Chapter 276 Jin You Feng Fu
When I woke up, it was already the setting sun in the afternoon.
Zhu Pingan opened his eyes and saw the test questions for this exam. They were placed on the simple table made of wooden boards and pressed down with his own inkstone. The person who issued the papers should have seen him sleeping. Taixiang didn't wake herself up, so she put it on the table and pressed it with an inkstone.
The examiners should be the ones who set the questions for this exam. Once the examiners were confirmed in the Ming Dynasty, they had to go straight to the Gongyuan. The Gongyuan would be sealed off immediately and heavily guarded. Birds and ants could not get out. No entry allowed! These examiners will not be released until the examination is completed, the papers are corrected, and the rankings are determined.
This is for the sake of confidentiality, for the fairness of the imperial examination, and to avoid leaking questions for personal gain.
As usual, the number of questions in the first test of the general examination is similar to that of the provincial examination. There are seven questions in total, including three questions on the meaning of the Four Books and four questions on the meaning of the Five Classics. This is the most important test for the Eight-Part Membership Examination.
I heard that the official examiner this time is the famous Xu Jie in history, who defeated Yan Song. Therefore, Zhu Pingan was very interested in the questions he presided over and wanted to take a look at them. What is the topic that the author has racked his brains to come up with?
Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but gently push away the rabbit fur blanket covering his body. He stood up and washed his hands briefly, then tidied up the table, put pens, inks, papers and inkstones in order, and officially started his meeting. Try the Fish Leaping Dragon Gate Tour.
Open the test paper, and the questions for this exam will appear in front of you.
If the first exam is the most important exam in this exam, then the first question is the most important question in this exam. The quality of your eight-part essay writing in this first question almost determines your success or failure in this exam.
"The people of Jin have Feng's wife, and Feng's wife rushes to get out of the car."
This is the first question of this examination. For most candidates, this question is slightly different from usual.
Generally, the title of the eight-legged essay is to choose one sentence, two sentences, or a chapter from the "Four Books" as the title, which is consistent. But there is something different about today's question. It is disconnected. "There is a woman named Feng in Jin Dynasty" and "Mrs. Feng got off the car with her arms crossed" are not connected together. There are other sentences between them. This method of setting questions is called cut-and-match questions. This kind of questions is very innovative. You don’t have to worry about it being the same as the previous questions, and you don’t have to worry about someone cheating.
Actually, similar questions have appeared before this exam, but not many, only about once or twice. Although today's eight-part question is a cross-section question, it is relatively simple among the cross-section questions. Everyone can understand it and it is relatively easy to write an eight-part essay.
When they saw this question, the candidates were only slightly surprised by this question, but they all understood it, so there was no noise.
This title comes from "Mencius. Try your best". "There was a woman named Feng in the Jin Dynasty. She was good at fighting tigers and she became a good soldier. In the wild, there were people chasing tigers, and the tigers were trapped in the ground. No one dared to pick on them. When they saw Mrs. Feng, they rushed to meet her. Mrs. Feng rushed to get off the car. , everyone is pleased with it, and those who are scholars laugh at it.”
Seeing this topic, Zhu Pingan thought for a while.
After writing this eight-legged essay, you can simply understand it from the title. Although you have to write around the title when writing, you need to combine the context at the time to understand the meaning of the title. At that time, the state of Qi was suffering from famine. Chen Zhen said to Mencius: "People in the country thought that the teacher would once again persuade the king of Qi to open the granary in Tangdi to help the victims. Probably he should not do this again." Mencius did not answer him. He didn't go to persuade King Qi to open a position, but said that if he went, it would be Feng Fu, and then told Chen Zhen the story of Feng Fu.
Why did the scholars ridicule Feng Fu?
Zhu Pingan thought carefully, and felt from the tone of Mencius's words that he did not completely deny Feng Fu's actions, because "being Feng Fu again" actually gained the support of everyone, and Feng Fu saved After costing so many people's lives, it was only the scholars who laughed at Feng Fu.
Zhu Pingan imagined himself as Mencius. If he were Mencius, would I persuade the King of Qi to release grain?
Which is more important, a joke or a statement?
I would persuade King Qi to release grain, but Mencius wouldn’t!
To put it into perspective, today’s Ming Dynasty is dominated by captives from the north and Japanese from the south. There were also frequent famines in the country, and then Zhu Pingan understood what the person who asked the question meant.
So, I grinded the ink and laid out the paper, put pen to paper on the draft paper and started to make the eight-legged pattern.
"The people of Jin changed their careers to do good in the beginning. In the end, they lost themselves by betraying others."
This is the first sentence written by Zhu Pingan, which is the title of this eight-legged essay. The meaning of this sentence The meaning is this: The person named Feng Fu in the Jin Dynasty was able to change his brave and strong behavior at first and become a good and kind person. Later, for the safety of others, he lost his existing behavioral style and became tough again.
This sentence breaks the topic very well. It perfectly summarizes the story of Feng’s wife in Jin Dynasty, who rushed to get off the car. It is also the main theme of the article, making it clear at a glance.
Then Zhu Pingan continued to write, and Zhu Pingan continued to write the part that carries the title. Feng Fu has become a kind person, why does she still go to hunt tigers? Mencius probably knew this story, so he compared it to asking him to persuade the King of Qi to open the granary to relieve the victims.
After writing the title part, Zhu Pingan stopped writing, put his hands on his head, rubbed his forehead, and began to think deeply.
The first eight-part essay at the beginning almost determines the success or failure of this examination. It is not that easy to stand out among the best candidates in the country. As for the eight-part essay, those who can break out of the tight siege of the Tongsheng Examination and the Provincial Examination are all of a very high standard, and everyone has a solid foundation in the eight-part essay.
If you want to stand out, if you want to attract the examiner's attention among more than 5,000 eight-part essays, and get a good ranking, a smooth eight-part essay is not enough, you need innovation.
You have to make the examiner’s eyes light up.
After thinking for a moment, Zhu Pingan suddenly curled his lips slightly, and there seemed to be the light of a shooting star in his eyes.
Haha, yes, then I dipped it in ink and continued to write.
In the middle part and the back part of this eight-part article, Zhu Pingan changed the way of discussion in the past and used description to exaggerate and exaggerate the crisis situation of people before Feng Fu attacked the tiger, and also described Feng Fu's actions of attacking the tiger. The image is drawn.
Of course, it also uses two lines of parallel text, but it uses description rather than discussion. In this way, this eight-part essay is enough to stand out among the more than five thousand eight-part essays.
It was getting dark, so Zhu Ping'an lit a candle, turned on the light, and wrote the last paragraph of this eight-legged essay in Mencius' emotional tone:
"Oh, If Feng's wife was a tiger, she didn't know that she was a good person at the end; He is already a good man, and he does not know that he will become a tiger again. However, it is no different from Feng Fuzhi who is responsible for invigilating Zhu Ping'an. The soldiers at home were stunned for a moment when they saw Zhu Ping'an writing furiously under the candlelight.
The candidate with the bad number in the other direction has vomited seven or eight times, but we, the examinee, don’t feel like sitting in the bad number for the exam at all. We eat well and sleep soundly, that’s all. But this person actually did it consecutively The questions flowed smoothly, and were not affected at all by the toilet next door.
After finishing writing, Zhu Pingan put down his writing brush, read the eight-part essay he had written, and nodded with satisfaction. (End of this chapter)