Chapter 317: The Boy's Season of Youth
From the age of 13 to 14, only one year apart, Sun Shan felt that his body had changed a lot.
The voice change period has begun, the Adam's apple has grown, and changes have also begun below.
Sun Shan understood this situation very well; after all, he had experienced it once.
He has officially entered adolescence from childhood.
I get hungry easily, eat a lot, and often get acne.
At the same time, he was not so sleepy anymore and could get up early in the morning without his roommates calling him.
Sun Shan touched his chin and found that he had grown a beard. He then touched his Adam's apple and found that it was becoming more obvious day by day.
Sun Shan understood that he was about to enter the prime of his teenage years.
But maybe in these two lives, he seemed very peaceful. Except for being occasionally disturbed by his body's development, everything was as calm as a lake.
Sun Shan got up early as usual to do radio gymnastics. After being tortured to death by the college entrance examination, he decided to exercise whenever he had time.
After exercising, I would hide in the corner of the yard with a book and read in the morning.
He thought that reading aloud would make it easier to remember, so he read aloud very boldly.
Fortunately, the yard is not small, and the reading did not cause any trouble to the neighbors.
After the morning reading was over, Sun Shan walked out of the dormitory and went to the dormitory next door and shouted, "Ayun, are you done? It's time for breakfast."
After a while, the courtyard door was opened, and Li Xinjun came out with his servant Aping. After everyone greeted each other, they walked towards the cafeteria together.
Sun Shan was very famous in the provincial school and many people knew him.
But the only one who was inseparable from him was Li Xinjun.
Firstly, they were of similar age, neither of them had married, and still had a young heart. Secondly, they had been in the same cell together, and they had a deep affection for each other.
Li Xinyun's eyes moved around and he whispered, "Tomorrow is a day off and I don't want to go home. Let's go to Zhangzhou Temple together, okay? I heard there's a poetry meeting there tomorrow and I want to go and see it."
Li Xinyun is 18 years old this year, in the rebellious period, and is particularly annoyed by his parents. He would rather stay in the prefecture school than go home unless necessary.
He has been even more annoyed recently because his parents have urged him to go on blind dates so that he can get married and have children as soon as possible.
However, Li Xinjun felt that he was still young and liked to play. He did not want to get married or be bound by a wife and children.
Li Xinjun was even more disgusted when his mother kept asking him to marry her niece.
Originally, parents' orders should not be disobeyed, but Li Xinjun had a grandmother who loved him very much, so when the two of them fought against their parents together, the grandmother naturally won.
Sun Shan had been in Zhangzhou Prefecture for two months and had participated in several poetry gatherings.
He didn't know if it was because of his own reasons or because the participants were of limited ability, but Sun Shan was unable to appreciate the poems they wrote. Of course, others couldn't appreciate his own poems either, so he had little interest in participating in the poetry gathering.
He shook his head and said, "Ayun, I won't go. You go. I don't know how to write poetry, and it would be boring to go there."
Li Xinyun was greatly disappointed and strongly recommended Sun Shan to go with him: "Ashan, the provincial examination requires poetry and prose. How can you make progress if you don't participate in poetry gatherings? To write poetry and lyrics, you need to read more, listen more, write more, and communicate more. We should participate in more such activities to accumulate material for the provincial examination in the future."
This is the truth, but Sun Shan still doesn't want to go.
He believes that writing poetry and lyrics and learning a musical instrument require talent, experience, and mood.
Like the last time he played the erhu, he played "February Moon Reflecting the Spring". He could never have played it so sadly in his previous life.
In this life, he has surpassed the achievements of his previous life at such a young age, which makes those who hear it sad and cry.
He surpassed all the students and teachers who knew musical instruments and became the best musician in the provincial school, reaching the peak of his life.
Nowadays, he has many fans in Zhangzhou Prefecture.
Sun Shan still shook his head and said, "Ayun, I still won't go. Those people saw that I was not very good at writing poems and lyrics, so they punished me by making me play the erhu. I really don't want to play the erhu anymore."
When talking about playing the erhu, Li Xinjun and his servant Aping covered their mouths and laughed.
Li Xinyun asked curiously, "Ashan, what on earth have you been through? How could you play so sadly?"
Li Xinjun already knew Sun Shan's background.
Although he was a farmer, his family was not poor, his parents loved him, and he even had a very smooth time taking the imperial examinations. It was hard to tell that he had a tragic experience.
Everyone thought about it for ten days and ten nights, but couldn't figure out why the sound of his erhu playing was so sad.
Sun Shan sighed deeply and told Li Xinyun helplessly that he had failed the entrance exam to the academy, was rejected for horse riding lessons, and could not play the flute. The more he thought about it, the more miserable he felt. After searching for a long time, he found a sad song that best suited his mood at the time.
Sun Shan said helplessly: "I don't know why I played so well at that time, and it made everyone almost cry."
Li Xinjun chuckled and said cheerfully, "Okay, if you don't want to go, then don't go. You should secretly learn to write poetry now, and wait for the next poetry gathering to make a splash, so that they won't be embarrassed to let you play the erhu."
Sun Shan nodded quickly and said, "Okay, Ah Yun, teach me how to write poetry. When I learn it well, I will avenge my previous shame."
After they had breakfast, they went to class.
In addition to testing the meaning of the Four Books and Five Classics, the provincial examination also tests essays, imperial edicts, memorials, judgments, and policies.
The topic is actually an essay question, which requires you to express your understanding of the question. The topic comes from the Four Books, the Five Classics and other official books.
Imperial edicts and memorials are a type of writing that may be used after entering officialdom.
Imperial edicts and imperial edicts are generally used frequently by Hanlin officials, especially the poets who are responsible for imperial edicts for civil and military officials, who need them all the time.
A memorial is a form of memorial, usually used to congratulate on festivals or important events.
A judgment is a text used in judging a case, and all judgment questions are related to judging a case.
Therefore, one must be familiar with the "Daqian Law Code" in order to make a reasonable and well-founded judgment.
The strategies are based on classics, history, and current affairs.
First he discusses classics and history, then he talks about current affairs, integrating classics, history and current affairs into one, which is natural and complete, so it is called "Classics, History and Current Affairs".
It can be seen as an examination of insights into maintaining national security and stability.
Mathematics was added to the recent provincial examinations, so the prefectural academy hurriedly started offering mathematics classes.
As for the quality, needless to say, it couldn't be worse.
The Master did not take any exams before he passed the imperial examination, so naturally he did not study systematically, and therefore he did not really know how to teach students.
Sun Shan did not care about this. He thought he was good at mathematics and was fully qualified for the provincial examination.
Today’s professor is on how to write “策”.
There is a fixed format for writing policies, and you cannot write as you please.
How to solve the problem, how to respond to the problem, how to write scriptures and discuss history around the problem, how to combine it with current political and economic issues, and how to come up with countermeasures.
To write a good policy paper, one must not only be familiar with scriptures and history, but also summarize and conclude, and finally come up with a refreshing countermeasure.
The most important test of a person's ability to deal with things and the depth and breadth of his or her insights is to write a good essay.
However, Sun Shan felt that compared with the classics, policy essays were much easier to write because at least the format was not rigidly prescribed and it could give play to subjective initiative and was relatively flexible.
The professors at the prefectural academy teach policy essays, but so far they have only touched upon the format and have not yet required students to write policy essays.
Sun Shan didn't know whether his strategy would be better than the classics.