Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

To be honest, Grandmaster Wang's accent is really hard to understand.

However, the four eunuchs carried this wooden board, which is the so-called jade list in the examination room, around the examination room so that everyone could see it clearly, and then stood in the middle of the examination room.

This question is written in walnut-sized characters, even if you are nearsighted, you should be able to see clearly.

Seeing this test question, Su Mu was stunned: "Why did it change again, isn't this thief God playing with people?"

It turned out that, as a time traveler, in the modern society, Su Mu helped his mentor edit the eight-legged essays of the champions of all dynasties.Although it is said that the palace examination is only about strategy questions and has nothing to do with stereotyped art, but he also found and browsed all the articles of the palace examination over the years, and he already knew the exam questions of this palace examination in advance.

As far as he knows, if history is to return to its original colors.Then, this year's exam topic should be the one in the 16th year of Hongzhi Palace Examination.In real history, this year's policy question should be an important policy for the defense of the border and the orthodox body.

But I didn't want to, but today it became like this.

Before the exam, Su Mu also made preparations in advance. He wrote a model essay according to the topic and memorized it by heart.Of course, it would not be interesting to plagiarize Kang Hai's article this time.The last time I didn't collide with him, it was God's mercy.Besides, the palace test is a formality, and if there are no major accidents, basically everyone will pass.In the end, it's just a question of how to rank.

From this point of view, Su Mu didn't need to make such a bad move to take risks for a so-called ranking.

Therefore, this time he is going to test his ability hard.

In fact, the difficulty of the palace test is really small, if you don't have any excessive pursuit of rankings.Of course, more than 300% of the ranking in the palace examination is based on the results of the general examination.Otherwise, you will try more than [-] crane tails and barely pass the palace examination, but you will win the first prize in the palace examination and pass it on. I am afraid that everyone will not accept it. How can the majesty of the court exist?

In addition to referring to the results of the general examination, there are two other factors in the palace examination.One is calligraphy, and the other is format.

The policy question essays in the palace examination are all clichés, focusing on the format rather than the content. In terms of good or bad, it seems that everyone writes about the same.If you want to tell the good from the bad, you can only see who writes well, and there is no other way.

Calligraphy has not improved much in the short term. As for the format, it is mainly from beginning to end.

At the beginning, according to the rules, the four characters "Chen to Chen Wen" should be used, and at the end, "Chen would like to be right" is considered to pass the test.As for the middle part, as long as the examinee does not violate the formula, even if the justice in it is eaten alive, it will be among the top three at the end.At that time, there were quite a few candidates who violated the formalities in the palace examination. Once they violated the formalities, they were assigned to the Ministry of Officials, and they were immediately awarded the seventh-rank post, and they were released as officials, and they were not granted the status of Jinshi.Naturally, this can be regarded as an official of the imperial court, with a serious background.

The so-called violation is just that when encountering characters such as "Heaven" and "Emperor, Empress, and Ancestor", they must be raised, and must be written one or two characters higher, commonly known as raising the head.The other is to avoid the taboo of Da Ming's family.

Because of this, Su Mu didn't take this exam seriously.As for how the article is written, as long as the format is not written, even if the article is empty and boring, it doesn't matter.As for calligraphy, he naturally had strong confidence.

However, seeing that this topic was completely different from the real history, he was slightly stunned.

Then, as if he understood something, he grinned silently.

It seems that God is also afraid of me.Fearing that I, Su Mu, would recklessly copy the articles of Kang Haikang's number one scholar in real history, making it difficult for him to operate, so I simply created a new topic.

This shows that the inertia of history has surrendered in front of the butterfly, Su Mu, at least at this moment.

Even if the article was rewritten, Su Mu didn't worry at all.

Now just think about what calligraphy to use.

Different from the boy's examination, township examination, and general examination, which must use strict pavilion style, the palace examination does not stipulate what font you must use, and candidates can freely use it.The reason why the previous exams used the pavilion style is because the examinee's papers need to be transcribed by a special person after they are written, and then the names are pasted to prevent cheating.

The imperial examination is just a formality, and cheating is unnecessary.Therefore, there is no need to confuse the name, and there is no need to transcribe. The test is calligraphy, so naturally you can come up with any font.

Of course, if you are good at Zhang Xu and Huai Su Kuangcao, you should treat the palace examination room as a palace of art and use your future to engage in performance art.If you commit suicide, no one can save you.

Su Mu's calligraphy is quite well-known among scholars, especially Dong Qichang's running script, which has won him a lot of praise.

Calligraphy, in fact, as long as you copy the calligraphy of famous masters from an early age, practice hard every day, and have a certain talent, after more than ten years, everyone can write well.When you can write good calligraphy, you may not be able to become a calligrapher.After all, one who can be a calligrapher must at least be able to establish a school.

The reason why Su Mu was able to gain fame in calligraphy was not because he was on Dong Qichang's shoulders.For people of this era, Dong Qichang's style is indeed refreshing and shocking.

Thinking of this, Su Mu casually wrote on the paper in Dong Qichang's style that he was familiar with: "I am right: my knowledge is ignorant, and my knowledge is not enough to ask big questions."

As soon as he wrote this, he laughed dumbfoundedly, shook his head, put the paper aside, and took out another one.

It turned out that before he knew it, he was using running script.

In an examination room like the Palace Examination, although there are no legal fonts.But you still need regular script, running script and cursive script are too unserious, so just in case the examiner doesn’t like you, let me give you a bad review by saying “I don’t understand this character”.

At that time, the sentence will be truly fulfilled: If you don’t do it, you won’t die.

Thinking of this, Su Mu corrected his attitude, and wrote the title on the paper in standard lower case letters.

Naturally, Dong Qichang style is used.

Compared with running script, Dong Qichang's lower case is also unique.

Just as he himself said: "My books are imitated everywhere. I am most proud of my small regular script, and I am proud of my brushwork, but I use cursive to spread the world. They are not intentional scripts, and I will respond to you. If you make it when Where it fits together, it is impossible to follow the Jin and Song Dynasties, and it is definitely not behind the people of the Tang Dynasty."

It can be seen that Dong Qichang's artistic accomplishment is probably higher than that of cursive script in lower case. It is difficult not to get a high score in the palace examination for such characters.

Like Su Mu, many examinees scrapped the papers and started over with new papers.