Chapter 207 The hard days are finally over
This is a big mistake!
Wu Jie suddenly realized that he didn't know how to write the word "口" in the last sentence "The reason is that it is prosperous, and it never says the reason."
"So, is it a reversal or a null word?" Wu Jie grabbed his head, and a layer of sweat suddenly appeared on his forehead: "Damn, I'm in trouble now. At the critical moment, why did you forget the words after picking up your pen?"
"Damn, this word is so simple. Even if you just ask a second-year-old student in elementary school, you can write it easily. Poor as a scholar, I am the best talent in Sichuan, and I can't even determine the radical of this word. It's just that I used too many computers a while ago and got used to smart abcs, but I can't even write." Wu Jie smiled bitterly.
This period of time is strange. He traveled back to modern society every day. After a long time of missing modern life, he returned to his own life. Wu Jie suddenly felt that the real world was so beautiful. As for entertainment activities alone, it was so richer than the dull Ming Dynasty.
So, he was not idle either. He either ate or drank, watched K-songsong, and then chatted with mm on the computer, and had a fight with people on the forum. He was very happy after having fun.
As for the provincial examination, there is nothing to prepare for. I have already obtained the test questions and have memorized the sample essays for a long time. Before the big exam, I relaxed my nervous nerves in a voluntary manner.
When Wu Jie learned to type in computers, he was mainly too lazy to memorize the root of the characters, did not know how to use Wubi, and only used pinyin. These days, he had communicated with Lao Jin and several friends at the Chinese Studies Forum on the Internet many times about the eight-legged essay, and often quarreled over a problem until midnight.
The typing speed is getting faster and faster, and he can easily reach the level of 120 characters per minute. However, because of this, whenever he picks up his pen and writes, he will subconsciously automatically replace the characters he wants to write with pinyin letters. When he finished writing just now, he almost wrote them into Chinese pinyin several times.
"Fortunately, I copied the article on the draft first. If I wrote it directly on the test paper just now, I might have made a low-level mistake." Wu Jiexin shouted in danger and was secretly afraid.
In ancient imperial examination papers, red dark grids were printed in advance, with radish and pits, typos written or stained, and points were deducted. When you meet a bad temper, you can directly brush your paper.
If you use computers too much, you will not speak the pinyin automatically. You may also forget about writing words with your pen.
Now, even the simple word "女" actually stumped him.
Wu Jie sat at the exam table and thought for a long time. He wrote these two different radicals on the draft and looked at them. No matter how you read these two words, you can't determine which word is right.
This situation made him feel so anxious: he was beaten by geese all day long. Today, he was blinded by geese.
The more anxious a person is, the more stuck his brain becomes.
After thinking for a long time, I couldn't decide whether I could live or die.
Wu Jie had no choice but to give up, so he had to live, boiled some water, soaked some tea, and took a few sips. But suddenly burst into laughter: "Isn't the reason in my hometown just a republic? I'm really stuck in a nightmare. If modern people use computers too much, it may not be a good thing. If you travel back to modern society in the future, you can't touch that thing more, try to write it with your pen as much as possible."
After thinking about this word, Wu Jie was extremely relaxed and listened to something even more sensible. It was already the beginning of Yin. It was better to finish the first question quickly. Going to bed early is important.
The ink in the inkstone has dried up and the tip of the pen has also settled.
After finishing it, copy an article and when it is about to end, Wu Jie's heart moved again and suddenly remembered a very important joint.
If this joint is not handled well, I am afraid I can't get any good grades.
"I was only concerned about exploring Bao Yingxia's taste, but I forgot about Master Fang's level. You must know that my paper cannot be handed directly to the examiner, but I have to let Master Fang pass by first. Master Fang's eye, so I chose to send it to Master Bao to determine the ranking. So, instead of thinking about Bao Yingxia, it is better to think more about what kind of text the Master Fang's size likes in this day."
"I naturally don't know what articles Mr. Fang likes. Until now, he is still a mystery to anyone whose surname is his name. However, this article is a classic eight-legged essay. As long as the format is fine, the teacher is not blind, so he will not be able to see the benefits. By the way, format, shape... I forgot this problem and almost caused big trouble."
Wu Jie was shocked and did not copy the manuscript. He picked up the pen and wrote it on the draft, adding some things to the thigh part.
The content added depends entirely on his own real skills, and there is no place to copy it. Fortunately, he studied in the Lu family a while ago, and Dai Shisheng was another wise master. It is not difficult for him to write articles worth more than tens of hundred words. Although he is much worse than the original author, he is somewhat decent.
It turns out that this involves some subtle differences in the eight-legged essays in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The content and form of the eight-legged essays in the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were basically the same, but there were many differences in the examination room.
First of all, the number of words in the Ming Dynasty was not limited to the number of words. You can write as much as you want, as long as the test papers are enough. The Qing Dynasty was different. Starting from the second year of Shunzhi, the number of words in the eight-part essay was stipulated, and each article must not exceed 550 words. This is of course for the needs of the exam, because the exam was different from the modern college entrance examination time, and the Chinese language was only two hours.
At that time, scholars who took the exam came in before dawn and came out until dark. Juren and Jinshi exams were three times, each day before they came out on the first day of each time. The time was long, and the number of words was not limited. Those who were very talented had time to write a long article of thousands of words, and the examiner would not be able to read it. Therefore, the number of words must be limited, the minimum lower limit and the maximum upper limit are all stipulated.
In the 20th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, because he considered 550 words, it seemed too little. The author's lyrics had not been exhausted, so he ended it in a hurry, which affected the content of the article, and it increased to 650 words. In the 43rd year of Qianlong, it was also clearly stipulated that the provincial examination was in the four books of the examination, and the number of words in the four books was 700.
Second, there was a grand clue in the Ming Dynasty. That is, after the article ended, the author made a summary performance, with many words and sentences, which could express the author's opinions. There was no "main clue" in the eight-legged essay in the Qing Dynasty.
This second item is particularly important. If the grand secret is well written, it will easily fall into the meaning of the master of the house and the master.
There is no big conclusion in the Qing Dynasty article, so the article Wu Jie is strictly incomplete. If you want to get a juren, you have to add a tail.
As for other differences, such as the taboos in the article, whether the quiz title can be drawn, the order of the title of the Four Books, etc., it doesn’t matter.
When Wu Jie was taking the college entrance examination in Chengdu, he didn't write this conclusion. However, Bao Yingxia reviewed the paper directly at that time and didn't care much about such superficial articles. Moreover, the college entrance examination is not so formal than the provincial examination. The chief examiner can determine the reputation of a scholar in the exam with just one sentence.
The provincial examination room is different. First, you will have the primary selection of the examiners in each room, and then the final selection of the examiner in the main examination and deputy examiner. In the end, there will be a special review and supervision officer to verify. There are three links. If there is any problem in any link, your reputation will be ruined.
Eight-legged text is a superficial article. The format requirements are extremely strict and you cannot be careless.
This big settlement was the first time Wu Jie had to write an essay in the formal examination room with real skills. He carefully considered the content of dozens of words, and wrote hundreds of words alone. Finally, the final draft was finally confirmed, and then he copied it on the test paper.
When everything was done, I looked up and saw that it was dawn.
Wu Jie smiled bitterly in his heart and waved his head: "I thought there were test questions in hand, and this provincial examination should be a formality, but the first question was so difficult. I still have to be busy with the next four questions. However, this is good, so as not to finish the paper early and sit in the exam room and stare blankly."
I slept all day and didn't wake up until six o'clock in the afternoon. It was already dark.
The title of the second question is "Hundred Acres of Manure", which comes from "Mencius" "What the farmer gets is one man and one acre of manure. Nine farmers eat from a farmer." It is also a popular topic. It seems that Bao Yingxia does not want to make things difficult for the candidates.
Wu Jie prepared a sample essay early on this topic. He still drafted the draft and wrote the final chapter by himself. After checking for a long time, he found that there was no problem. He copied it up.
The third question is a sentence from (Book Books), which is even simpler. Wu Jie dreamed of returning to modern society again, and found out the conclusions of the two questions and memorized them carefully.
Fortunately, after finishing these three questions, he finally corrected his problem of forgetting words by writing, and he did not automatically replace them with Chinese pinyin as soon as he wrote.
The only time I was depressed, I stayed up all night on the first night and then slept for another day, and the jet lag was problematic. The next two days I wrote the papers at night and went to bed during the day.
He knew nothing about what happened during the day in this exam room.
I only knew that the autumn rain had never stopped. It drizzled for three days, and the weather became colder every day. I sat in the examination room with poor blood flow, and I felt a little stiff in my hands and feet.
The fat man on the opposite side was very uncomfortable in his test. After the test, he kept sighing and coughing violently.
I don’t know if my face is nervous or sick, but it’s very red.
...
The light of the oil lamp flashed and went out, but the oil of the lamp had burned dry.
The kao house was pitch black, and there was no fingers in his hand. There was only a rustling sound of rain in his ears, and sometimes a few depressing coughs.
This is the dawn of the last day.
The title of the last question is (Every Yayan Ye Gong), which is a so-called "interrogation question" that modern people feel very strange.
What does it mean? It means that the last sentence or few words of the previous chapter is linked with the first few words or the first sentence of the next chapter, and even if the words are not written, it can still be used as a topic and write eight-legged essays.
For example, this title: The first half of the sentence "all are elegant words", comes from the Analects of Confucius and Chapter 15 of "Shuer". The original chapter says: "The elegant words, poems, books, and rituals of the son, are all elegant words."
The second half of the sentence "Ye Gong" comes from the same chapter Chapter 16. The original book says: "Ye Gong asked Confucius about Zilu, but Zilu was wrong. Confucius said: Why don't the daughter say? He is a human being, he forgets food when he is happy and forgets worries. He doesn't know that old age is coming."
The "Shuer" chapter is a chapter that records Confucius' words of integrity and honesty, appearance and behavior. Each chapter is very famous, and these two chapters are famous articles in "The Analects of Confucius" and are often quoted by people. This topic only contains the last four words of the previous chapter and the first two words of the second chapter, which are connected together, "all are elegant words, Ye Gong". From a superficial logic, it is simply unaware of what it means.
This question is strange. It is probably because Bao Yingxia thought the first three questions were really simple, so she deliberately figured out this.
However, it is not so easy to think of such questions as those who answer questions in the exam room, but at least you can eliminate a group of candidates who are not well-educated and have not been active enough in their thinking.
Wu Jie thought about the model essay early and wrote the final conclude.
Just as I was about to copy, the light went out.
I just waited to lie down and go to bed, wait until the afternoon to copy it, and then hand it over and show up.
The provincial examination is finally over.
Lying on the kang, my mind was still full of words and sentences in the model essay: "There is a constant state of the holy teachings, and the Chu doctor can remember them again.
If you speak elegantly and say everything, then you will not speak in addition to poetry, calligraphy and etiquette. How could you write to Ye Gong?
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Why do I ask Confucius about Zilu? Zilu put it in the answer: It is probably because of his words, but there are examples of the words of the Southern people. My master’s elegant words are not enough to speak.
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The original author of this article is no longer available, but it is well written. Moreover, as long as you can answer such strange questions, you can pass it.
"Which place can I get in the end? There should be no problem with winning the exam. The key is the ranking." Wu Jie fell asleep in a daze.
The jet lag did not reverse, and I slept lightly this time and woke up from the cold. When I looked up, I saw that the rain was still there and the sky was dim.
I don’t know when it was, but the candidates in the opposite examination room have stopped writing.
Lu Xuan and Lin Tingchen even got angry, sitting leisurely in the examination room and drinking tea, looking proud and satisfied, obviously doing well in the exam.
Even the fat man finished the paper and sat depressedly on the stool, leaning against the wall, applying a wet cotton towel on his forehead. He probably had a fever. I don’t know how he was doing, but judging from his complexion, he was extremely gray and probably messed up.
"I actually slept for a day." Wu Jie was shocked and hurriedly picked up the pen to copy. If I delayed it, it would be bad when it darkened. The lamp oil was burned out, could it be that I had to hand in the blank paper?
Fortunately, I finally finished copying the paper before dark, but my eyes were already swelling.
The lights were lit in each examination hall, and it looked extremely magnificent and magnificent in the rain.
After a while, with a cannon, it was finally time to collect the papers. The collector came over to collect the papers, and then another number officer came over to open the lock of the number door.
The scholars took the photos and lined up, went to the Gongyuan gate to hand over the signature to the door officer, and went home.
"I finally finished the exam, three and nine days, plus two days off in the middle and two days and two days and two days of the exam, I have been calling for the exam. It has been almost half a month. The imperial examination is too bad and too inhumane." Wu Jie touched his fluffy upper lip and let out a long breath of heat.
He reached out and held Lu Chang who was stumbled and struggling, and he found that the four fat men did not bring the test basket: "Where is your stuff?"
"No, I don't have the strength." The fat man said so hot that he was like Carbon Fire. He couldn't help but breathe heavily when he spoke, and his whole body trembled.
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Chapter completed!