Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 1 The Good Era of the Liberal Arts Dog

At the turn of summer and autumn in the 25th year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty, in the Zhejiang Provincial Gongyuan in Hangzhou, a paradise on earth, a young man with long hair reaching his waist, an unkempt face, and wearing a long gown even on a hot day, looked up at the stars and doubted his life.

He was originally a liberal arts dog in the 21st century, and after completing the college entrance examination, he was only a second-tier student.So he considered that both his parents were working and he didn't have any good relatives at home, so it was impossible for him to help him plan his future.

So he volunteered to enroll in a second major in Chinese language and literature in the normal school, thinking that he could become a teacher after graduation.When the time comes, with such an identity as a teacher, I will at least be able to attract the favor of father-in-laws and mothers-in-law with traditional ideas. It will be easy to get divorced, right?
The liberal arts dog's ideals are full, but the reality is very skinny. As soon as he graduated and received a college diploma, society began to teach him how to behave.It doesn’t matter if you have two diplomas and your family has no money. You can’t live a life as charming as a Yangzhou beauty. Do you want to go to school and become a teacher?hehe!
Therefore, after graduation, Literary Dog submitted countless resumes online and waited countless days and nights, but failed to get even an interview invitation.

In the end, the liberal arts dog gave up and returned to his hometown, where he found a job as a librarian that only required a high school diploma, a monthly salary of [-], and self-provided food and accommodation.

I stayed shamelessly in the library for more than two years, hanging out with a group of aunts and aunts. My former ideals became further and further away, and I became more and more confused as time went by.

One day I was chatting with my classmates, and my self-esteem was hurt by the success of others. I bought wine and braised vegetables in the library library, borrowed wine to drown my sorrows, and got drunk alone.

But somehow, as soon as the liberal arts dog woke up, he looked like this, sitting in such a small cubicle like a pit in an old-fashioned public toilet, and became the little scholar who was taking part in the provincial examination in the Ming Dynasty.

Receive the memory of this young scholar. His name is Wang Daoqiu. He is 16 years old and is from Changxing County, Huzhou Prefecture.He has been known as a child prodigy since he was a child. Last year, he won a small three yuan in the county examination, the government examination, and the hospital examination.

With such a high achievement, his acquaintances and his own family all praised him for passing the Jie Yuan exam.Everyone's expectations were high. If he didn't do well in the exam, he would be too shameless to go back and see Jiangdong's elders. Under such great pressure, the young scholar spent every day hanging beams and tapering stock before the exam.Working so hard every day, not getting enough sleep, and not keeping up with nutrition.Therefore, when the young scholar entered the examination room, he was actually in a daze.

After getting the test questions, the little scholar was even more stupid. There were two eight-legged questions, but he couldn't even understand what the questions meant.If you can't even solve the problem, then you still have to take the exam!As a result, I felt too much pressure and was anxious. On the first night of the provincial examination, the little scholar was sadly overtaken by the liberal arts dog of the 21st century.From then on, the liberal arts dog of the 21st century became the scholar of the [-]th century of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Daoqiu.

Looking up at the starry sky, Wang Qiu murmured: "God, you really love me, and you have given me such a decent status in this life. If you fail the exam, you can really go back to the countryside to be a private school teacher, but you have fulfilled your dream of being a teacher all your life. God, God, thank you! But if you let me pass the imperial examination, then I will thank you even more. God, if you really love me, let me go back to the library and open the exam!"

"Whoosh", Wang Daoqiu equipped with the soul of the 21st century.As soon as Dexiang finished his speech, his soul was like a rocket being launched, quickly leaving his body and flying straight to the sky. At this time, Wenke Dog also lost consciousness in an instant.

When Wang Daoqiu regained consciousness again, he opened his eyes and found that he was really back in the library.He was so excited that the liberal arts dog didn't care whether it was scientific or not. Anyway, time travel has happened to him, so what science is there for him?

So Wang Daoqiu put his palms together and bowed several times to the void to express his gratitude to God.Then he quickly went to the ancient bookshelf to find the answers and take the test.

The format of the eight-part essay examination in the Ming Dynasty was very abnormal, or in other words, it was simply used to torture scholars.The test questions for this exam are based on the Four Books and Five Classics, that is, the Analects of Confucius, the Doctrine of the Mean, the Great Learning, Mencius, the Book of Changes, the Book of History, the Book of Songs, the Book of Rites, and the Spring and Autumn Annals. Find a sentence or a word in this Confucian classic, and then ask you to interpret the meaning of this sentence and ask you to formulate an argument based on the topic.

The eight-part essay also stipulates a relatively fixed writing format. Each article begins with two sentences to break down the meaning of the topic, which is called breaking the topic.Then continue to break the topic and elaborate on it, which is called the topic. Then it turns to the beginning of the lecture, that is, the discussion begins. The content of the discussion must be based on Zhu Xi's "Annotations on the Four Books and Five Classics" and other commentaries on the Four Books and Five Classics. It cannot be expanded at will.

And when writing eight-part essays, start after the beginning of the lecture, which means the starting point after the beginning of the lecture. The following is divided into four parts: the starting part, the middle part, the back part, and the closing part.At the end, a few dozen or more than a hundred words of summary text are added, which is called a summary.

From the starting point to the ending point, each group has two rows of parallel characters, which are eight parts in total, so it is called eight-part cross.From content to language form, this eight-legged essay strictly limits the author's space for free interpretation. Its important genre feature is its emphasis on duality.

To put it bluntly, as long as your brain memory is large enough and you are willing to work hard to memorize the eight-part essay, your eight-part essay will be 0k.It is very similar to our future generations learning English. As long as you are willing to work hard to memorize those English words and grammar, and your brain capacity is big enough to store so many words and grammar, then you will have no problem at least in the written test of English. .

At this point, the liberal arts dog wants to ask those bullshit writers. You have always said that the Eight-legged essay imprisons people's thoughts. Then how do you see that the Eight-legged essay has something to do with people's thoughts?

Does this eight-part essay have anything to do with ideology?It is a rote memorization thing that strictly limits your space for free expression.In other words, when learning eight-part essay, you can just memorize it and you don’t need to understand it at all.

The so-called eight-part essay is a kind of exam-oriented education that relies entirely on rote memorization. It has nothing to do with thinking.For example, asking you to memorize English words and English grammar is indeed very torturous, but what does this have to do with your thoughts? Is it irrelevant?
There are also those experts who advocate that people’s freedom of thought should be fully mobilized.Yes, this is in line with human nature.But the problem is that at a tea party, everyone can express their opinions and discuss freely.But can the same be true for exams?Oh, I encourage candidates to feel free to write whatever they want, but how will they be graded in the end?
Do you dare to think about an exam that has no standard answers, and the test scores are all judged by the personal likes and dislikes of the examiners? How can such an exam be fair?Excluding Yangzhou beauties with three private education degrees, why can they pass the selection process of the judiciary, which is crowded with thousands of troops, and the filth behind it.We assume that all reviewers are impartial and selfless, but can their styles of dealing with others be the same?

For example, if a candidate with a conservative mindset has his essay in the hands of a marking officer who also has a conservative mindset, then he is a talent!But if this conservative-minded candidate's essay falls into the hands of a radical-minded examiner, the result will be a tragedy.

The same paper, marked by different marking officers, will have two completely different results.There is no doubt that such an exam will eventually turn into an interview like that of a Yangzhou beauty. In addition to trying luck, there are also transactions behind it.As for fairness, then go to bed. There is fairness in dreams.

Therefore, for exams like the national level, the scores for subjective questions must be set to a small number, and the vast majority of scores must have standard answers.Otherwise, how can we ensure the fairness of this exam?

So when it comes to the Eight-Part Essay Examination, although it is completely a test-oriented education and the test content has no practicality at all, it is fair!Moreover, the liberal arts dog studied Chinese language and literature for four years in his previous life, and also studied the eight-part essay of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.To be honest, when I did some research, I discovered the political wisdom behind these eight-part essays.

Comrade Lao Zhu, who pioneered stereotyped writing to recruit scholars, is so poisonous!His IQ is truly worthy of him being able to rise from a begging monk to a man wearing a yellow robe.It can be said that as long as one is interested in history and is willing to spend time in this area.You will find that in the Ming and Qing dynasties, who implemented the Eight-legged Writing System to recruit scholars, they were responsible for the daily operation of the administrative system of the country. Among those high-level administrative officials, few of them came from prominent families, and the vast majority of them were born in Jizan farmers. , children of ordinary grassroots official families.

This means that in the Ming and Qing dynasties, where the Eight-legged Writing System was adopted to recruit scholars, there was no such hereditary phenomenon among their senior administrative officials as Lao Tzu, a hero, and a son, a hero.This is why?Isn't it true that the bigger the official, the easier it is to arrange a future for his son? But why are the sons of those high officials basically not able to enter the country's core decision-making circle in the 500 years of the Ming and Qing dynasties?

To understand this phenomenon, we have to talk about the perverted examination method of eight-legged examination.The so-called eight-part essay test questions are when the examiner deliberately selects a sentence or a word from the Four Books, Five Classics and Nine Books and asks you to write a proposition composition.

And when you are doing this eight-part question, in the first two sentences of the question, you have to point out the sentence or word that is the question, which book and chapter it comes from.This means that if you want to do the eight-part question, you must first memorize the nine books of the Four Books and the Five Classics thoroughly, and know which book and chapter the question comes from, and what this chapter is about.Otherwise, if you can’t even solve the problem, what else can you write?And if the marking officer sees that you made a mistake at the beginning, he will not read the rest of your article at all, and it will get a zero score.

And after you solve the topic, according to the requirements of the eight-legged essay, your explanation of the topic must be based on the annotations of each chapter and sentence of the Four Books and Five Classics by a group of great scholars, mainly Mr. Zhu Xi. Your own ideas can only be articles. There is only a hint of foil in it.

Therefore, in order to do a good job in eight-legged essays, the basis is to memorize the nine books of the Four Books, Five Classics and the Five Classics, as well as the annotations of each chapter and sentence of these nine books.Comrades, think about it, you have to memorize nine books, plus several times more guidance and reference books than these nine books. This is a huge amount of memorization.

Therefore, if you want to learn eight-part essay, you will definitely not have an average IQ, because your brain capacity is not enough, and you simply cannot remember so many words.Just like you don't have enough memory on your phone to download many things.

To keep so many things in your mind at the same time, in addition to being smart, you must also be diligent.After all, if you want to memorize so many things by rote, it's definitely not enough for you to be smart. You have to work hard, memorize them every day and year after year, and continuously deepen your memory of those words.In this way, when you face the test questions during the exam, you can search out the information at once just like Soudu Niang.

A four-book, five-classic and eight-part essay requires so much hard work and years of memorizing it by rote.As for the eight-part essay selection process in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it tested more than just the eight-legged essay.In addition to the eight-part essay, the imperial examinations in the Ming and Qing Dynasties also tested history, law, policy theory, and arithmetic.After all, administrative officials in the Ming and Qing dynasties all worked for hundreds of people for one salary, and they had to know a lot more.

For example, a county magistrate is not only the highest administrative official in the county, but he is also responsible for investigating and trying cases, collecting taxes and other tasks.Therefore, in order to complete these tasks, the county magistrate must pass the legal knowledge and mathematics.

Think about it, nine books of the Four Books and Five Classics plus the official guidance books of these nine books; a complete set of the country's criminal law and civil law; China's history measured in thousands of years...

Forget it, let’s not talk about it. Just memorize these. How many scholars in future generations will dare to challenge it?So after seeing this, smart people should understand why few rich second generations of the Ming and Qing dynasties were able to enter the officialdom!
After all, the family is rich and powerful, and like Cong Cong, they can have wine and food every day, fair skin and long legs. Who can resist these temptations and stay in the study room every day, studying hard?This is not in line with human nature. Except for extreme abnormalities, it is impossible for normal people to have that kind of self-control.

And who are those who can consciously study in the study room every day?There is no doubt that those are children from poor families who want to change the destiny of themselves and their families through their own efforts.

Therefore, in these eight-part scholarship recruitment, the children of rich and powerful families are obviously unable to defeat the children of poor families.Therefore, every time the Eight-Guard Recruitment is held, most of the newly-selected officials in the imperial court are children from poor families. After these children from poor families enter the officialdom, they will instinctively protect the promotion channels of children from poor families and attack those from poor families due to their own class stance. The phenomenon of succession.

Therefore, during the Ming and Qing dynasties, when officials were selected based on stereotyped writing, senior administrative officials were no longer hereditary, and it became the best era for liberal arts dogs from poor families.

(End of this chapter)