Wei Chen, who had closed his eyes for a long time, opened his eyes when he heard the sound, and saw a young official with a mustache standing in front of him and staring at him.
"The student is Wei Chen."
"Well, here are the test questions. After you finish writing them, put them on the small table on the right side of the dormitory. Wait for me to pick them up."
The clerk put down the test questions he was holding in his hands and continued to issue questions.
Wei Chen slowly unfolded the test questions and saw that the first Shi Wen question was:
"How can we be inferior to birds even though we are human? The poem goes like this, King Mu Muwen."
At this time, the test questions had been distributed to most of the candidates, and there was a gasp of air in the originally silent examination room.
"The first question is the interception and matching questions!"
Many candidates looked as pale as if they were mourning for the exam, and the hands holding the papers shook as if they were sifting chaff.
The so-called intersecting questions are to extract half of two unrelated sentences from the scriptures to form a brand new question. This type of question is called intersecting questions, also called small questions.
Even people who have never done eight-legged essays can see that small questions are often difficult to understand because they separate the text from the scriptures, making it extremely difficult to solve the topic. If you accidentally write an article, it will be thousands of miles off topic.
The imperial court had long issued a decree: "Big questions must be asked in the main exam, but small questions can be asked in the preliminary exam."
In other words, examinations at or above the provincial examination must have large questions with complete form and meaning, while examinations at or below the provincial examination can have small questions that are fragmented.
There is nothing we can do about it. The Four Books and Five Classics used as a question bank only have so many brailles. Examinations at all levels across the country have to draw questions from them. After so many years, which sentence has not been used?
Therefore, the examiners of primary examinations such as county examinations and government examinations can only innovate in different ways and come up with a bunch of perverted cross-section questions to torture the candidates to death.
The current question asked by Feng Zhixian is a combined question, and it is a perverted mix of "book" and "jing". The first half of the sentence comes from "The Great Learning" and the second half of the sentence comes from "The Book of Songs".
With such a perverted question, it’s no wonder that candidates were filled with grief as soon as they saw it, and some even had the idea of giving up the exam and going home immediately.
But there are a few exceptions. For example, Wang Yaochen, who was sitting in the No. 7 examination room of Ditianzi, just pondered for a moment and then smiled and started to write quickly on the manuscript paper. It was obvious that he had successfully solved the question.
Sheng Changbai, who was sitting in the examination room No. 16 of Dizi, after some hard thinking, began to write with a solemn expression.
In addition to the two of them, there are several older candidates who have also finished solving the problems one after another and began to formulate articles.
However, when it comes to the level of ease and ease, no one can compare to Wei Chen, who is sitting at No. 70 Xuanzi, and even Wang Yaochen is not as good as him.
He has long memorized the classics and is familiar with all kinds of routines of cutting and tying questions. When doing mock questions before the exam, he would cut the sentences in the scriptures up, down, carry over, skip down, skip chapters, and ruthlessly...
…, and came up with many small questions on my own.
The question "Feng Zhixian" seems to others to be fantastic, but to Wei Chen, it is ordinary. The simulation questions Wei Chen gave himself are much more perverted than this!
As soon as Wei Chen saw the title, he immediately located the origins of the previous and next sentences in his mind, and then after just a brief thought, he picked up the pen.
"It is really shameful for a lady to be inferior to a bird; there is no better way to be ashamed than to be a teacher to King Wen."
In an instant, Wei Chen connected two sentences that were originally unrelated to each other to make them reasonable and seamless!
This kind of cut-and-match question seems unreasonable, but in fact it tests the candidate's ability to adapt to circumstances, which is why most candidates are afraid of it.
After many scholars have studied the Four Books, Five Classics and related works, they put all their energy into eight-legged essays. They do not read the three links and four histories, and do not know the emperors of Qin and Han Dynasty. Their heads are as stiff as elm wood. Let them adapt to the situation, which is nothing more than idiotic talk. The reason why Wei Chen can deal with it easily is because his mind is not rigid and he is not rigid.
On the one hand, he read the vast collection of scholars and classics in the library, absorbing nutrients from the wisdom and experience of everyone in the past, and thrived.
On the other hand, he also has memories and experiences from previous lives, and has rich associative abilities, a flexible mind, and a clear mind. He is countless times better than those useless nerds.
This is the biggest difference between Wei Chen and other scholars in Dazhou!
After successfully solving the problem, the next thing becomes very simple.
Starting from the topic, the topic was compared, and finally it was bundled into a large article. In less than half an hour, a eloquent and colorful article fell on the manuscript paper.
After finishing writing, Wei Chen read it silently from the beginning again, making sure that the whole text was harmonious in tone, catchy, and contained no taboos, and then he transcribed it on the answer sheet one by one.
Handwriting is the face of a scholar. Many scholars write very well, but they are rejected by the examiner just because of their sloppy handwriting.
Wei Chen noticed the flaws in his calligraphy when he first entered the free school, and has been practicing diligently. Now his handwriting in Guange style can be described as dignified, beautiful and meticulous.
After the entire article was transcribed, Wei Chen breathed a sigh of relief and stretched out.
At this time, three drums are played in the hall, which is a reminder for the intermission. Candidates can take advantage of this time to eat and drink water, or call for tolerance to take them to the toilet to solve their physiological problems.
Wei Chen also felt a little hungry, so he took out the food box from the test basket, picked out a few pieces of pastries and preserved meat, and ate it with water.
When the candidates in the examination room next to them smelled the aroma, they couldn't help but curse in their hearts: If you start eating so early, you really treat the examination room as a restaurant, right?
Some people swallowed their saliva to suppress their greed, covered their noses and continued the exam, while others couldn't stand the stimulation, so they simply took out their food and started eating together.
The examinee next to Wei Chen did not dare to drink water because he was afraid that he would have to urinate later. He also ate too quickly and choked immediately.
Seeing that the situation was not good, several officials quickly stepped forward, beat their chests and rubbed their backs, and finally got out the foreign object stuck in the candidates' throats, otherwise they might have died on the spot.
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Wei Chen couldn't hear what was going on outside the window in the examination room. How could he know the bustle outside? After eating and wiping himself clean, he began to write the last question, a five-character and eight-rhyme test poem.
The test poem does not account for a large proportion in the test score. The examiner mainly looks at the first time question, or even only the first sentence of the question. If the question is completely nonsense, there is no need to read the rest of the question and just read it.
It's a waste to throw away the paper.
Therefore, the essay questions are the most important in the first test, and the test poems that follow are somewhat secondary.
However, Wei Chen is known as a ten-year-old prodigy who can write poems. If this test poem is too poorly written, it will be a slap in Wang Xuezheng's face if word gets out.
Fortunately, Wei Chen has a quick mind and has studied "Yun Shi", "Du Lei" and other books in the library. Now it is no longer a problem for ordinary literati to sing harmony, and it is not difficult to compose a test poem on the spot.
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When he lowered his head and looked at it, the title was "The Yin and Summer Trees and the Orioles". Wei Chen immediately knew that this sentence came from Wang Wei's "Poems at Jiyu Wangchuan Village".
Wei Chen closed his eyes and recalled the artistic conception of the poem "The summer trees are twittering and the orioles are chirping, and I am quietly watching the hibiscus trees in the mountains." In an instant, the poem was written in his mind.
This time, he simply didn’t even write a draft and scrawled sixteen verses directly on the answer sheet.
There are thousands of trees in the long summer, and there are hundreds of warbling orioles in the thick shade
The double breasts are yellow like embroidery, and the green belt is like a curtain;
The leaves are dark and linger for a long time, and the branches are high and the sound is late;
The wind is blowing on the tip of your tongue, and the rain is falling outside your body;
Sitting on the clouds covering the mica, singing can compete with the snow;
It’s hard to stop listening to good news, and you’ll never know the beautiful scenery;
Yangliu Sanyi Road, cherry in April;
The sentiment is annoying and the poem is written in the painting.
Wei Chen finished writing in one breath, put down the pen and checked it again. When he looked at the time, it was just a quarter of an hour, and there was still more than an hour before the end of the exam.
Even if you hand in your papers in advance, you cannot leave immediately. You must wait until the end of the exam time to exit.
There was no way out anyway, so Wei Chen simply stopped handing in the paper in advance to make people hate him. With nothing to do, Wei Chen closed his eyes and continued to take a nap in the examination room.
After a while, a steady sound of snoring could be heard in the examination room No. 70 of Xuanzi.
In the examination room next door, the candidates who were sweating profusely and writing furiously heard this sound and almost spit out a mouthful of blood.
Eat and sleep. Is this an examination room or your home?