In "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", Cheng San's encounter can be described as tragic, and he has experienced the pain of imprisonment when he first appeared, but the source of all this is because his mount was killed, his poems were destroyed, and he killed people in anger. What is the significance of those poems, so that a weak writer will be angry and kill people? In fact, those poems are not simply works of cultivating mood, but also the close steps of the Literati of the Tang Dynasty.
In the seventh year of Emperor Wen of Sui's reign (587), the imperial examination system was established. During the reign of the Sui Dynasty Emperor, the Jinshi Branch was established. In the first year of Zhenguan (627), Emperor Taizong "bloomed elections" and followed the Sui Dynasty's use of examination methods to recruit officials. On the basis of the Sui Jinshi Section, Tang added six disciplines of Xiucai, Mingjing, Mingfa, Mingshu, and Mingshu, and extensively recruited various talents, hoping to select various talents with different specialties.
Wu Zetian began to take the poetry of the first scholar
In order to open the door to the poets and scribes from the Shu ethnic group, one of the main contents of the Tang Dynasty Jinshi examination was poetry, and the person who made this bold move was the only empress in Chinese history, Wu Zetian. During the Zhenguan Dynasty, Wu Zetian had been waiting for Taizong for a long time, and she was intelligent and studious, and she understood the importance of talents. In the fifth year of Xianqing (660), she was entrusted by Emperor Gaozong to make a decision on the hundred divisions, "the choice of the Great Chong's articles, breaking the rules and employing people". As the empress, one of Wu Zetian's big strokes was to reform the content of the Jinshi branch and use poetry to give soldiers. The Old Book of Tang and Electoral Records says: In the second year of Yonglong (681), Liu Sili, a scholar of the Gong Gong, made suggestions, the Ming Jing copied many righteous articles, and the jinshi only recited the old policies, all of which were dead and talented, and there were divisions to fill the numbers. It is the edict from now on the Ming Dynasty to test the thick of ten to six or more, the jinshi test essay two, the general law and then try to strategy.
Many students studied poetry intensively in order to advance
"Trial essay" is mainly a test poem, with A fu and rhythm poems (five words and verses, limited to twelve sentences) as the content of the examination. Since then, more than ten generations of emperors "have not changed", according to the Old Book of Tang, the Biography of Yang Xuan, the thirteenth year of Tianbao (754), "Xuanzong Yuqin Zhenglou, the Examination of the Tomb Of Theory, the Dongxiao Xuanjing, the Magnificent Rhetoric, and the Outstanding Military Strategists, etc., were ordered to have a division to provide food, and they were at dusk." In addition to taking the rhetoric, don't try a poem. The production of trial poems, from then on also".
Influenced by the heart of the emperor, the disciples of the world, especially the vast number of Han people of the Shu clan, were devoted to the study and study of poetry and enjoyed it tirelessly. MengJiao deliberately wrote "After Dengke" to express his happy mood after entering the priesthood and the first (when he was 46 years old) in the twelfth year of Zhenyuan (796): ? The filth of the past is not enough to boast, and the debauchery of the present is endless.? The spring breeze is proud of the horseshoe disease, and the Chang'an flowers are seen in one day.
It is also an interesting phenomenon that among the ministers who opposed the use of poetry to acquire scholars, many of them also entered the military department through poetry. For example, Yang Xi once wrote to Emperor Tang of tang that some jinshi "memorized contemporary poems, long and bowen" but did not understand the hundred families of the sons and hundreds of families, and demanded that they stop giving poetry to scholars. However, Yang Xuan himself was in Tianbao thirteen years (754), favored by Tang Xuanzong for the beauty of poetry.