Chapter 138                                                                                                                             

At that time, Qu Jingchun was the youngest among the four great masters of Shiwen.

Of course, there are still fewer statements from the Four Masters of Shiwen. This is also the first place in Qu Jingchun's high school entrance examination and the second place in the palace examination, which gradually spread. However, the other three other than the Four Masters of Shiwen, are the youngest, and Xue Jia is a Jinshi in the 17th year of Jiajing, so the name Qu Jingchun doesn't look too tough.

However, Qu Jingchun's attainments in eight-legged essays are absolutely unquestionable.

After all, there are seniority rankings everywhere. Qu Jingchun is now ranked last among the four masters of the time literature. It is not that Qu Jingchun is inferior to others in his abilities, but that Qu Jingchun is purely young.

Zhang Ju was also a top-notch expert in the imperial examination. He has been regarded as a child prodigy since he was a child. This time he directly nailed his goal to the top scorer. However, in his heart, he still didn't feel that his attainment in the current literature could surpass Qu Jingchun. Naturally, he wanted to get Qu Jingchun's guidance.

I didn’t have any relationship before, so I won’t say anything.

Now that Qu Jingchun has said this, even if he is kind, Zhang Juzheng hopes that Zhou Mengchen will finalize this matter.

Before, Zhang Juzheng always felt that Zhou Mengchen would not have much hope even if he was the last in the third grade in the senior high school in the next year's exam. However, if he could get the guidance of Qu Jingchun, there might be a glimmer of hope.

Since Zhou Mengchen knew that Qu Jingchun had such a great reputation, he naturally invited Qu Jingchun to his home without saying a word. He had a good wine and good food to accompany him. After three rounds of wine and five flavors, he carefully talked about the meaning of asking Qu Jingchun to give him advice.

Qu Jingchun had expected it in his heart and said, "To be honest, if ordinary people asked me to sharpen my guns in the face of battle, I would not agree. After all, the national talent ritual exam was a real talent, not a non-sense. However, Mr. Zhou's knowledge was still his own, and it was a waste to spend his thoughts on the eight-legged essay. I agreed to this matter."

Zhou Mengchen was overjoyed, and there were two kinds of joy.

First, of course, Qu Jingchun agreed to Zhou Mengchen's guidance.

Second, it was what Qu Jingchun said. That was that he had the ability to guide Zhou Mengchen to pass the imperial examination.

Although Zhou Mengchen has been secretly studying the classics and knows that the merits are the simplest part of the imperial examination, he still has no idea whether he can pass the exam. With Qu Jingchun's words at this moment, he feels a little bit of confidence in his heart.

Zhou Mengchen said, "Thank you, Brother Qu."

Qu Jingchun said: "No need to thank me. You teach me how to study calendar calculations. I haven't thank you yet. This is my sanction."

It is natural that it is not too late to say that.

Zhou Mengchen, Qu Jingchun and Zhang Juzheng moved into the study. Qu Jingchun sat in the main seat, and Zhou Mengchen and Zhang Juzheng sat in the lower seat, as if they were a teacher teaching students.

Qu Jingchun said: "The Four Books and Five Classics have been annotated by each school, have you recited them all?"

Zhou Mengchen said: "The Four Books have been memorized, but the Five Classics have not yet begun."

Qu Jingchun said, "Then you can listen to it in your hand."

Zhou Mengchen did not say anything, but started from the Analects of Confucius, and was memorized by Mencius in a great way. Zhou Mengchen also put in a lot of effort. He could pass the test after memorizing it.

Many people think that the Four Books and Five Classics are big-pictures, but they are not. University and the Doctrine of the Mean are actually just one article, and the Analects of Confucius is even more quotational, each chapter is just a few sentences. There are not many lines at all, and the one with the largest number of words is Mencius.

Mencius's full text has more than 30,000 words, but Master Taizu was not very satisfied with some of Mencius' contents and felt that Mencius taught people to learn bad things, so he made great efforts to cut down a lot of words. As a result, Mencius only had more than 20,000 words. In addition to Zhu Zi's annotations, there were a total of 40,000 to 50,000 words, or a little more.

Zhou Mengchen passed the university entrance exam at the time. Is it a problem to take time to memorize 40,000 to 50,000 words in more than a month?

Qu Jingchun nodded and said, "The basic skills are pretty good, but these are the skills of children. According to the way of learning and progress, we should explain the subtle words and meanings of the sages one by one, and then read ancient and modern articles, broaden our knowledge, cultivate our nature, and achieve success in our knowledge. Only then can we seek the improvement of the current literature, at least five years, and at most ten years of knowledge. But now, I am just an exception."

"When you want to achieve the success of the time text? When you know what this time text is?"

"Brother Zhou, what do you think Shi Wen is?"

This sentence stopped Zhou Mengchen.

What is Shiwen?

The time text is the eight-part essay.

It is absolutely impossible to give Zhou Mengchen a good impression of the eight-legged essay.

But he couldn't say this in front of this Shiwen, everyone said that it's impossible for others to do articles that have been used to say that they have nothing to do here?

But this was Qu Jingchun's first question. He was always hard not to answer. He thought for a moment and said, "I think the eight-legged essay is a word game."

Qu Jingchun was stunned for a moment after hearing Zhou Mengchen's words, then smiled softly and said, "Brother Zhou, it's not wrong to be a little mean. However, since Brother Zhou wants to get a Jinshi, you have to know what he is playing in this game?"

Zhou Mengchen was stunned for a moment. This was something he had never thought about.

Every game has its own characteristics. Even if you play Honor of Kings, you must know what the key points are? How can you push down the crystal? So how can you play the eight-legged essay text game? Or, where is the scoring point of the eight-legged essay?

Zhou Mengchen shook his head and said, "I haven't thought about this yet, so please give me advice from Brother Qu."

Qu Jingchun said: "I was at Mr. Sun's home and said that you have a foundation in the eight-legged essay. Do you think I am going through the situation for you? No, you are wrong. Although you have not learned the current essay, you do have a foundation in the current essay. It's just that you don't know it yourself. It's because of this that I dared to let you try this test, otherwise I wouldn't dare to humiliate myself."

Zhou Mengchen was even more surprised and said, "Brother Qu, where is this foundation?"

Qu Jingchun said: "What is the test of eight essays in your article? The first is the meaning of the sage. The first essential meaning of the eight essays is to make words on behalf of the sages. The words of the sages are like the sun and the moon. Once there is any violation, they will naturally be cancelled. You don't understand this very much now. After that, I will sort it out for you. What is the rest? It is grammar."

"What is grammar? From solving the problem, following the problem, one stream, two streams, and finally making the final conclusion, the positive and negative solutions should be solved and broken, and it is linked together. For example, after the meaning of the text is solved, it is necessary to let go of the vast ocean without making any cleverness. In your article, I can see that although you do not understand the method of the eight-legged essay, you have both good literary and scientific knowledge. From the initial deduction argument, analysis and experiment, to the later proof, it is similar to the eight-legged essay."

"This is your foundation. With this foundation, you can learn to do eight-legged essays and achieve twice the result with half the effort."

Zhou Mengchen didn't understand at first, then suddenly realized it in his heart and said to himself: "So that's it."

What is the essence of the eight-legged essay? It is an argumentative essay with very strict specifications.

They ask for a lot. But the most fundamental point has not changed, that is, the essence of argumentative essays.

What is the essence of an argumentative essay? It is reasoning and logic.

If a person can explain a truth clearly and understand it, then the person's ideological logic must be passed.

Although there are different places in ancient and modern times, there are also same places.

What is the style of writing that takes the most education exams in later generations? It is an argumentative essay. What is the general college entrance examination essay? It is an argumentative essay. Zhou Mengchen has been scientifically trained. Although he has no potential to become a great scientist, his thinking logic has always been clear and intertwined.

This kind of training is naturally different from the eight-legged essay training. But it has the same essentially.

Although there were many disadvantages in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the eight-legged essays were selected by the eight-legged essays for hundreds of years. Although they had many disadvantages, they were not unreasonable. If they could really write the eight-legged essays well, their ideas must be clear and clear, but not far behind. Such people are most suitable to be officials, have a clear understanding of the superiors, and know what to do and what not to do when doing things.
Chapter completed!