When I woke up, it was already the setting sun in the afternoon.
Zhu Ping'an 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.
, so he put it on the table and pressed it with an inkstone.
The examiners should be the ones who set the questions for this exam. 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! Until the exam.
These examiners will be released only after 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 is the famous Xu Jie in history. He was the master who defeated Yan Song. Therefore, Zhu Pingan was very interested in the questions he presided over and wanted to see the master's painstaking efforts.
What kind of questions come up in your brain?
Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but gently push away the rabbit fur blanket covering his body, stood up and washed his hands briefly, then tidied up the table, put pens, inks, papers and inkstones in order, and officially started his journey to the test of Yu Leap over the Dragon Gate.
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Open the test paper, and the questions for this session 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 eight-legged essay writing level of this first question almost determines your ability.
The success or failure of this examination.
"If the people of Jin have a wife named Feng, she will rush to get out of the car with her arms."
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 a sentence, several sentences or a section, 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,
There are very few such questions in the "Four Books". In order to avoid guessing and plagiarism, this type of truncation and tying questions appeared. The so-called truncation and tying questions are those in the scriptures that are not connected and connected, and are not broken.
A perfect eight-legged essay topic.
Before this Enke exam, a similar question had only been asked once. However, although it is unfamiliar, this interception question is also very simple. It is a sentimental interception, which means that the meaning of the preface and the afterword can be connected together.
, everyone can understand the meaning.
Therefore, candidates are only slightly surprised by this question.
This title comes from "Mencius. The Heart Is Down", "The people of Jin had Mrs. Feng, who was good at fighting tigers, and she died as a good scholar. In the wild, there were people chasing tigers, and the tigers were dead, and no one dared to fight them. When they saw Mrs. Feng, they
They rushed to greet her. Mrs. Feng rushed out of the car with arms, and everyone was happy. She was a scholar and laughed at her."
Seeing this topic, Zhu Pingan thought for a while.
Combined with 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 granary in Tangdi to relieve the victims. Probably he should not do this again.
Okay." 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. From the tone of Mencius's words, he felt that he did not completely deny Feng Fu's actions, because "being Feng Fu again" actually got the support of everyone. It was just the scholars who were laughing 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?
Combined with this, today's Ming Dynasty is dominated by Japanese invaders from the north and the south, and there are frequent famines in the country. Then Zhu Pingan understands the meaning of the questioner.
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 first, but in the end they lost their own way by betraying others."
This is the first sentence written by Zhu Pingan, which is a break from 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
He became a good and kind person, but later, for the safety of others, he lost his existing behavior style and became strong 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 went on to say, Feng Fu has become a kind person, why did she still go to hunt tigers? Mencius probably knew this story, so he persuaded him to do it.
The king used this metaphor to open his granary to help 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 so easy to stand out among the best candidates in the country. The eight-part essay can defeat the candidates in the Tongsheng Examination and the Provincial Examination.
They are all quite advanced, and everyone has solid basic skills in eight-legged composition.
If you want to stand out, if you want to attract 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 to be innovative.
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, I got it, 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.
Describe the image.
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 5,000 eight-part essays.
It was getting dark, so Zhu Ping'an 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, Mrs. Feng, she started out fighting tigers, but she didn't know that she was a good person at the end; she was already a good person, but she didn't know she was fighting tigers again. But what if people expect me to be like Fatang again?
It’s different from Feng Fu’s arms getting out of the car!”
The soldier who was specially 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 so smoothly, and were not affected at all by the toilet next door.
After finishing writing, Zhu Pingan put down his writing 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 interview. (To be continued)