Chapter 661 Everyone is more than enough, but I am alone (five thousand words compensation chapter)
Zhao Rong glanced at this line of writing for a few times, and then looked at other parts of the scroll.
Blank.
The next few papers are all empty.
This should be the only big question at the end, accounting for more than half of the score on the paper, and it is also where the gap between the students and other students is widened.
Zhao Rong nodded, took a sip of water from the bamboo tube he carried, and began to solve the problem.
This question is very interesting, both in terms of the title and the person who asked it.
It stands to reason that half of the papers for the college entrance examination are printed from templates, and the previous test questions are all in a unified public model font. However, this test question retains the casual scrawling of the original question maker.
Zhao Rong guessed that Mochi Academy had asked a respected old gentleman in the academy to come up with the question.
Zhao Rong had heard Mr. Yan say that in the Confucian Academy, above all the 'gentlemen' and below the mountain chief, there was a special class of beings called the 'Six Gentlemen'.
The only thing he knew was that the current Deputy Chief Yuan was in charge of internal and external affairs, and the old Jijiu from Mochi Academy was two of them.
This question cannot be said to have been written by a certain "Six Gentlemen".
The Academy printed it intact.
However, the old gentleman can ask questions casually, but their students cannot answer them casually.
Within a few breaths, Zhao Rong's mind was spinning very fast, and his hands were not idle. He was spinning pens quickly between his fingers. This was a habit he had when he was a student. The few candidates who occasionally raised their heads and glanced around were stunned.
, my eyes were dazzled, and I was always worried that the pen in Zhao Rong's hand would fly out and hit someone.
They also looked expectantly at the fat gentleman in front of them who was proctoring the exam, hoping that he would take care of it. Unfortunately, the fat old gentleman looked even less reliable than a certain candidate named Zhao. He sat there with his head propped up on the back of his hands.
The white eyebrows are drooped, and he is sleepy.
Zhao Rong did not realize that his casual pen-turning had affected several candidates with some obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The current question made him find it interesting.
The test questions on classics and meanings are generally divided into two categories. This question is obviously a 'self-cultivation question', but it is not any easier to answer than the more professional question on state governance.
Because if Zhao Rong remembers correctly, the phrase "Everyone has more than I have," does not exist in the Thirteen Confucian Classics.
It comes from the "Tao Jing"!
If Zhao Rong remembers correctly, the original text of this sentence in the "Tao Jing" should be:
...Everyone has more than enough, but I am the only one left behind. What a fool I am! I am so chaotic...
Zhao Rong nodded and whispered: "Interesting."
The self-cultivation test in the Confucian Academy turned out to be a test on the words of Taoist saints.
Fortunately, Zhao Rong is different from most students and dare not say that he has read hundreds of schools of thought. However, he has always been very interested in Taoism and Mohism, which are vaguely parallel to Confucianism. He has spent a lot of time studying them in private, and even studied them in
Zhongnan Mountain, you can still win a Taoist gentleman in front of hundreds of thousands of people.
Of course, this does not mean that he is more professional than a Taoist gentleman, but that with the advantage of his past life memory, his understanding of certain Taoist thoughts is very unique and advanced.
In addition, he was also very familiar with the Taoist Scriptures. The two purple qi coming from the east, 'Qingjing' and 'Wuwei', came from the first "Taoist Scriptures" in the Xuanhuang Realm. After Zhao Rong got it, he naturally went there with great interest.
I read through the 3,000-word "Tao Jing" several times, guessing what other interesting words and sentences would turn into the Purple Qi from the East.
So the current question really suits Zhao Rong's taste.
"I don't know which gentleman it is..." His eyes were bright and he was a little curious.
However, this unique way of asking the question certainly reflects the spirit of the unknown old man who asked the question, but it also places very high demands on the vision and knowledge of the candidates who answer the question.
Zhao Rong estimated that most of the students who saw this question like him in the examination room should be confused, maybe still muttering... Does this sentence exist in the Thirteen Confucian Classics? Where did this come from?
What? Are all saints good at talking? They talk so much nonsense all day long?
It is estimated that only a small number of students like Yu Huaijin, who have read the Confucian classics thoroughly, or have dabbled in Taoist classics, can notice that something is wrong.
But it's also possible...many candidates are not bothered by the doubts Zhao Rong thought at all, and simply regard it as the words of saints in the Confucian scriptures that they have not read. Anyway, there are so many words of saints. As long as it is not a curse, what can they say?
It was no surprise at all, and I just started 'learning and answering' directly.
However, in the test, if you misunderstand the origin of the question, you will inevitably ignore the questioner's intention and deviate from the correct direction of answering the question.
In just ten breaths, I finished reviewing the questions.
Zhao Rong, who was lying at his desk, leaned back and stretched his muscles.
What does it mean to be a top student and solve the problem?
The corner of Zhao Rong's mouth raised a confident arc, and at the same time he raised his head and looked around, wanting to see other people's reactions to this question, but found that... he seemed to be writing too fast, and most of the students seemed to be still there
When writing the first side of the Tie Jing, carefully consider the words and sentences.
This... I am a little lonely.
However, Zhao Rong soon discovered that his pen-twisting seemed to have accidentally affected several students next to him.
The latter cast a look that was either resentful or dissatisfied.
Zhao Rong silently stopped turning the pen between his fingers, smiled slightly apologetically, continued to lower his head, and answered the question quietly.
After understanding the origin and meaning of the question, the first step now is to solve the question.
It doesn't mean that the title is "Everyone has more than me, but I am the only one left behind." Just use it as the title and reread its meaning throughout the film.
This kind of direct and mindless behavior is a bad move. The gentlemen who correct the paper will give points based on their mood.
So what Zhao Rong has to do now is to think about the proposition given by the examiner, combine it with his own thinking, and write two or three concise and condensed sentences, which will serve as the first two sentences of the article and also serve as the central outline of the entire article.
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This point is also known as a problem in the trial and error of classics and meanings.
Confucian scholars of different levels have different depths and angles in solving problems.
According to Zhao Rong’s past observation experience, the most important thing is to hit the preferences and tendencies of the person behind the question.
Therefore, the test questions on Jingyi are just like some of Zhao Rong's previous essays. To a certain extent, they are meant to flatter Mr. Juan.
But just shooting the right horse is only an average strategy at best.
The real best strategy is to have the right direction, add some novel ideas that will make the question writer's eyes shine, and then supplement it with wonderful writing, and finally have neat and beautiful handwriting, then you can make a good essay.
This is a well-deserved full-score test strategy essay that will be circulated throughout the academy as is customary.
After clarifying these, Zhao Rong began to solve the problem.
Everyone has more than enough, but I alone have more.
On the surface, it seems to say that "I" am not as good as others, and "I" look like a fool, which is a self-pity statement.
But don’t be fooled into believing it.
I don’t even know I was scolded.
If you think about it with your toes, you will know that Taoist saints are being humble.
To make it simple, you just need to listen to what he says in reverse.
In fact, what he wants to say is that you are the real fools and you are not as good as him.
It's like 'when everyone is drunk alone, he is awake alone'.
Think about it, if a saint is compared with a group of worldly people, he will certainly appear out of place and look like a fool.
Don't believe what he says next, "I have a fool's heart." And pay attention, he said "a fool's heart," not "a fool's deeds." A saint does not do stupid things, but has a heart that connects with everyone.
A heart that looks foolish in comparison.
Duoduo secretly praises himself for being high-minded and mediocre, which makes him look stupid in this muddy world.
If you understand this, you understand half of it.
The key thing that remains to be studied in detail is what is "more than" and what is "ruoyi".
The saint's "ruoyi" must be good, and everyone's "more than enough" must be denied by him.
What is the difference between the common man and the saint that makes the former appear "more than enough" and the latter "as if nothing is left behind"?
What exactly these two refer to is not clearly stated in these short nine words.
But Zhao Rong came up with the answer easily.
In Taoism, of course, what the saints possess is the ‘Tao’, but everyone lacks the ‘Tao’.
Zhao Rong thought again of Tao Yuanran, a Taoist gentleman he knew. He had a noble status, but he lived in plain clothes and straw sandals all day long. He lived a meager life with only basic necessities.
Therefore, this "Tao" also causes a superficial phenomenon, that is, the saints who have the Tao are lonely and poor, while the people who do not have the "Tao" are rich and rich.
Therefore, the meaning of the sage's words in the "Tao Jing" is roughly: Everyone is rich and abundant, but I am alone and poor. My heart is really ignorant and lacking, and it seems chaotic compared with everyone else.
After thinking about this, looking back at this proposition, Zhao Rong suddenly became enlightened and full of ideas.
It’s not that he agrees that to achieve Tao and become a saint, one must live a simple life without desires or pursuits, but he sees through these appearances the essential ‘Tao’ contained in them.
The reason why people have plenty is because they have many desires, so they pursue much and get much.
However, these are all superfluous things!
The sage looks directly at his heart, does not pursue much, and only takes what he needs, and that is enough.
Therefore, he appears as if he has nothing. In the eyes of everyone who "has everything", if a saint does not "obtain" these things, it is equivalent to "losing" them, and he is a fool.
but……
"How stupid everyone is."
Zhao Rong sighed.
He thought of the world in his previous life again.
Some people have a thousand expensive and beautiful clothes in their wardrobe, all of which they like. However, they can only choose one of them every time they go out. They pick and choose, and it takes more than half an hour to go out, and no matter which one they choose in the end.
Which one, after going out, I always regret not choosing other clothes in the wardrobe;
Some people keep up with the times and buy a lot of electronic equipment, all of which are powerful and good things. However, they can only play one thing at a time. It is difficult to find free time every day, but they have to play with a lot of fun things.
Among the devices, choose the most fun one. Over time, the table will be filled with new and updated products. Many brand-new devices that have not had time to play are thrown into the dust;
I wanted this and that, but in the end I found out that it was terrible, I wanted superfluous things.
And no matter how hard it is to recreate the time when I was young, I only had one set of clothes to wear, and I only wore it every day when I went out to play casually and carefree; no matter how hard I was when I was young, I was studying and hiding in bed, and only had an electronic device in my hand that had certain buttons malfunctioning and was prone to jamming.
The joy and tirelessness of surfing on your device.
So, when they grow up and get many things that they have been thinking about for a long time, are they happy or miserable?
Zhao Rong thought softly in his heart:
"So, 'I Ruo Yi' is the way of the Taoist sage. Everyone wants to 'increase day by day', but the sage is 'losing day by day'. He loses it again and again. He loses everything, and in the eyes of everyone he seems to have lost it.
Many things are the same, but he can still live a normal life and be at ease, which just means that he actually has everything and everything is enough... It turns out that the things that were lost before are all redundant."
He shook his head slightly, "So the Taoist sage does nothing, asks for nothing, and gets the true self after losing all the things... This is the complete connotation of this sentence. As long as the thoughts surrounding it are broken, it seems that I can do it.
Answer with 'inaction'..."
Zhao Rong suddenly stopped talking and fell silent.
His eyes were unblinking as he stared at the eight spirited scrawled words on the scroll: "Everyone has more than me."
“What the old gentleman who wrote the question really wants to test is the Taoist Self and Wuwei?”
The Confucian scholar who was talking to himself was quiet for a long time.
The sounds of writing, grinding ink, and turning papers were intertwined in the examination room.
Zhao Rong sat in the back row next to the pool and slowly turned his head to look at the calm Bitan.
He shook his head slightly.
"This is another trap. It is a trap used by the question maker to target students like me who are familiar with hundreds of classics and want to get high scores. This question maker, who has never been masked, has indeed come up with a question from the "Tao Jing"
The question is, but he is a Confucian gentleman, and I am also a Confucian student, so he cannot support Taoism, and I cannot use Taoism to answer the question, otherwise I will be confused."
Zhao Rong said silently in his heart, "So the intention of the person who asked the question is very simple. He is indeed well-read and has read hundreds of schools of thought. Because he appreciated this sentence in the "Tao Jing" and felt it was a great virtue, he took it eclectically.
He came up with the topic, but his appreciation and belief in the great good must not be the Taoist thought contained in it, but... the understanding after integrating our Confucian thought."
After completely breaking the topic, Zhao Rong suddenly realized that he secretly cursed, "The old fox is so cunning."
"I almost fell into a trap, but I'm still sorry, I also came to the atmosphere."
Zhao Rong chuckled, picked up the brush with a smile, held his wrist sleeve with one hand, and started writing.
I saw that in the first line of the scroll, he wrote the following inscription: There are things a gentleman should do and things he should not do.
Why write it?
The Taoist saint damaged it again and again, until he lost almost nothing. What did he ask for?
What I am seeking is ‘one’! It is the only ‘one’ left after all desires have been eliminated.
Therefore, the sage's "I am like one" is actually "I am like one".
The person who asked this strange question admires the Taoist sage's method of self-cultivation that seeks "oneness", rather than the Taoist "oneness".
What is this ‘one’ that Taoist saints seek?
It is loneliness and inaction.
What about Confucian saints?
Of course, you have a good heart and a good intention.
If Zhao Rong hadn't seen through this and written, "The boss is right, you're right," and then foolishly answered the question in the direction of fully agreeing with the Taoist sage and his "one", then he would be lighting a lamp in the pit.
Therefore, Zhao Rong was prepared to use "a gentleman does something and something he does not do" to solve the problem. He agreed with the Taoist saint's "ruoyi" method of self-cultivation, but he clearly stood for the "one" of Confucianism.
It roughly means:
It is true that I have suffered and suffered losses in these aspects of my personal life, doing nothing but arguing, like a fool, but when it comes to major world affairs such as "the heaven and the earth establish the heart and the people and establish the destiny", you must do something and make a difference with all your efforts!
Therefore, a gentleman has certain things to do and certain things not to do.
Zhao Rong suddenly took the editing tool and erased this sentence.
"Not good, too broad, not eye-catching enough... Yes! Try this."
He replaced a new piece of answer paper that he had spared, and wrote again: A gentleman has no need for food, no need for food, no need for shelter, he is sensitive to things but cautious in speaking, and he has the right way.
Pause.
Zhao Rong looked at it carefully, thought about it, and suddenly folded the answer paper and invalidated it.
"It's still not good. It's too straightforward and not outstanding enough."
He muttered something, squinted his eyes slightly, and thoughtfully glanced at the sleeping fat gentleman in front of him and the candidates around him who had just finished reading the test questions and looked worried.
Finally, Zhao Rong's eyes widened, he quickly bent down at his desk and started writing on the brand new answer sheet.
This time, he also wrote only a few words:
If you eat with a basket and drink with a scoop, you will feel happy instead of worrying.
The person who wrote the question used the words of the sages in the Tao Jing, so he also used the words of the sages in the Confucian Classics.
The inscription comes from a certain saint's allusion: How virtuous! Come back! With a basket of food and a ladle of drink, in the back alleys, everyone is unbearable to worry about, but the joy will not change after returning.
You write about the sages of the Confucian family and all the people, each one is happy and the other is sad.
Moreover, the inscription is a wonderful allusion.
This wave is composed of four doubles and a pair of kings, a sure kill!
Zhao Rong smiled knowingly, and took the lead in completing the most difficult part of breaking the inscription, which was like the finishing touch. The next part, 'Depicting the Dragon's Body', he was familiar with the road, and his pen followed the dragon.
About half an hour later, Zhao Rong finished writing everything and called it a day.
After checking the paper from beginning to end to make sure there were no typos, Zhao Rong put it aside to dry his ink. He then packed up his things and prepared to leave.
Until now, only half an hour had passed since the exam started.
As for the classics and meaning assessment, which is the main subject, less than half of the time has passed. In the entire school, from the ten examination rooms from A to Gui, not a single person has left their buttocks. Among the students in the six halls, Rao is the most eye-catching one in the Gengzi room.
Yu Huaijin was also concentrating on it. Facing the last question, he was anxiously trying to come up with ideas...
However, someone has already begun to worry about how to leave.
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PS: I overslept last night and woke up in the early morning. I'm sorry, brothers, so I wrote 5,000 words to make up for the late update yesterday.