Hearing the news of the quarter-hour delay, the candidates were both happy and sad.
However, this quarter of an hour passed quickly. The gantry opened and the candidates entered in order.
Zhang Yue couldn't help but look into the distance.
Fortunately, Guo Lin stepped on the spot and arrived in a hurry, but he was in a very embarrassed state when he was covered in rain, snow and mud.
Guo Lin was about to explain to Zhang Yue, but Zhang Yue said: "No more words, let's go into the examination room and talk."
Guo Lin nodded immediately and finally said: "Junior Brother Ti is worried."
Finally, the group of people stepped into Gongyuan, but they said that in front of the Gongyuan gate, the gatekeeper glanced at several people, and then the people from the bookstore came up to verify their identity.
To explain the examination, the provincial examination stipulates that in order to prevent candidates from hiring a gunman or impersonating their nationality, three people must form a bond.
Zhang Yue, Huang Lu and Sun Guo had previously signed bail. After Sun Guo failed the examination, Zhang Yue and Huang Lu invited Guo Lin.
Immediately, the three of them came together in front of the main gate. After their identities were confirmed by people from the bookstore, they took the numbered tickets and handed them to the gate officer for inspection. They passed the first level and were allowed to enter the dragon gate.
As for the second level, after entering the dragon gate, officers and soldiers will conduct inspections here.
Inspections are generally targeted at candidates like Guo Lin who are taking Ming Jing subjects, but this does not have to be the case for Jin Shi subjects.
However, during the Zhenzong Dynasty, courtiers reported that in recent years, the Jinshi had been too busy with their affairs and had not studied in a practical way, so they copied ancient and modern poems and entered the examination with suspicion.
In the end, the Jinshi Department also had to be inspected. The imperial court stipulated that except for the "Yun Lue" compiled by the official, no one was allowed to carry out writing policies. The supervisors and patrol officers were ordered to be aware of the candidates secretly, and if they found any candidates involved, they would help them out immediately.
Hidden plus awareness is well said, and it does not lack the official terminology.
Zhang Yueming, this entrainment is of limited help to Jinshi subjects.
However, there are still many candidates who are not agile enough in literary thinking and use tools such as poetry bags to compose poems and poems. They are used to it and cannot change it for a while, so they are brought into the examination room.
When Zhang Yue learned poetry from Chen Xiang, he also used poetry bags, but recently he has become more proficient and has changed this problem.
He opened the examination box and found nothing but a rhyme book. The officials let him and Huang Lu into the examination room without searching carefully.
As for Guo Lin, in addition to opening the test box for inspection, he also had to search himself. This was a strict search.
Zhang Yue, Huang Lu and Guo Lin went over to look at the sitting map of the examination room, and after identifying the direction, they entered the Gongyuan Courtyard.
But it shows that in the Qing Dynasty, the imperial examinations of the Ministry of Rites and the Gongyuan were all given a special place, but in the early Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial examination was not mature, so the place of the Gongyuan also changed.
The earliest tribute courtyards were sent to the south courtyard of the Ministry of Rites of the Shangshu Province, such as the old residence of Liang Taizu Zhu Wen in Xingguofang and the old residence of King Mengchang of Shu. They were all used as tribute courtyards of the Ministry of Rites of the Shangshu Province. Later, they were transferred to temples such as Wuchengwang Temple and Kaibao Temple.
What is more sad is that Kaibao Temple has always been used as the Kaifeng Prefectural Examination or the Imperial Examination Gongyuan. It first became the Ministry of Rites Gongyuan Examination in the Xining period. As a result, the only provincial examination failed.
Finally, when Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty came, he sent Gongyuan to Taixue.
Nowadays, the Gongyuan where the examination is held was changed from the Wuchengwang Temple. Some officials have always said that this is a bit unseemly, but they have always made do with it.
But I have to say that this examination environment is like heaven and earth compared to the Kaibao Temple examination room.
When Zhang Yue Huang Lu arrived at the examination room, he paid homage to Wang Gui, Fan Zhen and Wang Chou, the chief officials.
Zhang Yue didn't recognize any of these three bosses, except Fan Zhen, who had an acquaintance with Fan Zuyu when he sent him to Taixue.
The old man in the middle is Wang Gui.
In the early Tang Dynasty, there was a prime minister also named Wang Gui, who was the grandson of Wang Sengbian. He came from the Wuwan Wang family and was a branch of the Taiyuan Wang family.
This Wang Gui's background was not bad, he came from the Huayang Wang family. His great-grandfather became an official when Meng Chang, the king of Shu, later came to the Song Dynasty.
Then the family loyally joined the Song Dynasty and became officials and produced many famous ministers and scholars.
Wang Gui is also an outstanding person. When he passed through Yangzhou, he left a good story about the four-phase hairpin flower with Chen Shengzhi, Wang Anshi and Han Qi.
He was of the same age as Wang Anshi, but his official career was smoother. He was now a Hanlin scholar, and most of the imperial government's policies came from him.
After Zhang Yue bowed to several examiners, he came to his examination room - a long corridor. Many candidates who had arrived earlier were already sitting in the corridor. A white curtain was set up between each candidate.
Prevent people from talking to each other and exchange news.
You can imagine what it feels like to take an exam outdoors in the cold weather. Zhang Yue came to his seat in the verandah and saw a desk behind the curtain, with a felt mat spread underneath, facing him.
In the courtyard, scattered snowflakes were flying.
Tea soup and drinks are being cooked in the courtyard, and officials are serving bowls of tea soup to the candidates. The central hall, also known as the capital hall and the purple hall, is burning incense.
Ouyang Xiu composed a poem when he presided over the imperial examination in the second year of Jiayou's reign.
The burning incense in the Purple Palace warms the air and the gentle breeze blows. The heroes gather in the clear dawn in the wide courtyard. There are no warriors with brave names, and the sound of spring nibbling leaves is written.
That's what this scene is about.
After Zhang Yue sat down, he took out the leather mat from the test box and spread another layer on the felt mat.
This felt cushion is just a thin layer of single mat. How can it keep out the cold, so a layer of leather cushion must be added.
This is exactly what people in the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasties complained about in the examination hall, "How can one seat a single seat for a scholar?" In the couplet, the cold mats are warm seats. Anyway, when you are a guest at someone else's house, it is quite rude to sit on a single seat for the guest.
Generally, another layer is spread on the mat, just like "sitting on the Kang" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Candidates who do not do well in the exam often complain about "single seats", "cold weather" and other poor environment in the exam room, as well as "the clothes are full of dust" and so on.
Zhang Yue laid down his leather mat, and soon the official brought him a bowl of hot tea soup. Zhang Yue said thank you, grabbed some money from the test box and stuffed it into the person's hand. After accepting it, the official smiled and said, "There's also pepper."
Soup, perilla soup, what would you like to drink, sir?"
Zhang Yue said: "Perilla soup."
The weather was very cold. Zhang Yue raised his bowl and drank a full bowl of dried ginger tea, which relieved a lot of the chill in his body.
After a while, the examiner handed out the examination papers that the candidates had submitted before, and then presented the examination questions.
This is the first poem among the four provincial examinations.
Poetry is ranked first because it is the most important among the four.
Fu is the most important among poems and poems.
But the examination method of Fu is also constantly changing.
From the Tang Dynasty to the Jiayou Year of the Song Dynasty, the format of Fu was restricted. For example, the official rhyme was limited to eight characters, and there were rules for how to write eight paragraphs of Fu, how to change the rhyme, and how to involve it.
The more stringent examiners will also ask for "four levels and four draws". If there are "five levels and three draws", the test will be downgraded.
When it comes to poems and poems, it should be "Wooden Chicken Fu", which uses the rhyme of "I am invincible so far, so I can crow first" and is written in the format of "level, level, level, level, level, level".
Before Jiayou, most of the students who took the exam had to use this exam model essay as a reference.
However, the change came after Ouyang Xiu presided over the imperial examination. Ouyang Xiu advocated the way of worshiping literature and hated the "disease of tone and rhythm" especially.
Therefore, Ouyang Xiu advocated that the prose style can be as plain as letter paper, and the most important thing is that it has something to say.
In the second year of Jiayou's reign, he applied this reform to the provincial examination of that year.
As a result, after the examination, Ouyang Xiu was besieged by the imperial examination students. However, the facts proved that Ouyang Xiu was correct. The gold content of the first-ranked Jinshi in the second year of Jiayou was the highest in the imperial examination in a thousand years.
In the fourth year of Jiayou's reign, Ouyang Xiu became the chief examiner of the palace examination and once again insisted on this standard of writing.
Now in the sixth year of Jiayou's reign, Wang Gui became the chief examiner.
Wang Gui and Ouyang Xiu co-chaired the provincial examination in the second year of Jiayou's reign, and were also Ouyang Xiu's die-hard political allies, so they must have firmly supported Ouyang Xiu.
Therefore, Zhang Yue weighed it before taking the exam, and it was of course the best to write the rhyme of "平廄平仄平仄平仄" in Sipingsisi rhyme.
However, in the examination room, it is difficult to write an article that contains smoothness, rhyme, eloquence, and thorough reasoning. It is difficult to completely balance the three.
If you take all the considerations into consideration and write an article as good as a wooden chicken, you will truly be the best among the best.
So for Zhang Yue, he had to make choices, or even settle for the next best thing.
Abandon Siping and Sizi, choose word rhyme and reasoning, and use two of the three to make a provincial examination poem.
Of course, Jiayou's previous writing style was to choose plain, rhyme and rhyme instead of reasoning. In this way, he would have suffered a bloody blow just like Liu Ji.
Of course there are candidates who don't believe in evil, but you need to know that an egg cannot hit a stone. Didn't Liu Ji change his name to Liu Hui no matter how good he is?
Immediately he wrote a question and was held up on a sign.
The title of the poem is "Jin Zai Rong Fu".
The rhyme is "gold lies in good governance, and it needs to be cast into tools".
Zhang Yue read the title and realized that it came from Dong Zhongshu in the Han Dynasty. The original text is "The upper part is transformed into the lower part, and the lower part is from the upper part. It is like clay in Jun, only the one who picks it can do it; like gold in Rong, only the one who smelt it can do it." cast'.
The entire title discusses the meaning of the article "Gold is in the Rong".
This title makes the chapter larger than expected. Generally speaking, the title comes from the Six Classics, followed by the official history.
This question is a bit off-topic, but even though it is a bit off-topic, the title is easy to understand. Even those who have not read the biography of Dong Zhongshu in the Han Dynasty can still write some truths.
After that, there is the rhyme "Gold lies in good governance, please cast it into a tool".
This rhyme is given by the official.
The entire poem is divided into eight paragraphs.
The first paragraph uses the word '金' as the rhyme, the second paragraph uses the word 'zai' as the rhyme, and the last eighth paragraph ends with the word 'qi'.
Zhang Yue breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this part of the question. At least he didn't get too bad in the exam, but how to prepare for the exam depends on each individual's level.
Of course, if this poem is well written, it can make a lot of sense. It is not difficult to rhyme these eight characters, but if you continue to stick to the format of four squares and four squares, it will not only harm Zhang Yue, but also the Jinshi subjects present. It is extremely difficult for most candidates to achieve this step.
As for literary talent, that is even more unpredictable.
Just like Wang Bo's "Preface to Tengwang Pavilion" and Fan Zhongyan's "Yueyang Tower", you can't say who is better than "Yueyang Tower", but when it comes to the imperial examination in Jiayou's sixth year, the examiner will definitely choose "Yueyang Tower".
Thinking of this, the official served Zhang Yue a second bowl of tea soup.
Zhang Yue stuffed a handful of money into the other party as usual, then put the papers into the oilcloth bag, sipping tea and thinking about how to write a fu.
In just this moment, Zhang Yue had already drawn up a general framework, which was based on argumentation and political reasoning. The third to seventh rhymes were all filled with argumentation.
We win by speaking eloquently throughout the whole text and not by following the line of literary style and rhythm.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yue drank the second bowl of tea soup and immediately started writing on the manuscript paper.
Ps: The provincial examination poems written in the sixth year of Jiayou's reign have long been lost. It took me a long time to choose the title of Fan Zhongyan's Jin Zairong poem.