When I woke up, it was already sunset in the afternoon.
Zhu Pingan opened his eyes and saw the test questions for this exam. They were placed on the simple table made of wooden boards and pressed down with his own inkstone. It must be that the person who issued the papers saw that he was sleeping too soundly and did not wake him up. , he put it on the table and pressed it with an inkstone.
The people who set the questions for this exam should be a few examiners. Once the examiners are confirmed in the Ming Dynasty, they have to go straight to the Gongyuan. The Gongyuan will be sealed off immediately and heavily guarded. No birds can come out, and no ants can enter! These examiners will not be released until the examination is completed, the papers are corrected, and the rankings are determined.
This is for the sake of confidentiality, for the fairness of the imperial examination, and to avoid leaking questions for personal gain.
As usual, the number of questions in the first test of the general examination is similar to that of the provincial examination. There are seven questions in total, including three questions on the meaning of the Four Books and four questions on the meaning of the Five Classics. This is the most important test for the Eight-Part Membership Examination.
I heard that the official examiner this time was the famous Xu Jie in history. He was the master who defeated Yan Song. Therefore, Zhu Ping'an was very interested in the questions he presided over and wanted to see the master's painstaking efforts. What kind of questions come from your brain?
Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but gently push away the rabbit fur blanket covering his body, stood up, washed briefly and dried his hands, then tidied up the table, put pens, inks, papers, inkstones, etc. in order, and officially started his journey to the test of Yu Leap over the Dragon Gate. .
Open the test paper, and the questions for this exam will appear in front of you.
If the first exam is the most important exam in this exam, then the first question is the most important question in this exam. The quality of your eight-part essay writing in this first question almost determines your success or failure in this exam.
"If the Jin people have Mrs. Feng, Mrs. Feng will rush to get off the car."
This is the first question in this examination. For most candidates, this question is slightly different from usual.
Generally, the title of the eight-part essay is to select one or several sentences or one or several verses from the "Four Books" as the title. The meaning is relatively complete, and "all extract the major principles and systems from the classics, and those related to human ethics and governance." However, such questions are very limited in the "Four Books". To avoid guessing questions and plagiarism, this type of cut-and-match questions appeared. The so-called intersecting questions are connected inappropriately in the scriptures. The title of the eight-legged essay is formed by not breaking but cutting.
Before this Enke exam, a similar question had only appeared once, but it was unfamiliar. But this interception question is also very simple. It is a sentimental interlude, which means that the meanings of the preface and the postscript can be connected together, and everyone can understand the meaning.
Therefore, candidates are only slightly surprised by this question.
This title comes from "Mencius. Try your best". "There was a woman named Feng in the Jin Dynasty. She was good at fighting tigers and she became a good soldier. In the wild, there were people chasing tigers, and the tigers were trapped in the ground. No one dared to pick on them. When they saw Mrs. Feng, they rushed to meet her. Mrs. Feng rushed to get off the car. , everyone is pleased with it, and those who are scholars laugh at it.”
Saw this topic. Zhu Pingan thought for a moment.
Combining the context in which Mencius said these words, Qi State suffered from famine at that time. Chen Zhen said to Mencius: "People in the country thought that the teacher would once again persuade the King of Qi to open the granaries in Tangdi to relieve the victims. Probably he should not do this again. That's it." Mencius replied that if he did it again, he would be Feng's wife, and then told the story of Feng's wife.
Why did the scholars laugh at Mrs. Feng?
Zhu Ping'an thought about it carefully, and felt from the tone of Mencius's words that he did not completely deny Feng Fu's actions, because "being Feng Fu again" actually got the support of everyone, but it was just the scholars who laughed at him.
Could it be that Mencius stopped urging the King of Qi to open warehouses to save the people because he was afraid of the ridicule of the scholars?
To put it into context again, today’s Ming Dynasty is dominated by captives from the north and Japanese from the south. There were also frequent famines in the country, and then Zhu Pingan understood what the person who asked the question meant.
So, I grinded the ink and laid out the paper, put pen to paper on the scratch paper and started to make the eight-legged pattern.
"People in Jin Dynasty changed their careers to do good things at the beginning. In the end, they lost their own way by betraying others."
This is the first sentence written by Zhu Pingan, which is a breakdown of the eight-legged essay. The meaning of this sentence is this: In the Jin Dynasty, this person named Feng Fu was able to change his brave and powerful behavior at first, and Become a good, kind person. Later, for the safety of others, he lost his existing behavioral style and became tough again.
This way of breaking the topic not only highly summarizes the main purpose of Mencius' original words, but also can trigger the discussion below.
Then Zhu Pingan continued to write, and in the title part, Zhu Pingan continued to say, Feng Fu has become a kind person, why do she still go to hunt tigers? Mencius probably knew this story, so he compared it to asking him to persuade the King of Qi to open the granary to relieve the victims.
After writing the title part, Zhu Pingan stopped writing, put his hands on his head, rubbed his forehead, and began to think deeply.
The first eight-part essay at the beginning almost determines the success or failure of this examination. It is not that easy to stand out among the best candidates in the country. As for the eight-part essay, those who can break out of the tight siege of the Tongsheng Examination and the Provincial Examination are all of a very high standard, and everyone has a solid foundation in the eight-part essay.
If you want to stand out, catch the examiner's attention among more than 5,000 eight-part essays, and get a good ranking, a smooth eight-part essay is not enough, you need innovation.
You have to make the examiner's eyes light up.
After thinking for a moment, Zhu Pingan suddenly curled his lips slightly, and there seemed to be the light of a shooting star in his eyes.
Haha, yes, then I dipped it in ink and continued writing.
In the middle part and the back part of this eight-part article, Zhu Pingan changed the way of discussion in the past and used description to exaggerate and exaggerate the crisis situation of people before Feng Fu attacked the tiger, and also described Feng Fu's actions of attacking the tiger. The image is drawn.
Of course, it also uses two lines of parallel text, but it uses description rather than discussion. In this way, this eight-part essay is enough to stand out among the more than five thousand eight-part essays.
It was getting dark, so Zhu Pingan lit a candle, turned on the light, and wrote the last paragraph of this eight-legged essay in the emotional tone of Mencius:
"Excuse me, if Mrs. Feng started out fighting tigers, she didn't know that she was a good person at the end; she was already a good person, and she didn't know she would fight tigers again. But people expect me to be like Fa Tang again. What's the matter? It’s different from Feng Fu’s arms getting out of the car!”
The soldier who was responsible for supervising the examination of Zhu Pingan's residence was stunned for a moment when he saw Zhu Pingan writing furiously under the candlelight.
The candidate with the bad number in the other direction has vomited seven or eight times, but we, the examinee, don’t feel like sitting in the bad number for the exam at all. We eat well and sleep soundly, that’s all. But this person actually did it consecutively The questions flowed smoothly, and were not affected at all by the toilet next door.
After finishing writing, Zhu Pingan put down his brush, read the eight-part essay he had written, and nodded with satisfaction.
In this way, I will definitely not return empty-handed from this meeting. (To be continued.)
