At that time, in Song Taizu, we were the unheard of number one scholar, not all by pens, but sometimes by 100-meter dash and Sanda. Let's take a look at this play.
At the beginning of Song Dynasty, the court exam: The scholar held a quick composition contest in a kitchen cake shop.
The imperial examination system for selecting talents played a positive role in the history of China, even in the war-torn late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. For example, "Dou Yanshan, a righteous man, teaches five sons and is famous all over the world" in San Zi Jing is about Dou Yanshan in the north during the late Jin Dynasty. He taught his children well, and all his five sons went to school. In the stable Song Dynasty, of course, more attention was paid to the imperial examinations.
The contents of the imperial examinations in Song Dynasty are all three major topics: "One Fu, One Poetry and One Theory". Now that everyone is going to enter the palace, it is estimated that the academic performance and writing level are almost the same, and it is difficult to find a big gap. This is really embarrassing. Later, the Ming Dynasty used Yan value to decide who was the champion, and the Qing Dynasty Qianlong used calligraphy to decide who was good. What's more, Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, was a clown. It is really difficult for him to read between the lines to see the level of this scholar. What should I do?
It depends on the speed of handing in papers. Whoever hands in the papers first is the best. "whoever takes the advanced exam will get the first prize." This seems to have some truth. A paper handed in quickly at least shows that this person is quick-thinking and resourceful. In the future, I will be an official in the court and local governments, and my ability to handle affairs will not be bad. If you are good at the top, you will have to be good at the bottom. Since we look at the speed of handing in papers, we must write papers quickly. Therefore, people began to write quickly. It is not known whether there is any training in sketching, but there is indeed a competition in sketching. A juren named Li held a quick composition contest with his classmates in a pastry shop. How did you choose such a place? Because there were no watches and sports game timers at that time, the process of making cakes was used as a timer. If someone eats a piece of cake at the same time, it is the winner. Whoever rhymes the cake wins. I don't know how many winners Wu Dalang Cooking Cake Shop has trained.
Oolong champion:
Set the court exam results with the results of the war.
Since the ranking is based on the speed of handing in papers, then everyone is racing. Who says the martial arts in the world are fast and unbreakable? It seems that this article is fast and unbreakable. I didn't expect everyone to arrive soon, so this embarrassing thing came. Let's talk about the eighth year of Kaibao, that is, in 975 AD, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin personally presided over the imperial examination. Everyone in the examination room worked hard, like Fu Hongxue and Xiao Li, throwing knives and writing on the test paper with pens. Children who want to succeed have to run like hell, let alone in front of the son of heaven. At that time, there were Wang Shi, Wang Si Zong and Chen Zhi practicing hard in the examination room. Later, Sima Guang remembered that it was Zhao. Wang Shi won the first place in the qualifiers, that is, the first place in the provincial examination. The last question is called the Yangtze River Bridge. In a blink of an eye, Zonghe has written the article, built the "bridge" and got up together to hand in the papers. All the invigilators and classmates in the examination room were stunned.
The quick composition skills practiced in Cook Cake Shop in those years cannot be used as a weapon to destroy opponents this time.
However, their track and field level is similar. They hand in their papers at the same time, and their arms are estimated to be about the same length. Otherwise, according to the rules of swimming competition, whoever has the longest hand will win by the pool first. However, none of this happened, and the two handed in their papers at the same time.
In the end, who was the top scholar in the Song Dynasty baffled the court. Zhao Kuangyin felt conceited. Although he was good at sports, he could not make further scientific and accurate judgments in that era when there was no stopwatch and video playback. After careful consideration, he made an unprecedented move: to compete for the first prize!
As for the specific events, it is not like the eighteen martial arts. It was better than the unarmed combat called "hand-to-hand combat" at that time, rather than the competitive club events like coach Lin and Hong later.
The venue is Wujiang Concert Hall. It is said that on this day, officials gathered and the emperor was seated. Two players, Zong He, rushed to the stadium after the drums sounded, bared their teeth, punched and kicked, and threw themselves on the ground, starting an unprecedented unarmed combat competition for liberal arts players. Make your dragon drop eighteen palms, and I will make my six-pulse Excalibur melee. The two cultures are equal, but I didn't expect martial arts to be equal. After several rounds, the points are basically the same, not to mention who knocked down who. Peter said that in the case of equal martial arts, who can win depends on how to use secret tricks. Wang Sizong was quick-sighted and pulled his opponent's hat. Yes, because his opponent is a talented person, he dare not expose his true face value in public, so he protects his head like Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period. As a result, Wang threw himself to the ground without waiting for the referee's ruling or the other party to throw a towel. Zhao Kuangyin couldn't smile, so he immediately agreed: OK, your boy is the number one scholar in the Song Dynasty. Imagine the painting style at that time. Two scholars, one holding a headscarf and the other shouting "I am the top scholar, I am the top scholar", really swept the floor gently. Of course, from another perspective, it is also very cute.
What mutation is this? It turned out that a minister named Chen Jing tipped off that Li Shu's classmates held a quick composition contest in a kitchen cake shop, which made everyone feel very good soon, ignoring the literary talent and theoretical level of the composition, and we should change it. And this Chen Jing is Sun He's good friend. As a result, Li Shu was unlucky. He could have been the top scholar, but he didn't even get into Jinshi. Many years later, when the imperial court almost forgot about it, Li Shu won the Jinshi.