Among the many emperors in ancient China, the qianlong emperor's popularity in later generations is quite high, which is not only related to his "ten perfect martial arts" that he was proud of in his life, nor is it related to his many concubines, nor is it related to the more than 40,000 poems he wrote in his lifetime, but more importantly, he once went to Jiangnan six times during his reign, which seems to be related to the lives of the people, so his popularity is naturally very high.
Because Qianlong has repeatedly gone out of the palace to "micro-service private visits", so in the folk is also left with many legends related to Qianlong, today we go to the southern city to eat, casually into a small restaurant, the dishes posted on the wall will have "This is when Qianlong went down to Jiangnan after tasting the praise, and personally named ..." and other words, and qianlong's legend is not only related to food, but also highly related to culture.
Legend has it that when Qianlong once went down to Jiangnan, it was exactly the day of the Jiangnan Keju, there were two candidates whose cultural level was very high, and the chief examination official used all kinds of methods to test, and must be divided between the two of them, and the result was that all kinds of examinations were done, and the final result was still not different, so this matter was sought by the Qianlong Emperor who just passed by.
When the Qianlong Emperor came to the scene, he found that the cultural level of these two candidates was indeed very high, and it was indeed extremely close, and for a while he could not think of any good way to list them in a row, and it was obviously impossible for the two to rank first. While Qianlong was meditating, he looked at the scenery in front of him and suddenly took his heart into account and said, "There will be a shanglian today, and whoever of you comes up first is the first..."
Qianlong's upper link is "Smoke Lock Pond Willow", which describes the scene of Jiangnan, and the smoke fills the pond, as if the willow trees on the side of the pond have been locked, and the artistic conception is extremely beautiful, showing a peaceful atmosphere. At the same time, it is also extremely elaborate in terms of wording, the five words correspond to the five elements of "fire, metal, water, earth, and wood", and the lower link needs to meet the correspondence between this mood and the five elements at the same time, and its difficulty can be imagined.
After the two candidates heard qianlong's uplink, one of them immediately bowed his head and began to meditate, while the other said very decisively and simply after a little thought: "Emperor, your uplink is really too clever, the students really can't figure it out, they can only give up." "After saying that, I turned my head and left, without any nostalgia, Presumably I was too ashamed to stay any longer."
However, the Qianlong Emperor stopped him: "Come back, this is you", this candidate immediately turned back, his face was full of unbelievable joy, another candidate who was still thinking about it instantly became stupid, and the other examiners and ministers present also looked very confused and incredible after hearing it, so a bold minister asked the Qianlong Emperor why he had to judge this person who did not come up with an answer.
The Qianlong Emperor smiled slightly and said: "My association is absolute, and those who can judge at first sight must be highly talented", which means that the upper link I came out of is indeed very difficult, belonging to the kind that no one can match, but the difficulty is very clever, it will give people some confidence, so this person who judged that this is absolute at first sight must be a person with profound wisdom, so this candidate who gave up first became a champion.