In the old days, the Confucian Temple was very strange and ancient in the impression of modern people like Jia Cong, since "Bagu" became a derogatory term and "Down with Confucius" swept the country.

Dashun follows the Ming system and is more standardized on the eight shares of the Shi, the Confucian Temple is divided into six towers of the Dacheng Palace, seventy-six towers of the east and west halls, six towers of the Divine Kitchen Library, eight towers of the slaughterhouse, three towers of the Lingxing Gate, covering a wide area.

Dacheng Hall set up the statue of the Holy Confucius, the statue of the Holy Mencius, and the statue of the Confucian "Ten Philosophers".

Although Jia Cong has taken the path of eight shares, he has to say how much respect he has for Confucianism...... Not necessarily.

The examination room of the scientific examination is set up in the east and west of the seventy-six wings, and the reference Xiucai, according to the quota regulations, only a small number can be sent to the township examination, and only after the township examination can people be raised in order to participate in the examination indefinitely.

In the twenty-four wings of the west corner, Jia Cong quietly laid paper and polished ink in the southeast corner, and he turned a blind eye to Wei Wu's ignorance in the northwest corner.

After all the candidates had passed the search and sat down, and the officials were in place, only a few poor men in soap suits were assigned to several examination rooms, holding wooden signs to announce and shuttle. The scientific examination topic of this township examination selection comes from the twenty-sixth chapter of "The Mean", one hundred and eight crosses, which is a big topic: Today's husband is heavenly, there are many Zhaozhao, and it is infinite...... Fish and turtles are born, and wealth and goods are cultivated.

This paragraph of "The Mean" is a description of the natural world of heaven and earth, even if it is ancient, it is a passage that modern high school students can understand and understand, and it is relatively easy to remember.

The title of the test poem: "Zhuo Ju Guan Qun Shu" gets the word "book".

In all the Bagu essay exams, most of the admission criteria tend to be the first Bagu essay, and the other test poems, judgments, edicts, tables, and theories are only used as references. Of course, there are also cases where Baguwen is not very good, and other things are excellent, which can also increase the examiner's impression score and thus admit it, but it is a common situation for Baguwen as the first criterion.

It is no wonder that many people in the ancients hated Bagu, and even pushed the fall of the Ming Dynasty to "Mr. Baguwen": I would like to have Chongzhen and his wife, a Ming dynasty and a country, Feng Shen Zhenjing, and the late birth of Wen Bagu.

Completely blaming the fall of the Ming Dynasty on Baguwen is, of course, extreme, but Li Zhen is very right: its disadvantages are so bad that today, Yang is Taoism, and Yin is rich!

In this scientific expedition, Jia Cong's friends Kuang Liuhe, Wang Yinglin, and Zhang Maocai were all there, and most of the students from the five counties of the West Road Hall were here, and what did not come was due to filial piety and accidents.

The benevolent brother Sima Bandit who was sitting next to him on the right was short-sighted and couldn't see clearly, so he pushed Jia Cong: "Jia Shentong, what is the topic?" ”

"The Mean" has one of the twenty-six chapters, and Zhuo Ju looks at the group of books to get the words." Jia Cong kindly replied, and the benevolent brother thanked him.

It has been an hour since I finished writing an eight-strand essay in an orderly manner, the number of words is about 500, the paper for the examination is printed and distributed by the government, and the red grid paper, eighteen columns, including the scratch paper, must also be withdrawn.

In addition to the basic principle of the trial poem, the sixteen sentences from the beginning to the end are also completely in accordance with the "eight-strand text model".

In this way, today we can understand why Pu Songling's "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" has eight strands of literary sentences, and the Ming and Qing dynasties, poems and songs are endowed with eight strands of literary shadows. What the ruler needs is this kind of obedient, rigid office thinking, so as to make society stable.

The benevolent brother asked in a low voice, "Prodigy Jia, I forgot, what is the rhyme of the calligraphy?" ”

In ancient times, it was extremely difficult to read, and in addition to reciting the enlightenment rhythm, you must also remember all the rhymes. The word "book" is Shangpingsheng, six-fish rhyme, eighty-four characters, once the rhyme exceeds the prescribed eighty-four characters, it is unqualified. There are still more words with a few crosses or narrow rhymes, and more words with wide rhymes.

Jia Cong smiled and said nothing, buddy, this is a regular exam, can I answer you? If you want to die, don't bother me.

The benevolent brother laughed dryly, embarrassed to ask him, Jia Cong finished writing the test poem, and was about to hand in the paper, not wanting this benevolent brother to not only be short-sighted, but also physically wooden, and actually knocked over Jia Cong's inkstone, and the ink soaked part of the paper.

I...... Jia Cong resisted the urge to beat people, most of the hours have passed, where is the time to write again? Jia Cong's eyes were gloomy and he looked at Brother Ren, Brother Ren bowed again, with a guilty face, silently, indicating that it was an unintentional move, Jia Cong was helpless, now is not the time to be angry, pondered for a while, and added another poem at the end......

He can't treat himself badly, and he can't embarrass Liu Dongsheng, if he fails to pass the eight-share essay and is admitted, Liu Dongsheng is worried about his life.

Jia Cong studied Baguwen in his previous life, although he can't say that he studied it intensively, but he has practiced for so long in this life, and he has those intuitive impressions of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and his personal understanding is very deep. He knew that the county government, annual examination, and scientific examination were not as strict as the township hall, as long as he had brains, he could still pass the test.

The old enlightenment miscellaneous sentences said "If you are willing to spend ten years of hard work, it is not difficult to take a show", Jia Cong has a foundation, adult thinking, and some of the model texts in his memory are for him to copy, although those model texts cannot be fully remembered, but he has the ability to borrow and revise them.

Now that there is "unclean scrolls", he hopes that this poem can play a role, similar to Zhu Qingyu in the Tang Dynasty "recently tried to go to Zhang Shuibu", hoping to solve it through poetry.

Of course, after Jia Cong took the Xiucai exam, he just came to familiarize himself with the regulations of the scientific examination and township examination, so as to prepare, even if he did not pass the test, it was also within his psychological expectations. Although this benevolent brother is reckless, he is not intentional, and Jia Cong can only admit that he is unlucky. Ancient exams, like modern exams, are the most common to have various mistakes in the exam room.

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The annual examination grade is divided into six grades, which determines the life and death of talents. The scientific examination is divided into three classes, the first and second classes are allowed to participate in the township examination, and the third class is ...... Dude, come back in three years.

This is just a joke, the township hall only happens once in three years, and the first scientific examination is not enough, and you can continue to participate in the "recording of the subject" and "recording the legacy", which is also presided over by the academic administration. However, the pre-selection of the township examination only takes the quota of outstanding talents, no matter how hard and how to test, most of the talents are destined to be brushed off, and the township examination is a provincial-level examination, and tens of thousands of talents in a province can only be maintained at about 10,000 people every year. Jiangnan Gongyuan is special and culturally developed, up to more than 20,000.

In the Dongyu Reading Room, Liu Dongsheng, who is also a student and politician, wears a three-grade red peacock patch outside, and still wears a seven-grade style military official cyan hedgehog supplement on the inside, and wears a black gauze hat. In the former Ming Dynasty, there was a habit of patrolling the Imperial Commander, and Dashun became a part-time officer.

In order to prevent cheating, the third-level examination of Dashun County Government also has the habit of obfuscating names, but the papers are not copied, and the examiner can recognize familiar candidates from their handwriting.

As his protégé Jia Cong, one hand Qingli pavilion body, Liu Dongsheng identified it at a glance, as soon as he saw the filth of the scroll, he had the urge to throw it into the corner paper basket, and took a closer look at the back of the trial poem, and added a poem, Liu Dongsheng couldn't help laughing: "Okay! With this poem, it is enough to pass on a good story of teachers and students. ”

The most difficult thing for people today to understand should be, why ancient examiners often judged the top ten at a glance? And is it that the volume has not been completely read? Is this sloppy? Arbitrary? In fact, it is not the case, almost all of the scholars and politicians of the imperial court are born as jinshi (Jia Zheng is an exception), and the quality of the eight strands of literature is all in their chests, and even the general style of a government and several counties, which is also in their chests.

A few days later, Liu Dongsheng rubbed his temples tiredly and instructed Shen Hao, Fan Lin and others: "Release the list and send the exam papers." ”