The second session of the examination is not difficult, the official application essay Zhu Pingan has long been familiar with, after the examination paper was issued, Zhu Pingan used a day and a half to finish all the other questions except for the green words.
On the afternoon of the following day, Zhu Pingan was left with only the green words question.
Because he foresaw that this Qing lyric would be the main focus of this examination, Zhu Pingan paid enough attention to this Qing lyric question and left enough time for it.
The question was very simple, the title was just one sentence with eight words, “Pray for what you want, try to make a green word.”
What was the meaning of this question?
In order to understand the meaning of this question, we have to briefly talk about this Qing word.
Green words, also known as “green words”, are a kind of talisman used by Taoist priests to appeal to Heaven or to enlist gods and generals. Since it was written with a vermilion pen on green rattan paper, it was called a green word, also known as a green veil. Because of the ancient gods more, so the mortal world to tell the gods of the sky more things, so the literati came together to write the green words, and later, the green words gradually evolved into a style of writing, the Taoist priests also gradually lost the “patent”.
That is to say, the green words are people dedicated to the god of heaven’s sangha toast.
“Pray for what you want, and try to make it.”
The meaning of this title is that you make a qingyi (qingyi) of your prayers. You can write whatever you want to pray to the god of heaven, and it’s generally an open-ended question. It’s simply the same as the essay topic you used to write when you were in primary schools: “My Wish”; or the topic you often encountered on English exams when you were in high school or college: “I have a ”
Although the topic is simple, it is not easy to write.
Because the green words are not good to write, it requires gorgeous words to express people’s respect and sincerity to the gods and goddesses in heaven, it is a kind of essay in the genre of poem and fugue. It is a kind of poem and fugue as a genre. Generally, it is mostly in parallel style, consisting of four or six lines, with neat and gorgeous words. That is to say, there are two kinds of green lyrics, one is poem title green lyrics, and the other is fugue style green lyrics. Generally speaking. The fugue style is more, because most of the green words are rhetorically gorgeous, and the fugue style is more likely to be rhetorically gorgeous.
Seeing this topic, ninety per cent of the candidates were cursing. They didn’t make a Qing word. But fortunately, they were good at eight-legged, eight-legged essay you do well, any poem or fugue, can be done. This green words are not good to write, but rack your brains and search your intestines. Can also do it, just for the first time out of this road for them to do out of the green words, the quality of the words, but there is no guarantee.
Most of the candidates, racking their brains, painstakingly phrasing, worrying about the hair do not know how many roots pulled out.
Compared to them, Zhu Pingan was much more relaxed and happy.
Writing green lyrics is not a problem, writing good green lyrics is not a problem, the only thing Zhu Pingan considered was how to write this green lyrics out of colour.
Emperor Jiajing believed in Taoism. The whole day in the palace to cultivate longevity, but also from time to time to hold jiaojiao activities, green words in short supply. Big leader good mouth, follow the trend that is necessary. So, the ministers have to offer green chapter green words, to celebrate. Green words became the most popular popular style of writing in the Jiajing dynasty, because of the green words written well promoted to the prime minister of several. Now Yan Song, Yan chief minister is a master, of course, his son than his old man cattle more.
There are so many people who write Qing lyrics, so it is not easy to write a colourful one.
At present, Jiajing emperor’s favourite one of the green words is the service reading scholar Yuan Wei tribute to a green word fugue body couplet: “Luo Shui Xuan Turtle first dedication of Switzerland. The number of yin is nine, the number of yang is nine, nine hundred and ninety-one, the number is through the Tao. The Tao is in harmony with the First Heavenly Father, a sincerity has a sense; Qishan Danfeng two present auspiciousness, the male calls six, the female calls six, six-six-thirty-six sound, the sound is heard in the sky. Born Emperor Jiajing, ten thousand years of life.”
The contrast is neat, the rhetoric is gorgeous, the horse’s arse is popular, can not Jane in the heart of the emperor well.
So, to write a colourful green words, not easy ah!
After this piece of green words written, nine times out of ten or 100% will be Jiajing emperor to see, this can not only related to the examination, the most direct relationship is the temple examination, of course, more directly related to your career.
Those who write good words were promoted big brother, such as Yan Song, etc., is a very good example!
So, can not be ignored ah!
Zhu Pingan wore a mask, placed the test questions on the side of the table, pressed with a town stone, stretched out, thought for a moment, dipped the brush full of ink, and then fell on a blank piece of paper with a draft of the green words:
“I have the honour to enlighten the Jade Emperor (Your Majesty) who opens the heavens from above, who executes the talisman and the calendar, and who contains the true body and the Tao: I am blessed by the boundless treasure and the heavenly dome of the heavens. The auspicious day is approaching in the Yuan Dynasty, and the Jiao Section has been held in the old chapter. I would like to recommend the sincerity of the talisman to be refined, to extend the holy truth and to gather together, and I would like to be blessed by the Spirit, and I would like to give the tin to the blind, so that the four seasons can be peaceful, and the goods and the exchange can be restful and prosperous. I am grateful to you for your earnestness. I have the honour to write.”
However, after writing, Zhu Pingan and shook his head, such a green word compliant conformity cited, but to be brilliant, want to be outstanding, Jane in the heart of the emperor, is far from enough!
Putting down the brush, Zhu Pingan rubbed his brain and pondered.
After this period in history there are those famous Qing words, I have not studied Qing words much before, so I am not very clear. Moreover, after the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu government despised this style of writing, so Qing Lyrics fell out of favour.
Oh, yes, there was a particularly famous Qing dynasty Qing lyric, so famous that people overlooked it as a Qing lyric.
Qing Gong Zizhen’s “Miscellaneous Poems on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Birthday of the Emperor” (己亥杂诗)
The nine states are in a state of anger with the wind and thunder, and the ten thousand horses are in mourning.
I urge the God of Heaven to be more vigorous, and not to restrict talent to one pattern.
That’s right, this poem is a famous poem, is Gong Zizhen to pray to the sky god’s tone, calling for a thunderous change, in order to break the Qing dynasty to tie up the ideas, stifle the talents of the situation caused by the dead, expresses the author’s emancipation of talents, change the society, revitalisation of the country’s aspirations.
Gong Zizhen dissatisfied with the darkness and corruption of the officialdom, resigned from his post on the way back home passed through Zhenjiang, only to see the streets crowded, bustling, a enquiry, the original local in the race of the gods. People carrying the Jade Emperor, the God of wind, the God of Thunder and other gods in worship. At this time, someone recognised Gong Zizhen. Hearing the contemporary literary hero is also here, a Taoist priest immediately crowded forward to implore Gong Zizhen to write a sacrifice for the gods, Gong Zizhen wrote a wave of the “Nine States, angry with the wind and thunder,” the poem.
However, if the original will be put up this Qing lyrics, then wait for the head to be killed. Because although this poem is famous, but it is also said that the country is dull and corrupt, a dead, lifeless. This Enke is because of the country’s prosperity and people’s peace wind, auspicious frequent, Jiajing Emperor only special order Enke.
Now you will be this poem up, the name is out, but do not want to life. This is a slap in the face of Emperor Jiajing! If you want to use it, you’ll have to change it.
“The winds and thunder of Kyushu’s anger.
The winds and the thunder of the nine states are angry, and ten thousand horses are galloping.
The God of Heaven is so vigorous that he doesn’t limit himself to one type of talent.
In this way, the meaning has changed, the country is vibrant, the heavenly edict wind and thunder smooth, ten thousand horses galloping situation is very good, think of the heavenly public spirit jubilant good enough, I hope that can not be confined to the selection of talent. That is to express, the country wind and rain, the situation is good, I hope they can also be selected through the examination, can add bricks and mortar to the country ah.
Green words and prayers fit perfectly, well, it should be good.
