While Zhu Pingan was packing up and waiting for the papers to be handed out, candidates came in one after another, and students and scholars began to appear in the neighboring buildings.
About half an hour later, I heard a metallic sound coming from the direction of Mingyuan Tower. I looked up and saw several flags waving on Mingyuan Tower, and then a vague sound came from the gate.
"After entering, the door is closed and the key is locked, and the whole place is silent!"
It turned out that the metal sound just now was from hitting the cloud plate. Only then did Zhu Pingan realize that the gate and the instrument gate should have been blocked at this moment.
Hitting the cloud board means that the exam has officially started. The college exam has very strict discipline requirements. There are a large number of Yamen and Qidao sergeants in front of the dormitory to supervise. If there is anything like moving seats, changing papers, throwing papers, talking, and looking around,
Yin Oh and other sexual misconduct will be investigated as soon as they are discovered. Therefore, the entire examination room became particularly quiet at this time.
There are two examinations in the college examination, one for the main exam and one for the re-examination. Today’s exam is the main exam. After hitting the cloud board, the guards distributed the test papers one after another. In addition to the test papers, each person also had five pieces of tissue paper.
As for the test questions, they are the same as the county and government examinations. The college test questions are also pasted on wooden boards, and several government officials walk back and forth in the examination room holding question boards for candidates to check the questions.
However, when the yamen officer began to walk back and forth in the examination room holding the question card, Zhu Pingan clearly heard a roar around him, and then heard the sergeant standing astride his sword yelling, "Quiet, if you dare to make any noise again, you will be punished as cheating."
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Under the pressure of Sergeant Qiao Dao, the examination room became quiet, but sporadic suppressed gasps could be heard from all around.
Could it be that today’s test questions are a little abnormal?
While Zhu Ping'an was immersing the brush in the well-ground ink, he thought with amusement that the topic wouldn't be something from the novel he had read before. Draw a circle and ask us to write an eight-legged essay. He had seen that novel at the time.
At that time, I went to check the information. I found that the candidate who ranked first in the historical exam actually used this question: "The beginning of the saint's scholarship was empty." I really thought of all the questions. If so, then
Isn't it too flattering for me?
But when the yamen came to Zhu Pingan with the question board, Zhu Pingan took one look at the question and knew why everyone reacted like that after reading the question.
There are two questions on the four books and one question on the Five Classics, for a total of three questions.
There is nothing wrong with the topic of the Five Classics. This question on the Five Classics is about commenting on the classics, which is similar to the fill-in-the-blank questions we used to have in school. The so-called commentators cover the two ends of the scriptures they have studied, leave a single line in the middle, and cut the paper as a sticker. There are three characters for "fantie",
Increase or decrease at any time, can be different, or get four, five, or six as a pass. This question on the classics in the college examination is just that the content is a bit longer. Zhu Pingan often read the Four Books and Five Classics, so this question is easy to understand at a glance.
If you can write it, I believe it will not be difficult for other students and scholars.
But the two questions on the Four Classics were, well, how should I put it, making people collapse.
The first question consists of two words: Master said.
Just looking at the first question makes me have a headache and collapse. Confucius said, Confucius said, Confucius is confused. How can people solve the problem and write an essay!
But when Zhu Ping'an saw this question, he couldn't help but laugh. Yes, yes, he had seen this question before. He once read an article in modern times, which was probably called Appreciation of the Ming Dynasty Eight-legged Essay.
, the article gives an example of such a question, and also provides a standard solution to the question.
Although this question was not the circle question he was thinking about just now, it happened to be something he had seen before. Therefore, after seeing the question, Zhu Pingan did not get confused or frown like others, but could not help but evoke
At the corner of his lips, he smiled silently.
Well, this candidate was so angry that he laughed because of this question. It seemed that he was the one who was most devastated by the question? The yamen officer holding the placard cast a sympathetic look at Zhu Pingan.
Zhu Ping'an didn't know that he was being sympathized with. After neatly copying the first question on the paper in small letters, he started to read the second question.
The second question is much more normal. The title is: A superior person can reach up and a small person can send it down. This question comes from a sentence in "The Analects". Confucius said: 'A superior person can reach up and a small person can send it down.'
There are three questions in total. Basically everyone knows how to answer the scriptures, so the gap cannot be narrowed. It is these two four-book and eight-legged essays that play a decisive role. The first question really makes people confused for a while, and they don’t know how to solve the question. Fortunately,
The second one is more normal, otherwise even if there are more cross-sword sergeants, it won't be able to suppress it.
Compared with others who were racking their brains and struggling, Zhu Pingan was much more relaxed and casual. He raised his pen and started to write a draft on the draft paper.
The title of the first question is "Confucius said," which is a minor question in the imperial examination questions. The big questions are usually multiple sentences and a whole chapter, and the small questions are one sentence or a few words in a sentence. Just like the first question "Confucius said
"It's a two-word question.
The so-called breaking the topic, in layman's terms, is to analyze the topic and what the article is about. Eight-part essays have requirements for breaking the topic. It stipulates that only two sentences should be used. Although there are also three sentences, there is a pause in a long sentence, which looks like three sentences.
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It is very painful to solve the question. In these two sentences, you have to summarize the meaning of the question and explain the meaning of the question, but you cannot directly state the meaning of the question. Breaking the question is the first step in the eight-legged essay, and it is also the first step in the eight-legged essay. If the question is solved well,
Get twice the result with half the effort.
"One man can be a teacher for hundreds of generations, and one word can be a law for the world."
Here are two sentences that Zhu Pingan copied on the draft paper. This is also the most standard sentence that he has ever seen. These two sentences do not reveal the word title, but they use the words "子" and "曰"
Very clearly stated.
After solving the problem, there is the problem. Zhu Pingan only saw the problem and problem solving in modern times, and did not see the content such as problem solving. But after all, Zhu Pingan also experienced eight years of studying the system in Ming Dynasty, and he solved all the problems.
, it is much easier to carry out the topic, start the talk, eight parts and four ratios, and conclude. Zhu Pingan took a moment to think about it, and then he started writing on the draft paper in neat regular script.
It only took less than an hour to write the first question in a eloquent and standard eight-part regular script.
When Zhu Ping'an finished writing the first question and just put down his brush, he heard three drums coming from Mingyuan Tower, and then heard a nearby government official say expressionlessly, "Drinking tea and going to the toilet to relieve yourself. It's noisy.
Violators will be punished for cheating.”
It's time for tea, water and the toilet during the intermission.
There is a water tank at the door of the dormitory. If you want to drink water, you can go to the water tank at the door to drink water, but you have to stand up and signal to the patrol officer, and you are not allowed to speak.
There is a toilet at the end of the dormitory, and there is a toilet inside. This is also the toilet.
At this time, Zhu Pingan didn't feel thirsty at all, but he felt a slight urge to defecate in his lower abdomen, so he stood up and signaled that he had to go to the toilet. The patrol officer went to the direction of the toilet to confirm that there was no one there at this time, so he agreed to Zhu Pingan's request.
I asked to go to the toilet and took a sign from a place and gave it to Zhu Pingan.
Zhu Ping'an took the sign with both hands and looked at it. There were words on both sides of the sign. One side said "Enter Jing" and the other side said "Out of Gong". This is where the ancient people said "Gong" when going to the toilet.
Zhu Pingan held the card in front of his chest before he was allowed to come out of this oppressive cell to go to the toilet. Zhu Pingan came out carefully, fearing to knock over the pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
After Zhu Pingan came out, a yamen servant followed Zhu Pingan to the end of the dormitory. He followed him closely and never left. Zhu Pingan could understand that they did this to prevent candidates from cheating.
However, at this time, it really feels like a kind of VIP treatment.