Dress to be a celebrity

Chapter 60

Although Zhou Wang's marriage has not yet been settled this year, life still has to go on.During the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, Fujian Province still has to hold a lecture conference.

The conferences in other provinces are more luxurious and have more cultural heritage than those held by other provinces. Fujian still maintains the attitude of the first provincial-level lecture exchange conference in the country, and arranges it calmly according to its original model. Try to imitate anyone.

However, compared to last year's wait-and-see, this year more famous scholars took the initiative to give lectures, and the students and Confucian scholars who received the invitation were even more proud, and wanted to show off among their relatives and friends.Many students from other places even found out that there is still a Lecture Society in Wuping, and they also came from various provinces, wanting to see what is so good about this place that caused the wave of lectures.

Naturally, several talented scholars who hosted the Suzhou Lecture Conference, headed by Zhu Hao and Xu Yu, were also among them.

Their lectures last year were held at the highest level within their ability, but they failed to overwhelm other provinces and Fujian, which was the first to hold the conference. This was already a great failure for them.This trip is to see the quality of the Fujian conference, so that we can improve our own conference in a targeted manner after returning——

Of course, if Fujian only took an "early", and other places are actually not as good as they are, they will write an article unceremoniously to express this situation.

The meeting in Wuping County officially started at the Dragon Boat Festival. On the first day of May, Zhu Hao and his party had already stepped into the boundary of Wuping County. Team.

The queuing scene they saw today was almost the same as what Mr. Huang saw when he went to report the false case.

Away from the queuing place, a primary school student wearing a plain white shirt, a well-combed bra, and a red silk slant across his chest ran over and asked in stumbling Mandarin, "Sir, sir?" Are you here to participate in our 'Second Fujian Famous Lectures and Exchange Conference'?"

Everyone was stunned, looked at the child a few times, and saw that he behaved well, very polite, and he didn't recognize his birth, he was a pleasing student.On the red silk on the chest is written the word "tour guide" with the size of a fist. I don't know who came up with the word, but it is easy to understand. As the name suggests, this child should be a little guide who guides people to visit Wuping County.

Several people couldn't help laughing and teasing him: "Where are you a primary school student, who asked you to come and be this tour guide?"

The child puffed up his chest and said, "The student is a student in the upper dormitory of Song's College next door. Because there are many participants in the seminar this year, someone needs to guide the foreign celebrities here, so he volunteered to be a tour guide. Listen to the accents of the gentlemen, We are not from Fujian, are we? Do you have an invitation card? Those who do not have an invitation card will not line up here, and I will take the gentlemen to the tourist registration office."

Naturally, they didn't have an invitation card, and seeing that the elementary school student was smart and sensible, they followed along with open arms, and they arrived at a shed at the end of the road not long after.

Sitting in the shed was a freshman wearing a green shirt and a folded kerchief. He was gentle and elegant, and he was quite attractive.In front of him was a long bare desk with no decoration, the only thing special was its length, which could accommodate five or six people writing at the desk at the same time.There were four similarly simple armless wooden chairs outside the table, with a wide space in the middle, and two provincial scholars who came before them were sitting at the table writing.

Xu Yu and the two young talents squeezed forward and took a glance, and they saw that everyone was writing on paper with extremely fine strokes of Song Dynasty characters.The paper has already printed the words surname, first name, character, age, Confucian scholar/shengyuan/juren/jinshi of a certain year, and there is a blank space at the bottom for people to fill in.

They wanted to take a closer look, but the primary school student grabbed their Su-like sleeves, which were about two feet wide, and persuaded them: "Sirs, please sit down and fill out the form in order. Line up at the back, and I'll show you the form right now."

Everyone looked down subconsciously, only to find a palm-width white line sprinkled on the ground, and the student who taught people to fill out the form inside also looked up at them and pointed out: "A few gentlemen are from other provinces? In Xiaxintai, the 20-year-old Member Zhuang Fan, there are two vacancies here, please choose two to sit in first, and I will teach you how to fill in this form. In the future, the distribution of paper and pens, souvenirs, and the delivery of quotations from the lecture conference will all be based on the identities and addresses you registered today .”

There was not so much trouble at the Suzhou Conference, and all students who wanted to participate were welcome to participate. Why do Fujianese have so many troubles?

Although they complained in their hearts, they saw that there were already two people from other provinces filling out the form in front of them, and they did not want to lose the face of the Suzhou government, so they went forward to greet Zhuang Fan and the two who arrived first, and followed his instructions on the paper. Write in the blank space.

It has to be said that the handwriting printed by this Song Dynasty printing method is very clear and easy to read, the pages are white and lovely, and there is absolutely no problem of blurred handwriting.

Xu Yu was the first to go up and fill out the form—the first thing a scholar saw when he met was his background and qualifications. He was a young student, and he was proud of his background, and he didn't think the form was too detailed when he filled it out.While he was writing, a Cantonese scholar beside him had finished filling it out. Zhuang Fan took it over and looked at it first, put it in a wooden box next to him, and took out a post printed on thick paper with words and pictures and a green silk cover. The gift box is given to the person who filled the form, and the other party is asked to attend the meeting according to the time and place printed on the paper.

Talented scholars from Suzhou also filled in the form quickly, and each received a gift box and a leaflet.

There are cloud heads printed on the four corners of the post. At the top of the sky is a picture of Jiaoyi Mountain surrounded by the pulpit that was printed on the invitation last year. On the right side is a song "Reading Hall" by the former prime minister Li Zhongdinggong.

The sentence "Win the time to study" raised the style of this conference a lot, and it just matched the mountain scenery on the picture - although the list is not printed on Lingdong Mountain, outsiders can't recognize what it is , I saw that the picture is good, the poem is good, and the words are good, and I feel that this post is actually more exquisite than what I saw elsewhere.

What is printed in the post is not the Tsinghua article, but the time and location of the lectures, and there are also several gentry courtyards, temples, and Taoist temples for the participants to stay in.

In the accompanying box, there is a light green transparent glass liner and a bamboo shell with a swivel mouth, a small cattail fan, a plain handkerchief, a set of the four treasures of the small study, and a stack of the red "Second Fujian Cup" printed on the right side. The manuscript paper of "Provincial Lecture Exchange Conference" is something that can be used during lectures.

The little guide who led them unscrewed the lid of the glass and said with a little pride: "Our Song Shanchang asked someone to make this. The lid is tightened, and it won't sprinkle water when it is turned upside down. We all use this in the academy." Spinner cup bottle, there is no such style in other places.”

In the Song Dynasty, cups with twisted mouths were also used, but they were used for convenience and trouble, and they were only cut from bamboo tubes, and fragile things like glass were not taken out at all.But this time, if we want to supply foreign tourists, we have to spend some effort to make souvenirs that are cheap and convenient, and that can make people ignore its cheap and rough nature.

If you want to make porcelain, there are plenty of good porcelain kilns in ancient times, and the porcelain from their small county is afraid of being laughed at.On the contrary, there are few places that know high-temperature glass technology. Burn a heat-resistant transparent glass, wrap it with a bamboo shell to prevent falling and cover the unevenness of the cup body, and add a screw mouth. Most people don’t care whether the craftsmanship is rough or not. .

Inexpensive, unique, and durable—in case there is too much to give away at this conference, someone will give it away next time.

He designed this gift box according to the standard of ordinary conference supplies. It is nothing in modern times, but it is an unprecedented conference gift in Dazheng.

Even this kind of provincial academic exchange conference was initiated by him, which is unprecedented.

The gifted scholars from Suzhou, the fashion center, were all silent in front of this gift box, and their nitpicking hearts were somewhat extinguished.

It's not that these few things are so precious that they can admire them.For example, glass products, pens, inks, books, paper, etc., Suzhou's can be several times more exquisite than Fujian's, but when they held lectures, they didn't think about providing these for the scholars who came to attend lectures.And this gift is nothing compared to the little tour guide who took the initiative to receive them as soon as they entered Wuping, compared to the quick and orderly registration process in the shed, and the detailed registration form just now.

The articles written by those Fujian people last year were really good. Here in Wuping County, there was a provincial-scale lecture society, but what they organized was a literary meeting between acquaintances and talented people.

Everyone was silent for a while, and then someone reluctantly said: "The County Magistrate Song was famous for entertaining his boss and tourists when he was in Guangxi in the past. The father and son have been fascinated by it, and Song Jun will naturally be like this..."

Zhu Hao shook his head and suggested: "Don't talk about it, we should go to Wuping County to meet him and ask him how he managed such a conference."

Xu Yu paid the most attention to Song Shi, knowing that he should go back to Beizhili to take the exam this year, so he said, "It's May now, and the autumn exam is at the beginning of August. He should have gone to Beijing to prepare for the exam?" Otherwise, he would suffer on the road for three months. , to take the exam directly in Beijing, can the body hold up?Did you get good grades?

The primary school student leading the way suddenly interjected: "Song Shanchang hasn't gone to Beijing yet, he will take the exam in our Fujian province in autumn, so he will preside over the conference himself this time?"

What?He didn't go to Beijing, so he wants to take the autumn exam in Fujian?

Isn't he from Northern Zhili? !

The students in Suzhou could only slander in front of the students in the Song Dynasty, but Huang Xunyan, who came here specially in the name of inspecting the place, couldn't help but shouted in front of the Song County Magistrate: "This student is really bold! He thinks that Xuezheng Thinking that he is a handsome student from the north, let him pass the college examination, so he can pass the autumn examination!"

He deliberately didn't say it earlier, and he didn't let them know until now that he couldn't go to Beijing!

Huang Xun was afraid that he would not be able to pass other people's exams in Fujian and waste this exam for nothing, and he was more anxious than his parents.Song Shi stood in the hall and listened to him honestly. County magistrate Song felt distressed seeing his son's quail-like appearance, but he didn't dare to plead with the patrol officer, so he could only listen with low eyebrows.

Only Huan Ling was able to stay out of the matter, and whispered forward, pleading for him with no face: "Now that the king of Zhou is not yet married, and Sister She and Junior Brother Song have a marriage contract, how can he come to Beijing? Until now, it is my family. Your lord can only blame me for delaying him."

When Huang Xun saw that he did not go to Beijing to take the exam, he was only worried that he would not know the depth of his own knowledge because he was selected as a scholar in Fujian, but he did not expect this.After asking Huan Ling to point it out, he was impatient and helpless, and couldn't say anything in front of Huan Ling. He sighed for a long time, and only asked: "Did you delay your review for this lecture these days? How will this lecture be?" Brother wants to avoid suspicion, you can't come here, if you can't learn by yourself, don't think about mediating well on stage by yourself, just ask him to raise his hand and let you go."

No, there is a little brother here, he can rely on it with peace of mind, and he didn't spend much effort on this lecture.Moreover, the hosting session that requires his energy the most is an opportunity for him to quickly understand and give feedback on various ideas on stage, and to integrate the learning results of these days.

On the surface, the Stereotype Examination is just the Four Books and Five Classics, but those who can enter the autumn examination are all those who have chewed up the scriptures. Every sentence and every word in the book has been thought over and over again, and even made a fuss.The examinee's writing level is only between the middle and the middle. When it comes to the examination room, why should the teacher take one part or not the other?

Is it really just for the writing to be accepted?In that case, the Song Dynasty would not exclude the corresponding poems from the scientific examination content.

What really impresses the teacher is not how many historical materials you can use, or how meticulous your writing is, but the Neo-Confucianism behind the writing.

When Wang Anshi was in power in the previous dynasty, the examination papers only had Chinese styles that fit his "new learning" meaning. After the New Party was overthrown, those who dared to write Wang's meaning in the examination room would never be admitted.When Zhu Xi was impeached in his later years, Daoism was denounced as "false learning", and any papers that interpreted the scriptures according to his words would naturally be deposed.Now that Zhu Xue is in power, the ideas in the examination papers must follow Zhu Zi's righteousness, and it is best to have the same ideas as the examiner himself.

If the idea in the article goes astray, even if you write "Li Sao" on the spot, the teacher can't take you.

Therefore, this science conference is not a waste of time, but a rare opportunity for students to raise their scores before the exam. He has made the most preparations and will definitely be one of the most rewarding ones.Song Shi smiled confidently, nodded his thanks and said, "Don't worry, my lord, the students have been working hard with their seniors and will not delay their studies."