Tong Su sighed secretly and shook his head.
Yao Jinrong's knowledge is good, but he is selfish and narrow-minded. Even if he barely passes the exam, he will not be able to make a big difference.
As more and more students entered the room, the exam officially began, and soon the test papers were distributed.
"Not by the rules".
The title is just four words, "Do not follow the rules."
Tong Su raised his eyebrows.
The imperial examination has actually tested different things since ancient times. For example, in the Sui and Tang Dynasties when the imperial examination was just established, the examination was divided into two subjects, one was called Ming Jing and the other was called Jinshi.
The main examination contents of Ming Jing Ke include Tie Jing and Mo Yi.
Tie Jing is a bit like filling in modern exams. The test questions usually excerpt a sentence from the scriptures and omit a few words. The candidates need to fill in the missing words; as for Mo Yi, they are some questions and answers about the scriptures.
The Jinshi examination mainly requires candidates to compose poems and rhymes on specific topics, and sometimes also add scriptures.
However, with the development of the imperial examinations, their shortcomings were gradually exposed: they required rote memorization of scriptures and their meanings, and they trained nerds; while the Jinshi examination was too free and loose.
As we all know, for emperors who require feudal autocratic notification, they do not want their subjects to have too much free thought.
This kind of free and divergent thinking questions has gradually been replaced by the more rigorous system of meaning-the so-called system of meaning is the eight-legged essay.
Zhiyi stipulates that each article must be composed of eight parts: breaking the title, carrying the title, beginning, beginning, beginning, middle, back and end, which is the so-called "eight parts".
When you get a topic, you first start to reveal the topic, which is "breaking the topic"; then continue the above and elaborate on it, which is called "proposing the topic"; then start to discuss, which is called "starting to talk"; and then "start", which is the starting point of the talk. Then leads to the breakthrough of the main text.
The title of the eight-part article must be based on the Four Books and Five Classics. The content must be spoken in the tone of Confucius and Mencius. The four pairs of antitheses should be balanced and balanced. Allusions to romance, romance, snow and moon cannot be used to blaspheme the saints, and free expression is absolutely not allowed.
The length of the sentences, the traditional and simplified characters, the pitch, etc. must also be relatively written, and the number of words is also limited.
Each of the four parts of the starting strand, the middle strand, the back strand, and the closing strand must have two strands of parallel text, totaling eight strands in total.
For example, the current topic, "Not Following the Rules", comes from "Mencius·Li Lou Shang".
The original text is: "Mencius said: The wisdom of Li Lou, the cleverness of Gongshu Zi, does not follow the rules, and cannot be a member of the party; the wisdom of Shi Kuang, does not follow the six laws, cannot correct the five tones; the way of Yao and Shun, does not follow benevolent government, cannot rule the world peacefully. "
To put it simply, it requires the monarch to govern the world by formulating laws and then implementing benevolent policies.
Tong Su pondered while grinding the ink. After a long time, until she had finished drafting in her mind, she finally raised her pen and wrote down a line of words.
[Not following the rules, but relying on this understanding and cleverness.]
This is to break the topic, which is to name the main point of this article: some people do not follow the rules because they rely on their own intelligence and ingenuity to act clever.
Opposite her room, Yao Jinrong hadn't figured out the words "Not according to the rules". After all, it came from the book "Four Books of the Five Classics". In a panic, when he saw Tong Su actually starting to write, he suddenly broke out in a white hair sweat!
Xia Qingzhai actually started writing
Does he know how to write
How can it be!
How could he write? He must be writing blindly, don't be afraid, don't be anxious, you can definitely write better than Xia Qingzhai!