Chapter 393: A Hundred Years of Mystery
The poem "Hidden Moon Mountain House" is of great significance to Wang Yangming, and it has a far-reaching impact on Su Wen.
If it weren't for this poem, maybe Su Wen wouldn't have been able to enlighten his mind in the temple at all!
This poem is very simple at first glance, and the talent revealed in it is not high, after all, it is only a 15-year-old child's writing, but this poem is not simple, because it was with this poem that Wang Yangming was able to win the literary position and become a literati!
Later, it was precisely when Su Wen read Wang Yangming's deeds and read this poem that he was able to make a splash in the holy temple, leading the eight talents to add to his body, and taking the text of others in his own body!
So when it comes to being familiar with Cheng Dù of "Hidden Moon Mountain House", everyone present is no match for Su Wen.
Moreover, Su Wen knows better than them what the meaning of this poem is.
Compared with the artistic conception and words of this poem, the most important thing about "Covering the Moon Mountain House" is the philosophical meaning expressed in it and the new understanding of the world.
"The mountain is near the moon and the moon is far away, and the moon is small, so this mountain is larger than the moon. This poem not only illustrates that distance can produce visual errors, but also has a deeper meaning for Su Wen.
When we look at a problem, we are often deceived by its appearance.
Whether it's sight, smell, hearing, touch, or even intuition, it can deceive you and make it difficult for us to see things as they are!
So, how can you not be deceived by the appearance of things?
In fact, Wang Yangming has already given the answer in the second line of the poem: "If people have eyes as big as the sky, they can see that the mountains and small moons are wider." ”
Su Wen has the mind of a modern person, so he can easily read the true meaning of this sentence.
That's what it actually means. As long as you have a broad vision and an open mind. Then it is natural to see the essence of things without being deceived by their appearance.
Because it's always easy to see low from above. Clearly, so if your mind can be above a qiē, you can see through a qiē vanity lightly!
Of course, this is a simple statement, but it is difficult to do.
If you think about it more deeply, this poem "The Mountain House of the Hidden Moon" also aims to tell the world a very profound truth: practice is the only criterion for testing the truth!
This is the most common sentence that Su Wen saw in the political studies he studied from elementary school to university in his previous life, but many people regarded it as a cliché. Empty words, but who would have thought that after arriving in the Sacred Words Continent, Wang Yangming University Scholar would use another method to reveal the existence of this supreme truth.
If you want to know whether the mountain is big or the moon is big, the only way is to climb the mountain and take a look at it and pull the moon down to compare!
Su Wen had read this poem "Hidden Moon Mountain House" long before the enlightenment of Linchuan City, so at this time, he didn't think much about it, and he had already put all the insights in his mind on paper. The end of his pen is like a flowing cloud, without any blockage.
After writing hundreds of words, Su Wen accepted the pen with satisfaction, and the time it took him to answer this question. It's even shorter than the second question!
This shows that the so-called speed of writing actually lies in the speed of thinking.
If you are hesitant in your mind about the solution process. After pondering it repeatedly, even if the final answer is only four words. It also takes a lot of time, and if you have a plan. If you are determined, you will write like a god from now on.
At this point, Su Wen has successfully answered the third question of the essay exam, and to his relief, in the subsequent test questions, the content of the school has finally begun to become more and more "normal".
The fourth question of the essay test is based on a landscape ink painting, and on the basis of conforming to the artistic conception of the ink painting, the higher the level of the composition, the higher the score.
And what makes people breathe a sigh of relief is that this question does not require that the final song must be original, and if you can find the best songs of the previous music powerhouses to complement it, it can be regarded as a correct answer.
At the same time as seeing this question, Su Wen couldn't help but raise his head and look towards the place where Mu Xi was sitting, a trace of worry flashed in his eyes.
Mu Xi is from a family of music saints and is good at piano music, and it stands to reason that this question is the easiest for her.
But Su Wen knows very well that this question is also not simple.
At first glance, the painting depicts a bustling scene of a market in the middle of the valley, with the mountains full of people, hawkers carrying their burdens, horsemen resting in the shade of trees, travelers strolling around the streets, and customers bargaining.
The entire mountain road seems to be crowded, and the traffic is busy, giving people the feeling that the whole picture is filled.
But Su Wen has the painting in his hand, so he can see at a glance that the people in the painting are actually fake!
At this point, anyone who walks in the way of painting can find the cat greasy from the sluggish demeanor and empty eyes of everyone in the painting, and the person in the painting is not a real person, but a clay sculpture, bronze statue and the like.
Although the whole painting seems full of life, this vitality does not come from the so-called "market", but from the greenery.
If you don't know how to draw, it's easy to be confused by this technique, and then think that the theme of this painting is talking about people.
In fact, the dummies in the painting are just a trick, and the purpose of the painting is the whole valley!
Su Wen has a painting position and a piano position, so this question is very simple for him, and he has no time to worry about Mu Xi at this time, so he immediately picked up the pen and wrote his answer on the exam paper.
In the end, Su Wen did not take the risk of composing an original wonderful music, but silently wrote a song from the half-saint Xiang Hui of Ledao.
The fifth question is the history of the school and the way of tea art.
The difficulty of the sixth question is that the knowledge of martial arts has been added, and if it is not from the martial arts, I am afraid it will be difficult to answer it correctly.
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Unconsciously, Su Wen became more and more handy in answering questions, and the pen was getting faster and faster, and none of the questions could stump him!
Half an hour into the exam, the second candidate had already gotten up to hand in the paper.
After all, for the vast majority of people present, the joint entrance examination essay test still has to try their luck, and if they encounter exam questions that they don't know, they either rely on blind guessing, or simply skip them and don't answer, and only answer questions related to their own academic qualifications.
Therefore, most candidates only need half an hour to finish this exam.
After the Jiguo candidate handed in the papers, many people got up from their seats one after another, and after the inspection deacon of the Supervision and Examination Division collected the papers, they walked into the martial arts examination hall without looking back.
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It has been an hour since the start of the exam, and Mu Xi has already gotten up to hand in the papers, the reason why she has been delayed for so long is mainly to spend her pen and ink on the last open question, otherwise she might have stopped writing and left the venue a long time ago.
At this point, there are only three candidates left in the entire huge literary examination hall.
An Qiye, Ouyang Ke, and, Su Wen!
Mu Xi did not go to the Martial Arts Test Hall at the first time, but stood outside the examination room, staring intently at the place where Su Wen was, and prayed silently in his heart.
It is not only Mu Xi who did not enter the martial arts examination hall after the exam, in fact, there were still hundreds of students waiting on the sidelines at this time, they wanted to see who the winner of this literary examination was.
Is it An Qiye, who has won the top spot in the literary examination for two consecutive years, and is known as having the ability to never forget his eyes, or Ouyang Ke, who is from a family of sages and is known as the first genius of the young man of Tianlan Country?
Or is it the Su Wen who returned in a low-key manner, the only one of the Terrans who has been canonized as a saint by the Holy Domain for decades?
Of course, the results of the essay exam cannot come out so quickly, and after the candidates submit the papers, they still need to go through ten examiners to mark and mark the papers, but at least they can see who the last person to hand in the papers is.
The questions in this year's JAO essay exam are very difficult, or very tricky, and now all the people who have submitted the papers have not been able to answer all the test questions, they have only answered the questions they know, and at most they will spend some time checking the errors, omissions and papers.
Therefore, on a certain course, the longer the answer time, the more questions you will answer!
At the level of An Qiye, Ouyang Ke and Su Wen, it is naturally impossible to deliberately prolong the time for handing in the papers just for the sake of so-called vanity or face, so since they are still answering questions, it means that they can answer at least more test questions than these people outside the field!
Because of the barrier of the formation in the field, people can't see where the three of them have answered, and whether they have answered all the last few difficult test questions?
They just waited quietly for the final result, their eyes solemn and divine.
In the field, Su Wen had already finished answering the penultimate question, and the meaning of this question was probably based on an interesting story in the mountains and wilderness to infer what level the demon beasts in an unknown mountain range were.
If you want to solve this question completely, you need to integrate the knowledge of geography, history, mathematics, poetry appreciation and other aspects, so this question took Su Wen a long time, and after writing the final answer, he couldn't help but put down the pen in his hand, and did not rush to turn the last page, but closed his eyes and rubbed his eyebrows, as if he was replenishing the mind consumed before.
After a while, Su Wen reopened his eyes, sat down in his seat and moved his hands and feet, and waited for his stiff body to warm up again, then he cheered up and turned the last page of the exam paper.
Then his gaze froze.
The wrist that had regained grip on the ink pen suddenly tightened.
The last question in the joint entrance examination is usually an essay question, which is possible from literature and Taoism to people's livelihood and politics.
This question is also the one with the highest score in the whole set of test questions, so it took Mu Xi half an hour to answer it completely.
But when Su Wen saw this question, he couldn't help but be stunned.
He never expected that such a question would appear in this year's joint entrance examination.
Because there can never be a correct answer to this question, otherwise, how could it be the first puzzle of human civilization in a hundred years?
This question is very simple, and it only adds up to a dozen words.
"Let me ask, why has there been no saint in our clan's Wendao for a hundred years?" (to be continued......)