There are ten people in total, five are Jinshi majors, and five are Jingyi majors.
Zhang Yue took the paper and glanced at it, but he saw that the scope of the questions was very wide, covering all nine classics, including the Analects of Confucius and the Xiao Jing.
However, there are no weird questions in Tie Jing and Mo Yi, so it can be seen that this exam is not difficult.
The last three great principles, the last of which is the elucidation of the chapter "The Great Learning".
Zhang Yue was surprised. It couldn't be such a coincidence. He had just mentioned the four words "righteousness and sincerity" as the "Mingti" study for scholars.
But now I happened to be taking the exam for the chapter "University".
To know the meaning of various subjects, it is like the study of chapters and sentences in the Han Dynasty and the study of eight-part essays in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
What exactly is the study of chapters and sentences? For example, an entire book, like the Spring and Autumn Classic of 200,000 words, can be regarded as chapters and sentences.
Let you explain the original Spring and Autumn Classic and what the sages meant.
Come on, for example, to elaborate on the chapter "University" in "Book of Rites" and express your opinions.
Let’s take a closer look at what a sentence means, like the first sentence in college.
The way of a university lies in being virtuous, being close to the people, and striving for perfection.
Elaborate on this sentence.
The above are relatively normal, but in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the eight-part essay took the study of chapters and sentences to its peak.
For example, what does "Confucius say" mean?
Zi Yue literally translates to Confucius saying. How can there be any connotation or profound meaning in it? The examiner said no, but there is!
It’s like the teacher asking Mr. Lu Xun what he meant when he said good night. The word “wan” indicates the time and reminds people that it was dark, symbolizing the darkness of society at that time. The word “an” represents the insensitivity of the people.
But this did not trouble the candidates. Some people used Su Shi's words to solve the problem: "One man can be a teacher for hundreds of generations, and one word can be the law of the world."
The husband is a master of the Best, corresponding to ‘Zi’, in the same words, the world ’s law, corresponding to‘ Yue ’.
This is a clever answer, but it actually makes no sense.
There are even examiners who gave you an ‘O’ and asked you to explain the meaning of the scriptures. What do you think the sages intended by writing this?
What does ‘O’ mean? Although the ancients did not have punctuation marks, they used ‘O’ to separate each paragraph. Do you ask candidates to explain what the punctuation mark ‘O’ means?
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Even for such a question, some candidates answered wittily: "The sages first established their words and understood the phenomena of the sky."
Anyway, this kind of question has nothing to do with the content, it is just a brain teaser and a feeling of cleverness.
However, the analysis of the chapter "University" just stumped Zhang Yue. If he hadn't said so brazenly in front of Hu Yuan and the examiners just now, then this question would be easy to answer, and he would have enough exam-taking skills to answer it.
Make a topic like this.
But what a coincidence, I just said it.
This violates the taboo in exam essays of “telling the truth”.
Zhang Don't rush to answer. Read the questions first and put them in your mind. This is like taking a composition test in the college entrance examination. The teacher tells you to take a look at the composition questions when you get the paper, and then think about it while answering the questions.
In the previous commentaries on the scriptures, the meaning of Mo was not difficult at all for Zhang Yue, and he answered it immediately. As for the last three important questions, Zhang Yue also answered two of them very quickly.
Writing this, Zhang Yue found that he was the fastest among all the scientific scriptures.
However, the title of the Ming Jing is different from our own. They do not consider the meaning, so the content of the Ming Jing's meaning is more.
Now it took Zhang Yue more than two hours to finish the rest of the questions, leaving only the analysis of the chapter "University".
How to answer?
He finally explained very well what it means to shoot oneself in the foot.’
It would be better not to answer this question. Anyway, the other questions are already very certain. But on second thought, I can’t do this. It will give Hu Yuan and others a false impression.
This is impossible.
Zhang Yue stared at the paper, his thoughts running rapidly. Suddenly he realized that with his current knowledge, it was really beyond his power to master such an article.
In other words, I can’t structure such a magnificent article when I write “truth”.
You can't deceive people even if you write "lies".
At this moment, Zhang Yue's face was flushed, and his eyes were already red. This was a reflection of the extreme use of his brain power. But even so, he still couldn't write a single word.
Zhang Yue felt a splitting headache.
At this moment, the Taixue lecturer who was supervising the examination was walking outside the window. Seeing Zhang Yue's appearance, he was also a little strange.
It is common for Jinshi Ke to be unable to write poems and prose, but how come Jingshi students have difficulty in writing great meanings? Isn’t this just a random compilation?
The lecturer shook his head, returned to the lecture room, drank tea, and came back to sleep.
This young man actually fell asleep in the examination room?
Zhang Yue is indeed involved. Writing articles is like this. If you don’t accumulate enough knowledge and experience, you just can’t write. It’s like the essay in the college entrance examination. It’s not difficult to write an article of your own, but you have to write an article comparable to Lu Xun’s.
, that’s really...
The result of forcibly elevating yourself and being unable to bear the load was that you could only faint (fall asleep) in the hall!
Fortunately, the lecturer thought Zhang Yue was just taking a nap. It would be really shameful to know that Zhang Yue fainted.
Although Zhang Yue fainted, he was still conscious deep down. He just squinted in the examination room for a while, since there was only the last question left.
Zhang Yue unknowingly entered the world in his sleep.
Zhang Yue can stay here for six hours.
Zhang Yue thought to himself, doesn’t this mean that he has six more hours to think about and answer the last question?
Is there any use for this?
But Zhang Yue was even more afraid that he would fall asleep directly...
He remembered that when he was a student, a nightmare he often had was that he woke up in the examination room and ran out of time. He saw that there were still many unanswered questions on the paper.
Is it going to come true now?
Zhang Yue thought to himself that he couldn't answer it anyway, so instead of leaving the last question blank, he might as well think of some ideas here.
Zhang Yue then seriously thought about how to answer this question.
The information books I had read in my previous life came to mind one by one.
Thoughts are constantly changing in my mind.
This is a very mysterious thing.
Like snow claws and mud, and like a fleeting shadow, Zhang Yue understood that what he wanted was deep in his mind, but he couldn't grasp it or touch it for the moment.
Sometimes it looks like it’s about to be caught, but then it flies away again.
An hour passed without any success.
Another hour passed, and I seemed to have some clues.
Another hour passed, and I finally had some inspiration.
But the next moment, the inspiration was gone again.
At the last moment, Zhang Yue seemed to have caught something.
Boom!
Before Zhang Yue had time to grasp it properly, he had already woken up.
When Zhang Yue opened his eyes drowsily, he saw that the people on the left and right had almost finished the exam, and several tables were empty. Only two or three people were left and had stopped writing.
Looking at Tianju outside, it was starting to get dark.
Zhang Yue was surprised, how long had I slept?
I’m afraid it’s two hours!
There is no time limit for the Taixue exam, but no candles are given, which means the exam will take place until dark.
Fortunately, I still have some time, but I’m afraid I might fall asleep until I finish the paper.
Zhang Yue looked at the last question, "Chapters and Sentences of "The Great Learning"".
There is no time to think too much at this moment!
When Zhang Yue was about to pick up the pen to write, he found that the ink was already dry. Zhang Yue poured inkstone water again to grind the ink, and finally wrote these words on the paper.
The book of the university is the method that the ancient universities taught people. Since the people were born from heaven, they must be endowed with benevolence, justice, propriety and wisdom...
Zhang Yue thought about the understanding of descendants in the previous life and what he had learned from reading the scriptures, and finally wrote this article based on Zhu Xi's "Great Learning Chapters".
The university has three principles: morality, kindness to the people, and perfection.
The eight items are: investigating things, developing knowledge, upright mind, sincerity, self-cultivation, managing the family, governing the country, and bringing peace to the world.
This is what Zhu Xi called the "Three Outlines and Eight Eyes". But unlike Zhu Zi, Zhang Yue believed that among the Three Outlines, the number of new people was particularly high!
In later generations, the Four Books headed by "The Great Learning" replaced the Nine Classics and became the introductory book to Confucianism, and the Great Learning was the first of the Four Books. It is indeed fundamental.
After studying in college and looking at other Confucian classics, they are all part of its context.
But there is another version of the university.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhen Dexiu, another fellow from Pucheng in Zhangyue, wrote a book called "The Explanation of the Great Learning". This book is about the study of emperors and must be read by the princes of the Ming and Qing Dynasties since they were young.
This is another angle to interpret when scholars read "The Great Learning".
If Zhang Yue said "honest heart and sincerity" in front of Hu Yuan before, this is how to make it clear. Now this article explains how to make it clear.
Han Yu, who is known as "the founder of the eight dynasties of literature and the help of the world," proposed the four-character book for the first time.
Then I will be the one after Han Yu. Scholars like us should continue our unique learning as a pilgrim!
With such thoughts in mind, Zhang Yue wrote this article "The Great Meaning of University" in the examination room.
Young people are here to dream!
At this moment, there seemed to be fire in Zhang Yue's eyes, burning brightly, and his writing was like a sword fighting on the paper, opening up new territories!
There are more and more words on the paper!
Zhang wrote more and more, but the sky gradually became darker, and finally he could no longer see clearly.
“Begging for a candle!”
“Give me a candle?” shouted the man outside the window.
Zhang Yue shook his head, knowing that there was nothing he could do.
When he was writing and still had some unfinished thoughts, he secretly shouted in his heart, "God will give it to me in good time"!
“Is this the destiny of time?”
Zhang Yue said something, and he had no choice but to get up and pack up the papers.
Several firewood sticks were burning at the door. The Taixue lecturer who invigilated the examination took Zhang Yue's paper, looked him up and down and said: "I have invigilated thousands of students in my life, but you are the first one who can dream of Duke Zhou in the examination room.
I admire you!"
Zhang Yue had no other ideas. He just felt sorry for the unfinished article and wondered if he could write such an article in the future. Zhang Yue sighed and said, "It's just that I'm not good at studying."
The lecturer thought that Zhang Yue would quibble about something, and prepared some harsh words. However, seeing Zhang Yue's annoyed expression, he couldn't bear to scold him anymore and said: "Go!"
Zhang Yue saluted the other party, then left Taixue with the book box.
The lecturer looked at Zhang Yue's back and shook his head and said: "Nowadays, young people really don't know what to do. How did such a person get promoted to the Imperial Academy?"
The lecturer glanced at Zhang Yue's paper at Ting Liao and couldn't help but said: "But the handwriting is really good!"
