After collecting the papers, can they be marked?
No, it's still early.
In order to prevent fraud and reduce marking errors, a lot of things need to be done.
The examiner collected the papers and carried the box back to the room. First, he needed to check them one by one to see what was written in your test paper. The meaning of "University" was right. Put it here, and the meaning of "Spring and Autumn". Yes, put it over here.
According to the classification of the special scriptures, after completing this work, the examiner can write a book and make preliminary statistics, how many people and how many papers.
After the document was written, the official who received the record carried the box to the sealing office. There were more than a dozen sealing officials here who were responsible for sealing.
The so-called Mi Feng means to obscure the name.
Put some paste on the test paper where you want to fill in your name, and cover it with a cover paper.
After finishing this matter, I have to "write a seal", which is roughly similar to the No. 1 test paper, the No. 2 test paper... and then put a seal to indicate that I have done the job well.
Official Mi Feng wiped his saliva, put the paper in the box, lifted it up in pairs, and went to the transcription office.
There are more officials in the transcription office, usually twenty or thirty people, and their jobs are the same:
Copy homework.
Just take a paper and copy it.
Simple right?
In fact, it's not simple at all.
The officials of the transcription office can be said to be the first screeners who know how to take test papers.
In other words, your paper has probably been thrown out the door as garbage before it has been reviewed by the examiner, waiting for the cleaning uncle to deal with it...
The transcriber official copied it and was required not to change a single word of the original text.
After you finish copying, the number of words must match. If you finish copying a pair, let me go, where are the three extra lines of words? Or maybe I missed two lines of words for Spring and Autumn, that's it, just copy it again quickly before anyone notices.
If you are discovered, just wait to be punished...
How do you say that sentence? You can’t even copy it correctly. What do you want to do?
In addition to not changing a single word, you also have to read the article with your eyes to see if this dear friend has any private affairs involved in the article.
For example, this article says:
My father is Li Gang. If you know Li Gang or not, just know. But whatever, as long as you click on me, you will be greatly thanked afterwards.
"I Have a Picture Book of Ghosts and Gods"
That person left a message:
I know the great fishtail god. Although my family is poor, I
There are backers, such as Jie Yuwei and Xia Yuwei, they are our relatives, so you can figure it out.
This way of bringing in private goods is called "self-reported family background", as if I know someone, as if I have eaten the fruit of face.
The transcriber official was happy when he found this kind of article. He clicked his tongue twice, took a sip of tea, and threw the paper aside.
It's really great. I have one less copy, so I don't seem to have to work overtime until midnight.
After copying, write your name.
This is easy to understand. It is personal responsibility. If there is a mistake in the transcription, it needs to be clear at a glance who should be spanked, so as not to find the person and get spanked together hand in hand.
By the way, if you copy your homework, you need to use a red pen. If you dare to use a black pen, you will be beaten. Your handwriting must be good and use regular script. If you dare to take out your cursive script, I will ensure that you will scribble to the end in the future.
After finishing the transcription, I rubbed my sore arms and sorted out the qualified papers. I just threw away the more than 100 papers that contained private information or irregular writing. There is no need to send them to the reading center.
Gearing up for the people in the school, brothers, I have been waiting for several days and it is finally here.
Duiyue, Duidu, has two responsibilities: Dui and Du, that is, comparing and reading.
The reading official needs to carefully compare the transcribed text with the original text to check whether there are any omissions, inversions, etc. during the transcription process. Of course, the copying official also needs to check whether the copying official has included any personal information of his own.
What if the transcriber was bribed...
Dual reading is also a way to prevent corruption by transcription officials.
This link is relatively time-consuming. Usually two people work together. He reads from the red scroll to the ink scroll, and you compare from the ink scroll to the red scroll. Read each word carefully, word for word.
If an error is found in the transcription, or the handwriting is too artistic and only the transcriber can recognize it, then congratulations to the transcriber. Now pack your luggage and set off for Liaodong. Maybe you can catch the first snow in the first year of Jianwen.
By the way, let me remind you that from now on, you are a official, not an official.
Receiving, sealing, transcribing, and reading are the basic processes before marking the papers. The entire process is supervised by the examiner.
At first, these processes were very slow, taking only half a month. Later, when I found out the reason, oh, there were too many old men and bad people.
All of them were presbyopic, so they held the paper and pressed it against the candle. They couldn't make out a few words clearly and almost clicked the test paper. There are also some people with bad character
Those who are dignified just sit there and comment, but don’t do anything serious day by day.
So the imperial court issued an order: Be sure to select those who are around forty years old and have good deeds as officials of the fifth to seventh grades.
The standard is: being in the prime of life and not lacking in virtue.
This also has an advantage. I always carry boxes back and forth. In the words of the old man, it seems a bit shabby. If I fall and break a bone or something, and then count the work-related injuries, the court will be grateful...
To the surprise of many people, the examination papers received and reviewed by the examiners were not actually the examination papers that were answered during the examination, but were transcribed papers in red font, without the names of the candidates and without any marks.
During the review, Fang Xiaoru, Yao Guangxiao, and Yang Shiqi were the chief examiners, and there were also officials transferred from the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Personnel, who were the same examiners.
The test papers are not handed over directly to the chief examiner for processing, but are first handed over to fellow examiners for review. Only the papers they like will be recommended to the chief examiner.
In other words, the chief examiner may not have even looked at the test paper that was dismissed by the same examiner.
However, this was before.
Yang Shiqi knew very well that the talents Zhu Yunwen wanted were not talents who were mainly based on the Four Books, Five Classics and the words of saints. But for fellow examiners, their evaluation criteria are the Four Books, Five Classics and the words of saints.
The emperor and his fellow examiners adopted two completely different standards. As a last resort, Yang Shiqi and Yao Guangxiao had no choice but to stare at the test papers that were regarded as garbage by their fellow examiners and prepare for recycling.
The ancient evaluation test papers are all composed of compositions, not the four options ABCD. Just check what is right and what is wrong.
The evaluation of the composition is a very difficult task for the examiner. He is not like a descendant who glances at the composition a few times, thinks about a few sentences, and with a stroke of his pen, the score comes out.
The ancients said:
"It is easy to write essays, but it is difficult to measure essays. Composition is like managing things, and measuring essays is like knowing people. When you manage things, your nature will be close to you, and when you learn something, you will become a person. Knowing people will be abnormal, and it will be infinite. It is also difficult to learn, and it is not a universal knowledge. With an extremely still mind, one can avoid being dizzy."
The examiner Miao Shunbin also lamented in "Danshi", the 41st chapter of Tang Xianzu's "The Peony Pavilion":
Reading Baoyi is difficult to read the text.
Although there are no clear standards for evaluating literature in various classics, archives, and personal biographies of the Ming Dynasty, their evaluations are not "idealistic" and are entirely based on personal likes and dislikes, but have three basic standards.
