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32 anecdotes about ancient examinations
It is said that the examination began in the first year of the great cause of the Sui Dynasty, and has gone through more than a thousand years, during which there are many anecdotes about the examination.

1. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Bao Yi, who had a good literary talent, offended the examiner Liu Taizhen. Liu Taizhen once vowed not to let Bao Yi pass the exam. After the first exam, Mrs. Liu really wanted to take her time. The second exam will make aunt Bao happy. After the second exam, Liu Taizhen asked him to take the third exam, hoping to make him happy for a while. After the third exam, Liu Taizhen didn't take the admission package, so she took the list and went to the Prime Minister. Just after the Juba uprising, another Zhu was added to the list. The Prime Minister was very unhappy and asked Liu Taizhen to replace him. I was so scared that Liu Taizhen couldn't remember the names of other children, only Baoyi, and finally went to Baoyi High School.

2. He, the examiner, failed to meet the expectations of scholars, causing public outrage and causing people to besiege He's father. He put up a ladder, climbed up the wall and lay on the wall to answer the children's questions.

3. Wang Wei participated in scientific research and wanted to enter through the back door. Hearing that the princess likes music, he put on colorful clothes, dressed as a musician and greeted the princess with a pipa. He was liked by the princess and won the first prize in one fell swoop.

4. Zhao Yan, a native of Tang Dynasty, failed the exam many times. His family hates him and his wife. Once my father-in-law held a party and invited a troupe to perform. Everyone has a seat except Zhao Lintun's wife. In the middle of the performance, someone reported that Zhao Lintong was a scholar. Hearing this, the family quickly invited Zhao Lintong's wife in, dressed her in new clothes, changed the stool, and then continued to watch the performance.

Yan Shu, the prime minister of Song Zhenzong, was gifted and was recommended as a child prodigy by the imperial court. Later, he was recommended to meet Song Zhenzong, and Song Zhenzong was interviewing a Jinshi, so he was invited to attend. As soon as Yan Shu saw the test paper, she said, "I did this topic a few days ago. You'd better correct it." Song Zhenzong believes that this kind of happiness and honesty is not only a virtue, but also an ability. Yan Shu thus entered the top government.

6. Liu Mian, a scholar in Song Dynasty, attached great importance to taboos. He has never heard the word "Luo" or a word with the same sound as "Luo" in the imperial examination. He is afraid that he is the "number one scholar". He himself often refers to "happiness" as "well-being", and his servants follow him. After the exam, Lao Liu sent a servant to look at the list. When the servant came back, Liu hurriedly asked himself if he had won. The servant replied, "The scholar has recovered."

7. During Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty, Li Xian, a scholar from Zhejiang Province, had a private visit and saw two candidates playing chess. One candidate even boasted, "You don't need to review, it's no problem to be on the list. Li Hexian won't embarrass us with a strange title containing 100 names, will he? " When Li Xian got angry, he brought back a strange question named 100, that is, "There are seventy-two sages under Confucius, so what is the virtue of sages?" What will Yuntai 28 do? "As a result, no one can explain all the problems, so Li Xian doesn't accept any of them.

8. Liu Wangling, a native of Tongan County, Fujian Province, took the civil service examination at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and got the 34th place in Fujian Province, so she fell out of the list for some reason. After entering the Qing Dynasty, I took the Fujian Provincial Examination again and took the 34th place again. The same place once in a while is lower than winning 5 million lottery tickets.

9. In the Qing Dynasty, there was an examiner who went to Xi 'an, Shaanxi Province as an examiner after taking the rural examination. Before he left, he visited Guan's teacher Shu. While speaking, Uncle Shang farted, but he was embarrassed and moved his ass. The examiner felt that there was a mystery and immediately asked what the order was. Shangshu said: "Without him, you can breathe freely!" It means "nothing, just fart." The examiner misunderstood and thought that he would admit a person named Xia. As a result, there really was a candidate named Xia in Ann, but this summer, he got the first place by mistake.

10. during Jiaqing period of Qing dynasty, after the imperial examination, para

1 1. Anqing people are illiterate because Zuo kept the position of Songjiang county magistrate. When he presided over the county exam, he put the questions listed by the gunman in his boots. When he wanted to post a question, he forgot where he put it. The secretary asked him if he knew the content of the examination questions. Wu Shuo only remembered the word "horse" at first. Wu Shuo didn't like the word "horse" when the minister visited four books. Then it suddenly occurred to him that it was in the trunk, so he looked at it. The original question was "I don't know who's here now".

12. Zhang Mu, the examiner in Daoguang period, admitted candidates not by their answers, but by his snuff bottle. He has two snuff bottles of the same shape but different colors, one is amber and the other is white jade. When the examiner recommended the paper, he took one out of his pocket and there were two snuff bottles in it. If it is amber, thankfully, this paper was taken by Wen Quxing and admitted to Jinshi; If it's white jade, I'm sorry, I have to say goodbye to the owner of this paper! Occupy enough space, the following papers, no matter how good, will be regarded as waste paper.

13. In a certain year of Qing Daoguang, the original champion was Shi Qiu. Daoguang saw his name, and Shi Qiu was unlucky as a "death row", so he didn't accept it. When I saw Dai Changfen, the ninth in the second grade, my heart was ecstatic, and I immediately started writing as the number one scholar. Because the Qing Dynasty lasted for the ninth time, Dai Lanfen was really lucky.

14. Pu Songling, a writer who wrote Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, once took an examination of civil servants. When he took the exam, he thought the question was too simple. After reading the book, he "jumped forward", that is, after reading the first page, he turned directly to the third page to do it. There is no remedy for this. Oh, no, I can't pass the Liaoning University of Technology card again.

15. In ancient times, there were three consecutive exams, each lasting three days. Candidates eat and drink Lazar in the examination room. Li Xun, the top scholar in the thirty-sixth year of Kangxi, was born in a poor family. During the exam, there were 36 steamed buns in the basket.

16. Gambling in imperial examinations prevailed in Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty. Every exam, wealthy businessmen set up a gambling game, drew up the names of several candidates in advance and won tens of thousands of pieces of silver. After the exam is announced, it will be decided according to speculation. So the more obscure the surname, the more people buy it.

17. Wen, a celebrity in the Tang Dynasty, from Shaanxi. His ancestor was Wen Yanbo, who was a famous dual-material person in the political and literary circles of the Tang Dynasty. He is a prime minister in politics and has made a generation of famous poets in the literary world. In Wen's generation, he was quick-witted when he was young, and he became famous with ci at a young age, but he couldn't leave a person in his official career, that is, the so-called official friend. The biggest feature of Wen's life is arrogance. When he was young, he didn't take the imperial examination seriously. He always thought that the emperor would give him his black hat whenever there was an exam, so he always played around. Nearly 40 years old, I have had enough literature and art and shopping malls, so I swaggered into the examination room and started the first "college entrance examination" in my life. Now he takes the imperial examination seriously, but the imperial examination doesn't take him seriously. Until the age of 56, his name never entered the Jinshi list. In the most derailed Tang Dynasty, even the famous poet Wen, from the children of high officials to the poor people, enjoyed it and joined the vigorous army of derailment. However, compared with the general gluttony, the deception of Wenda poets is necessary. Even under the "defense" of the examiner against thieves, he was still able to finish eight people's papers in full view, and even got away with it, which surprised everyone at that time. If he claims to be the second liar in the Tang Dynasty, no one dares to claim to be the first liar.

18. In the sixteenth year of Zhenyuan in Tang Dezong, that is, in 785 AD, Bai Juyi was 29 years old and took the imperial examination presided over by the Ministry of Rites. At the teaching assistant's

19. Teacher Pu Songling from Zichuan, Shandong Province left hundreds of thousands of words of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. /kloc-At the beginning of 0/9, this teacher Pu took an examination of boys, won the first place in Xianfu Road, and made up a doctoral student. Unfortunately, he failed in the exam this time. He has never been addicted to official business, and he is unwilling. He still takes the exam every three years and takes it on time. Exam, exam, until 7 1 year old, even the beard was completely white. Seeing that he is really poor, the examiner set an example and became a tribute student. Full of grief and indignation, nowhere to vent. In the difficult years, Mr. Pu gradually realized that "the official career is dark and the heavens are not right." He pinned all his grievances on novel creation and wrote the immortal Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio.

20./kloc-at the age of 0/6, Tang Bohu was admitted to the top scholar in Suzhou. In the 12th year of Emperor Xiaozong of Ming Dynasty, Liang Chuliang, an adult, came to Nanjing to preside over the provincial examination, and he was admitted as the top scholar. The next year, Tang Jieyuan proudly went to Beijing to have a try. If Tang Bohu wants to take the pilot test, he will be a little nervous. If you have no bottom, go to the bottom of the examiner. Because Tang Bohu was implicated in cheating in the examination room, his reputation was frustrated, and his family was in trouble and had a rough experience. His old friends and friends all avoided him, and even his wife rolled her eyes at him. Human feelings are ignored, and the world is cold. I had to go outside the city and build a peach blossom temple, calling myself the "Six Monks" and selling books and paintings for a living.

2 1. Wu Cheng'en is good at painting and calligraphy. However, the imperial examination was unfavorable, and he did not become a tribute student until middle age. At the age of 60, he became the county magistrate of Changxing, but he left because of disagreement with the chief executive. After that, he hired Wang Jingfu to remember the mountain.

Meng Jiao, an old scholar in his forties, said with emotion: "Spring breeze is proud of horseshoe disease, and you can see Chang 'an flowers in one day. "After passing the exam, he paraded through the streets and saw all the beautiful women in the city in one day. The bard only served as a county commandant, and "the thread in the hands of a loving mother makes clothes for her wayward young body" is also a sentence of "Meng Ju".

23. "Three Lines Landing" Ding Dingjia. In the Ming Dynasty, Ding Xian was the first Fujian native to take the top spot. Hui Yuan was born in Huang Zicheng, Jiangxi, even in Jiangxi, and Ding Xian was the third. In the imperial examination, Ding Xian's article was the best, ranking first, while Lian still ranked second, and Huang Zicheng retired to third. Legend has it that on the eve of the ranking announcement, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang dreamed of "three wires falling to the ground" at night. When I woke up, I looked up Ding Jia's name and found that Ding Xian's "Xian" and even his surname all contained the word "heir", while Huang Zicheng's name had nothing to do with "heir". In order to realize my dream, I found a Hua Lun named "Alice" to replace Huang Zicheng. I was about to place an order when I suddenly found that there were two words "silk" in Ding Xian's word "Xian". He even Zi Ning is a "three silk", plus Hua Lun, it becomes a "four silk". So, I had to give up and announce according to the original ranking: Ding is the first.

24. Li Mengyang, a writer in Ming Dynasty, supervised Jiangxi for one year and served as invigilator. He was amused and found that there was a candidate with the same name on the list of candidates for the scholar, so he quietly called the scholar with the same name and said, "It is a coincidence that my brother and my official have the same name, and my official should take care of it." Ok, I'll give you a pair of couplets. If you can handle it well in class, you will win. If you can't answer, please go back and study hard for another three years and come back next time when you take the rural exam. "The scholar is also a Confucian scholar full of literary talent. Hearing this, he smiled and replied, "If you don't regret your words, please say something." Li Mengyang carefully produced a humorous couplet: "Lin Xiangru and Sima Xiangru have the same name, but they are different. "This joint name is different from others, suitable for yourself and the candidates with the same name, and it means ridicule. Hearing this, the examinee Gestapo

25. Sun Jianai, the top scholar in Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty, mistakenly wrote the word "Dong Zhongshu" as a "book" in a large volume of imperial examinations. According to the regulations of the Qing court, the storytelling minister selected the first 10 books in the large volume and stacked them together. The first book was the champion and submitted to the imperial examination. Sometimes the emperor sends the original text, sometimes in reverse order. At that time, 10 minister didn't come out from the words such as imperial examination written by Sun Jianai, but he was chosen as the top scholar and folded in the first book. Daoguang was appointed by the king, and Sun Jianai won the first place in the original order. Later, another word was found, 10, and the marking minister signed a letter asking for punishment. Because the top scholar was personally appointed by Daoguang, it is not convenient to inspect, so Sun Jianai is the "top scholar in the world". Since then, the lucky "number one scholar" has prospered in his official career and has been promoted all the way, becoming a university student, a military affairs minister and a teacher of the Tongzhi emperor.

26. Liu's "Half Moon shines on Gan Kun" is impressive. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a diligent and studious Confucian scholar named Liu in Pingxiang, Jiangxi. Before he was 20 years old, he was not only familiar with the four books and five classics, but also knew Tang poetry and Song poetry like the back of his hand. So he has county exams, local exams and exams. However, Liu is ugly and has only one eye. According to the regulations at that time, people with incomplete facial features were not allowed to be officials. It happened that the examiner of this exam was a talented person, and he bravely told the emperor. In order to avoid judging a book by its cover, Long decided to visit Baohe Hall. That day, Emperor Qianlong sat in the imperial chair and smiled proudly. He asked Liu to respond: "Cyclops are not on the dragon and tiger list." This couplet is both ironic and cold-blooded. The talented Liu is cocky and the interface is right: "It's still shining for half a month!" Seeing his boldness of vision, the dragon emperor secretly marveled, and added, "I am a star-picker!" " Liu was neither supercilious nor supercilious, and immediately replied, "Spring peony, summer peony, autumn chrysanthemum, and winter plum flower, I am a flower explorer!" " "Seeing that his talent is so agile and the rhythm is neat and harmonious, the Dragon Emperor can't help but be fascinated by it. Immediately set a circle of letters, appointed Liu Wei to explore flowers in the palace examination, and boarded the Golden List.

27. Zhang Facai: In the ancient imperial examination, it was exactly the same to follow up the prison in the examination room. Candidates should wear single clothes, pants and shoes, and then take them off for physical examination. Then check the stationery for fear that the cheat sheet will be stuffed into the pen tube or inkstone. Put it on the speaker after security check to answer questions. In addition to the examiners who patrol back and forth, a corner building called Mingyuan Building will be built in the examination room for the examiners to monitor remotely.

28. Sherlock Holmes: At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a complete annotation of the Five Classics, which was a private edition with the fewest words and the densest layout among China's ancient books. Selling thieves is expensive, and The Book of Changes, Shangshu, The Book of Songs, The Book of Rites and Zuo Zhuan are all detailed comments of Confucian masters in the Song Dynasty. The two volumes have 352 pages and 300,000 words, and the area is only the size of a matchbox. One word per millimeter is still very clear. This printing machine is imported from Germany. What is it used for? Cheated in the exam, and everyone pretended to be Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass.

9. At most, one official in Fujian will preside over the examination. In Beijing, I hosted a banquet for fellow villagers, relatives and friends, poured wine from a hip flask and said, "Fuck this kettle". I see. It is correct that all stereotyped writing ends with "all finished". Too many students have had accidents. The official was summoned, but the official thought it was over. But it doesn't matter-because his uncle failed in the exam, he was proved innocent. In fact, his son-in-law was drunk and confused, and forgot the answer sheet.

30. the Monkey King: A Beijing official presided over an exam in Fujian. Relatives and students asked him the exam questions. Jing Kuan looked righteous and shouted angrily, "You monkey!"

In history books, bathing is always associated with "fasting" and "changing clothes", before the emperor ascended the throne, courtiers appeared before the court, sacrificial ceremonies and other major events. To show solemnity. It is one of the major events in the political life of the ancient people in China. But I doubt very much that the ancients seemed to hold on to it politically, but they held on to it loosely in life. For example, Taiping Yu Lan is quoted from Hanshu. "Han officials have to take a bath for five days, saying that they want to take a bath." In other words, the Han dynasty required officials to work for five days and "rest" for one day. On the other hand, rest days seem to be closely related to bathing, which means that officials at that time may have affected their official appearance because they didn't take a bath for a long time, so that they had to make clear provisions on "bathing" in law. This is by no means a fantasy. Look at Bai Juyi's poem "Bath": "If you don't take a bath for many years, your skin is full of dirt. Take a bath today, and you will lose weight. Ask yourself what year this year is, early spring and autumn. " People in their forties can not take a shower for many years, but after taking a shower, they smugly grind off several layers of old mud and "lose weight". Seeing this, if it weren't for the confession of his old man's house, how could our younger generation imagine it? From the style that the old teacher is not ashamed but proud, it seems conceivable that bathing in the life of the ancients is not always the case, which makes sense. In ancient times, there was no water heater or bathtub shower room, so it was inconvenient to take a bath. It says that "the hair and skin of the body are influenced by parents, and no one can show them", which even sets an ethical barrier for the emergence of public bathhouses. The only thing convenient for bathing is probably the emperor. In 2000, there was a "mixed minister" and a "eunuch, who was in charge of bathing and had no fixed number of supervisors." This shows that the emperor's bathhouse and its staff were formally established. After all, the world takes a small bath and the emperor takes a big bath. When it comes to the emperor taking a bath, we can't help but mention Bai Juyi's "The Book of Filial Piety". "It was early spring. They let her bathe in a pure pool to warm and smooth her greasy skin. Because of her fatigue, when the emperor first noticed her and chose her as his bride, a maid picked her up. The bathing of Tang Emperor is not only grand enough, but also rich in content. It is also famous for thousands of years, and it is arrogant enough. Historically, bathing was an important way to combat cheating in exams. At that time, before the imperial examination, candidates were searched by illiterate soldiers to prevent cheating. Later, it was pointed out that "although the search should be strictly cut, it is too much to just untie clothes, cables and ear and nose." Forget it! "So, he suggested to the emperor," Let's take a bath first and let the officials put on clothes, so as to prevent abuse without losing etiquette ",and was allowed. It is reasonable to take a bath before the exam and provide standard clothes, which can prevent cheating and not be "rude".