Transmigrating to the Ming Dynasty’s Imperial Examination

Four drums enter the arena and unwind at dawn.

It was not until the very beginning of Shenshi that Cui Xie copied the three questions of "Linzhi", "My Goblin's Son", and "Mandate of Destiny" that had been printed in the PDF on the draft paper, revised according to the requirements of this proposition, and copied it on the official examination paper After finishing the first two questions, only leave the title of "Destiny and Multiplying", and clarify it after the "Incomprehension in position, the people's vitality" is done.

The title is from "Daya·Fake Music", the first sentence is "Fake music gentleman, show morality". In "The Doctrine of the Mean", it is written as "Jia Le gentleman, constitutional decree of virtue", Jia Le means beauty and joy. However, the typos of the ancients are called Tongjiazi, which cannot be easily modified by later generations. Even a saint like Zhu Xi can only attach the correct words to the back to explain the poetry.

Since the birth of Zhu Shengren, no matter the original text of the Book of Songs or the preface of the poems, later generations of students have not taken it seriously, and they have all followed the notes. In the poem preface, "Fake Le" is a poem to praise Cheng Wang, but Zhu Zi said that "Fake Le" is "possibly" a ceremonial ceremonial, which was used in the ancestral temple of the Zhou Dynasty. When writing a poem, they have to follow the idea of ​​the poem, and they have to contact the above and write a sentence or two in the "Tai Ling".

"Taipei" is a very simple poem of "bin corpse", which is to invite the first king to enjoy the sacrificial food and bless the royal family.

However, the corpse of the public in the ceremonies is not the real corpse, but refers to the ancestors, designated by the Zhou king to play the role of the ancestor, who receives the sacrifice on behalf of the prince, blesses the royal family, and the world’s officials, and the sacrifice is completed when the corpse rises. The corpse refers to its identity-it does not receive the sacrifice as a person but the corpse of the ancestor; while the public is the honorific name for the prince who played the role of the prince in the sacrifice.

The two poems "Taiyi" and "Fake Music" are next to each other in the volume of "Daya". Song Confucian believes that "Fake Music" is praised by the corpse after being sacrificed to the gentleman. May the emperor make virtue glorious, solemn and majestic, and rule the world The poem. Although this poem focuses on praising the emperor "Jia Le", it also implies a bit of euphemism and persuasion. This gentle irony is in the last sentence of "Incomprehensible in position, the people are in harmony".

The full text of this paragraph is: Zhi Gang Zhi Ji, Yan and friends. Baipi Qingshi, charming to the emperor. Incomprehensible, the people are at stake.

The friends in it do not refer to the current friends, but the court officials. Baipi is a vassal, incomprehension means not being lazy, and 墍 means rest. If the monarch can discipline the Quartet and make all his ministers depend on him, he will naturally be gentle and love the emperor; the cardinal and the important ministers will settle down, and the monarchs and ministers will be able to govern and maintain harmony. At this time, the people can rest in peace.

This sentence is meant to persuade the monarch to be diligent in government affairs.

If you just want to be simple and smooth, follow the title text and write "The ancient gentleman does not neglect government affairs, so it is good for the people to rest", but it is too plain to write, and the whole article is bound to " Diligent" in the word. Breaking the topic is the general outline of the article. Once the topic is broken, it is difficult to extend the content of the article to the main theme of the poem.

And the real theme of this poem is not the last faint remonstrance, but the first sentence of "fake music gentleman, show morality", it is the first hymn to praise the monarch's virtue and government and praise the blessing as a "corpse". , I wish the gentleman good and happy.

How can we start from the comfort of the people to the gentleman’s Jiale moral governance... Cui Xie wrote a few "Jia Le" on the manuscript, and there was a vague idea of ​​grasping the word "De" as a clue in his mind, but it was vaguely It cannot be chained together.

As time passed bit by bit, the supervisor had circled in front of him twice, and the sun gradually slanted toward the test shed. To prevent cheating in the examination room, if you cannot finish the question within the application time, you will not be given the opportunity to follow the candle. Only after you finish the question, only one or a half draft is left untranslated.

If this article can't be written, then his test will really become a "viewing field", just as a three-day trip to Chunwei! If he can't finish the first scene, is he embarrassed to meet Xie Ying? A failed student who didn't finish the first test of the test and Jin Yiwei's outstanding civil servants are not a good match!

The tip of his pen repeatedly traced the last word "le" for an unknown number of times, and the ink dipped into the wooden board. It wasn't until the draft paper got wet that he woke up suddenly, picked up the paper and blew it, the black music on the paper was heavily printed in front of his eyes, and a sentence came out between the flashes of lightning and the fire——

Fu Musicians, Germany is also Hua!

He also thought about how to contact Le and De, this is not the case!

Although this is the music of music, not the music of leisure in poems, there is another sentence in "Book of Rites·Yue Ji" that "the husband musician, the music is also". Music itself is the embodiment of the joy of the heart, and music is the essence of virtue. "A gentleman can make his education through music." With music as a method of education, the people can be taught by music, and they can also subtly infect the gentle and gentle character.

A gentleman is beautiful and happy, and has a glorious character. And the sound of its morality is made into music. The people are edified by music and infected with the virtues of gentlemen, benevolence, filial piety, and loyalty, and the country will be stable because of it, and protect its monarch, Shangxia and Mu. Wouldn't it be the poem "Fake Music" Praise the gentleman to make virtue manifest and retain the original meaning of the world?

The word "le" is certain, and the article comes out!

Cui Xie threw the damp draft paper aside, took out a new piece of paper in front of him, and broke the question starting from the word "le"-"It is the great achievement of music, see the deep connotation of gentleman!"

"Musicians, virtues are also", and music is moralization. The people feel the music and follow the way. Doesn't it reflect the virtuous virtue of a gentleman "incomprehensible"?

After breaking the "Gentleman's Virtue" in this sentence, he immediately began to talk about the method of music transformation: the gentle music that the gentleman transforms his own way into the music of peace, the music contains the way of enlightenment, and the people can be stabilized!

Such a solemn song and music with the gentleman's way circulated from the imperial court, and the music conveyed the king's heart and the king's government to the hearts of the people without any hindrance, leading them to good; the people have been influenced by virtue and music for a long time, and the virtue of gentleman will gradually disappear. Greed and selfish desire in the heart makes the world peaceful.

This is the change of customs, and this is the effect of music education.

In the first four comparisons, "happiness" was entered into "de", and wrote how the gentleman's "jiale" became the people's "easy happiness", and the sentence of the topic was spread to the main theme of the whole article. The last four comparisons will return from the poem. Subject.

There is a saying in the mean, so the great virtue must be ordered. Ordered to heaven is a king. Those who are kings must discipline the Quartet, command and maintain the people, not to be lost.

From the word "Gangji", the paragraph of "Gangji, Yan and Friends" where the original title is located is written smoothly. All the officials and the people are subject to the rule of the king, and they all settle down and do their own things. The officials are not lazy or lazy, and the people are not deceived by harsh and chaotic politics, so they can naturally be happy.

If you are not slacking and the people are happy, the country can be peaceful only when the people are happy. This is where the "gong corpse" made this poem in response to the "Fu Ling" poem presented at the emperor's sacrifice ceremony.

The article is almost completed here, but only the person who wrote it hasn't been written yet. Dare to pick this kind of poem with the meaning of satirizing the emperor as the title in the examination room, and it means to use it to advise the emperor.

This question is 80% not from Yin Ge, but from Wu Youyude. Wu Yude is the teacher of the future emperor Hongzhi, and his masters and disciples have a frank and admonishing temperament. They will definitely be a good pair of monarchs in the next dynasty. But this question came from the Chenghua dynasty and was destined to be an unpopular question, and most of the students who answered the question did not dare to write irony.

But he wanted to write a try.

Not to try to figure out the mind of the master, but to write this article more complete and more in line with the original meaning of the topic; as a student of Li Dongyang, a person who has brushed up his reputation for so long should be a bit of a teacher. What's more, only a few words on the paper to persuade the monarch to accept advice is not a taboo thing, and the emperor will not be cruel enough because he persuades him to send him to imprisonment.

——Just enter, the director of the prison is still his boyfriend, so he should have a honeymoon in advance.

The big deal is that the examiner doesn't like his article, but this is the penultimate of the five scriptures, and no examiner will read it carefully. If his previous article is good enough, he can naturally get it; if he doesn't get it, it means that his overall level is insufficient, and he is not in this half-line irony.

The application time has not yet arrived, and there is still time to add another big knot.

At the end of "Fake Music", Zhu Zi's note "Fang Jiazhi, and the ruler, the meaning of Gai Gao Tao Geng Ge" is the seal of this poem to satirize the monarch.

Gao Tao's "Gengge" persuaded Yao, first praising the emperor and his ministers at the time for their own place, the king was good and the ministers were good, and they each performed their own government; he also advised Yao not to go beyond the ministerial duties and pay attention to trivial affairs, which made the ministers lazy. Make everything ruin. The poem "Fake Music" also followed Gu Xian's persuasive intentions, in addition to the poem to persuade the cardinal and his ministers to do their best in government affairs, so that the people can live comfortably.

He wrote Gao Tao and "Fake Music" from Tang Yu, Xia and Zhou's affairs, but they all have the meaning of irony, asking questions, answering questions, and transcribing them as ministers.

When the ruler is in Kangtai, or when he has forgotten his worries, the courtiers should take up the responsibility of persuading the ruler. However, it is also difficult to enter the remonstrance of Mingjun. Gaotao and Gongzu can only embed the meaning of persuasion in the poems, and later courtiers imitated them. For example, if Shilong said that the Queen Mother Zhao, he used his descendants as the introduction. Advise the Queen Mother not to interfere with national affairs from the way of loving her son.

For the example of Shilong, he only wrote "The words to love his children and grandchildren", but he didn't write it all, and he couldn't write it down anymore.

It can be said that it is a matter of succession to write here, and to write it again is not to persuade a hundred and one, but to point to the emperor's refusal. He is just a candidate to be tested, and he is not an imperial historian. He does not have the power to remonstrate, and the emperor cannot see what is written on this scroll.

He shook his head and chuckled, regardless of whether the essay could fall into the hands of the examiner or what the examiner might judge, he only slowly copied it onto the official roll of paper.

After the application was about to pass, the supervisor personally visited the field and saw that there was only one untranslated draft on his examination paper, and the text that did not flow out quickly, printed the draft with Zhu Yin, and turned back to the captain of the tour. Nod, and promise three candles.

At dusk, the whole audience offered candles uniformly. The patrol captain brought a candlestick and lit it with his own hands, and put the other two aside. Cui Xie didn't use the three sticks either. When the first candle burned out, all the twelve rolls of paper had been transcripted clearly and cleanly, not even a single dot of ink was left.

He also no longer gave himself the opportunity to regret revising, rolled up the paper and went to the officer receiving the paper, handed in the paper and recorded the name, and went out of the gate.

People from Cui and Li's family were waiting outside, nervously asking him why he came out so late today, how he did the test, and whether he had any clues in his heart. Cui Xie calmly listened to their questioning and asked the Li family to thank the teacher for his concern on his behalf. Then he sent Cui's parents back to report the letter. He pulled the little white horse and looked sideways to the opposite side of the examination room with a handful of things outside the shop. People who feed horses.

The man was wearing a black cloak, the upper half of his face was covered, only slightly upturned lips and a sharp and powerful chin curve were exposed. However, Cui Xie saw him clearly through the shadow of his hood at the first glance, and felt a sense of peace and joy in his heart, and smiled at him.

The man also picked up the corners of his lips, nodded slightly, turned on his horse, and disappeared into the long street.

The family beside him watched him smiling at the empty place across the street, and asked unclearly, "My son, is there anything over there?"

Nothing, but there was the person he wanted to see most.

Cui Xie still smiled and didn't explain anything. He just turned on his horse and said: "Go back, I will show the question to the teacher tomorrow."