The sky was bright.

All preparations are in place, and the county exam begins.

The first question was put first: "Confucius said that Ji's eight dances in the court are tolerable or unbearable."

Uttered the "Analects of the Eight Hundred Chapters".

In the same way as the general understanding of "is it tolerable or intolerable", the evaluation is the embodiment of one's own will...... This can be endured, and what can't be tolerated?

But in fact, the original meaning was: "When Confucius commented on the Ji family, he said that in the courtyard of his family temple, the Ji family could bear to do such a thing, and what else could not bear to do?" ”

It is the evaluation of what others have done.

Zhu Xi's "Annotations to the Analects" stated: "Ji used the pleasure of the Son of Heaven as a doctor, and Confucius said that if he can still tolerate it, what should he not do?" ”

It means that you can bear to do such a transgressive number of things, what else can you not bear to do?

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The regular imperial examination, all the way to the township examination, is based on the first two or three four-book essays, the four books are written to pass the test, and the follow-up five scriptures, policy theories, etc.

Until the township examination, the main venue of the general imperial examination was two articles and four books, if nothing else, it was the question of "Analects" and the question of "Mencius".

The main reason is that there are many words in these two classics, plus the quotations of the Confucian ancestors Confucius and Mencius, of course, they should be the mainstay, but they are not absolute.

"University" and "The Mean" may also be questioned.

When I go to the township exam, because the exam will be overnight, the first one is basically three articles and four books, and there will definitely be a question in "University" and "The Mean".

If you want to mix well in this world, you must learn the Analects well, and in the primary exam, there is a high possibility that the Analects will have two questions, who will make Confucius a sage, and Mencius is just a sage?

This is followed by the second question.

As Zhu Hao expected, it was the title of "Analects": "Zi said that it would be easy to learn for a few years and fifty years."

The meaning is literal: "Confucius said, give me a few more years of life, let me start learning Yi at the age of 50, and I will be at no mistake." ”

……

The title is out.

It's about whether the county exam is passed, two essays, almost 800 words to write down, there is no punctuation in these years, how many words are said to be how many words, it is not difficult to complete in one day, but it is not necessary to say that it is simple.

The question is......

Not everyone present can understand the gist of these two articles.

Zhu Hao is not busy writing.

He was also reviewing the questions with great interest.

According to the rules of the Zhou rites, only the Son of Heaven can use eight hundreds, the princes use six hundreds, the secretary uses four hundreds, the scholars use two hundreds, and one hundred is eight people, that is to say, only the Son of Heaven is allowed to use eighty-eight sixty-four people to dance together.

If the Son of Heaven used eight hundreds, it was a transgression of etiquette.

In ancient China, the number of rituals was the most basic thing, and what could be taught rituals without the Fa, and even the Fa was designed to maintain rituals.

Needless to say, the person who wrote the question is Kuang Yangming, a Zhizhou who is about to step down.

An Luzhou, who is now the first heir to the throne, is about to step down from office, and there is such a topic...... Don't you want to tell others that you noticed that Xingwangfu had transgressions, but you were embarrassed to say it, so you used this question to express your true thoughts?

These scholars pay the most attention to moderation.

We also strive to be obscure.

Kuang Yangming has been in Anlu Prefecture for a few years, and he is not a minister of the traitor department, but he is definitely not a clean and honest minister, but he has little contact with the Xingwang Mansion, and occasionally intersects but has a good grasp of proportion, mainly because he is from the orthodox imperial examination, and the legal system is definitely not a vassal king to inherit the throne, even if the emperor has no children, he should find a child of the clan to raise in the palace as a righteous son, so as to inherit the throne.

In addition to the precedent of Song Renzong in the Song Dynasty when Song Yingzong established the emperor's heir, there were also many times in the Southern Song Dynasty when the emperor had no children to raise the family of the family, and there was even a precedent of Song Gaozong Zhao constructing a civil selection of sons.

Zhu Hao has to think about it.

Kuang Yangming is about to step down from Anlu Prefecture, and he doesn't know where to go for the time being, this kind of minister who was born as a jinshi, before leaving, showed that he had hinted in the county test that Xingwangfu had transgressed the number of etiquette, is it for the possible future battle between the court and Xingwangfu, asking for a solitary one?

If this is the case, then Kuang Yangming did not plan to have too much contact with Xingwangfu, nor did he plan to set up any "dragon merit" when Xingwang's son was likely to inherit the great treasure.

This is a manifestation of Kuang Yangming's clear line with Xingwangfu.

After knowing Kuang Yangming's position on Xingwangfu, and understanding his cognition of "the clan's encroachment on etiquette", Zhu Hao had a direction when he wrote the article - to write in the direction of criticizing the transgression of etiquette, and the more intense the criticism, the better.

Even the old master Zhu Xi said: "Confucius is the government, and the first is the right etiquette, then the crime of the Ji family cannot be punished." ”

There's just a problem.

After the seal of the exam paper was opened, Kuang Yangming found out that Zhu Hao's identity was a companion of Xingwangfu, would he be a hindrance?

knew that I was the companion of Xingwangfu, and he removed me in a fit of anger...... Nominally, all the results are determined before the opening, but the examiner still has the power to remove the name of a candidate who has passed the county exam from the list. In other words, even if he broke the rules and removed a student from the list, no one cared.

Case......

Then in addition to being harsh, I also want to show that I am "in Cao Ying's heart in Han", after all, I, Zhu Hao, am from the Zhu family of Jinyiwei, how can I have goodwill when I enter the Xingwang Mansion?

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Find the direction of the topic first.

The second question seems to be nothing on the surface, Confucius felt that after the age of fifty should study the Book of Changes, and said that there is nothing wrong with this.

But the question is......

I Ching, a lot of this thing is very mysterious, especially the "Yi" in the pre-Qin era, you must know that Confucius advocated "the son is silent and the strange power is chaotic", you go to learn the "Yi" after the age of fifty, does it go against your own views on the theory of yin and yang, ghosts and gods?

But in fact, it is easy to understand that the essence of "Yi" is the cycle of heavenly principles.

To put it bluntly, it is still the idea of "every grass and tree is reasonable" in Gewu Zhizhi.

Kuang Yangming is an orthodox adherent of science, during the Ming Dynasty Zhengde, the study of mind has long sprouted, Kuang Yangming or want to use this question to show that he must resolutely fight against the idea of mind, who reflects the idea of mind in the imperial examination article, influenced by it...... Want to be admitted to me? No way!

It's another pit.

Although it is not Kuang Yangming himself who nominally reads the papers, Kuang Yangming has the right to choose the examiners, which old scholars hold what ideas in the state and county boundaries, or who is close to the emerging psychology, can Kuang Yangming know? At that time, all the people he selected back were old scholars of science, and the minds of these people who studied the questions were also a top two, and at that time, a group of old Confucians of science picked out words and blocked all candidates who had the intention of learning from the admission list......

Not only should you be so prepared for the county exam, but you also have to be cautious about the prefectural exam.

That's what danger is.

The foundation of science is shaken, not because the study of mind wants to challenge the tradition, but because there are many deficiencies in the science of science, the old scholars are unwilling to accept the rise of the new school, and the suppression of the new school has also appeared in all dynasties......

Zhu Hao thought to himself, fortunately, I didn't really learn from Wang Shouren.

Otherwise, just this layer of identity, I took the imperial examination under Kuang Yangming, a conservative Confucian, and there was no door.

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If you find the direction, you will write an article.

The eight-strand text is divided into "breaking the topic, undertaking the topic, starting the topic, entering the topic, starting the stock, middle stock, back stock, and bundle of shares", because from the beginning of the stock to the bundle of shares, each needs to have two sentences of comparison and duality for argumentation, so it is called the eight-strand text.

The requirement is that in the "last four strands", the dual sentence should be written according to the format anyway.

Solving the problem is generally a single sentence, but the number of words in the sentence can be increased or decreased by taking the topic and starting to speak, and there is no fixed format.

In the article, it is often possible to add some argumentative sentences such as "vicarious", "overjointed", and "large knot", and there is no fixed format requirement.

This is different from writing a pun essay, which focuses on the words of a sage to discuss the topic.

"The husband and the minister are always moderate, and the Tao is natural and the law is determined by the right etiquette."

This is the problem solving.

Don't you Kuang Yangming admire "Zhou Yi"? Don't think that I don't know that you are advocating Taoism, then I will talk to you about etiquette, and then I will talk to you about Taoism.

I won't tell you anything about "is it tolerable or unbearable", I will tell you about the law of the monarch and the minister, the king is the minister, and the emperor is the king, so only after the rules of etiquette and music, can the number of respect and humility of the monarch and the minister be determined, and the matter of "Ji's use of eight hundreds" is not from the encroachment of etiquette and music to the encroachment of the people's hearts and laws?

If you want to be liturgical, then I'll talk to you about liturgy.

With the solution to the problem, the next topic is to talk about what I should do after I find that someone has trespassed on etiquette and music: "People with lofty ideals should return to morality and guard their hearts with etiquette, and those who are chaotic and ordinary sit and do not follow their ways. ”

It means that as a virtuous person, of course, I can't sit idly by and watch the existence of people who are chaotic with etiquette and music, not only must I be virtuous and understand that I am not chaotic with etiquette and music, but also break with this kind of person, and I can't be the same as him, if I have the ability, I will be added to prison, if I am not capable, what is my small body? Fight with him!

After writing these on the scratch paper, Zhu Hao felt that he was going to be a man of lofty ideals.

This is going to burn the jade with the people of the Ranliturg Sect.

Kwong Yangming, Kwong Yangming, when you hear me confess so earnestly, you may feel the sincerity and eagerness in my heart? You may feel that I am in the same path as you?

------Off topic------

At the beginning of the month, I continued to ask for a monthly pass, thank you!

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