Inside the examination room No. Ren.
He saw Li Xueyu lowering her head slightly, looking straight ahead, as if she was reviewing silently and didn't notice him.
When Zhao Rong walked past her seat, he didn't say hello or disturb her.
However, when he passed by the ponytail girl, he vaguely caught the scriptures she was reciting.
"Even if there are delicious food, but you don't eat it... Even if there is the ultimate truth, but you don't learn it... Therefore... Only after teaching can you know your difficulties. Know your shortcomings... Only after knowing your shortcomings can you reflect on yourself. Know... Know your difficulties, only then can you strengthen yourself..."
Zhao Rong immediately recognized that it was a passage from the Book of Rites. He was very familiar with it, but it sounded like Xue You was reciting it in a discontinuous manner. He didn't know if he was a little nervous or distracted. He even recited part of the original text twice...
Zhao Rong didn't think much about it and returned to his seat.
After he passed by, Li Xueyu, who seemed to be concentrating on memorizing something in her seat, quietly relaxed her tense shoulders.
The rhythm of endorsement has returned to normal.
But after reciting a passage absentmindedly, she stopped reciting it silently and put the "Book of Rites" away.
At this time, the clock rang again, signaling the start of the exam. The girl with a ponytail straightened her back, folded her hands on the table, and stared straight ahead, as if she was quietly waiting for the exam.
However, her aimless eyes still revealed her absent-mindedness. It was unknown where the girl's thoughts were at the moment, whether she was thinking about the exam or not...
Zhao Rong did not notice this. He was sitting behind Li Xueyou and could only see her slender and straight back. Li Xueyou never looked back at him.
Zhao Rong thought to himself that Brother Xue You was indeed very well behaved and serious.
Thinking of what Fan Yushu had just said, he smiled and shook his head. Let alone whether it was right to just take a glance at her, she was such a good girl, he couldn't disturb her exam.
Although he was about to take the exam, Zhao Rong was not very nervous. He even had some free time to look inward at his own heart.
The Heart Lake is still as lively as it was after the evil dragon stirred up the water.
The bottom of the lake and the surface of the lake were both turbid. Until early morning, the evil dragon and the dragon carp were each in one part, clearly separated.
The strange state of activated heart lake brain power continues.
Zhao Rong felt extremely calm inside. After watching for a while, he began to think about something.
From early morning till now, he had not let the dragon carp reset and stop this state, because he wanted to test the duration of this state of stimulating the potential of the heart lake, thinking that it would be shut down once it was tired or exhausted. Unexpectedly, it has lasted until now, at least three or four hours, and he did not feel tired at all, and even felt that he had enough energy to continue.
"It seems... it's more efficient and durable than I thought."
Zhao Rong was slightly surprised.
His intuition told him that too much is as bad as too little. It was definitely not a good thing for the heart and brain to be overactive for a long time. He needed to take a break and replenish some energy. He thought he should try to relieve the state, but he was about to take the sutra test, so he decided to keep it as it was and decide after the test.
Zhao Rong was calm despite having a plan in mind.
At this moment, a slightly plump old man whom he did not recognize appeared on the lakeside promenade not far away. With his hands behind his back and carrying a stack of papers, he walked into the examination room No. Ren.
Take a casual look around the room.
The fat old gentleman waved his hand, and the stack of test papers in his hand was thrown into the air. As if lifted by the wind, it scattered spontaneously, and twenty-eight test papers fell on the desks of the candidates one by one.
The fat old man didn't talk nonsense and spoke in a loud and clear voice.
"The exam will begin."
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When Zhao Rong got the test paper, he didn't look at others. He dipped his pen in ink and filled in his name and the school he belonged to.
Then he lowered his eyes and quickly reviewed the paper.
To put it simply, this scripture test paper is divided into only two parts.
Post scriptures and try out strategies.
Zhao Rong was familiar with the topic of "Posting Scriptures", as it appeared in the imperial examinations of many dynasties at the foot of Wangquezhou Mountain and was considered a necessary question for the Confucian examinations.
It mainly examines the content of Confucian classics.
It is to select specific sentences from the Thirteen Classics of Confucianism, cover the two ends, open a line in the middle, and then cut the paper into a post...
It means covering a few words in the selected sentence and asking the candidates to fill in the blanks based on the previous or next context.
Does it sound familiar?
Zhao Rong recalled the ancient poetry filling-in-the-blank questions that were common in his Chinese language exams in his previous life... In fact, they were similar to this, except that one tested famous poems and the other tested Confucian scriptures.
"I didn't expect that after being reborn, I still couldn't get rid of you. Fill in the blanks in the ancient poem..." Zhao Rong muttered to himself.
However, the current test questions on copying scriptures require a richer knowledge base and the ability to discern the meaning.
Because the scope of Confucian classics is so vast, if the questions are a bit off-the-beaten-path, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack in the "ocean of classics".
This test question is also the highlight of the imperial examination for Confucian scholars at the foot of the mountain, and even the most important one.
Similarly, you can also simply understand it as...a Chinese composition topic from your previous life.
It is a sentence selected from the scriptures, either said by a famous saint, or said by a saint who does not want to reveal his name but happened to pass by the famous saint and chatted with him. Well, don't really believe them. They are woodcutter, farmer, savage, madman, etc. These are crude names given in the books. In fact, these people are very powerful, otherwise they would not have said a lot of famous quotes that stumped the younger generations in later generations... Anyway, Zhao Rong regarded them as saints.
Therefore, the format of the test questions is very simple. It is to take a sentence from the Confucian classics and use it as the test topic, and then set a word count, allowing students to "express freely" around it.
In fact, there is another division in this test question, namely self-cultivation and governance, and the meaning is as the name suggests.
After understanding the two types of questions in this sutra interpretation test, there is also one small rule that you need to understand.
That is, if you want to get points in the second part of the test policy questions, you must first pass the requirements of the first part of the scripture questions.
There are usually ten questions on the sutra-posting test, but one has to answer the corresponding number of questions correctly to be considered passed. The judging criteria vary in different places. For example, in the imperial examinations of many dynasties in our province, answering five out of ten or six out of ten was considered a pass.
The reason for this regulation is to prevent some Confucian scholars from taking shortcuts by predicting the test questions or memorizing test templates, and memorizing them by rote to get mixed scores on the most important test questions.
Therefore, all the sutra-posting questions in the first part are the stepping stones to the examination on the meaning of the sutras, which test the basic qualities of Confucian students and select candidates who are truly well-versed in the meaning of the sutras.
Otherwise, no matter how strong your other abilities are, you will still end up in failure.
Zhao Rong finished examining the paper and looked away.
He picked up an unused clean brush and twirled it between his fingers.
He was not surprised that the Mochi Academy tested these two topics, but Zhao Rong found that the difficulty and requirements of the questions in the academy were much more demanding than the most rigorous imperial examinations down the mountain, but...
"I am just so-so."
Zhao Rong smiled embarrassedly and began to answer.
He directly opened the first page of the test paper, and first of all there were ten sutra-writing questions.
Quickly scan the requirements of the question.
"You have to get eight out of ten correct to pass, and you can only get two wrong at most?"
He nodded, bent his upper body over the desk, and began to write furiously.
After a while, while the students around him were still pondering the vast original text of the scriptures, Zhao Rong had already put down his pen.
"Sorry, I remember everything."
He finished writing the ten sutra questions in one go.
Even the obscure scriptures that he had only glanced at casually in the past now appeared rapidly in his mind, as if they were right in front of him.
"Only when you know your shortcomings can you reflect on yourself. Only when you know your difficulties can you strengthen yourself... What a coincidence."
Zhao Rong looked at one of the ten sutra questions he had already completed and smiled. Brother Xue You had just memorized this passage.
Is this considered a koi fish? I can guess the answers to all the questions before the exam.
As for the possibility that the exam questions were leaked, Zhao Rong didn't even think about it. How could it be possible for a good student like Xue You? If it was Fan Yushu, that guy, then it would be more credible...
Zhao Rong thought it was interesting, and he didn't even check the ten questions on sutras that he had quickly written. He just looked down and continued answering the questions.
There is only one final test question left.
He raised his hand and turned to the second side.
What caught my eye was a line of extremely simple yet powerful unfamiliar scribbling:
Everyone has more than enough, except me.
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