Jinyi champion

Chapter 277

The sky is bright.

All the preparatory work is ready, and the county test starts.

Let's put the first question first: "Confucius said that Ji's eight-legged dance in court is tolerable or unbearable."

The words come from "The Analects of Confucius·Bayi Pian".

It is the same as "tolerable or unbearable" in the general sense, and the evaluation is the manifestation of one's will... If this can be tolerated, what can't be tolerated?

But the original intention is: "When Confucius commented on the Ji family, he said that in the courtyard of his family temple, he used Baji to play music and dance. The Ji family had the heart to do such a thing. What else can they not bear to do?"

Judging is what other people do.

Zhu Xi's "Annotations to the Analects of Confucius" stated: "Ji's family abused the joy of the emperor as a doctor. Confucius said that this matter should be tolerated, so what can't be tolerated?"

It means, you have the heart to do such things that violate etiquette, what else can you not bear to do?
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The regular imperial examinations, all the way to the township examination, are based on two or three four-book essays in the first round. If the four-book essays are passed, the subsequent five scriptures, policy theory, etc. will not make major mistakes, and they can be admitted and ranked among the best.

Until the township examination, there were usually two four-book essays in the official examination of the general imperial examination. If there was no accident, there was one question on "The Analects of Confucius" and one question on "Mencius".

The main reason is that these two classics have many characters, and they are also handed down quotations from Confucius and Mencius, the ancestors of Confucianism. Of course, they should be the main ones, but they are not absolute.

"University" and "Doctrine of the Mean" may also have questions.

When it comes to the township examination, because the examination will be overnight, the first round is basically three essays and four books, and there must be a question in "University" and "Doctrine of the Mean".

If you want to get along well in this world, you must learn "The Analects of Confucius" well. In the primary examination, there is a high possibility of two questions in "The Analects of Confucius". Who made Confucius a sage and Mencius only a sub-sage?

Then came the second question.

Just as Zhu Hao expected, it was the title of "The Analects of Confucius" again: "Zi said adding me a few years and fifty years to learn Yi can not be a big mistake."

The meaning is as literal as: "Confucius said, give me a few more years of life, let me start learning "Yi" at the age of fifty, and then I will be free from major mistakes."

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The topic is out.

It is related to whether the county test is passed or not. Two essays need to be written in about [-] words. There are no punctuation marks these days, and there are as many words as there are words. It is not difficult to complete in one day, but it may not be easy to say.

The issue is……

Not everyone present can understand the thrust of these two articles.

Zhu Hao was not in a hurry to write.

He is also reviewing questions with great interest.

According to Zhou etiquette, only the son of heaven can use eight yi, princes can use six yi, high officials use four yi, scholars use two yi, and one yi is eight people, that is to say, only the emperor allows eight or sixty-four people to dance together.

The non-emperor's use of Baqi is an arrogance of etiquette.

In ancient China, etiquette was the most basic thing, what can be said about etiquette but not law, and even law is designed to maintain etiquette.

Needless to say, the author of the question is Kuang Yangming, a magistrate who is about to step down.

It is possible to become a crown prince, and now the governor of Anlu Prefecture, who is already the first heir to the throne, is about to step down, so this question... Do you want to tell others that you are aware of the arrogance of Xingwangfu, but you are embarrassed to say so? , so I use this topic to express my true inner thoughts?

These scholars are the most particular about moderation in doing things.

Also strive to be obscure.

In the past few years in Anlu Prefecture, Kuang Yangming was not considered a treacherous minister, but he was definitely not a clean and honest minister, but he had very little contact with Xing Wangfu, and he had occasional intersections but he grasped his proportions very well. The main reason is that he was born in the orthodox imperial examinations, and he believes that the legal system is definitely not the vassal king's succession to the throne. Even if the emperor has no children, he should find a son of the clan to raise him in the palace as a son, so as to inherit the throne.

In the Song Dynasty, apart from Song Renzong’s succession to Song Yingzong, there was a precedent for establishing an heir. In the Southern Song Dynasty, there were also many traditions in which the emperor had no sons to raise the clan’s heirs. In the Southern Song Dynasty, this is actually a recognition and affirmation of the Confucian legal system on the idea of ​​imperial power succession.

Zhu Hao had to think about it.

Kuang Yangming is about to step down from Anlu Prefecture, and his whereabouts are unknown for the time being. This kind of minister who was born as a Jinshi, before he left, he made his debut question to indicate that he had hinted at the Xingwangfu's behavior of arrogating etiquette in the county examination. In the battle with Prince Xing's mansion, how can one be alone?

If this is the case, then Kuang Yangming did not intend to have too much contact with Xing Wang's mansion, nor did he intend to make any "merit from the dragon" when the son of Xing Wang might inherit the great treasure.

This is a manifestation of Kuang Yangming drawing a clear line with Xingwangfu.

Knowing Kuang Yangming's position on Xing Wangfu, he also understands his cognition of "clan's overstepping etiquette", Zhu Hao has a direction when writing articles - write in the direction of criticizing overstepping etiquette, the more intense the criticism, the better .

Even the old master Zhu Xi said: "Confucius was in charge of government, and he first upheld rituals and music, then Ji's crimes cannot be punished."

There is just a problem.

After the examination papers were sealed and opened, Kuang Yangming found out that Zhu Hao's identity was an accompanying student at Xing Wangfu, would he be a hindrance?

Knowing that I was an accompanying student in Prince Xing's Mansion, he was expelled in a fit of anger... All grades in name are determined before Kaifeng, but the chief examiner still has the right to remove the name of a candidate who passed the county examination from the list .In other words, even if he broke the rules and removed a student from the list, no one would care.

That being the case...

In addition to criticizing harshly, I also want to show that I am "in Cao Ying and my heart is in Han". After all, I, Zhu Hao, come from the Zhu family of Jin Yiwei. How can I have good intentions when I enter the Xing Palace?
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Find the topic first.

The second question seems to be nothing on the surface. Confucius thought that after the age of fifty, he should study the "Book of Changes" carefully, and said that there was no major fault in doing so.

But the problem is...

Many of the things in the Book of Changes are very mysterious, especially the "Book of Changes" in the pre-Qin period. You must know that Confucius once advocated that "the son does not speak, the power and the gods are confused". If you go to learn the "Book of Changes" after the age of fifty, is it against yourself? What is your opinion on the theory of yin and yang, ghosts and gods?
But in fact, it is easy to understand that the essence of "Yi" is the cycle of heaven and law.

To put it bluntly, it is still the idea of ​​"every plant and tree is reasonable" in the study of things.

Kuang Yangming is an orthodox Neo-Confucianist. During the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, the study of the mind had already sprouted. Kuang Yangming may use this question to show that he must resolutely fight against the thought of the study of the mind. Learn ideas, be affected by it... want to enroll here?no way!
Another pit.

Although Kuang Yangming himself is not the one who grades the examination papers in name, Kuang Yangming has the right to choose the graders. How can Kuang Yangming not know what old scholars in the prefectures and counties hold the views, or who is close to the emerging Xinxue?At that time, all the old Neo Confucianists he will select will be old scholars of Neo Confucianism, and these people will have the same mind when studying the questioners. At that time, a group of Confucianism veterans will pick up words, and all candidates who are interested in learning will be kept out of the admission list...

Not only do you have to be so prepared for the county exam, but you also have to be cautious about the government exam that is about to be taken.

That's called danger.

The foundation of Neo-Confucianism is shaken, not because Xinxue wants to challenge the tradition, but because there are many deficiencies in Neo-Confucianism. Old scholars refuse to accept the rise of new schools, and suppression of new schools has also occurred in successive dynasties. Thanks to the efforts of the Confucianism, it will become an orthodox force in Confucianism in the next ten years or even decades, but at this time there is still this old stubbornness blocking the way...

Zhu Hao thought to himself, it's a good thing I didn't really learn from Wang Shouren.

Otherwise, just because of this level of status, I would not have passed the imperial examination under Kuang Yangming, a conservative Confucian.

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Once the direction is found, it is time to write an article.

Eight-legged essays are divided into "breaking the topic, inheriting the topic, starting the lecture, entering the topic, starting the section, middle section, back section, and binding section", because from the starting section to the binding section, there are two sentences that are parallel and dual. Argument, so it is called stereotyped essay.

The requirement is that in the "last four sections", dual sentences must be written according to the format no matter what.

Breaking the topic is generally a single sentence, but the number of words in the sentence can be increased or decreased for the continuation of the topic and the starting point, and there is no fixed format.

In the article, it is often possible to add some argumentative sentences such as "inheritance", "transition", "conclusion", etc., and there is no fixed format requirement.

This is different from writing parallel prose. Stereotyped prose focuses on using the words of sages to discuss topics.

"Husbands, monarchs and ministers are always regulated, and righteous rituals and music determine the way of nature."

This is a problem.

Don't you Kuang Yangming admire "Book of Changes"?Don't think that I don't know that you are advocating Taoism, so I will tell you the etiquette, and then I will tell you that Taoism is natural.

I will not tell you what is "tolerable and unbearable", I will tell you the rules of the monarch and ministers, the king is the minister, and the emperor is the emperor. Settling down, and the matter of "Ji's use of Bayi", isn't it an arrogance from ritual and music to an arrogance of the rule of law?

If you want to be polite, then I will tell you about rituals and music.

Now that I have solved the problem, I will talk about what I, as a staunch supporter of ritual and music, should do when I discover that someone is overstepping the ritual and music: If you sit down and don't follow the path, you will be judged by morality, and if you are punished by Qiao, you will definitely be sympathetic."

It means that as a person with moral character, of course I can’t just sit back and watch the existence of people who mess up rituals and music. Added to the prison, if I have no ability, what is my small body?Fight him!

After writing these on the draft paper, Zhu Hao felt that he was going to be a man of lofty ideals.

This is to die with those who disobey ethics.

Kuang Yangming, oh Kuang Yangming, you may feel the sincerity and eagerness in my heart when you hear my earnest confession?May feel that I and you are in the same direction?
　Continue to ask for monthly tickets at the beginning of the month, thank you!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)