Chapter 30 30 Exam Magic Weapons (New Year's Eve Is Here, I Wish You a Happy Family Reunion

Chapter 30 30 Exam Magic Weapons (New Year's Eve is here, I wish you a happy family reunion and good health)

"This gathering is actually hosted by Zeng Yuanshu. He has a distant relative who came back to worship his ancestors. He is from Chengtian, Huguang, and just passed the examination for a scholar this year. His name is Zeng Shengwu. He is about the same age as us, two years older, less than 20 years old, and can be considered a talent."

Wu Dong began to introduce. In fact, this gathering was, on the one hand, for the Zeng family to introduce their children to other scholars, and on the other hand, to show off. Although no one in the younger generation of the Zeng family has passed the examination for a scholar, there are talented people among their relatives.

Passing the examination for a scholar before the age of 20 was very impressive in ancient times. If you are lucky, it is still relatively reliable to pass the examination for a juren or jinshi in the next few years.

The Ming and Qing dynasties were the period when the imperial examination system was perfected. From the most basic county examination to the final palace examination, there were actually few people who passed the examination for a jinshi under the age of 20.

Yes, but very few.

Most of the Jinshi candidates were on the list when they were in their thirties or forties, and many of them were still rolling up their sleeves to take the exam for the scholar at the age of twenty.

"By the way, cousin, do you have any sample papers of outstanding candidates in recent years?"

This time, Wei Guangde knew very well that the main job of his parents and elder brother was to finalize the marriage, and when it came to him, it was natural to find more excellent eight-part essays.

Although he had only written eight-part essays for two months, Wei Guangde still realized that it was really important to read, remember and write more.

Read more excellent articles by others, remember the viewpoints and wording, and apply them when writing eight-part essays. This is what Wei Guangde has to do now.

Eight-part essays are difficult to say, but they are not difficult.

For people with excellent memory, you see the questions given by the examiner, know the meaning and source of the questions, and then the rest will be easy.

According to the structure of the eight-part essay, and the questions that have already appeared, your own views on the questions are to do it.

The reason why Wei Guangde still wants to write more is actually that he is extremely uncomfortable with the current culture.

Although the soul of young Wei Guangde has been integrated, the later Wei Guangde is the dominant one.

In the later generations, Wei Guangde's essays from primary school to middle school were all written in vernacular Chinese. Who the hell can write those flowery sentences?

Since he can't write, he can only write more, enrich the language in his mind by writing more, and form a kind of memory.

In fact, most of the eight-part essays are empty nonsense, because everyone basically has similar views. The only difference is how to use words to make people feel novel.

Most examiners in the Ming Dynasty advocated truth-seeking and uprightness, and only allowed candidates to write solid and mature rigid articles. They were not allowed to use gorgeous words like poetry and prose, and they were not allowed to quote any books other than classics.

The last one is true. Wei Guangde rarely quoted other books after reading a lot of eight-part essays.

Of course, maybe it's related to the county examination papers he is reading now. After all, the level is there.

But the word "flowery words" in the mouth of Master Sun depends on the examiner. Not all eight-part essays should be stagnant.

If the examiner likes poetry and prose, then the words should be flowery.

What Master Sun taught Wei Guangde was more about exam-oriented education, trying every means to pass the exam.

Of course, for these, which are also opportunistic things, Wei Guangde is not disgusted.

Well, after saying so much, in fact, Wei Guangde needs to find more excellent eight-part essays to recite, at least to understand most of the questions, how to solve the questions, and to understand the views of scholars of this era.

After all, Wei Guangde's current thinking on many issues is actually incompatible with people of this era. He doesn't want to show it, so he should just be in the same boat.

As for the solution, it is to copy, copy other people's views, write them in a different way, so that they are not abrupt, and get the fame first.

At this time, Wei Guangde was actually thinking only of fame and fortune. It was not easy to get to the ancient times, and beautiful wives and concubines, and a life of luxury and debauchery were what he wanted at this time.

But Wei Guangde's family background was like that now, and he had to rely on himself to get these.

In the future, if you want to live a good life, you have to work hard from elementary school to high school, and only by entering a good university can you have the opportunity to enjoy it for decades.

Now in the Ming Dynasty, if you want to live a good life, Wei Guangde also plans to work hard for twelve years and strive to get fame.

Now Wei Guangde's goal, the minimum requirement is to be a scholar, and then he can still be domineering and powerful for the rest of his life in Ma Dang.

The second goal is of course to be a juren, and of course there is also the ultimate goal, which is to pass the examination and participate in the palace examination, get a jinshi out, and become an official.

If he only passed the juren exam, Wei Guangde would not plan to become an official, after all, the official position is too small.

Two months ago, Wei Guangde remembered that there was such a great man in the Ming Dynasty, that is Hai Rui, but Hai's life is definitely not what he wants.

But Wei Guangde did remember that Hai Rui seemed not to be a Jinshi, but a Juren official.

Juren becoming an official naturally faces many obstacles, but fortunately Hai Rui insisted on his own characteristics and persisted until his old age, from a minor official to a third-rank official or several ranks, but it seems that his official career was not smooth.

Wei Guangde did not want to be a corrupt official, nor did he want to be an honest official, so it was best for him to stay in his hometown.

If he could win the title of Juren in these twelve years of struggle, Wei Guangde also planned to take the imperial examination.

Of course, these are a bit far away for Wei Guangde now, but he still needs to prepare.

The first step of preparation is, of course, to collect excellent articles and memorize them by rote.

As for saying that such articles have no ideas and no connotation, it is actually not important to Wei Guangde. He does not expect himself to rush to the top three or six.

I remember that in a novel I saw in later generations, it was said that in the era of a certain emperor in the Ming Dynasty, if you won the first place, the second place, or the third place, you would be in trouble and be made unable to take care of yourself by the then prime minister.

Wei Guangde couldn't judge whether it was true or not, but he didn't want to be the first bird, and enjoying life was what he wanted to do.

Wu Dong naturally had some such articles here, and there were quite a few of them. In addition to some repeated ones, there were many that Wei Guangde didn't have.

Just reading them and reading them several times can make you remember them, but this is not what Wei Guangde wants to be stable. It is better to have a copy in your hand and read it when you have nothing to do.

Unfortunately, most of the articles collected by Wu Dong are handwritten. After all, these articles are of a low quality, and there is no bookstore to print and sell them.

Looking at the article on the table that Wei Guangde turned out, Wu Dong smiled and said, "I will ask someone to copy it for you later. For a few taels of silver, there are many scholars who are eager to help you copy these.

However, copying by yourself is actually the best. Not only can it deepen your memory, but it can also practice calligraphy.

By the way, you can also ask other people when you get together the day after tomorrow. I dare not say anything else, but the Zeng family must have collected a lot of such articles"