After walking out of the Wu Mansion, Zhang Yue felt a little bored.
On the way back, I discovered something. It was already late at night and I didn’t have a carriage to go back. Fortunately, I learned that Zhang Heng lived next to Taixue, so he gave me a ride on the way.
Although Zhang Heng was a little drunk along the way, he said: "If Sanlang is serious about poetry, he should be thoroughly familiar with the sound and rhyme."
Zhang Yue said: "Zhaizhang, I have already memorized the rhymes."
Zhang Heng said: "Memorizing is still not enough. Your daily speech still has a slang sound. When I was studying in the family, even if I heard your speech was uneven, the rhyme was often misunderstood as oblique. To write poetry, it is not enough to just memorize the rhyme book, and it is not enough to learn poetry.
When reciting it, follow the rhyme of the words."
Zhang Yue understands, for example, "Weeds and flowers beside the Zhuque Bridge, the setting sun is setting at the entrance of Wuyi Alley." The word "Xie" is pronounced as "Xia", which means that the entering tone is mispronounced as the oblique tone.
Only if the oblique character is read as Xia, can it rhyme with the lower part of the word "家" which means "in the old days, the king Xietang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people".
Now his speech has long been replaced by Pucheng slang, which is on the same level as Yayan, but there is still a difference in the pronunciation. Ouyang Xiu spoke slang, and he had no money to buy rhyme books, which led to his failure in the imperial examinations several times.
As for modern speech, it has long since lost its entry sound, and it is even worse than Yayan.
In Taixue, Zhang Yue could compose poems according to the rhymes in the book, but his daily speaking and reciting were still the same as before.
Zhang Yue thought to himself that there is no need to change the way he speaks on weekdays. For example, in the Qing Dynasty, there was no entrance tone and the speech was different. But when using books for the imperial examination, remember to follow the Pingshui rhyme.
Zhang Heng laughed and said: "Why bother writing poetry when checking rhyme books? If it is not authentic, it will be difficult for the examiners to accept it."
Zhang Yue thought to himself, Zhang Heng, this is too difficult. This is not only reciting poems on daily basis, but also changing the speaking habits according to the rhyme book. How can it be done at this time?
But Zhang Heng is the number one scholar, so what he said makes sense. Anyway, just practice more and practice speaking according to the rhyme book in your dreams.
"The chief has learned a lesson." Zhang Yue said with great humility.
Zhang Heng looked at Zhang Yue's expression and smiled. The two were sitting opposite each other in the carriage. Zhang Yue felt a little bored and opened the curtain.
At this moment, the night breeze is cool, and the streets of Bianjing are still noisy and lively.
Zhang Yue looked outside, but after a while, he saw that there were several carriages and horses heading towards or passing by his own carriages and horses.
From time to time, people on the other side's carriage would lift the curtains and look along the street.
Zhang Yuezheng was looking at a young woman on the carriage that was approaching towards him. He just opened the curtain. The other person was a little gloomy, but when he looked up, the two glanced at each other. Then the other party gave a faint smile, and then the carriage moved quickly.
, the two glanced back at each other and passed each other.
The wind seemed to carry the sweet fragrance of the woman, and Zhang Yue's heart was filled with the aftertaste of the car. Zhang Heng on the side smiled and said: "The car enters Fengcheng in the evening, and the east wind lifts the embroidered curtain gently, slowly returning to the charming eyes.
Smiling."
“What can I do if the news doesn’t come through? I have to pretend to be drunk and follow along. I vaguely hear that the Tao is too crazy.”
After speaking, Zhang Heng laughed. Zhang Yue knew that the other party was making fun of him, comparing it to this trip to the Wu Mansion.
This poem is about a man who saw a woman riding in a car into the city. She happened to open the curtain and looked at him with a smile.
The man wanted to catch up and ask for a WeChat message, so he pretended to be drunk and followed him, but he vaguely heard the other person say "Kangsheng".
Although it is a poem, such an encounter made Zhang Yue think of the woman he had just glimpsed, and he did feel a bit excited while drunk.
The word "Zhang Heng" sounds very appropriate, but it's just a little ironic.
Zhang Yue said: "Brother Ziping, in this scene, it is wrong to sing Huanxisha, but the song "Partridge Sky" by Xianggong of Xiao Song Dynasty is true."
"When we meet on a narrow road with painted hubs and carved saddles, we hear a broken heart in the embroidered curtains. There are no colorful phoenixes flying in the body, but there is a clear connection in the heart. The house is made of gold, the cage is jade, and the carriage is like a horse swimming in the flowing water. Liu Lang already hates that Pengshan is far away, and even more
It weighs tens of thousands across Peng Mountain."
Hearing this, Zhang Heng and Zhang Yue both laughed.
This poem was written by Qi of the Song Dynasty, known as the "Hongxing Shang Shu", and the poems were copied from other people's poems.
At that time, Song Qi was riding in a carriage and happened to encounter a carriage coming from the palace. The two carriages were heading towards each other and bumped into each other.
The curtain of the other side's car was opened, and a palace maid saw Song Qi, and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Isn't this Xiao Song?"
After the two cars left, Song Qi was obsessed with this woman, so he wrote this poem.
The last sentence is that Song Qi also knows that the other party is a palace maid, and the chance of getting along with her is too slim, as if there are tens of thousands of mountains between her.
but?
This poem was known to Song Renzong.
Song Renzong thought about how he could be favored by Xiao Song as a palace maid?
After Song Renzong found the palace maid, he summoned Song Qi into the palace to talk about it. Song Qi looked embarrassed, but Song Renzong was so beautiful that he gave the palace maid to Song Qi and said with a smile: "Pengshan is actually
It’s not that far.”
Zhang Heng and Zhang Yue had a heated exchange of words.
Each of them explained what they meant, and in the end they both laughed in the car.
Zhang Heng smiled and said: "If there is wine, I should drink a few more glasses with Sanlang."
Zhang Yue said: "I don't want to have another drink with the chief. I'll give you this jacket."
"No need, I said I would give it to you," Zhang Heng said with a smile, "Although you have no chance to meet the Wu family, you are doing a good job today, and I will arrange a marriage for you in the future."
“Then she must have the appearance of the palace maid that Xiao Song likes.”
Zhang Heng looked at Zhang Yue and said seriously: "Sanlang, you should marry a virtuous wife rather than a lustful wife."
Zhang Yue said: "Although I know what the chief said is right, I don't!"
Zhang Heng laughed again: "What a good man."
Zhang Yue returned to Taixue.
The event about the banquet held at the Wu Mansion that day gradually spread among the Imperial Academy.
In addition to the phrase "all the surnames in the world look up" have been discussed, although this poem is good, it is not stunning. However, when talking about Zhang Yue among Tai students, they will not just say, "He is actually Zhang Ziping's"
So-and-so, Zhang Zihou's so-and-so', but there is an additional sentence that this person's poetic talent is also eye-catching.
Occasionally, several people talked about Zhang Yue, saying that he was not as good as Zi Ping and Zi Hou, but he seemed to have more ambition than his fame.
Zhang Yue paid little attention to this and recently devoted himself to composing poems.
People talk about Tang poetry and Song lyrics.
Poems describe one’s aspirations, which can then be sung with music and text.
The lyrics are different. The lyrics first have the name of the lyrics, that is, the lyrics are written according to the tune of the name of the lyrics. Therefore, Song lyrics are more like lyrics.
But the poetry of the imperial examination is different.
Zhang Yue himself was still not very good at composing poetry, but poetry was required to be tested in the imperial examination.
However, the poems in this imperial examination are different from Tang poetry and Song lyrics, but are test poems.
For this test poem, I first draft a title.
For example, the eight-part essay in the Ming and Qing imperial examinations used a sentence from the Four Books and Five Classics as the question. However, the scope of the examination poems is very wide, and any sentence in the classics and history can be used for the test.
This depends on how knowledgeable the students are.
For example, the examiner asked the candidates to write a test poem under the title "Feng Fu got out of the car with her arms crossed".
Some candidates did not know the source and thought that Feng Fu was a woman, so they wrote a sentence like "The jade hands are slender, and the golden lotus walks."
In addition, there are also requirements for the format of test poems. Emphasis on words is not allowed, and the language must be dignified and graceful.
For example, the "Song of Fengya" in the Book of Songs must be written according to the "Song of Ya", and in addition, it must have a flat and tapered format.
There are also rules such as the first couplet to break the title and the second couplet to carry the title.
Of course the most important thing is that the second, fourth, sixth and eighth sentences must all rhyme, so that the whole poem has a sense of loop.
In short, under the restrictions of the format, candidates are like dancing with shackles, and then writing wonderful verses while tossing and turning.
This is the test poem.
In the imperial examinations of the Song Dynasty, the most important subjects were poetry and fu.
This is also something that must be considered in both the private and public examinations of Taixue.
The private examinations in Taixue will be held on March 8th, and the examinations will be held in Zhaili on weekdays.
But on the 38th day of the month, they will take the exam together in Chonghua Hall to determine the ranking.
Generally speaking, poems, poems, or strategies are tested every three days, and scriptures and meanings are tested every eight days.
Zhang Yue had been taking private examinations on poems and prose for three consecutive months, and was at the bottom of the list of policy essays. However, for three consecutive months, he had been taking private examinations on classics and meanings, and was ranked first in the imperial examinations of Taixue.
The contrast is so obvious.
But this is of no use? The most important subjects of Jinshi are poetry and fu, followed by policy and theory, and finally the classics and meaning.
Moreover, if you want to copy a good poem from later generations, you must first not miss the mark in the exams in Taixue.
If the preface and the follow are incorrect, then you can only be slapped in the face, or others may simply suspect that you copied it.
Now that the private examination in September is coming soon, Zhang Yue feels anxious again. Jinshi is really different from the classics, and Zhang Yue once again feels that talent is very important.
“Sanlang, Li Zhidao asked you to go there so that you can take care of yourself!”
Liu Ji said to himself solemnly.
Zhang Yue looked at Liu Ji's expression and thought, what does Li Gou want to do with him?
Zhang Yue arrived at Li Gou's apartment and saw him with great trepidation.
Li Gou said: "Sanlang, has it been half a year since you arrived at Taixue?"
Zhang Yue said: "If you tell me straight back, it will be exactly half a year."
Li Gou said: "Now that you have been taking private examinations for three months, you have been at the bottom of the Jinshi test every time. Do you feel ashamed?"
Zhang Yuedao: "Let me tell you directly, the student has only been studying poetry for half a year, and the time is still short. Please..."
Zhang Yuexin said, “I learned almost from ‘zero basics’, and I am in a top school, so you can’t blame me for being ranked at the bottom.
"Needless to say, I have given you enough effort," Li Gou said. "If you rank last in the private examination this month, your fasting subsidy will be removed. If you still rank last in the public examination, you will be dismissed and your salary will be reduced."
Restoration of citizenship.”
Zhang Yue was a little angry, but he still said: "The original intention was to let me enter the Jinshi Department. Now that the Jinshi Department is not successful, I should transfer to Zhuke or Mingjing. How can I be dismissed?
Please tell me the truth!"
Li Gou said: "These subjects, Ming Jing, have already been filled up. Besides, I asked you to go to Jinshi with the intention of supporting me, but I didn't know you were so incompetent. Now I am in charge of Gou Taixue, and I am the one who sets the rules.
If you don't accept it, just go to the Imperial College and say it."
Zhang Yue thought to himself, is this considered public revenge for private revenge?
“Li Zhisao is truly worthy of being a famous Confucian in China, students, take leave!” Zhang Yue turned around and left.
Li Gou looked at Zhang Yue's back and said to himself, "Am I being too harsh on my students? As the saying goes, if the teaching is not strict, the teacher is lazy! You must not have the heart of a woman!"
