Prime Minister

Chapter 257
When the examiner was correcting the poems and prose papers overnight, Zhang Yue fell asleep after returning to Taixue.

The consumption of poems and prose in the first show during the day was really too much, and he didn't have a good rest the night before, so Zhang Yue didn't even have a dream at night and slept for nearly eight hours before recovering his energy.

When Zhang Yue got up, he saw that the sun was past noon.

Huang Lu was already turning the pages of the book.

Huang Lu is not the kind of person who waits for Huang Haoyi, who usually keeps saying that he has not learned, and then secretly works hard.

Huang Lu does not study hard, but he has his own rhythm.

The most important thing is to have your own thinking mode. In the words of Confucius, it means that my way is consistent.

Before the examination of poetry and fu, he and Zhang Yue worked hard to recite poems and fu every day. Now the second and third sessions are about discussing strategies, while Huang Lu read Han Yu's ancient essays.

In Ouyang Xiu's words, the ancient prose of the Tang Dynasty began with Han Yu, and the one who imitated Han but did not master it was Huangfu Shi; the one who imitated Huangfu Shi but did not master it was Sun Qiao.Since the fall of the woodcutter, there is nothing to see.

In other words, the Tang Dynasty ancient texts that can be viewed at a glance are Sun Qiao, Huangfu Shi, and Han Yu.

But the most respected or Han Yu.

Zhang Yue studied Confucian classics and knew that Wang Anshi and other Song Dynasty Confucian scholars admired Han Yu the most. His idea of ​​respecting Mencius became the mainstream of Confucianism in the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Han Yu is known as "the decline of the eight generations of writing, and the drowning of Dao's benefit to the world".

As for the format of policy theory is ancient prose, also known as prose, which is different from rhyme and parallel prose. Articles do not talk about rhythm, but instead focus on content.

Han Yu's ancient prose has "Mr. Changli Collected Works" in the Song Dynasty.

When Ouyang Xiu was in Li's house in Suizhou, he took this book as if he had jumped off a cliff to pick up a secret book, and secretly took it home and studied it with great concentration.In the end, it was Han Yu who inspired Ouyang Xiu to lead the ancient prose movement in the Song Dynasty.

So when Zhang Yue got up and saw Huang Lu reading Han Yu's article, he patted his stomach and said, "Is there anything to eat?"

Huang Lu shook his head, took out a bowl of pancakes and a clay pot of wild vegetable soup, and said, "This is Taixue's meal today, I'll keep it for you."

Zhang Yue said happily: "You are still caring."

Immediately he ate pancakes with wild vegetable soup.

Huang Lu said with a smile: "I see that you can eat delicacies from mountains and seas. You don't dislike this vegetable soup and pancakes. They are easy to raise."

Zhang Yue said: "We just want to live with the situation, okay, do you have any experience after reading Mr. Changli's article for half a day?"

Huang Lu nodded, and immediately the two began to discuss.

Huang Lu said: "Although Han Changli's articles are good, but someone seems to be sick."

"How to say it?"

Huang Ludao: "Han Changli advocates cultivating literature to learn Taoism, and writing to permeate Tao. Tao is Tao, literature is literature, and literature is just the food for eating. If writing is used to comprehend Tao, literature is the end, and Tao is the foundation. Putting the cart before the horse, thus losing the original meaning of a sage, and indulging in the heart."

Zhang Yue said: "I think Han Changli's way of cultivating literature and Xunzi's learning to achieve virtue have the same effect. If you ignore the details and look for the original finger of a sage, then what you understand is the original finger of a sage?"

"I think Tao can only be understood from the image. This image can be text, it can be a tool, it can be practice. If you directly understand the Tao, it is metaphysics."

When Zhang Yue was chatting with Huang Lu, someone outside the door suddenly cheered, "Well said."

The two looked around, but they saw that it was Han Zhongyan who led one person into the fasting house.

Both Zhang Yue and Huang Lu got up, and the other person said with a look of admiration: "Sure enough, listening to your words is better than reading for ten years. I have met Brother Zhang in Liu Fengshi."

Zhang Yue looked at the other person. This person was about the same age as himself, and he was born with a good-looking talent.

Zhang Yue asked: "If you dare to ask, is your son Liu Neihan's son?"

The other party smiled and said, "Exactly."

Zhang Yue said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

His name is Liu Fengxian, the son of Liu Chang, a Hanlin scholar.This Liu Chang and Ouyang Xiu are also a pair of good friends, so they are also their own people.

What Zhang Yue just said made Liu Fengxian admire him so much.

Zhang Yue's words also partly come from modern Western philosophy.In Wittgenstein's words, knowledge cannot go beyond experience.

In other words, most of the truths you think, if you talk about it without specific examples, are one-sided or wrong.

In Huang Lufangcai's words, he directly talked about principles. This is metaphysics, and it is also a shortcoming of Confucian scholars in the Song Dynasty or later Neo Confucianism.

Zhang Yue's words completely stunned Liu Fengxian. His father, Liu Chang, was a master of Confucian classics. He never thought that there was no second person in the world who could surpass his father in Confucian classics.

But Zhang Yue's words immediately seemed to open up a new world for him.

The four of them were chatting in Zhang Yue's house at the moment, and they put Han Yu's article aside after enjoying the chat for a while.

On the second day of the test, Zhang Yue was in a different mood this time.

During Fan Zhongyan’s Qingli New Policy, he carried out reforms on the imperial examinations, making policy the first, discussion the second, and poetry and prose the third. His intention was to elevate the status of policy theory and change the imperial court’s selection of scholars from poetry and prose to policy theory.

Choose scholars with more political talents, rather than the original literary scholars.

Fan Zhongyan's new policy failed, and the imperial examination reform also failed, and the imperial court returned from selecting scholars for policy theory to selecting scholars for poetry and prose.

In the second year of Jiayou's reign, Ouyang Xiu, Fan Zhongyan's stalwart, developed a retro style of writing, which improved the status of policy theory.

However, the imperial examination is an elimination system for each round. If the poems and prose cannot be seen by the examiners, then no matter how well the subsequent strategies are used, it will be useless.

Therefore, Zhang Yue, Huang Lu and the other students have made an agreement not to talk about poetry after the exam, otherwise it will affect the mentality of the next exam.

When we arrived at the examination room, the examination questions were handed out, Zhang Yue took a look, hey, it was such a coincidence.

The title is actually "Writing So Containing Taoism".

This sentence comes from "Tongshu" written by Zhou Dunyi. The original text is "Writing so contains Tao."The decorations on the wheels and the shafts are not mediocre, and they are just decorations, so it's almost like an empty car'.

The meaning of this sentence is that the article still has to express thoughts. This ostentatious rhetoric is like a car decoration. No matter how well-dressed, but what is the use of people not sitting on it?
Unexpectedly, Zhou Dunyi's words were passed in the provincial examination, because he is still alive and has not passed away.

It is recorded in the notes of the people of the Song Dynasty that Wang Anshi admired Zhou Dunyi very much when he was young, and he wanted to pay homage to Zhou Dunyi three times but was rejected all the time.

Wang Anshi was furious and said that without you Zhou Dunyi, would I not be able to learn the Six Classics?

Zhou Dunyi was very sorry after hearing this. He said that it was not for other reasons that he rejected Wang Anshi three times.

Another time was in the fifth year of Jiayou, when Zhou Dunyi went to Beijing and happened to meet Wang Anshi.

This is Wang Anshi, who is recognized by the world as "understanding Confucianism". He talked with Zhou Dunyi for a day.

In other words, in terms of Confucian classics, Wang Anshi, who was not convinced by anyone, was convinced by Zhou Dunyi.

Now that Zhou Dunyi's words actually appeared on the provincial examination questions, Zhang Yue couldn't help but sigh, this era is really full of talents.

No wonder some people said, "Song has the world for three hundred years, and the territory of the Han and Tang Dynasties is not as wide as that of the Han and Tang Dynasties, but the talents are more prosperous than it." '

As for the "Writing so Containing Taoism", it just corresponds to Zhang Yue's previous conversation with Huang Lu and Han Zhongyan.

But Confucianism in Song Dynasty was obsessed with Taoism, talking about big principles, and ignoring the principles derived from practice and experience, which is of course wrong.For example, if you need to use countless words to explain a truth you think, it is better not to explain this truth.

As for how to carry the text?
Of course, it is necessary to put the truth into the article.

After writing here, Zhang Yue changed his style of writing.

Making a fuss is like punting a boat. If it runs aground, it is already stranded. No matter how people punting the boat, they can't hold it.Therefore, we must go to the source and open it to let the water come in. In this way, all boats will float no matter how big or small they are.

Punting is writing skills, what is the source of living water?
It is the literati's daily maintenance of poverty, vision and vision of the realm. When the time comes, you don't have to care about the means of punting.

Zhang Yue didn't know that what he said yesterday was also very inspiring to Han Zhongyan, Liu Fengxian, and Huang Lu.They also wrote their own opinions on the big topic of writing to convey Tao.

But this essay, Zhang Yue wrote very smoothly, better than the first poem and fu, and finally handed in the paper ahead of schedule.

That night, the paper was sealed and handed over to the prosecutor.

The cattle inspector is still fighting in the room. From yesterday to today, he only slept for more than an hour, and now his eyes are bloodshot.

When he took a pen and saw line by line, "It's like punting a boat. If you're shallow, you're already shallow. See how you hold it. There's no way you can hold it."This must be to go to the source and open it, let the water come in, and the boat will float no matter how big or small'.

Niu Dian Prosecutor couldn't help but applaud the case, the drowsiness of the past few days disappeared immediately, he was very appreciative and wished to mark the dots on the roll, but he thought that this was an illegal act, so he sighed regretfully.

The prosecutor Niu Dian sighed: "Han Tui's resurrection will also regard this person as a confidant. This article is an article, but it is actually a classic, and the six classics are all literary. Rare, rare."

Niu Dian inspector pondered over and over again, and couldn't help wondering what kind of examinee could write such a heroic thesis. This kind of insight is probably a clear scripture, and few people in all subjects can compare with it.

Prosecutor Niu Dian thought of this, and the reasoning is clear, but it seems that the prose is difficult to match. If the poems and prose are not well written, this majestic thesis cannot be passed to the three examiners, which is a pity.

So the Niu Dian prosecutor still upholds the public mind and wrote the grade of 'Shangzhong' next to the paper.

Later, it was written on the side, "Through the history of the classics, reasoning and insight, the sound of the phoenix, and the sound of the beetle, it is difficult to see it in other texts." '

Niu Dian prosecutors evaluated this article with "Luanfeng Yiming, Xiaoli Geyin", which is really extremely high praise. This sentence was used by Liu Yuxi to evaluate his friend and opponent Han Yu.

Prosecutor Niu Dian didn't feel that he used too many words. Yesterday, he heard a colleague praise a candidate's article as far surpassing Wang (Wang Bo) Fan (Fan Zhongyan).

The comments are all the judges' own judgments, and the grades are the real ones.

Niu Dian prosecutor thought of this, looked at the examinee's name, but saw that it was 'Jiashen Bingyin'.

Seeing this, Niu Dian prosecutor's eyes suddenly widened.

Bad, something happened this time.

Awesome!

Niu Dian inspector stretched out his hand to put his forehead on his forehead and thought, the detailed judge will not misunderstand that I have joint joint with this candidate!

(End of this chapter)