The champion failed in the imperial examination of three yuan and six yuan.

How difficult was it for his father to take the imperial examination?

Some time ago, I saw a news that a big brother had passed the college entrance examination for 26 times, and his nickname was "Wang Kao".

Speaking of college entrance examination, I can't help thinking that in ancient China, there was such a system, which started with the despised Emperor Yang Di and ended with the despised Emperor Guangxu.

From 607 to 1905, as the main system of selecting talents in ancient China, it lasted for nearly 1300 years.

Yes, it is the imperial examination system.

It can be said that in blood, it is the ancestor of the college entrance examination, and it has also profoundly influenced the main form of selecting civil servants in all countries in the world today-examination.

1300 years, more than hundreds of champions, more than 100,000 scholars, millions of juren, countless scholars and more young students have been produced.

Tongsheng is naturally a loser. Some people are still young after a lifetime of trials. There is a scene in history where a old boys and a fifteen-year-old boy took the same exam.

In fact, on the way to the imperial examination, the vast majority of people are young students, who just wander outside the qualifying round and can't get in.

Scholar, on the other hand, has official positions and privileges. He doesn't have to wait, pay food or worship the county magistrate.

Juren is the reserve cadre of the country, who can be an official if there is a vacancy, and is also the main supporting force of the squire family.

Jinshi is naturally a small part of the upper pyramid of power, with an average annual output of only dozens of rare varieties.

The number one scholar, the number one scholar, is even rarer. According to the year, it takes an average of two or three years to produce one.

But above the number one scholar, there is even more legendary-

Three yuan will be the first, and six yuan will be the first.

The meaning is also very clear, that is, one person is the first in six exams.

What is Test Six?

China's imperial examinations reached the most perfect position in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. How many passes did * * * have:

County examination, government examination, hospital examination; After the provincial examination, I'll give it a try, Gong Kao.

Therefore, there are only two leaders of the Six Yuan Association, one in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, all of whom are children of a big family.

Three yuan will be looser at first. There are sixteen people in history. After that, Sanmen township/association/palace exam can reach the standard.

Because the first three county/government/college exams are considered to be pre-selection exams for imperial examinations, they are sometimes classified as one category. However, they really want to take * * * ten exams, five in the county, three in the office and two in the junior college, but the difficulty is different.

Make an unscientific horizontal comparison between the imperial examination system and the current examination system, which is roughly like this-

County examination = entrance examination; Political examination = Xiaoshengchu; College entrance examination = senior high school entrance examination; After having obtained an examination = the college entrance examination; Examination = research; Palace Examination = Cao Bo.

Of course, this is only a superficial comparison. In fact, there is a big gap in difficulty between the two.

At present, the college entrance examination admission rate is above 50%, and the rural entrance examination admission rate may be around 10%, which is not the same grade. It is meaningful to compare the admission rate with one after taking the township exam.

In addition, candidates have different learning environments. Although there were schools in ancient times, they were different from modern schools in scale and function. Candidates who want to pass the exam rely more on self-study and family experience.

It takes several generations for a family to make a scholar on average. My great-grandfather was a scholar, my grandfather was a juren, my father was Gong, and I was a scholar. On the one hand, it is the accumulation of experience, on the other hand, it is the accumulation of wealth.

In this way, the high-yield areas of Jinshi are more likely to be those with rich economy, stable order and popular reading.

The Tang dynasty was a big family in Hebei, and the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties were the scholarly families in Jiangnan.

Volume 2 Life, the anecdote of the first three yuan and six yuan.

One day, Li Shimin, the chairman of Datang Company, just finished a big project, so he gave himself a day off, rode a horse, went for a walk in the Woods, played a game or relaxed.

Just at that moment, suddenly a word came from the side-

Shimin, you are the chairman. Don't drive by yourself. What if there is an accident and you kill a flower, a cat and a dog? Where is the corporate image going? What do employees think? Does the neighbor want you to pay for it? Will it be encircled?

Who dares to say such a thing?

Sun, the first scholar in the history of China, was the first scholar in 622 (Wude five years). Later, he participated in the change of Xuanwu Gate, and was the person who carried the gun with Taizong.

Shimin is helpless: I have a rest today, and there are bodyguards. I'm an old driver and I don't know much about driving, you know.

Sun (lying flat on the ground): I can't beat you anyway. If you want to go out today, run over me.

Li (furious): Bodyguard, whether I am the chairman or you are the chairman, I am against you. It's gentle to detain this goods.

Sun (fearless): Hehe, I heard that Guan Longfeng of Daxia Company died because of giving advice. It seems that I will play chess with him.

Li (turning anger into joy): All right, Lao Sun, I'm just kidding you. I know your loyalty to the company. Come on, let's play chess. What do you say, chess, go or chess? We will play to the end today.

Sun, a man of steel, lived a full life. By the way, he is from Zhoubei Wucheng, which is today's Gucheng County of Hengshui.

Can it be said that Hengshui, which was famous for making the admission rate of Beiqing in its heyday, was selected after careful consideration and should be related to the first scholar in China?

Of course, maybe it's just a coincidence.

There is another coincidence.

The winning time between the first ternary meeting and the last ternary meeting in China was 1000.

78 1 year, Tang Dezong was built for two years. Cui, a native of Boling, Dingzhou, is the top new tourist. This is the first ternary meeting in the history of China, which came from Cui Shi, Boling, and was known as the largest family in the world at that time.

In fact, most of the Jinshi in the Tang Dynasty did come from the family of a big family. In that era when ordinary people couldn't read, reading was definitely a luxury.

Of course, for the Han nationality, this is the basic exercise and starting point.

Cui is the nephew of Cui, the king of Qi in Tang Dynasty. After her mother died, she lived in seclusion, taught and studied, and was admitted to Jinshi in her fifties. After winning the first prize, I learned a lot, and my virtue was the first.

Unfortunately, although there are n biographies of Cui celebrities, they have not done so for him. It may be because this person has a low sense of existence and is not obvious. This person is strong-willed, likes loneliness and seldom socializes. After several years as an official, he was demoted to death.

Gee, Cui seems to be from Hebei, which is a bit of a coincidence. It seems that before the Tang Dynasty, Hebei was really strong. Not to mention the famous three towns in Hebei, after all, they are separatist forces.

One thousand years later-1781year (forty-six years after Qianlong), Suzhou native Bai Qian was the top scholar in the ugly department of China and Singapore.

This is the only six-yuan collar in China and the first three-yuan collar in Qing Dynasty.

There is a saying that Qianlong consciously achieved good results in his later years, setting a number of records among ancient and modern emperors. When I first started studying this year, I suddenly found that no ternary leader was born in the Qing Dynasty or in my own hands.

This doesn't make sense, because there are lessons from the past.

After listening to the string songs, the minister next to him knew elegance: Boss, please look at the resume of the tenth undergraduate.

Psst! This guy named Qian is amazing. Five yuan each. He is really rich!

I'll help him go further and make up for it. This year's number one scholar is this man.

So we will have a six-yuan meeting in the Qing Dynasty, Hiahiahia!

You can't tell anyone, huh?

-understand, not quite understand.

However, this official has the habit of keeping a diary. How can such an interesting thing not be written down? When he got home, his hand slipped and he stuck to his habit.

In fact, we know that any exam or competition has great randomness and luck. Just like people's success, sometimes, someone can win the championship, which is largely due to the help of luck.

For example, invigilators, weather, examination room environment, mood, timing and other factors. A lot.

Then, the person who can always get the first place in many exams must be a person with excellent comprehensive quality, strong emotional control and extremely stable performance. Such people are either born for exams or tempered for exams all their lives.

Bai Qian is such a person.

His road to six yuan is not easy.

I have studied stereotyped writing since I was a child and often read it at night. Teenagers have tried their children many times, but the list failed and they started all over again.

It was not until the age of 32 that he passed the college entrance examination and became the "first case" of the scholar.

Then, after I got the provincial exam, I failed again. Six times in the examination room, six times failed.

At the age of 45, he was awarded the "Xie Yuan Award" in the exam.

It's about accumulation, and the back is smoother. Gong's "Huiyuan" and Jinshi's "No.1 scholar" are relatively natural.

Studying at the age of five and taking exams at the age of fifteen. He has to take the exam for at least 30 years and prepare for the exam for more than 40 years.

What is this person like as a person?

The powerful minister Xiao Shenyang once recruited him to join the partnership, but he flatly refused, so he was assassinated. After the fall of Shenyang, Jiaqing appointed him as a bachelor of cabinet and assistant minister of rites.

He is a descendant of a branch of the Qian family in Wuxi. His grandfather and father are both learned scholars. His great-grandfather was a scholar in Shunzhi and a first-class scholar in Kangxi's erudite poetry department, and was awarded the official title by the Hanlin Academy. He can always concentrate on the imperial examination, and his family is at least well off.

Another strange person, the head of the Six Yuan Conference, was Huang Guan of the Ming Dynasty.

Eldest brother died at the age of 38, and at the age of 27, he completed the great cause of six yuan in one breath.

But the official history only States that he will try and win the double prize in the palace exam. His "Six Yuan" is more of an anecdote and controversial.

The man's father is a son-in-law, and Huang Guanyuan takes his mother's surname Xu. He only resumed his original surname after becoming an official.

He studied under Huang Kui, an official and scholar at the end of Yuan Dynasty, and was loyal to Wen Jian. After the war in Jingnan, his whole family died in the river, which shows his character.

Judy was so angry that she erased her name from the exam record. It was not until the late Ming Dynasty that he regained his reputation.

Volume 3 Thinking about those who are not on the list

The essence of the imperial examination is to reserve talents for the selection of middle and senior officials in the imperial court, and the emphasis is on selection, so the quota is limited and cannot be blindly increased.

Today, the purpose of the college entrance examination is different. It is mainly to cultivate and build strength for the country, and it is more of a career diversion. Passing the college entrance examination is just a through train for further study. If not, take a practical technical route.

But no matter which route, it can't be done without effort.

Talents in all aspects of national construction are needed, and they all want to be officials and engage in theoretical research. This is of course unrealistic. What the country needs more is people who can do practical things, such as research and development, programming, manufacturing and service, which require a large number of people.

To survive in any environment, we must find our own reasonable position and give full play to our abilities as much as possible.

In history, there are only six yuan, a dozen three yuan and hundreds of champions. In the case of imperial examinations, they are considered to be very few people standing at the top.

But to be honest, what achievements have they made in life?

Li Bai did not take part in the imperial examination, either because he was doing business at home or because his household registration was unknown, so he was not qualified to take part at all.

Du Fu failed the exam twice, and finally only passed other exams and became a junior official. It is said that the main reason is that he is a traitor.

The visit of Yuan Zhen Mingjing and his fellow countryman Li He in Luoyang was ridiculed. After all, Ming Jing's exam is relatively easy, far less difficult than Jinshi.

But in fact, although Li's fame was high, he was blocked by others and finally failed to be admitted to Jinshi. As an imperial clan, he obtained a small official through other exams, then resigned in a rage and worked as an aide for several years.

Meng Haoran retired as a poet, and Han Yu failed three times. After Zhang Ji's failure, he wrote a night-mooring near maple bridge. Luo Yin failed because of his ugly appearance.

Wang Yangming got nine subjects, Gui Youguang got the eighth, Li Shizhen got three subjects and became a family doctor. Tang Bohu and Pu Songling are both famous cultural losers, and Gong Zizhen can only enter the top three because of her poor handwriting.

There are two famous losers, Huang Chao and Hong Xiuquan, who simply rebelled and profoundly influenced the historical trend of China.

It can be said that many people are failed students, and more people may not have the opportunity to take the imperial examination. Either because of poverty or because of family composition.

Imperial examination and college entrance examination are the same road, which seems to be the nearest, but it is by no means the only way.