The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 641 Stereotyped Essay
Sheng Yuan stared at Hu Shi's female police officer with straight eyes, wanting to scratch her head.

Since no noise was allowed in the examination room, she could only swallow her anger and silently greeted the endless stream of students who were trying their best to cheat.

If they hadn't kept updating the cheating methods, why would the officials and gentlemen in the Ministry of Rites come up with the method of "one-on-one guarding"? !
There are too many students making troubles, and the smart methods are not enough, so we can only wait for the stupid methods to prevent fraud.Although this method is not very friendly to the candidates, it is done to ensure the fairness of the test results and the interests of most candidates, so even if it is uncomfortable, the candidates are not good at complaining.

Sheng Yuan doubted that the tribute courtyard would be rebuilt, mostly because the site was too small to accommodate the poor army guarding the candidates.

Of course, even though he felt dissatisfied, Sheng Yuan still tried to divert his attention away from the invigilator.

These sergeants exist to prevent communication between candidates, candidates and non-exam personnel in the examination room, such as mouth demonstrations, body expressions, and note passing.

That is to say, these soldiers will not leave until the writing is stopped. It is unrealistic to expect them to disappear from sight, and we should find a way to adapt to their existence.

After sorting out her mood a little, Sheng Yuan finally focused all her attention on the test paper.

After carefully analyzing the exam questions, Sheng Yuan quickly made a plan for the sequence of answering the questions. Obviously, it is unwise to write the rhythmic poem for the exam room at this time.

Although writing poems in the examination room is not like writing poems according to inspiration.

However, when answering questions and composing poems in the examination room, you can still "lack inspiration and make up emotions".

It's just that at this moment, Sheng Yuan's mood is not stable because of the face-to-face invigilation of the army. Writing poems at this time may be affected by too much craftsmanship.If you don't answer the compulsory questions first, you may not know if you are halfway through the exam or have inspiration.

When it comes to compulsory questions, the structure of the answer sheets of the township examination tends to be stereotyped.

Of course, although the stereotyped style of answering questions in Dachu Zhiyi has started, people at the time are not good at it. There is also a heated discussion in the Ministry of Rites about whether the answer format should be fixed in the stereotyped format.

Opponents often say that such style and format can easily imprison the aura of candidates, and it can easily evolve into a situation where the format is the mainstay and the content is cloudy, which is not conducive to the imperial court's selection of talents.

The supporters don’t actually object to the opponent’s view, and the reason why they support it is to make it easier for the examiners to evaluate good articles, so as to prevent the candidates from saying “the article is a good article, and the examiner feels dizzy after reading it.” "Case.

The dizziness of the examiner is mentioned here, purely to protect his face, and more because many examiners may not have extremely high literary accomplishments. Sometimes after an exam, it seems that the entire article with countless uncommon words and the full text are read. There are so many articles about the teeth, this is a test of the examiner's mentality and emotions.

Obviously, he was dizzy and didn't know the so-called article, but because of the existence of the "rechecking" system, the examiners did not dare to dismiss it easily.After all, who can guarantee that the exam papers you discard will not be favored by other examiners or chief examiners?At that time, whoever is not good enough will be ashamed!

But shame is small, and loss of future is big. If it is because of "not seeing the good", it is not good to leave the impression of "unbearable" on the officials or the emperor.

Therefore, as an examiner, I like stereotyped writing, which models the format of the article.

Sheng Yuan looked at the three four-book exam questions in front of him, and asked for one to be completed in stereotyped format, so he couldn't help but sigh.

Presumably, these courtiers who support stereotyped essays don't know that stereotyped essays have developed to a certain extent, and it can make examiners dizzy, right? !
Of course, if you sigh, you still have to answer the question.

Although Sheng Yuan seldom uses this format, she still knows the basic structure pattern.

Especially when she was in Luo'an, Mr. Jiang Wuyang, who was hired by her elder brother, specially gave the three of them a special lecture on stereotyped essays.

"Well, very good, I choose you!"

Sheng Yuan planned to capture this stereotyped essay on the first day.

The reason is that the number of words in the stereotyped essay is the least.

Speaking of the number of words in stereotyped essays, it actually changes. During the Chen Dynasty, each article was required to be no more than [-]. Later, because the voice of "the meaning of the words cannot be fully stated due to the limit of words" was too loud, it was adjusted in the period of Emperor Chengyuan of the Great Chu. Each article has no more than [-] words.

Up to now, the word count of stereotyped essays has risen to no more than 650 characters per article.

It is said that there are Confucian ministers who hope to allow another fifty.

(End of this chapter)