Red Mansion Jia Lan: Do you want to run away tonight to visit your relatives? Chapter 87 When the incense burns out, all that is left is sighing. The clouds ring and autumn finally begins.
Chapter 87 When the incense burns out, all that is left is sighing. The clouds ring and autumn finally begins.
Within the time of burning the incense, several more candidates arrived in the rain. The gatekeeper guarding the gate did not embarrass them. He only urged them to enter quickly until the incense string was burned out and the gate of Gongyuan was closed.
After a while, there was another shout outside the door, but another scholar arrived. Seeing that the gate of Gongyuan was closed tightly, he knew something was wrong, but he didn't stop patting the door, and his anxious mood even affected the candidates in the inner courtyard.
You can hear it clearly.
Sheng Hong in the main hall heard the movement outside, shook his head slightly, and waved lightly to the Jinwu Guards below. The latter immediately understood and ordered a small flag to lead people out. Soon the shouts outside the Gongyuan disappeared.
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Some of the candidates in the inner courtyard were regretful, and some were secretly happy. After all, having one less person to take the exam would increase their chances of winning.
The Shenjing Provincial Examination in the 14th year of Qingfeng slowly kicked off among these statues.
The examiner led a group of officials and candidates to kowtow three times to the portrait of the Holy Master hanging in the hall, and then inspected the candidates one by one under the supervision of Jinwu Guard.
The provincial examination is more stringent than the child examination. The Jinwu Guards are the twelve guards guarding Shenjing. They are all fierce and unceremonious, because if someone is later found to have cheated on the scientific examination, they will also be punished.
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Facing the Jinwu Guards who were the emperor's personal soldiers, all the candidates dared to be angry but dared not speak out. They walked out one by one with disheveled hair and disheveled clothes.
The Daxia Dynasty followed the Ming system. In order to ensure fairness, local examinations generally consisted of three procedures.
The first is the guarantee system. Child student candidates need the local government office where they are registered, one student official or two local students from the county to act as guarantees. Students who participate in the township examination need the local academic administration and two students to jointly act as guarantees.
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As a result, candidates who cheat will have to bear strong social pressure. It should be noted that ancient times were a human society. Once the incident comes to light, others will be implicated and they will be ruined.
The second is the various systems in the examination room, from checking the number plate at the gate of the tribute courtyard, to body searches by officers and soldiers, as well as anonymizing names and sealing papers after the examination.
Finally, there is the judgment and supervision system composed of examiners and censors. In order to ensure fairness, the Great Xia Dynasty added a "grinding survey" link, that is, the examination papers for the official list must be reviewed, and then the official list must be posted at the same time.
Open the original examination papers to the public for supervision, so as to prevent loopholes in fraud such as subcontracting.
"Please invite this little official." When it was Jia Lan's turn to search him, a small flag in front of him only briefly checked him a few times and then let him go with a smile on his face, which made the examiners around him look at him.
Seeing that Xiaoqi's expression was normal, Jia Lan shook his head and said, "Thank you for your kindness, but the court system is such that Jia Lan has to follow it."
Having said that, he ignored Xiaoqi and the surprised looks of others, and took off his clothes one by one to show everyone around him, even his close-fitting clothes.
He also took out the snacks in the food box and opened them one by one, including the pen box, roll bags, etc. to confirm that there was nothing inside.
"That's enough, Mr. Xianggong!" A general commander standing next to him hurriedly stepped forward: "That's enough!"
"Brother, please don't embarrass this brother. He also has good intentions." Jia Lan nodded slightly towards the flag in a friendly manner, then left with his things.
In the distance, Shenghong watched this scene in Jialan and nodded secretly.
The examination room of Gongyuan is divided into east and west sides. Each candidate can be assigned a small room eight feet square, which is much better than the narrow space of Gongyuan in later Qing Dynasty.
As soon as I walked into the examination room, two invigilators came over with keys and locked the wooden door outside the examination room. They could not be released unless they had to relieve themselves.
Jia Lan was lucky enough not to be assigned a so-called bad number. I don’t know if it was the examiner’s sympathy for Jia Lan, but if he really wanted to be assigned to this kind of examination room, he would have to accept his fate. Even those who were assigned to the exam with bad numbers were not
There is no shortage of people who passed the imperial exams in both the previous Ming Dynasty and this dynasty.
Therefore, some candidates took a different approach, wearing special nasal plugs, and specifically asked the examiner to assign them a bad number.
Very good and energetic!
Jia Lan looked around the examination room and secretly praised that the Gongyuan in Shenjing was well renovated and there were no leaks.
Just in case, Jia Lan hung up the oilcloth he had prepared in advance, hung a roof under it, which is the familiar mosquito net, and finally put a curtain on the door to prevent wind, then sat down and lit the wood stove in the house.
I toasted my already wet clothes.
At this time, the rain outside has stopped, the sky is no longer pitch black, and a wisp of red clouds can be seen on the horizon through the crack in the door.
There was a golden sound. This was the sound of the cloud board. The cloud board was made of copper, iron or alloy. It was thin and flat, with cloud patterns all over the body, and holes for lanyards on the sides. It was suspended and used to strike.
Tell the time, announce an event or gather the crowd.
In the original work, after the death of Qin Keqing, the sound in the Ningguo Mansion that woke up Sister Feng was this cloud board.
Different from the previous Ming Dynasty, the Great Xia Dynasty implemented a closed examination method starting from the provincial examination. Once entering the examination room, unless they voluntarily gave up, they could not leave the examination room until the third day.
This will test not only the candidates' literary skills, but also their mental and physical qualities.
This has become the strength of the students of Diecui Academy. After all, Li Xuanzhu also teaches military science, and Diecui students also practice archery and other minor arts on weekdays. They are much better than those scholars who are not diligent.
The clerk took the enveloped test papers and threw them in through the small window in front of the door.
This is how the three-day rural examination begins.
The rules of the exam on the first day are four questions on the Four Books and three questions on the Five Classics. According to convention, the questions on the Four Books are the most important and are directly related to admission, while the questions on the Five Classics affect the ranking of admission.
To put it simply, in scientific examinations, the status of the Four Books is higher than that of the Five Classics.
Why is this so?
The most important reason is that after a long period of evolution, the status of the Four Books and the Five Classics has been reversed.
The Five Classics were collected by Confucius when he traveled around the world, while the Four Books were compiled by Confucian scholars after Confucius.
Han Confucians believe that the Five Classics were compiled by Confucius himself, which contain the true meaning of Confucius and are the purest Confucian classics, while the Four Books are relatively unorthodox.
During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Han Yu started thinking about Taoism, and it was not until the Southern Song Dynasty that Zhu Xi wrote the "Commentary on Chapters and Sentences of the Four Books", which completely established the status of the Four Books.
Another reason has to be traced back to the issue of uneven educational resources in ancient times mentioned earlier.
Because of the inconsistent academic level in each place, there are no candidates for some of the Five Classics. For example, there are very few students who choose "Spring and Autumn" as the main classic, which leads to "Spring and Autumn" being called the "lone classic".
Therefore, using the Five Classics as the basis for admission can easily lead to disputes in terms of evaluation standards. Therefore, since the Ming Dynasty, the official practice has been to emphasize the Four Books and despise the Five Classics.