Chapter 081 The rural examination is in progress...
After going to the toilet, the yamen servant just stared at Qin Guan, his eyes not even glancing at Qin Guan, which made Qin Guan feel awkward.
"Brother Yamen, if you stare at me like this, it's hard for me to pull you away." Qin Guan frowned and said.
The yamen servant smiled disdainfully: "If you can't pull it out, you won't be able to hold it in. Just like some people say that if you are in a bad mood and don't want to eat, if you ask me, it means that you are not hungry. If there is a famine and he is hungry for three days, I will probably give it to him.
He can stuff a mouthful of dog shit into his mouth."
"What are you looking at? I'm talking about you scholars."
After Qin Guan listened, he felt that it made sense, but he was speechless.
These are the duties of the government officials. If someone really cheats, the punishment for them will be very severe, so even if you go to the toilet, they will stare at you with wide eyes and never give you any chance.
Just watch it, it's not like it hasn't been watched before, so there's nothing to be embarrassed about. As long as you don't mind the odor, it's up to you.
After working hard, he scraped his buttocks with a popsicle stick, picked up his pants and returned to the examination room. Qin Guan was not answering the questions either. It was ten o'clock in the afternoon and the weather was getting a bit hot. Qin Guan had been answering questions all morning and felt very tired.
After packing up his things, he spread out the thin blanket, put on a pillow and lay down. The examination room was so narrow that Qin Guan couldn't stretch his legs, so he could only curl up and slowly fell asleep.
In principle, in the imperial examination, as long as you do not plagiarize or cheat, the inspecting officials will not care what the candidates do in the examination room.
After a good sleep, I woke up and found that it was already dark, and some candidates had already lit oil lamps and candles, in preparation for burning the midnight oil.
Qin Guan took out two candlesticks from the suitcase, inserted the candles and lit them. The examination room suddenly became brighter. Regardless of anything else, he would eat first.
Qin Guan rang the bell again, asked the yamen servant for a pot of boiling water, ate the meal prepared by his mother, drank a few sips of tea, and felt that it was almost done.
At this time, it was completely dark, and it was very quiet outside. Only the slight crackling sound of the burning candles and the crackling sound of other students writing were left.
Regardless of the poems and poems, Qin Guan first opened the classics and meanings.
There are a total of five questions on the meaning of the classics. What is the meaning of the classics? Simply put, the questions are based on the Chinese sentences in the classics, and the candidates write essays to explain their meanings. If they are written clearly, the eight-legged essay developed into Dacheng in later generations comes from the meaning of the classics.
Jingyi can be said to be its predecessor.
Open the first question of the test paper, "The joy, anger, sorrow, and joy are yet to be expressed."
This sentence really impressed Qin Guan, as it seemed to come from "The Doctrine of the Mean".
The left thumb flew up and the answer came out in less than three seconds.
It is indeed a sentence from "The Doctrine of the Mean". The original text is "When joy, anger, sorrow and joy have not yet arisen, it is called the middle. When they arise, they are all in the middle. It is called harmony. The medium is the foundation of the world; the harmony is the foundation of the world.
To reach the Tao is to achieve neutrality, where the heaven is established and all things are nurtured."
It means that if you have joy, anger, sorrow, and joy in your heart but do not show them, it is called Zhong; if you show it but can be restrained, it is called Harmony. Zhong is the foundation for stabilizing the world; Harmony is the way to live in the world."
There are many biblical answers to this question, four or five of them.
Haha, who else, who else is as rich as us, even if we eat one and lose two, there will still be something left.
Choosing an answer from a certain Huiyuan of the Song Dynasty, Qin Guan started to answer the question.
"The virtues of nature are revealed in it, and the original emotions are not expressed. The joy, anger, sorrow, and joy are the emotions that are inherent in nature..."
More than half an hour passed, and a sutra was completed, with more than 400 words written eloquently. It was a joy to write.
Rest for ten minutes and continue to answer the questions. The second question is, "The Master said: "The old should be at peace with it, the friends should trust it, and the young should cherish it.".
There is an answer to this question, but it is a question from a certain provincial examination in the Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, Qin Guan had no choice in the eight-legged essay model used to answer the questions. Anyway, the eight-part essay was also a type of classic meaning. Regardless of other things, he copied it first and then talked about it.
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There were also patrols at night, but they were much less frequent than during the day. The night was getting darker and the weather was getting a bit cooler. After answering the fourth question, Qin Guan stopped writing.
Looking at the time, it was already 11 o'clock in the evening, and he was indeed a little tired.
There was only one last question left, and the rest was poetry. It could be said that Qin Guan had completed 80% of the exam questions. He raised his head and looked outside, and found that there were still many candidates in the exam room with lights on.
In this triennial competition, no one dares to slack off. It can be said that everyone is trying their best.
If you pass, you will be honored!
If you fail, you will waste another three years, and perhaps you will have no hope of officialdom in your life.
Qin Guan took a sip of tea. He had such good conditions, so why not work hard? He spread out the answer to the fifth question of the scriptures.
But after reading this question, Qin Guan frowned.
He didn't expect that the mobile app would actually give such a result.
The title of the fifth question is: "The husband's ambition is as high as possible, and his energy is second to none. Keep his ambition and don't let his anger be violent." It comes from the article "Mencius Gongsun Chou".
The general meaning is "Zhi is the commander of Qi; Qi fills the whole body of the human body. Wherever the will is directed, Qi will follow. So it is said: "To avoid being distracted, you must stick to this will and do not disturb the Qi!"
If you follow the literal meaning, you would think it is a qi training secret book in a novel about cultivating immortals. In fact, it is not. It should be understood that a person's will directly affects the personal integrity, and the integrity is what supports a body. Therefore, a person's will is the most important
Yes, and integrity is behind the will. So it is said: as long as you master a person's will, there will be no problems with integrity.
Isn’t it very philosophical?
In fact, most of the ancient Confucian classics can be classified into the category of philosophy.
Nothing wrong.
The above is not the focus of his wife, the focus is on the answer on Qin Guan's phone.
Qin Guan only had one answer to this question on his phone, but this answer turned out to be a question from the Great Zhao State Imperial Examination Classics and Meanings that Qin Guan brought back this time.
A question that appeared in the past appears again in the Jiangnan Township Examination Paper today.
The question now is how Qin Guan should answer.
Let him answer it by himself, which is a bit overwhelming. If he can write a vernacular article, but he can write an ancient Chinese classic, he really doesn't have that level now.
Qin Guan frowned.
He thought of other questions.
In fact, this is not the worst result. At least there is an answer that is no. If there is no answer, then he can only be blind.
At this moment, Qin Guan became more and more concerned about the crisis in the imperial examination.
Even if I can pass the provincial examination this time, according to the rules of the system, the next eight main tasks will be the general examination and the imperial examination. How should I pass it?
Mobile phones are not omnipotent, and sometimes, you are not allowed to plagiarize. For example, the imperial examination is in the main hall. There are more than a hundred candidates, but there are more than a dozen prisons, and it is still under the eyes of the emperor. What should I do?
Cheating.
Chapter completed!