The reputation of the examiner is guarded against After the palace exam was concerned, it was a unique case of high school champions
During the reign of Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a scholar named Liu Jue in Xinzhou, Leadshan (now Leadshan County, Jiangxi Province), who was recommended by the local ** to study in Guozijian because of his intelligence and diligence. It is said that at that time, the scholars in the capital called him the champion, and he was the first in almost every exam.
But this Liu Jue is very confident and likes to be different. His writings are always unconventional, poetic and strangely written. At that time, many readers did the same, chasing fashion with peculiar language. This style of writing soon spread throughout the capital and even the whole country, and it was called"Too much to learn the style of writing"。
During this period, the great writer Ouyang Xiu was an official in the palace, and he believed that the literary style of Liu Jue and others was a countercurrent in the literary world, so he took it as his responsibility to correct the literary style, and repeatedly asked that the sinister strange writings of Liu Jue and others should not be allowed to enter the imperial examination room. However, Ouyang Xiu's efforts had little effect.
In the second year of Jiayou (1057), Ouyang Xiu was appointed as the provincial test of the famous tribute, but Liu Qi was also among the people this time, which gave Ouyang Xiu a good opportunity to overcome the ominous and strange text. When he was marking the examination paper, he noticed that the text of one of the examination papers was very strange.
Ouyang Xiu smiled and said to several county orders, this must be Liu Gui's masterpiece. Speaking of which, he said two more words: Xiucai eyelashes, governor brush. Then he unfolded the scroll, a big one"Expensive"The word nodded in the blank. He then hung the paper on the wall of the exam room as a warning.
Later, after checking, Ouyang Xiu really kept obliterating Liu Jue. It doesn't matter if the articles written by a few people are shocking and bizarre, but as soon as the list goes online, they gathered, waited for Ouyang Xiu to go to the early court, immediately surrounded Ouyang Xiu, wrote hundreds of insults and suggestions, and some even threw them at Ouyang Xiu's house.
Since Ouyang Xiu entered politics, he has always liked the latter, why is the minority party so insensitive to the candidate surnamed Liu this time?Are they not afraid to pay a price?
As an advocate of the Song Dynasty poetry and literature reform movement, Ouyang Xiu believed that articles should first enrich the content, actively reflect real life, and strive to express themselves vividly, fluently, truthfully, and naturally.
Therefore, he led the literary world and Wang Anshi, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Zeng Gong and other laggards, and the literary world of the Song Dynasty was full of rhetoric, empty content, and whitewashing"Xikun body"Previously, a unremitting struggle was carried out to promote the healthy development of poetry and literature in the Song Dynasty.
After Xikunti was cleared from the literary world, Liu Zongyuan's face suddenly became a little more representative of the pursuit of insidious and weird"Too learned", making the words pleasing to the eye, the sentences are twists and turns, and the content is empty and grotesque. Of course, Ouyang Xiu couldn't make the slightest compromise. Because this is not a big problem of people, but a question of the healthy development of poetry and literature in the right direction, not affected by the countercurrent. Therefore, with the Gengtai County Order this time, it is necessary to use the power of the administration to deal a heavy blow to Liu Qi and others.
But events often develop dramatically. Although this explanation is a powerful blow to the insidious and strange winds, it is not an overnight task to eliminate the unhealthy ones. Ouyang Xiu felt that Liu Gui, as the initiator of the insidious and strange wind, should continue to be punished.
In the fourth year of Jiayou (1059), Ouyang Xiu was appointed as a court lieutenant. This time, he learned that Liu Jue had passed the exam and was eligible to take the bar exam. Just before the palace examination, he told his staff that this time he must eliminate the malpractice, strictly control the pass, curb the absurdity, and sweep away the malpractice of the imperial examination.
After the palace exam, Ouyang Xiu saw that one test paper after another was solemnly confirmed'I also concentrate on the pen'With such a rough and distorted expression, he was glad that there was another person beside him, and at this time, he caught a few palms from Liu Yong. He waved it over without hesitation. Later, I learned that the person who brushed it was not Liu Jue, but another Suzhou candidate.
Ouyang Xiu continued to look down, and at the end of his walk was a piece of paper with the following words written on it:"Therefore, he was peaceful and immortal, and he was one of the five emperors;Brave and brave, the punishment for the four crimes. "Not only concise and natural, but also put the exam questions"Yao Shun's sex is also"The buckle was very tight, and I couldn't help but play perfectly, ranking first.
During the palace examination, when people heard his name, they knew that the champion selected by Ouyang Xiu was Liu Hui. People who knew Liu Hui said to Ouyang Xiu:"This is the scholar Liu Qi you want to punish. He changed his name before the exam. Ouyang Xiu was so surprised that he couldn't speak.
Liu Qi deserves to be regarded as a talented and knowledgeable scholar. He had a bad reputation and could not pass the imperial examination, so he resolutely changed his name during the judicial examination.
It is not enough to change the name, but also to risk rewriting the crooked text, so it is necessary to abandon the mistakes of the past and completely change the way of writing. So much so that Ouyang Xiu, a master of text, didn't notice it at all.
Liu Jue later became a civil servant, according to historical records, he was also very successful in politics, and also made great contributions in literature, and did a lot for the local **. From this point of view, Ouyang Xiu was not wrong to appoint him as a scholar.