In the following days, in order to improve the level of poetry, Xiao Qiongzhi temporarily suspended all elective courses.

She borrowed a lot of books on poetry writing skills from the library of the academy, as well as ancient style collections, quatrain collections, and poetry collections of famous historical artists, and buried herself in making up for poetry skills.

It may be that I didn't study these seriously before, so my progress was slow, and after I really buried myself in learning, I realized that in fact, the skills of composing poetry are not complicated.

In addition to the well-known rhyme and rhyme, the focus of the ancient style is on the creation of the environment, and the beauty of a certain melody contained in the melody; The quatrain focuses on the idea and the atmosphere of formation; The focus of the poem is on the connotation and style of the middle couplet.

The more Xiao Qiongzhi learned, the easier he felt, the more he liked to learn, and even dreamed at night, he was practicing writing poetry, almost to the point of going crazy.

After being busy for several days, I entered the preliminary stage of the poetry competition held by the college to select contestants.

On the 25th, it is more than the ancient style, on the 26th it is compared to quatrains, and on the 27th, it is compared to the rhythmic poems.

The three preliminaries, regardless of grade and class, will be held uniformly, and ten players will be selected for each event.

Ancient style theme Yonghua.

Xiao Qiongzhi wrote "Rose".

The roses are in the suburbs, and they are gorgeous. Looking at it alone, there is Shunyao in his heart.

The roses are in the neighborhood, bright and yin. Walk alone and see, your heart is stormy.

Roses are dreaming, lush. Looking at it alone, the heart is exquisite.

In the afternoon, the results came out, and her song "Rose" ranked among the top ten, ranking fourth, while Lu Baozhu, who was in the same grade as her and ranked among the five talented girls of Zhilan Academy, ranked second, Zhang Huitong ranked sixth, and Yan Shuxian ranked eighth.

There is also a talented girl named Chen Mingyan, who is from the third grade, one grade higher than Xiao Qiongzhi and others, ranking first.

The third place is called Du Qianqian, who is not among the five talented women, and the name is very unfamiliar, and it is estimated that she is from the first grade, third grade or second grade second class and below.

Xiao Qiongzhi is not interested in people who are not familiar with her or who are not kind, and she didn't pay attention to the other works, but only carefully looked at the works of Chen Mingyan, who ranked first, and Lu Baozhu, who ranked second.

Chen Mingyan is the niece of Chen Yun, the king of Xinyang County, and the cousin of the dean Chen Sujin. Her father is Cangzhou Taishou, named Chen Jian.

Cangzhou is close to Xinyang County and Beichuan, and Xiao Qiongzhi's third grandfather's fief is in Beichuan, and at the same time, he is the general of the chariot and cavalry on the border.

He usually takes care of Xinyang County, so Chen Mingyan's attitude towards Xiao Qiongzhi is like a sister treating her sister, which has always been very good.

Chen Mingyan's work is "Song of the Rose".

Rose Rose, South Garden Fangfei. Choose it and fold it, and give it to the boudoir.

The beauty is lonely, worried and obsessed. Have mercy on me, help me, and serve me.

Roses, roses, fragrant. Received the hairpin, happy on the moth eyebrows.

The gentleman is virtuous, and the petty is delayed. Love and hate, add lovesickness.

Rose rose, full room fragrant. Lay the pillow, why not.

The moon is full and the whispers are silky. There is no doubt about life and death.

Xiao Qiongzhi read it carefully a few times, and felt that it was quite tasteful, Chen Mingyan's pen skills and environment-building ability in this poem are above herself, the first place, and she deserves her name.

Lu Baozhu was born in a rural farming family, and his family was poor, and he was not well-known before coming to Zhilan Academy.

However, she has an elder brother, named Lu Debao, who won the top prize in high school five years ago, and was valued by Xiao Qiongzhi's grandfather, Xiao Xuanliang, from the original Hanlin Academy, all the way to become the head of the Hanlin Academy, and at present, the limelight is flourishing.

Of course, Lu Baozhu himself is also competitive, and since he was admitted to Zhilan College with excellent results at the beginning of last year, he has always been a typical representative of the top students.

Although her grades are slightly worse than Xiao Qiongzhi's, she is firmly in the second place in the same grade.

In terms of dealing with people, she is not like a girl from a small family, so lacking in insight and pattern, she is more polite and courteous, revealing her style in meekness, and revealing indifference in her dignity.

She doesn't know what others think of this, at least Xiao Qiongzhi appreciates it.

Lo Po-chu's work is "Lotus Song".

The sunset of the pillow is closed, and the morning fog opens. In the mud, the water came out silently.

The clothes are turned with nectar, and the clouds and butterflies fly. The brocade fish is hidden and exposed, and the light rain is still hanging.

The years are long and falling, and the dust is chasing after each other. The west wind blows and thins, but the heart is fat.

Xiao Qiongzhi read it carefully a few times, and I also think it is quite tasteful, Lu Baozhu's pen skills and aura in this poem are slightly inferior to Chen Mingyan, but they are also above themselves, the second place, and they deserve it.

However, what Xiao Qiongzhi is best at is the first to recommend the ancient style, and in this first round of the competition, he failed to rank among the top three in the college, let alone compare with the people of Linfeng Academy.

She thinks that it would be more advantageous if she could know in advance what topics she would take the exam, and have enough time in advance to prepare the entries without cramming.

After all, when she writes poetry, her biggest advantage is aura and understanding.

And this, as a novice who is not skilled enough and has few touches on many subjects, and has never written about it, needs enough time to integrate and adjust with each other.

Like this morning's ancient style competition, she used to think that the ancient works of the past dynasties were mostly based on the love of children or the feelings of family and country, and it was likely that these two themes were examined.

If you test these two topics today, it can be said that you are full of inspiration, and it doesn't take three minutes to write a good poem.

Therefore, at first glance, the theme is "Yonghua", which is very wrong, and I am entangled for several minutes just thinking about what kind of flower to sing, because there are too many flowers I like.

After choosing the Rose Wing, I had to think about and focus on which aspect of the Rose, so I struggled for a while.

Of course, the pen is fast and easy to write.

When she returned to the Zhilanju dormitory in the evening, Xiao Qiongzhi remembered tomorrow's quatrain preliminaries, couldn't sleep, and took a thousand quatrains to read silently.

Hongxing suddenly came in mysteriously and handed her a note.

Xiao Qiongzhi opened it and took a look, and it was written that the preliminary round: the ancient style "Yonghua", the quatrain "Yonghuai", and the poem "Wing Chun"; Finals: Ancient style "Yonghuai", quatrain "Yongwu", legal poem "Yongshi" or "Yonghua".

Isn't this a sleepy pillow?

Xiao Qiongzhi immediately became uncalm, pulled Hongxing over, leaned close to her ear, and asked in a low voice, "Who gave you this note?" ”

Hong Xing replied with a smile: "It's the little girl named Qingqing next to the dean, before I went to the cafeteria to line up to get dinner, I met her outside the cafeteria, and she quietly stuffed it to me while there was no one around." ”

It seems that this should be the content of the preliminary examination of the poetry competition of Zhilan Academy given to him by the dean, as well as the content of the final examination of the poetry competition jointly held with Linfeng Academy.

That's great! Here's your chance to plan ahead!

Xiao Qiongzhi hurriedly took out the collection of quatrains of famous masters of the past dynasties borrowed from the library pavilion, selected Yonghuai quatrains to read, learned from experience, and looked for inspiration.

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