At dawn, several censors and supervisors inspected the examination room, and assigned a sergeant of the government guard outside each examination number to supervise the examination, and ordered the candidates not to stand up and walk around at will, and the first rural examination was officially opened.
The papers that were handed in to the Shuntian Mansion Ceremony earlier were handed out, each with a printed test paper in it. Twenty-three questions were neatly printed on the paper: three questions for the four books, and twenty questions for the five classics. According to their own scriptures, we choose four questions to do from these questions.
If there is a talented person who has studied the Five Classics completely, or he can answer all 20 questions of the Five Classics - as long as you have the ability to answer them, no matter how good the answer is, you can also win the title of "knowledge should be rich", and it is a sure thing. taken.
Of course, Cui Xie didn't have that spirit and academic ability. Based on the experience handed down by his teachers and predecessors, the seven compositions in the field are the most important, but the first one is the most important. Afterwards, the examiner has insufficient energy and will not read carefully. He directly writes the familiar essays he has written, and even the ones he has read before. Field house text is okay too. Even if the examiner recognizes it, it won't blame you for the attack, but you have to take it, because it has been assessed by other examiners, and the level is good enough.
If another examiner is the chief examiner, he can also copy the first copy, but Teacher Li is the chief examiner. There were more than 2,300 people participating in this township test, but only 135 people were accepted. Immediately after the test was over, there would be a low-ranking talent who would go to Shuntian Prefecture to sue Li Dongyang for his private admission—
If he copied someone else's writing, and the failed candidates knew about it, they would have to attack the examiner for injustice and take him as an incompetent. give him…
Cheng Minzheng will fall on this in another ten years, how dare he take such a risk!
Cui Xie took a deep breath and read the seven test questions from beginning to end. After finding the source of the questions, he covered the scroll and quietly wrote the first question of the four books: "It's not good for a villain to live alone, and he will go everywhere, and he will be disgusted when he sees a gentleman. Cover up its badness and cultivate its goodness."
This question comes from "University", the original text is in the chapter "Sincerity". Living alone, being alone. Disgust, eliminate depression and hide the appearance. Zhuzi said, "If you are sincere in your intentions, it is the beginning of self-cultivation." A gentleman's self-cultivation is to be sincere in it and form it out, and be careful not to deceive himself but to be careful of his independence.
The gentleman is like this, but the villain can't "be careful of loneliness". It is not that the villain does not understand the debate between good and evil, and does not know how to do good and avoid evil. It is only for the sake of good and hard to make evil easy. Only after seeing a gentleman, he will feel ashamed of his actions, cover up his evil deeds, deceive himself into good deeds, and disguise himself. Become a good person.
However, what ten eyes see and ten hands point to, how can these disguise deceive a gentleman
For example, today's Concubine Wan, since the prince was old and his status was stable, he also pretended to be a gentle and graceful concubine, and let the emperor have so many sons; His name is slaughtering and abusing Qingliu, killing good people at the border; for example, Mr. Wan Ge, when Wang Zhi fell out of favor, wrote a letter to the Guanxi factory, and he seems to be an old minister who is loyal to the country and seeks the country; another example is some In order to make a name for himself and sell his integrity, the Censor's official, on the table, discouraged the emperor from conferring favor on a certain Jinyiwei thousand households, and did not allow him to be promoted to the probationary governor...
A wise and insightful gentleman like him can see through the essence of those villains at a glance!
Of course, the exam paper can't point directly to current affairs, but Cui Xie first separated the gentleman from the villain. Standing on the height of the real gentleman, he criticized those villains who pretended to be gentlemen but did evil things in secret. : "To deceive a gentleman by deceiving oneself is hypocrisy with the intention of a villain!"
Breaking the question is broken according to your own mind, but you have to take care of it, or copy the original question, slightly modify it, and write "Husband and villain, if you are not good or bad, if you live in idleness, you will do what you want, and if you see a gentleman, you will use it to cover up. It's too much to deceive yourself!"
The word "covering" in the title is an abbreviation of "covering up its badness and making it good" in the original title.
When a villain sees a gentleman will cover up his evil and show his goodness, isn't this deceiving himself? This sentence "self-deception" also corresponds to the "deceive the gentleman with the self-deceiver" in the broken topic. The two sentences "Bao and Cheng" are self-contained, and they are also consistent with the title. There is no trace of it. There are countless sentences rushing to pour out of the pen, which is indeed a good start.
I have to write seven articles in more than ten hours a day, and I have to eat three meals in between. In the evening, my energy tends to be exhausted along with my physical strength. It is evenly distributed, and each article has at most one hour to conceive. If he gets stuck on the first question, it will not only consume time, but also consume his confidence, and the subsequent questions can only be more difficult than one.
Now he spends less time on the first question, and it may take less than half an hour to finish the draft, so he has more physical strength and energy to deal with the subsequent questions.
The next question comes from the "Analects of Confucius", which is in "The Analects of Confucius: Shu Er": "Zi fishing does not outline, and Yi does not shoot shelter."
Confucius was a poor and lowly young man. He used to fish and shoot, but when he was fishing, he did not open a net to catch everything, and when he was shooting, he did not shoot the resting birds. This shows the heart of benevolence. There are things that see people, both small and large, which shows the sage's will to love the world.
But this sentence is a separate paragraph. When answering the question, it must be done with the original sentence. There is no reason to break the original question and break the annotation. The original name of the thing in the question cannot appear in the question, and it is always replaced by "thing", so the benevolence of Confucius can only be pointed to the step of "loving things", and the love of things is extended to the master's benevolence.
He simply and clearly extracted the central idea of the original text, and broke the sentence "that is, fishing for sages and seeing the benevolence of love." , is it not showing the benevolence of the Master
From loving things, to benevolent people, to embrace the world.
Shooting is for the survival of the people. If you just love things and don’t shoot for them, people will have no way to survive, and cherishing creatures is putting the cart before the horse. Therefore, the sage did not take this action, but fished and hunted according to the law, should eat, eat, use, first fill the belly of the people, and fulfill the regulations of the sacrificial ritual, but do not fish because the appetite is exhausted, so as to give the animals room to multiply.
Confucius' choice between animal protection and human rights is so justified.
"The Master said: the blessings of kindness and kindness in this world, the small ones are all about life, and the big ones are the inspiration of the heavens." This choice is simple and simple, but also contains a bit of ecological balance. The reproduction of animals, in turn, can make people hunt endless, food is abundant, the country is stable, and the harmonious coexistence of humans and animals can be achieved.
And this kind of harmony shows the benevolence of the Master in "loving things"!
After the second question was finished, the sun was still hanging diagonally in the northeast, the sky was much brighter than when the hair was rolled, and it was not dazzling. The wind was blowing from the door, and the rolled paper trembled slightly. It was the question. good time.
Cui Xie pressed the second draft to the table, closed his eyes and did a set of eye exercises, and read the third question in his mind by the way.
The first question on the township examination paper is about people and people, the second question is about people and nature, and the third question does not slide all the way to the animal world, but goes up to the court - it is "Mencius Gongsun Chou Chapter 2" Chapter 2: "There are three in the world: Da Zun, one Jue, one tooth, and one virtue."
He was very impressed by this sentence. During the government examination, the king of Yongping Palace put him in a couplet test after the papers were collected, and he answered in one of them: "The emperor of ten thousand years will be the first in the title, the first in the tooth, and the first in the virtue. The edict of Dan, comprehends hundreds of millions of living people."
It was this sentence that caught Wang Fuzun's heart at the beginning, and when he was grading the papers, he favored him a little, and ordered him to be the leader of the government examination. Otherwise, among the thousands of candidates in the entire Yongping Palace, how could there be no one who answered better than him? people
This question is his lucky question. Cui Xie smiled and copied the title onto the scroll.
Those who reach, pass also. There are three things that are respected in the world. That is to say, there are only three things that can be respected by all people in the world.
The imperial court places great importance on the titles of nobility, in order to separate the upper and lower; the township party emphasizes the age of the teeth, in order to demonstrate filial piety; These three are not self-respecting, but the world respects them, and because the world respects them, distinguishing between superiors and inferiors, clear morality, and respectful customs, they can make the court stable, the people are virtuous and filial, and the morality is honest.
These three questions of the Four Books are compulsory for Wufang candidates, and the competition is extremely fierce. For the Wujing questions, as long as they are compared with the candidates in the same room, the difficulty is always lower than the three questions of the Four Books.
Cui Xie turned out the three sets of papers and checked them from the beginning to the end. He saw that there was no space in front of "Saint", whether there was any taboo between him and his ancestors, and whether there were any typos... After checking all of them, he turned to Lang Lang. Nikko copied it onto the scroll.
More than three pages have been written on the twelve-page scroll, and the empty half page and the next eight pages are reserved for the Pentateuch question with a longer word count.
Cui Xie dried the roll paper and carefully put it in the roll bag. Seeing that it was still early, he lowered his head and started to do the Five Classics. The guards of the government guarding outside the test number were staring at him, lest they miss the cheating act. Seeing that he looked up, they suspected that he was going to go out, so they quickly turned one eye to see if the field inspector was coming.
However, Cui Xie had been prepared early, and he had not left the test account that day, and Xie Ming was also in the prepared bucket. Although the smell is not good, everyone came here like this. It's better than calling the patrol officer to seal the seal, and the two guards will go to the thatched hut. look.
Lunch and dinner are all provided by Gongyuan. The taste is not as good as the nutritious meals ordered by the primary school canteen.
Thanks to the high-intensity mock questions he had done a few days ago, he practiced the questions quickly. When it was time for dinner, he just finished the last question on the Book of Poetry, so he simply skipped a meal.
The sky was still bright yellow at this time, and the sunlight shining in from outside the door of the room was falling on the roll paper, and it would take at least an hour to help it out. He sat in the chair with his eyes closed, opened the PDF in his head and checked it from beginning to end - this way, the search is not draining, and he can see clearly and comprehensively in his mind, which is faster than looking at it with his eyes.
After checking the seven pieces of craftsmanship from beginning to end, it was not before the palm of the candle, but Cui Xie didn't want to wait any longer.
The Army No. 1 was very strong, and never thought that he would not cheat just because he was good-looking. He kept his eyes on him as he packed up the scrolls and drafts, and accompany him to the filing officer's office to register and hand in the papers. The examiner seals and seals the test paper, and then takes it to the transcription officer to transcribe it into a red scroll, and send it to the Book of Poetry Room for review with the examiner.
The exam papers were sent to the examiner's room one after another in the afternoon. Cui Xie was not the first batch to hand in the papers. There were also two or three people who handed in the papers at the same time. Although the two co-examiners knew that Cui Xie was also in this township exam, they were staring at the candidates who had been taught in advance, discussing the candidates' answer sheets while judging.
Cui Xie made a name for himself in the Hanlin Academy with the original copy of "The Pipa Story of Wang Yaoniang", and almost everyone in the Hanlin Academy knew his name. Liang Chu and Zhang Pu were also the same year as the chief writer Yang Tinghe, and they were close to him. They had both read the court's book, and had also sentenced him to the examination paper for the prince's companion examination. They knew a little about Cui Xie's writing style. He was guessing which one of his papers was when he was rolling.
This piece of "clear spirit, strong brushwork, and good sense of purpose" resembles his style; the piece "strong and firm in strength and prudent and prudent" looks familiar to the reader; although a few sentences were not refined enough in the first one submitted to the manuscript, But it is also "rigorous in rhythm and precise in theory and law", which is an article that should be written by a disciple of Duke Xi Ya...
The two discussed for an afternoon to no avail, so they simply ate the exquisite delicacies specially prepared for the examiner, and then took the newly handed Zhujuan to digest the food.
The author has something to say: This article is copied from the compilation of Zhu scrolls in the Qing Dynasty, Cai Zhenwu scrolls
The Qing Dynasty Zhujuan compilation is fantastic, and comments!