Is there any special rule in this eight-legged essay, or is there a shortcut to the imperial examination?

Of course, there is no such thing as scholars in this era. If so, as long as a scholar is, he can be ranked first, so how could the court put so many people in it?

It is precisely because the imperial court cannot contain so many scholars that the imperial examinations use the almost rigid style of writing, which is almost rigid in terms of regulations.

To put it bluntly, the reason why the eight-legged essays in the imperial examination is to make it difficult for scholars to eliminate most scholars and make nominations on the gold list difficult.

Yang Cong became more and more desperate the more he read. This eight-legged essay is really hard to write. It seems that he can only read hard, memorize the "Four Books and Five Classics", remember the words of ancient sages and sages in his mind, and then practice constantly, imitate the tone of ancient sages and sages and write thousands of chapters, so that he can have the foundation for writing eight-legged essays.

I've had to study hard for so many years. I'm afraid that he can only get a juren even after he dies. Wouldn't it be a joke to be a title on the Golden List?

If he continues to read the same way as scholars these days, he will change his fortune. Not to mention changing the fate of the Ming Dynasty, whether his own fate can be changed is a question.

What about the shortcut?

What he needs is a shortcut!

It’s fine to solve the question, follow the question, start the lecture, and enter the question. As long as you imitate the tone of a saint, write a few sentences in the format, and you can tell some truths, it’s basically OK. The main thing behind the eight-legged essays is to reason, imitate the tone of a saint, and be neat, pay attention to flatness, tiltness, and rhyme. Is this life worthless?

The most serious thing about Pingping Zeze and Rhyme is the most serious thing. For example, for ancient poems, it also pays attention to Pingping Zeze and Rhyme. The ancients had to think about a quatrain for at least several days.

A quatrain only costs about twenty words. Of course, this time is not spent on writing. If you only write twenty words, it will take only a few days and a few minutes to finish. The most troublesome thing about writing ancient poems is the flat and zing and rhyme. Sometimes you have to think about a word for a long time.

These eight-part essays are not about twenty characters. The starting stock, middle stock, back stock, and confined stock in the main text part also have at least two hundred characters. Pay attention to the flat, flat, zone and rhyme one by one. The difficulty can be imagined.

So what exactly is Pingping Zeze and what is rhyme?

Yang Cong knew very well that scholars of this era had basically learned this.

This plain and flat jingze roughly means that each word in certain sentences must be in a fixed tone, so that it will be promising and upset when read. As for the tone, the tone is actually similar to the four tones in later generations, but there was no such thing as the four tones at this time. The description of tones in this era is as follows:

Don't be thrust down,

The voice shouted fiercely,

The sound of going is clear and sad,

The sound of entering is short and urgently collected.

Ping means flat tone, oblique means upper tone, exit tone and enter tone.

As for rhyme, it’s a good idea to understand it. To put it bluntly, words with the same final vowel at the end of a specific sentence should be vocalized.

However, there is no such term as final vowel in this era. The pronunciation of Chinese characters in this era is generally marked with direct sound and anti-cut method.

The direct pronunciation method is to use homophones or close pronunciations to indicate the pronunciation of the Chinese character, such as "read quickly if it is urgent" and "read the Jiang into the tone".

The anti-cutting method is to cut the pronunciation of this character into two parts and mark it with two characters, such as "Persuad to get rid of your wishes" and "Lonely, Ancient Huzhi".

This guy, the method of marking pronunciation and tone in this era is really troublesome. Yang Cong subconsciously picked up the pen and smeared it on a essay.

His purpose was naturally to find out the rules of the eight-legged essays, the flat and the rhymes, but he did not label them as "flat up and enter", nor were they homophones or two anti-cut Chinese characters, but the tone symbols and finals of later generations.

This eight-legged essay has a total of less than 500 words, and the main part is only more than 300 words. It doesn’t take much time to mark it with simple symbols from later generations. Soon, he marked the four sets of parallel sentences of the eight-legged essay in front of him in the tone, and marked the finals of each place where rhyme is needed. A neat article was painted so messed up by him.

This doesn’t matter much. Anyway, Mr. Yan has some key issues with this kind of eight-legged essay written by students. Even if he paints it all the way, he still can’t find any special rules!

What to do?

He stared at the article in front of him blankly and fell into deep thought.

As he looked, his eyes suddenly lit up, huh, this annotation method seems to be a special place, because scholars of this era don’t know this simple annotation method.

So, how can we use the advantages of this marking method to find shortcuts to the imperial examination?

Sometimes, inspiration is like a spark, and it comes out in a flash, depending on whether you can catch it or not.

Fortunately, Yang Cong caught it, and he quickly recalled the difference between the pronunciation of Chinese characters at this time and later generations from the marking method.

It is not easy for people in this era to clarify the plainness and tummy. They have to think about the direct or antonal sound of the word one by one, and then they can judge the tone of the word, but he doesn't need it. He can read it silently in his mind and know the tone.

Also, it is even more trouble for people in this era to find rhyme characters, because they do not have unified final labels, but use homophones, close pronunciations, or even anti-cut methods to mark them. For example, if you want to find a rhyme character with the word "加", people in this era have to think about it for a while, but Yang Cong is different. Ang, Bang, Cang, Dang, Fang, Gang, Hang, Yang, Talk, Anti-Rang, Lang, Can, and initial consonants all the way, and find a bunch of them in minutes.

In this way, it should not be difficult to write a set of neatly parallel and parallel sentences!

Thinking of this, he opened a book of the Analects of Confucius next to him, found a random sentence to do the question, and then wrote two sentences based on his own ideas.

These two sentences were written by him in a straightforward way, and they definitely do not meet the requirements of the eight-legged essay. However, it doesn’t matter, just change it.

First, adjust the number of words in these two sentences, divide the two sentences into small paragraphs with relatively equal number of words, and first match the number of words.

Then, according to the grammar, add auxiliary words such as "Zhihuzhe" to make it look like what the ancient sages said.

Then, replace the words with inappropriate tone according to the requirements of Pingping and Zeze.

Finally, replace the same final word where rhyme is needed.

In less than half an hour, a set of neat parallelism and parallel sentences came out!

After reading it carefully, he felt a sense of ups and downs, and it looked very similar to the words in "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius", even more similar to those written by scholars.

Is this enough?

He couldn't help but write a few more sentences, and then he changed it according to the requirements of the eight-legged essay. In less than half an hour, it was revised again!

This feels like that, at least it reads quite well.

As for literary talent, artistic conception, etc., I'm sorry, it seems that there is nothing at all.

However, the eight-legged essays written by these scholars seem to be like this. They have no literary talent or artistic conception, but they just read it like that.

He didn't know if this was a qualified eight-legged essay. If so, it would be developed, because it would take at least one day for someone to write an article, and it would take only more than two hours for him to write an article. This is a huge advantage, because he can continue to modify it and polish it in the extra time, and it will definitely make the article go to the next level.

Perhaps, I should write a essay on eight-legged essay for Mr. Yan to see, but it is getting late now. If I want to write another one, I guess he won’t have to sleep.

There is no way, dog life is the most important thing. Sleep, sleep, and you have to get up early to go to school tomorrow.
Chapter completed!