Chapter 277: Exam Poems
This post and Moyi are objective questions, you don't need to use any brains, you can just read according to the book, and it's still very fast to do. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Info This kind of objective question will be yes, and if it won't, it won't, and you don't have to waste too much time thinking about it, because it's useless to think.
After completing the scriptures and Moyi questions, the rest is the bulk of this exam, that is, one poem and five strategies, a total of eight questions.
This is the focus of this exam.
Generally speaking, the real focus of this is the poetry theory, as for the five ways of strategy, well, a group of scholars who only read the books of sages and sages talk about national politics in vain, most of them can only laugh at Dafanger.
However, for this subjective question, the examiner and the marking officer have a lot of discretion, in case there is a marking officer who has to focus on the policy theory, and there is nothing to say, so if you don't write this policy well, there will be a problem, so this policy is not allowed to be sloppy.
Of course, for Zhong Hao, if you don't write with your heart, what you write is almost the same. After all, the level is there, just a little bit of ancient literary skills, it's too good to think about it, it's impossible.
After Zhong Hao finished the scriptures and Moyi questions, he felt a little hungry, mainly because he ate a few pieces of dim sum in the morning, and he didn't fight hunger, so he stopped writing and ate something first. By the way, think about the words and sentences of the "treatise" that you are going to write next.
The so-called "argument" is that the examiner gives a classic, and you come to explain the argument, of course, you need to use literary language, and it is better to have a fluent article and something to say, in fact, it is to write an argumentative essay in classical Chinese. Of course, this is judged because of opinions and opinions, and it is not easy to evaluate the level of the grade, so in the process of grading, it is not very important, just don't be too extreme.
Zhong Hao felt that this argumentative essay was relatively not too difficult, so he decided to do this "thesis" first!
When he used to study at Songlin Academy, Zhong Hao actually did it many times. The schoolwork assigned by Deacon Yuan every ten years was actually arranged according to the standards of the scientific examination.
Good articles need to take time and painstaking efforts to work out, this is true at all, maybe those amazing and glamorous talents can write a good work at will, but Zhong Hao can't do it.
So Zhong Hao thought about how this "treatise" should be written while eating.
Of course, with Zhong Hao's level, he can write a vernacular classical Chinese, but in fact, it is not very useful to scrutinize and carve. I have those goods in my stomach, and it is useless to scrutinize and carve them, it is still such an ordinary argumentative essay in literary language close to the vernacular.
Zhong Hao filled the temple of the five internal organs, and began to do this literary argumentative essay.
Zhong Hao also has self-knowledge, with his ancient literary skills, it is naturally impossible to write brilliantly, so he finally wrote a classical Chinese essay close to the vernacular.
If Zhong Hao looked at his close vernacular article in the past, he was afraid that he would blush again, but now Zhong Hao feels that he writes well, at least he has something to say, although it is written in plain, but it is easier to understand. After listening to Ouyang Xiu's words, Zhong Hao is now not so ashamed of his article that is close to the vernacular!
In fact, Zhong Hao feels that no matter whether it is an exam or a book, there is no need to use literary language anymore. As Ouyang Xiu said, in the past, it was because bamboo writing was cumbersome and expensive, but now that there is paper, there is no need to write literary language at all.
Of course, this is just Zhong Hao's idea. But Zhong Hao feels that he can still represent the trend, which is also the trend of the development of articles in the future, and after a thousand years, they will all write vernacular! Well, of course, it's going to take a long time for this trend to take off.
After the "Treatise" is written, the remaining task today is the poem and the fu. As for the five policy topics, Zhong Hao plans to write them again tomorrow.
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The evaluation criteria of Jinshi in the Great Song Dynasty today will focus on the candidates' poems and fu most of the time, so the answers to these poems and fu are still very important.
But judging this poem is a very subjective thing, and many times everyone will have their own judgment, and it is difficult to say who is good and who is bad.
Therefore, in order to facilitate the judgment, there are strict regulations on the examination of this poem in the Great Song Dynasty scientific examination: the poem is a rhythmic poem, and the fu is a rhythmic poem, and the requirements are very demanding. For example, Fu, since the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination has used the law Fu. However, the law of the Song Dynasty is different from that of the Tang Dynasty, it is not limited to rhyme, but also to the order of rhyme; It is not only necessary to pay attention to the beginning and turn, but also to be thoughtful and very strict. If you are not careful, you will be degraded. Therefore, some people compare it to filling in words, but in fact, this law is more difficult to do than filling in words.
The same is true for the rhythmic poems for the scientific examination, and there are strict requirements for the use of the rhythmic rhyme department, which tests the literary literacy and basic skills of the candidates for the examination.
is still one, that is, the poem is not a free proposition, but to find the source of the title from the "Thirteen Classics", and it cannot be arbitrarily drafted. So this is a problem, candidates who can't be familiar with the "Thirteen Classics" may not even know what book the question comes from, let alone solve the question.
The examination room is not allowed to ask questions, so you can only answer blindly. This is not bad, before the Qingli reform, in order to show knowledge, the examiner took more books, novels, ancient anthologies, or the annotations of the Shifting and Combining Scriptures as the topic, or it was to make the candidates dumbfounded.
Fortunately, after the "Qingli New Deal", it was stipulated that the poetry theory could only be asked from the "Thirteen Classics", otherwise Zhong Hao might not even know the source of the title.
Of course, in fact, even if it comes out of the "Thirteen Classics", Zhong Hao is very likely to not know the source of the title.
In the "Thirteen Classics", in addition to the "Spring and Autumn Period", "The Book of Rites" and "The Analects", the other ten scriptures, he only read them a few times when he was in Qingzhou, and he came up with a random topic, so it is very likely that he does not know the source.
But Zhong Hao knows one thing, that is, to sing the praises of virtue, which Xu Feng once clearly told him.
Many scholars in later generations have said that the test-taking poems during the Great Song Dynasty scientific examination are used to sing praises of merit, because in the two Song Dynasty and more than 300 years, there are hundreds of thousands of test-taking poems in hundreds of scientific examinations, but there are almost no famous poems that have not been handed down, and obviously their content is really lacking.
Anyway, Zhong Hao has never heard of any of the test-taking poems handed down from the Song Dynasty! However, he remembered a test-taking poem in the Tang Dynasty, that is, Bai Juyi's "Farewell to the Ancient Grass", which is a test-taking poem with five words and eight rhymes. However, even the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, among all these test-taking poems, there is such a poem. Moreover, this one is still Bai Juyi's exam work, that is, it is usually practiced, and it is not a test poem that is done during the official exam.
The reason why Zhong Hao knows that this very famous poem "Leaving the grass on the plain, one year old and one withering" is the test body is because the name of his poem has the word "endowment". According to the regulations on the corresponding poems of the imperial examination, the word "endowment" must be added to the designated examination poems when doing the questions.
All in all, the poems for this examination are strictly format-oriented and lacking in content.
The title of the poem for this provincial examination is "Mingde Xingren Poem".
If you want to write this poem, you must first solve the question of the test poem, and also understand the source and context of the question.
Although this virtuous practice is used together here, it is clearly not one word, but two separate words, each with its own origin. The word "Mingde" comes from the sentence "The way of the university is in Mingmingde, in the people, and in the perfection". And this "benevolence" is from the sentence "Practicing benevolence and king, Mo Zhi can reign" in "Mencius Gongsun Chou".
Zhong Hao was lucky this time, he happened to know the origin of Mingde and Xingren.
The sentence of "benevolence" "Benevolence and king, Mo Zhi can reign", Zhong Hao just read it when he read "Mencius", and he still has some impressions.
And he knows the origin of this "Mingde", which is from a sentence in "University"! The full text of this "University", although Zhong Hao is not impressed. However, he really knows the sentence "The way of the university is in Mingmingde, in being close to the people, and in stopping at perfection", which he really knows very well, and this sentence is a familiar sentence for later generations.
Many later universities have an opening chapter on the wall. When Zhong Hao went to college, on a stone at the door of the library, this article of "University" was engraved.
Of course, in fact, this university is comparable to the university, and I don't know why those universities in later generations love to carve such an article. Obviously, this Mingde here refers to statecraft.
Wang Gongchen came up with this "Mingde Xingren Poem" as an examination poem exam question, which obviously has the meaning of letting the candidates sing praises for the current court and officials, and the focus of praise is naturally on Mingde and Xingren.
However, Zhong Hao felt that this "Mingde Xingren Poem" sang the praises of virtue, but there was not much pressure, because he felt that in the evaluation of today's official Zhao Zhen in history, this Mingde and Xingren are still very worthy of him! This can also be seen from the temple number of "Renzong" on it by later generations after his death.
In fact, the content of the test poem is relatively not that important. Because its content must be the same, it is impossible to want too high depth, and they are all the same praises.
In fact, the writing of test-taking poems is more about the format than the content. Because the exam-taking poem is not an ordinary poem, it is one of the subjects of the elimination exam, the more the ideological content is lacking, the more serious it is in the art form. The poems must conform to the rules, stick to the topic, use rhyme, and fight, and must not make any mistakes, and must be beautifully written in order to stand out.
?? For example, the "Mingde Xingren Poem" of the Provincial Examination of the Guiji Branch, its rhythm requires "rhyme with Zhongping sound characters, limited to five words and eight rhymes". If you use the wrong rhyme, everything will be over, and you will fall directly, so this rhyme is very important.
At that moment, Zhong Hao took out "Rhyme", flipped to the rhyme part, and saw what words were in this rhyme part. When composing poems later, those rhyming words need to be picked from this, so you need to find those suitable words first.
This rhyme is not too difficult for Zhong Hao, he has also studied this rhyme book in later generations, although in later generations he learned the new Chinese rhyme based on Mandarin, and now the general Guangyun based on the official dialect of the Great Song Dynasty, there are still some differences, but this difference is not big!
Although the rhyme used in different eras has changed, in fact, there are only a few parts of the book that are different. This is also the reason why most of the poems created according to the rhythm of the official dialect of the Song Dynasty were read in Mandarin in later generations.
The reason why Zhong Hao can't write good poems and can only make regular rhyming poems is mainly because what he lacks is artistic inspiration.
Poetry that can be passed on to future generations needs to contain high artistic inspiration or ideological connotation!
However, in the provincial examination, this kind of rigid test-taking poem does not use any artistic inspiration and ideological connotation, which is a good thing for Zhong Hao, which can make it a little easier for him to do.
Of course, Zhong Hao's ability is only limited to making a rhymed poem, as for the rest, he can only do anything.
If you understand the meaning of the title of this test poem, and think about the rhyme, you can write this test poem.
At that time, Zhong Hao began to compose his own test-taking poems.
The content of the poem, from the two words Mingde and Xingren, combined with their sources, and then up and down, left and right, front and back, positive and negative, internal and external aspects of the hollow mind to pull the line, anyway, it is to praise the court and the official family, the more you sing the praises of virtue, the more you can have good results.
This exam looks clever and interesting, but in fact, like the later Bagu essays, it does not have any thoughts or feelings of the author's own, let alone make arguments. In the end, in fact, all the poems written by the candidates have one meaning, that is, to sing praises for the Great Song Dynasty and the official family.
As for how to distinguish between the high and the low, it naturally depends on the grade of your poems.
If this test-taking poem can be close to the topic, and there is no mistake in rhyme and antiphon, the poem is considered qualified, and if the rhetoric is gorgeous on this basis, it is considered superior. If you can write one or two aphorisms, you will be a top master.
Zhong Hao's goal is naturally not as high as the next two gears, and he is satisfied if he can make a qualified one.
This five-word and eight-rhyme test-taking poem is only forty words in total, but Zhong Hao studied it for a whole hour and a half before he finally wrote this test-taking poem.
After writing it, Zhong Hao read it carefully and found that it was still relatively consistent with the rhyme, and the format of the battle also met the requirements, and the format of the test poem was done correctly. As for the content, anyway, it is to sing the praises of virtue.
Zhong Hao is still quite satisfied with his test-taking poem.
Although there is nothing ornate about the rhetoric, and there are not too many dictionaries, but on the whole, it can at least meet the passing standards, uh, of course, this is just Zhong Hao's own opinion. As for what the examiners think, he just doesn't know!
In front of each examination room in this tribute courtyard, there is an hourglass used to keep time, and after writing this "Mingde Xingren Poem", Zhong Hao looked up at the hourglass and saw that it was already halfway through.
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