The collection of historical essays on art and crafts is placed together with the classics and history classics, and is full of them. It accounts for more than half of the "Classics and History" in Yaoji's bookstore. It has collected almost all the Chinese historical essays from the Hangzhou Rural Examination of the last three subjects to the Capital Examination.
Edited and published, there are separate special volumes on the top scorers, second place winners, and top picks in the provincial and imperial examinations. As for the excellent eight-part essays on the Tongsheng Examination, they are basically written by local students in Shaoxing, such as Zhang Zongzi and Qi Huzi, the two great heroes.
The county prodigy actually has a collection of period articles called "Prodigy Making Art", with eighteen chapters in one volume.
Zhang Yuan picked up "Prodigy Craftsmanship" and flipped through it. He smiled and said, "This is a must-buy." He put it aside for a while before choosing. He asked Fan Zhen, "Mr. Fan, why are these all from Shaoxing Prefecture?"
The essays for members of the Communist Party of China and the provincial examination essays are only from Hangzhou, are there any from other places?"
Fan Zhendao: "Different prefectures and counties have different writing styles. Of course, Shaoxing students only study and imitate the contemporary writings of local famous writers, so there is a greater chance of Chinese style. However, the writing styles and fashions of the twelve prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River are also similar."
Zhang Yuan thought: "It should be more important to figure out the examiner's style preferences." He asked: "There should be a difference between the literary style during the Jiajing period and today?"
Fan Zhendao: "Of course there are differences, and they are very different. Today's contemporary Chinese prose has merged with ancient Chinese prose. The eight-part inscription separates the scriptures and cuts them off. This gives the writer room to express himself as he pleases, and he can better demonstrate his knowledge and talents.
, among which the craftsmanship of Mr. Wang Jizhong of Kuaiji is the most outstanding."
Zhang Yuan nodded. Since Jiajing, the official Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism's control over scholars has been greatly weakened. Buddhism, Taoism, various schools of thought, Wang Yangming's philosophy, and even Western learning spread eastward. Various ideological trends have emerged at the same time, and stereotypes have emerged.
Naturally, the nature of Confucian classics taught by sages and sages in the literary dynasty was greatly impacted, and the eight-part essays that preached with a straight face were no longer popular.
Zhang Yuan picked up a well-printed book, which was the one advertised in the store, "Thirty Selection of Selected Works of Qian Qianyi's Craftsmanship Tested by Gengxu Kedian". Qian Qianyi's name can be said to be like thunder. In the late Ming Dynasty,
The head of the three great poets and the leader of the Donglin Party, the most famous is that he married Liu Rushi, a famous prostitute in Qinhuai, and later cut off his hair to become a Qing Dynasty "with an extremely itchy scalp" and secretly funded the anti-Qing rebels. In short, Qian Qianyi was a
Talented and conflicted characters, of course, these are all things for later. It is now the 40th year of Wanli. At the age of Renzi, Qian Qianyi was a high school prospect in the Gengxu Department. That was the year before last, and Qian Qianyi was not yet 30.
You are old, you are a romantic Tanhualang. He is very knowledgeable and you should learn some craftsmanship. I bought it.
Fan Zhen also recommended "Huang Ming Dynasty Wen Ding" compiled by Chen Jitai, a famous eight-part essay collector. Chen Jitai was a talented scholar in Linchuan. He was a Zhusheng at the age of fifteen. He is now over forty and still failed to win the provincial examination. However,
It is really unfair that stereotyped articles have such a good reputation.
"Thirty-six Questions on Wang Jizhong's Ink of Kuaiji" is naturally a must-buy, but I didn't see Liu Zongzhou's collection of eight-legged essays. I asked the bookstore clerk, and the clerk said that Liu Qidong's collection was not available, but he could get it from the Calendar Society Trial Production Art.
Go and find Liu Qidong, a member of Xin Chou Ke in the 29th year of Wanli——
When he was looking for a book, a young scholar wearing a square scarf and a t-shirt came into the bookstore. When Zhang Yuan saw him, he hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Brother Huang is also here to buy books."
This young scholar came from Jiujiang to Huang Ting and Huang Meilei. Today is a double day. Mr. Qidong is not teaching, so he came over to see if there are any newly arrived provincial examination papers. In order to study with Liu Zongzhou, Huang Ting gave up this year's provincial examination and left home.
Thousands of miles away, I am studying hard, not because I regard fame as dirt and want to follow Liu Zongzhou in learning, but in order to be more confident in the rural examination in Nanchang, Jiangxi three years later——
When Huang Ting saw it was Zhang Yuan, he returned the greeting and said, "So it's Brother Zhang. What books did Brother Zhang buy?" After looking at the collection of contemporary essays selected by Zhang Yuan, he smiled and said, "Mr. Qidong mentioned you a few days ago, saying that
I wonder how well Zhang Jiezi has learned the craftsmanship?——Why, Brother Zhang is just starting to learn it now?”
Zhang Yuan nodded and said: "Yes, thank you Mr. Qidong for your concern."
Huang Ting smiled and said nothing more, because at that time Mr. Qidong said that those who stumble upon the scriptures gain wisdom, and today's losses may not necessarily be gains in the future. This clearly meant that Zhang Yuan was destined to lose and was going to stumble.
, it takes a hard fall.
Huang Ting asked the bookstore clerk if the time papers for this year's provincial examination had arrived?
The clerk said: "There are three provincial examinations, one every day, from the ninth to the eleventh day of the Lunar New Year. After that, the marking, roll call, and list writing will always take until the latter half of the year. Today is only the sixteenth day. Even the yellow list is not posted. As for the ink scroll
It will be announced and published in mid-September at the earliest."
Seeing that there were no books to buy, Huang Ting wanted to go back. Zhang Yuan invited Huang Ting to sit in his house. Huang Ting declined and went back to Dashan Temple first.
After choosing the books to buy, Zhang Yuan asked the bookstore clerk to move the books to calculate the price. There were twenty-eight volumes in total, including twenty volumes of "Huang Ming Dynasty Wen Ding" edited by Chen Jitai and two volumes of "Thirty-six Inscriptions of Wang Jizhong Wei of Kuaiji".
One volume, "Selected Thirty Articles on the Gengxu Kedian's Test of Spending Qianyi's Craftsmanship", one volume "Prodigy's Craftsmanship", two volumes "Selected Articles on the County's Children's Examination", "Full Image" bought by Wu Ting
The two volumes of "Ancient and Modern Novels" were also priced together, totaling eight cents and four cents, and it was already a discounted price——
This book is really shockingly expensive. One volume is only a few dozen pages thin, and the stack of twenty-eight volumes is not even half a foot thick. But then I thought about it, this is a Ming edition book, and the paper and ink are not bad either.
, Zhang Yuan ordered Wu Ling to pay.
When the clerk of the bookstore was weighing the silver with a silver scale, a Fujian sedan stopped in front of the store. Yao Fu got off the sedan and entered the bookstore. He came here specially after receiving an urgent report from the steward of the bookstore.
He laughed twice: "So it's Mr. Zhang. Mr. Zhang is so eager to learn, which really makes Yao awe."
Zhang Yuan looked around and said in surprise: "Hey, Yaoji Bookstore, is this your store? Then I don't want these books anymore."
Yao Fu seemed to be quite amiable and made money, and said: "Master Zhang, don't be arrogant. Buying a book is a book purchase, and a bet is a bet. The water in the well is the same as the water in the river." He asked the clerk how much money he had, and said, "I'll give you four cents for free, so it's eight cents.
Money, Mr. Zhang, do you want to buy some more art-making articles? If you read more than ten thousand volumes, you will be able to write like a god."
Zhang Yuandao: "After reading these twenty-six volumes, it's almost the end of October. I'll say goodbye. I'll see you at the County Confucian School then."
Yao Fu stood in front of the bookstore and watched Zhang Yuan and the four people walking away. He sneered again and again and felt certain in his heart. He was worried that Zhang Yuan would have some tricks, such as Zhang Rulin coming forward to lobby the students in the county. This was impossible.
Unprepared, he ordered Li's servants to pay attention to the activities of Zhang Yuan and Xizhang, but Zhang Yuan just sat at home behind closed doors, and he didn't know if he was studying. Today, he went to Kuaiji to visit the garden, and Xizhang was as usual, missing.
Treat the bet between Zhang Yuan and him as one thing——
So Yao Fu believed that he was bound to win this bet, but he felt annoyed at the same time and thought to himself: "Why did you make a bet with such a yellow-tongued kid that day, and even signed a contract and kept it? This kid has just started to read stereotypes now. It's so ridiculous."
Are you kidding me? I have spent dozens of taels of silver on treating guests and giving gifts these days. The twenty taels of silver I got from Zhang Dachun's lawsuit last time was not enough. The day before yesterday, I went to Jishan to meet the literary scholar and was scolded by the rotten scholar.
I was really angry to death. After this bet, I will let that rotten scholar have a taste of my methods, and I will destroy his family."
After meeting Zhang Yuan today, Yao Fu no longer plans to visit other students. Among the fifty-four students, if only 19 people do not approve of Zhang Yuan's eight-part making skills, it is him, Yao Fuying, and among these 19 people, Yao Fu
We have taken care of everything, and we will definitely win, but it is a pity that the money spent——
"Boy Zhang Yuan, don't think that if you lose, you just won't take the imperial examination for the rest of your life. How could I, Yao Fu, let you go so easily?"
Yao Fu snorted coldly, got on the Fujian sedan and went back.
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