When the imperial examination begins, most scholars should be excited and nervous.
But Li Xingyun felt a little awkward sitting in the examination room.
It's not because the exam room is so small that I can't stretch my hands and feet, it's mainly because the exam environment here is so different from the previous life, and I felt weird for a while.
After all, in my previous life, there were more than thirty people in a classroom. As long as I wasn't sitting in the first row, there were people around me, and I felt like we were not alone.
But here...a small house for one person.
"Those who don't know think I'm in jail." Li Xingyun joked to himself in a boring tone.
Not long after, the person delivering the examination papers also came to him.
The man took out a stack of special paper and handed it to the chopping board in front of Li Xingyun.
The Juren Wenbao on the desk made many people handing out examination papers look sideways for a moment.
The other party took a look at Li Xingyun, and then remembered that during this imperial examination, there was a former sage boy who came with a treasure of jurisprudence.
However, in the imperial examination, foreign objects will not affect the results of the examination, and they will play a supporting role, making the scholars feel more at ease.
After the person delivering the examination papers walked to the examination room next door, Li Xingyun looked at the pile of examination papers on the desk.
"Good guy, there are more than fifty papers in this stack. Fortunately, they are not the type of test papers for the college entrance examination. Otherwise, the printed fonts are so small. It would be difficult for everyone to finish the exam in one day!"
Li Xingyun figured it out, but the habitual behavior of the exam did not make him start writing immediately.
After all, my former head teacher would always give me a lot of advice: don’t write the test paper immediately after you get it, but read through the questions first.
He would skip anything he couldn't write, and once he took a physics exam before it was divided into subjects, he jumped right to the end and scored more than 20 points, and then decisively chose liberal arts.
Not long after, Li Xingyun finished scanning the general content on one side.
There are four major categories to be tested in the Imperial Examination for Children: Mo Yi, Commentary on Classics, Policy Questions, and Poems.
He found that there were ten papers about Mo Yi, all of which tested the life stories of some saints. They needed to use the original words of the saints to answer, so it was also called "asking for the holy words".
For example, when Confucius traveled around the world, many things happened. Each of these things has been handed down in the classics, and many saints have spoken correspondingly.
Later great Confucians and semi-sages also liked to write poems and articles to comment on some historical events, which could be excerpted and used, which led to the emergence of topics such as Mo Yi.
"Standing on scriptures is like filling in the blanks. There are fifteen test papers, and with the original ten years of hard study experience, this level is not a problem."
"This policy question is completely an argumentative question. It tests some saints, works, articles, and current affairs. It has the most papers because Confucian scholars are often eloquent, that is, they like to beep. For Gu Qinghui, this level should be
What he is best at. I don’t know if these twenty pictures are enough for him to write."
"The last five test papers are related to poetry, which limits two directions, one is war, and the other is lovesickness. War poetry is a hot thing in the Confucian lineage, and it is the supreme poetry that can directly enhance the combat effectiveness of the border army. Every year
All imperial examinations will be fixed in this direction, and the other direction is random, but it is more in line with the current living conditions of the people. For example, in the Tang Dynasty in recent years, many people like to walk around and appreciate the beautiful rivers and mountains.
I miss my friends and relatives. This year I made the theme of lovesickness."
After reading the general content, Li Xingyun felt happy and comforted in his heart: "Thanks to the fact that I chose liberal arts at the beginning, I still have relatively fresh memories of things like historical poetry."
Originally, among the four major categories of Li Xingyun, poetry and poetry were the weakest. If he had only taken the exam for the first three categories, he would have definitely passed the exam as a child student.
But the poetry section is the most important. Even though it only has a minimum of five test papers, it definitely accounts for the largest number of points.
Again, from the Confucian lineage, poetry and prose are the most suitable things for talent, and everything is still based on strength!
"Then let's get started."
Taking a deep breath, Li Xingyun began to sharpen the ink.
The Four Treasures of the Study are all treasures given by Li Hongying to Juren. Only a drop of water is needed to grind ink that does not wet the paper.
It’s also quick-drying!
If this thing was placed in the previous life, wouldn't it be possible to line up some stationery brands on the rooftop?
After the ink was polished, Li Xingyun looked at the first question.
"The sage said: The wind blows the sea into thousands of waves; the rain hits the beach with thousands of holes..." He recited the first sentence silently.
He is worthy of being a Confucian saint. The first question is always Confucius, the eternal card of Confucianism.
In front of Confucian saints, other cultivation systems will always be younger brothers!
Li Xingyun had ten years of hard study experience in his original life, so he was able to cope with it quite easily.
After all, I have been holding my breath for ten years. If I have a goal, I will be motivated, and if I am motivated, I will be effective!
This question is about the deeds of Confucius who made him a semi-saint!
One day, Confucius took a few disciples out. The teachers and students came to a place, but suddenly there was lightning and thunder in the sky, and there was a violent storm. An old local fisherman took them into a cave to take shelter from the rain.
The cave faced the sea. Confucius felt that it was a bit stuffy in the cave, so he walked to the entrance of the cave to watch the sea view in the rain. As he watched, he felt inspired by poetry and recited a couplet: The wind blew thousands of waves in the sea; the rain made thousands of holes on the beach.
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After hearing this, the old fisherman said leisurely: "Sir, what you said is wrong! Could it be that there are only a thousand waves in the waves, and exactly ten thousand sand pits? Have you counted them, sir?"
Confucius did not argue with the old fisherman that the thousands of layers of points were just imaginary numbers. He still asked humbly: "Since it is inappropriate, how can it be appropriate?"
The old fisherman said calmly, "We were born by the water and grew up on the sea. We often sing fishermen's songs. Whether it's a song or a poem, although it doesn't have to be a real fish or a shrimp, the words must be realistic, but it must also be reasonable and expressive.
.In my opinion, your two sentences should be changed to this: 'The wind blows the sea water into layers of waves, and the rain hits the beach with holes.' The waves are layered with holes, and there are countless holes. This is reasonable."
The hot-tempered Zi Lu got angry on the side and said to the old fisherman: "Hey, a saint wrote a poem, how could you change it randomly!"
But in an instant, the old fisherman's changed poem actually had a vision coming, almost reaching his house!
Confucius immediately understood that there is a heaven beyond the sky, and even a saint is not always better than others.
Then he shouted: "Zilu! Don't be rude!"
The old fisherman patted Zilu on the shoulder and said: "A saint has the knowledge of a saint, but he may not be better than others in everything. For example, how to fight this fish, do you know it?"
One sentence left Zilu speechless.
Seeing Zilu's embarrassment, the old fisherman refused to give up. He ran down the mountain, jumped on the fishing boat, spread the fishing net, and started catching fish.
Confucius looked at the old fisherman's skillful fishing movements and thought about how he talked about sea water, changed poems, talked about "sages", and blamed Zilu. Suddenly he realized that he had made a big mistake, so he gathered his disciples together and said seriously
He said: My teacher has told you before that 'you are born with knowledge', but this sentence is wrong! Everyone should remember: knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, it is knowing!"
After that, he recited a short poem: "When you climb the mountain and look at the sea, the fortress suddenly opens up. If the sage makes a mistake, he should correct it and stop wandering!"
The little poem instantly became a master, and later Confucius became a Confucian saint. This poem has reached a higher level, almost Mingzhou!
This deed appeared in Li Xingyun's mind involuntarily.
He looked at the test paper in front of him. The first question was about "Knowing what you know, knowing what you don't know, knowing what you don't know, that's what you know!"
This sentence comes from the Analects of Confucius, which is a collection of quotations from saints. Naturally, it was written to invite the Holy Word!
The Juren Wenbao inscribed with the inscription on the determination of the semi-sage Zhuge Kongming is extremely steady and not slanted. Although it does not add many points, it does not deduct points either.
Otherwise, given his crooked chicken-foot character in his previous life, I'm afraid his first impression would not be good.
There were a total of ten invitations related to Mo Yi, and Li Xingyun answered quickly, and it was over in just an hour.
It was still a while before lunch time, so he continued writing furiously.