is the most important question of the test. The writing standard of the eight-legged essay of this first question almost determines the success or failure of your current meeting examination.
“The Jin people have a Feng woman who gets off the bus with a bustling arm.”
This is the first question of this examination, for the vast majority of candidates, this question is slightly different from the usual.
In general, the questions of the eight-legged essay were selected from the Four Books, and were composed of one or more sentences, or one or more verses, which were more complete in meaning, and were “all extracted from the great principles and institutions of the Scriptures, and related to the rule of man”. However, such topics in the Four Books were very limited, and because of the need to avoid guessing and plagiarism, such interlocking topics appeared. The so-called “truncated” questions are those that are not properly connected to the Scriptures, but are connected. The so-called truncated questions are the questions of the eight-legged essay which are cut off from the scriptures without being connected.
Before the current Enke examination, similar questions have been issued once, but although unfamiliar. But this cut and paste question is also very simple. It belonged to the category of sentient truncation, which meant that the meanings of the preamble and the postamble could be linked together, and everyone could read the meaning.
So the candidates were only slightly surprised by this one question.
This question is from “Mengzi dianxinxia” (孟子尽心下). “There was a Feng woman in Jin, who was good at fighting tigers, and died as a good scholar; then, in the wild, there was a crowd chasing the tiger, which was negative in quality, and no one dared to oppose it; and when they looked at the Feng woman and saw her, they tended to meet her, and she got out of the car with her arms in the air, and all the people were pleased, and those of them who were scholars laughed at the idea.”
Seeing this title. Zhu Pingan pondered a little.
Combining it with the context in which Mencius said these words, when Qi was suffering from famine, Chen Zhen said to Mencius, “People in the country thought that Teacher would once again persuade the King of Qi to open the granaries in Tongdi to relieve the victims, so probably it is not possible to do so again.” Mencius replied that he himself would be a Fengwu if he went to do it again, and then he told the story of this Fengwu.
What did the scholar sneer at Feng Wu?
Zhu Pingan thought carefully, and from the tone of Mencius’ words, he felt that he was not totally denying the Feng woman’s actions, because “to be a Feng woman again” was in fact supported by the people, but only the scholars were ridiculing him.
Could it be that Meng Zi was afraid of the ridicule of the scholars and stopped trying to persuade the King of Qi to open a storehouse to save the people?
In conjunction with this, the Ming Dynasty is now in the grip of northern invasion and southern invasion. There are also domestic disasters from time to time, and then Zhu Pingan understood the meaning of the questioner.
So, researching ink and spreading paper, put down the pen on the draft paper and began to do eight shares.
“In the beginning, the Jin people change their behaviour to follow the good. In the end, they die and lose themselves.”
This is the first sentence written by Zhu Pingan, a break from this eight-legged essay, which means something like this: this man named Feng Wu from the Jin Dynasty was initially able to change his courageous and tough behavioural manifestations, and turned into a good, kind person. Later, for the sake of the safety of others, he lost his existing style of behaviour and became tough again.
This way of breaking the subject both highly summarises the main idea of Mencius’ original words and can lead to the discussion that follows.
Then Zhu Pingan goes on to write the next part, the part that carries the title Zhu Pingan goes on to say that Feng Woman has become a kind person, so why does she still want to fight the tiger? Meng Zi probably knew this story and made the analogy of asking him to persuade the King of Qi to open the granary to relieve the flood victims.
After writing the part of the title, Zhu Pingan stopped his pen, put his hands on his head and rubbed his brain, contemplating.
The opening of the first eight-legged essay almost decided the success or failure of this meeting examination, it was not that easy to stand out amongst the nation’s best lifters. Eight-legged essay, can kill the child test, the township test heavy people, the standard is quite high, eight-legged essay basic skills everyone is very solid.
Want to stand out, want to attract the examiner’s eyes in more than 5,000 eight-legged essay, and get a good ranking, four flat eight-legged essay is not enough, need to be innovative.
You need to make the examiner’s eyes light up.
Thinking for a moment, Zhu Pingan suddenly hooked his lips slightly, and there seemed to be the light of a shooting star flashing in his eyes.
Oh, there it is, then dipped it in the ink and continued to wield the brush to write down.
In the middle and back part of this eight strands, Zhu Pingan changed his usual way of discussion and used a descriptive way, baking and rendering to portray the crisis situation of the people before the Feng woman hit the tiger, and also portrayed the action image of the Feng woman hitting the tiger.
Of course, it also uses two strands of lined-up paired text, but it uses description instead of argument, in this way, this piece of eight-legged text is enough to stand out among the more than 5,000 eight-legged texts.
As the sky darkened, Zhu Pingan lit a candle, picked the lamp and wrote out the last paragraph of this eight-legged essay in the tone of Meng Zi’s sentiments:
“Phew, if Feng Woman, whose beginning was to wrestle a tiger, she did not know that she had become a good soldier; and who had become a good soldier, she did not know that she was to wrestle a tiger again. But the people want me to be Fat-tang again. It is no different from the Fengwu’s arms getting off the train.”
The big soldier who was specially responsible for supervising the examination of Zhu Pingan’s number house, looking at Zhu Pingan who was writing furiously under the candlelight, was stunned for a while.
People in the other direction of the stink of the number of candidates have already vomited seven or eight times, but we this candidate did not sit in the stink of the number of the examination feeling ah, eat well, sleep well, it is just, but this person even do the question is also like this line of water, not affected by the next door toilet a little bit.
After writing, Zhu Pingan put down the brush, looked over this eight-legged essay he wrote, and nodded with satisfaction.
In this way, this examination will definitely not return empty-handed!
