Chapter 21 Memorize the question bank? I think it will work!
During the evening class, seven students from the upper house sat in the small lecture hall dedicated to the upper house and burned the midnight oil, studying the three art-making questions assigned by Lin Yan during the day.
Wei Chen spread out a large piece of paper, and neatly copied down the title and the broken questions in the sample essay. Next to the title, he silently wrote down the sentences before and after the title, as well as Cheng Zhu's comments.
The first question came from the examination twenty years ago. The title was "The Duke of Zhou and the Barbarians and Di drove away the ferocious beasts and the people were at peace." The author of the model essay was named He Shao. He was one of the top five classics in the examination that year and is now the lecturer of the Hanlin Academy.
Bachelor.
He Shao used only two sentences to solve the problem: "On the ancient saints, they eliminated the great harm to the world and achieved great achievements in the world."
Wei Chen read the essay's essay several times, trying to figure out the subtleties, and then began to work on his own essay.
An hour later, Wei Chen found Lin Yan and said with a grimace: "Sir, the problem solving in this model essay is really perfect. Students feel that they can't surpass it no matter how they write, and they don't even know how to write."
When Lin Yan heard Wei Chen's question, his expression was extremely strange, as if he was suppressing a smile: "Idiot, if you can write a better essay than this essay, you will be a Jinshi by now!"
Wei Chen suddenly realized when he heard this, yes, this model essay was written by He Shao, one of the leaders of the Five Classics in that year. If he could just write a broken question and be better than He Shao, wouldn't he be able to get a Jinshi immediately?
Seeing Wei Chen covering his face in embarrassment, Lin Yan couldn't help but laugh and said: "The art of craftsmanship is not urgent. It is like writing poems. It relies on both your own understanding and daily accumulation. You are in Shangshezhong
You are the youngest, but your understanding is the highest. As long as you take it step by step, you will eventually achieve something."
Wei Chen asked tentatively: "Sir, isn't there any quick way?"
Lin Yan had a serious face when he heard this. What he hated most in his life were people who took shortcuts and took advantage of opportunities.
At that moment, he wanted to reprimand Wei Chen and tell him that haste makes waste, but then he thought about it, others have said it ten times, it is better to experience it yourself. Only by letting Wei Chen experience the pain, will he know that there is a shortcut.
It’s not that easy to walk!
Lin Yan had made up his mind, so he gave up his thoughts of scolding Wei Chen and said calmly: "Of course there is a quick way, just follow me."
After saying that, Lin Yan led Wei Chen out of the lecture hall and to the door of the newly built library in Yi Xue.
The so-called three major affairs of the academy are: one is giving lectures, the other is offering sacrifices, and the third is collecting books.
The reason why Lin Yan asked Sheng Wei to build a library in the free school was to move Sheng's free school from being a Caotai team to the right track and gradually accumulate his own heritage.
At first, Sheng Wei reluctantly built the library because of Lin Yan's request, and was not very willing to spend the money. Later, after understanding Lin Yan's good intentions, Sheng Wei began to do his best to buy books and collect them.
He even went to the provincial capital and spent a lot of money to collect rare ancient books.
Up to now, the collection of books in the Yixue Library has been small in scale. Although it is not as good as those of the large academies with thousands of years of history, it is still quite impressive.
Lin Yan led Wei Chen into the library, pointed to a bookcase on the wall and said: "Most of the books I have read before are here. If you really want to find a quick fix, it's easy. Just put
Read these books thoroughly, and I guarantee you will at least be a scholar!"
Wei Chen looked at the crammed bookcases and secretly admired him. Mr. Lin was indeed worthy of being a tribute supervisor. He was really well-read!
Lin Yan looked at Wei Chen's surprised look and felt very satisfied. He thought that his beating on Wei Chen was quite effective. He must have given up on the idea of taking shortcuts after seeing so many books.
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Just when Lin Yan was about to strike while the iron was hot and teach Wei Chen that he must be down-to-earth when studying, he suddenly heard Wei Chen ask innocently: "Sir, if I memorize all these books, will I be able to become a scholar?"
Lin Yan's face suddenly froze, and an unknown fire surged in his heart: This kid is too ungrateful, and all his hard work as a teacher has been wasted!
Lin Yan did not get angry on the spot, but restrained his anger, pulled out a book from the bookcase and handed it to Wei Chen.
Wei Chen took it and opened a page, his eyes widened immediately.
It’s not that there is any shocking content in this book, but that the words used in it are all in small print, so densely packed together that you have to open your eyes wide to see clearly.
Wei Chen compared the thickness of the book with his hands. It was at least two hundred pages long, and any page contained thousands of words. This book alone may have more than two hundred thousand words.
Lin Yan said coldly: "This is the "Four Books on Major Titles and Small Titles". All the major and minor essays in the period articles are here. There are fifty volumes in total!"
Lin Yan deliberately emphasized the words "fifty volumes" and almost gritted his teeth.
Sure enough, Wei Chen and Lin Yan looked as shocked as expected.
Lin Yan sneered secretly: Now you know how powerful it is. Even if you memorize so many words sleeplessly and until you are a young man, you still can't memorize them!
This "Four Books, Big Questions and Small Questions, Wenfu" is equivalent to the question bank of the college entrance examination in later generations. If the imperial examination is an open-book examination, no one may necessarily carry the Four Books and Five Classics, but everyone must have a copy of this Wenfu.
Lin Yan had heard that some old boys who failed to pass the exams relied on memorizing the Wenfu to get through. But this was also a matter of great luck, unless someone could really memorize all the dozens of thick Wenfu volumes.
, otherwise if you want to encounter the real questions that you have memorized in the examination room, the chance is simply pitiful.
What Lin Yan didn't know was that instead of retreating despite the difficulties, Wei Chen had already begun to memorize the book in his hands.
In fact, Wei Chen didn't think much about it before memorizing it. It was just a habitual action. He just memorized whatever book he got. It didn't take much effort for him anyway.
This time, Wei Chen discovered a problem.
The speed at which I can read and recite books is actually three points faster than before!
Is it because the content of the book is simpler?
Wei Chen thought about it over and over, and only came up with this explanation.
The same person can definitely read online novels much faster than reading professional papers.
Wei Chen used to memorize the Four Books the most, followed by the annotations of Cheng and Zhu's Four Books. These two are obviously more complicated than the eight-legged essays he memorizes now.
Perhaps it is because of this that the speed of reading and memorizing books will speed up again.
He roughly estimated that if he memorized it at the current speed, it would probably take more than a month to memorize the entire "Four Books, Major Titles, Small Titles and Wenfu".
Thinking of this, Wei Chen couldn't help but sigh. It would indeed be difficult for more than a month...
However, it doesn’t hurt to memorize it.
Wei Chen didn't really want to pass the examination by guessing the questions, but he planned to read this literary house carefully and figure out the famous writers' methods of solving problems, answering them, and starting lectures, just like later generations, mastering the methods and methods of solving problems.
Thinking, this is the right way.
Like ordinary people, endorsement is just a method to assist learning for Wei Chen. However, this method is particularly simple and effective for Wei Chen, which is something ordinary people cannot do. After making up his mind, Wei Chen immediately took down the first few volumes of "Four Books, Major Titles, Small Titles and Wenfu" from the bookcase, intending to take them back and read them first, and then come back to pick up the last few volumes after reading them.
Wei Chen held the book in his arms and bowed to Lin Yan: "Thanks to Mr. Sir for your advice, I will take this book back to the students to read."
Lin Yan nodded numbly. When Wei Chen left the library, Lin Yan stood there, still a little confused.
"Does this kid understand the purpose of being a teacher?"