Meng Fanjun skimmed through the composition handed in first, and then said, "The words are still very good." ”

Besides, now is not the time to comment on whether calligraphy is good or not, but to comment on articles, just to praise his words, doesn't it mean that his articles are worthless.

"Old master, disciple, I can still see these articles, but they were all written by staying up all night, and my hair is gray. ”

"You don't come, think I don't know that you wrote it easily, and you wrote it in half a night, right?" Meng Fanjun glared at him.

Obediently in the middle of winter, you can even see this? Besides, my heart is empty.

"If you really comment on calligraphy, I am not an expert, I can only roughly see the good and Lai, if you want to say that you want to read the article, no one will want to escape my eyes. ”

"That's, or how are you an old master. Besides, he nodded yes, he was really convinced, the old master's vision is too poisonous, and even how much time he has to write these articles can be seen at a glance, what is the reason?

"I said that your words are good, and it doesn't mean that your article is not good, but it is still too influenced by Su Shi, Su Wen is cooked, and eating mutton was a matter of the Northern Song Dynasty, and now if you are full of Su flavor, you can only fall off the list. Meng Fanjun said in an urn voice.

"What is the reasoning behind this?"

He knows a little bit about this situation, but he doesn't understand it too much, for example, in the examination room, it is best to use Wen Zhengming's small block font, Zhao Mengfu's style is better, but try not to use the small block fonts of the two kings "Huang Ting Jing" and Zhong Xuan, in other words, Wen Zhengming's small block font is already a standard pavilion style.

Besides, I can't help but feel sad for Wen Zhengming, no matter the pavilion style or official style, it is an insult to Wen Zhengming, Wen Zhengming's words are art no matter what, but it is a pity that it has been ruined by too many laypeople.

Why can Wen Zhengming's calligraphy be learned in the Su style, but my articles cannot learn the style of the Dongpo style? The taboo on Su Wen is still not very clear, and he also asked Chen Musa, who only replied a few words in a few words, and the language was unknown.

Meng Fanjun smiled bitterly: "This kind of thing has been going on for a long time, and its origin and specific process are difficult to explain clearly, generally speaking, it is caused by the atmosphere in the early years of Hongwu. At that time, the famous literati did not go out of the mountain, and the examiners during the scientific examination had to be served by some second- and third-rate literati, these people could not read the level of the article, and they could not understand the articles that were too profound, they liked the concise text and the plain style of writing, like Su Shi's unbridled style of writing was the enemy of these people. So at that time, there was a saying that Su Wen was the first taboo in the scientific field. ”

Besides, it seems to have an understanding, but it is still difficult to accept.

Meng Fanjun continued: "Later, the literary style became more and more prosperous, and the level of literati also improved, but in this part of the scientific field, the old style is still followed, which is not unreasonable, after all, it is easy to have a set of evaluation standards that everyone can accept, and it is simple and easy to implement, otherwise, an article needs to be read two or three times to realize the true flavor." No one in the field has this Yaxing, so the style of writing has changed, but the standard of marking has not changed much. ”

Moreover, he also smiled bitterly: "Dongpo's article is not so difficult to understand." ”

"It's not a difficult thing to understand, you have to know that when marking the papers, the examiner is to browse it in a hurry first, and if you feel that it is tasteful, you will read it carefully, so the article in the field, the most important thing is to catch the examiner's eyeballs, and it doesn't matter how good the article is. ”

"Then deliberately write something amazing first? This is Su Wen's strong point. Besides.

"No, it's useless to pretend to be amazing, these examiners don't eat this at all, what they require is that your essay must conform to the essence of the eight strands, not how brilliant the text is. ”

"Is this what meets the standards?" and was surprised, and made a stamped gesture with his hand.

"Yes, your articles are all good, but if you judge them according to the essence of the eight strands, there are flaws everywhere, and regardless of whether Su Wen's flavor is strong or not, that's a later story. ”

"Flaws everywhere?" besides, he was not convinced, although he did not dare to claim to be the holy hand of the world, he would not fall so much.

"Don't be unconvinced, let's talk about the eight essences in today's class. ”

Meng Fanjun taught the tricks and rules of making a fuss, and felt that it was not unreasonable. Meng Fanjun repeatedly emphasized that these tips and rules are not hard and fast rules, but they have been slowly formed in the imperial examination rooms from generation to generation, and they are unbreakable, and they are more rigorous than the Ming three-foot method.

If this class were to be placed in the future, it would be called a writing class, but it only talks about rules and not creativity.

Although the great Lu Xun also said that there is no way to teach people how to write articles and novels, there is no ready-made experience in teaching people how to write articles and novels, but in fact, there are still many people who are eating the bowl of rice of teaching people to write articles and novels.

This is not to say that they are all liars and gods in the literati circle, if they just want to write ordinary articles or novels, there are indeed ready-made rules to follow, but once they are limited by the box, these works may be able to reach the level of publication, but it is difficult to be remembered.

In fact, there is not much difference between the eight-strand essay and the proposition essay of later generations, both of which are completed under the standard norms and within the specified time, which is the basic writing ability, and does not require writing a strange essay through the ages. There was a great talent in the Tang Dynasty, Liu Ben, who wrote a strange essay in the science field, but because of the content of the eunuchs and martial artists, not only did he not win the first place, but even his future was buried, and he could only be a staff member for the rest of his life.

In the same period, Jinshi Du Mu and others were upset with Liu Ben, and wrote to the court and said: Liu Ben is the first, and my generation is in the department, rather than be ashamed. At that time, there were still many people with status who ran and shouted for Liu Ben, but unfortunately they couldn't change the doomed ending.

The exam is the exam, not more than the literary style, but more than the calm, so not only the Ming Dynasty's eight-strand text did not jump out of the box, but the Tang Dynasty and the two Song Dynasty did not have particularly outstanding scientific field texts, but the Han Dynasty had many strategies that were indeed wonderful through the ages, especially Jia Yi and Chao Cuo's strategies, but the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty were fundamentally different from the imperial examinations of later generations, and they could not be compared.

Meng Fanjun taught him the essence of the Eight Strands, and at the same time circled the places in his articles that did not meet the norms of the Eight Strands with a red pen, and then told him why these places were not good and how to write them.

Besides, he didn't speak, but he was not convinced in his heart, isn't this a good job? He didn't think that he was not good at writing, on the contrary, Old Master Meng was much more mediocre after the change.

"I'm not convinced, I'm not convinced when I was young, just like you, I wanted to challenge these rules of the field, but I hit my head and bleed, my lessons must be taught to you. It's not that the article I changed is so good, but that it must be written like this in the field, otherwise it won't be able to get the first place. ”

"Don't those examiners have a standard for judging good and bad, lack the ability to judge?"

Besides, I don't believe that those examiners are really as resentful as Pu Songling, they are all blind examiners, and they can't tell the quality of the article at all.

"It's not a question of the examiner, it's a question of standards, and over the years there has been such a norm that anyone has to follow this standard. For example, the Four Books were set during the Hongwu period, and they could only be determined according to the annotations of the old master Zhu Xi, and the annotations of the Han Confucians on the four books were not good? Not to mention the famous masters of the two Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties, but if it was stipulated in this way, the annotations of the old master Zhu could only be used as the standard in the examination room, and the rest were wrong. ”

Besides, I understand that the set of feelings is whether it is right or wrong, just ask whether it meets the standards, just like taking a mold to evaluate apples, only apples that are the same size as the mold are good apples, and the rest of the small and big ones are not qualified. It doesn't matter what flavor or variety of apples you have.

"Is that in the examination room, you can't even write Su Ti Xiaokai?" and asked again.

"That's not the case, Su Ti Xiaokai is completely okay, and it is very popular, but there are too few people who can write Su Ti Xiaokai well. Moreover, your Su style is mixed with the style of the two kings, which is more suitable for the style of the examination room than Wen Zhengming's small style. Meng Fanjun looked at Su Ti Xiaokai and couldn't put it down.

Besides, he was dizzy and hit again, is this a compliment to him? Basically there is no artistry in the writing of official documents, doesn't this mean that his handwriting is much worse than Wen Zhengming?

"It's not what you think, I said that your font is suitable for the style of the exam room, not that it's bad. Meng Fanjun secretly laughed and comforted him.

Besides, I just took a breath, I have to take it, the old master is really good at teaching, let you choke on a mouthful of water first, and then stuff a sweet date into your mouth, so that you can't cry or laugh.

After commenting on these articles, Meng Fanjun gave him another assignment, this time thirty articles.

Besides, he suddenly shouted: "Old Master, you want to exhaust your disciples, writing thirty articles in three days, this is too frustrating." ”

"Well, it's a lot, but I'm sure you'll be able to finish it on time, and the quality won't be too bad, I'm more confident than you. Meng Fanjun laughed maliciously.

"It's not something that can't be done, it's that it's not necessary, right?"

"It's necessary, and it's very necessary. This time, Zhou Wenbin was able to solve the yuan, just because he usually writes a lot of articles, and as a result, one of them happened to be the topic of this township exam, and he solved the yuan in high school. This shows a truth: If you want to win in the examination room, you have to write more essays on a regular basis, 10 essays a day, 3,650 essays a year, how many essays will be written in four years? As long as one essay is on the topic, you will be a big winner. ”

Besides, he almost collapsed on the chair, the old master is really crazy, what kind of question is this, it is clearly a net all over the sky, desperately catching a big fish, this method is simply a tired stupid boy.

He doesn't know about other people's affairs, but Wen Bin's topic this time was given by him, if he didn't give Wen Bin this topic, Wen Bin would be useless to do 100,000 articles usually.

It's a pity that he didn't dare to say anything about this matter, so he could only rot in his stomach, and of course there was no strong evidence to refute Meng Fanjun's theory of casting the net.

"Okay, ten articles a day is ten articles a day, I accept my fate. Besides, he sat dejectedly, and had no strength to say more.