Geniuses all come together.
This sentence could not be more correct in the second year of jiayou (1057) of the Song Dynasty.
This year's imperial examination can be called the most star-studded one in the history of the imperial examination system, and many great bulls in The history of Chinese culture have stood out from this examination.
Who are they? Next, be prepared for ear bombing.
Three of the six Families of the Song Dynasty and the Tang and Song Dynasties were: Su Shi, Su Rui, and Zeng Gong; two of the five sons of the Great Thinkers of the Northern Song Dynasty: Zhang Zai and Cheng Hao; and later great statesmen who were all prime ministers: Zeng Bu, Zhang Huan, Lü Huiqing, and so on.
Some people have concluded that there are 24 people in the "History of Song" that were cited in this year, of which 9 people served as Zaizhi.
What is more legendary is that the chief examiner of this year was Ouyang Xiu, the leader of the literary circle at that time, and the examiner was his closest friend, and Mei Shengyu, who was also a bull's ear in the poetry circle of the Song Dynasty, can be said that the two have a lot of vision.
Recently, the college entrance examination was released, so let's talk about the anecdotes of this college entrance examination candidate.
Zhang Zai, one of the five sons of the Northern Song Dynasty, has a legendary experience, he was born in Henan, his father was an official in Fuzhou, and later died of illness in office, Zhang Zai and his brother Zhang Jian (also a generation of famous courtiers) helped the coffin back to his hometown, on the way there was no entanglement, the two settled in Hengqu Town, Mei County, Fengxiang Province, Shaanxi, later called Zhang Zai "Mr. Hengqu", Hengqu was thus famous, thanks to Zhang Zai.
Zhang Zai in the classics
When Zhang Zai was young, he was a hero and once wanted to join the army and establish a meritorious career. At that time, fan Zhongyan was stationed in Shaanxi, and Fan Zhongyan knew that this person was not simple when he saw Zhang Zai, "knowing his far away instruments at first sight", so he gave him a copy of "Zhongyong", saying: "Confucians have their own name to teach Coke, what is the matter with soldiers!" I have to say that Fan Zhongyun has vision.
Then Zhang Zai began to go back to reading the Sage Sutra and gained a lot.
He also has a good relationship with the "two brothers" (Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi brothers) among the five sons of the Northern Song Dynasty. Zhang Zai is older than the Ercheng brothers, and is still Ercheng's uncle in terms of generations, but in terms of ideological development, Zhang Zai has been inspired by Ercheng a lot.
In the first year of Jiayou, that is, the year before the imperial examination, Zhang Zai was in Kaifeng to prepare for the second year's imperial examination, at that time, he often lectured "Zhou Yi" to people in a temple, and he sat on the tiger skin to speak, "There are many followers", and when you think about it, you feel very flamboyant.
One night. The second Brothers came to see their cousin. After chatting with the Ercheng brothers, Zhang Zai found that it was not okay, and saw the powerful Lord, so he removed the tiger skin the next day and said to the listener: "What I usually tell you is nonsense, you go to learn from the Ercheng brothers." ”
This is a model of humility.
Next, let's talk about "Ercheng", Cheng Hao is called "Mr. Mingdao", and Cheng Yi is called "Mr. Yichuan", two of the five sons of the Northern Song Dynasty, and has a high degree of achievement in science.
The protagonist of "Cheng Men Lixue" is one of the two Cheng brothers
In the second year of Jiayou, Cheng Hao took the imperial examination and went to high school; two years later, his younger brother Cheng Yi went to the examination and unfortunately failed the list, and did not participate in the imperial examination again. Despite this, he served as a teacher of Song Zhezong under the recommendation of Sima Guang, and became an imperial teacher in cloth, which is rare in Chinese history, which shows that there is also a spring in the fall of the list.
After talking about the "Ercheng" brothers, let's talk about the two brothers "Su Shi and Su Rui".
At that time, Su Shi's examination papers, it is said that mei Shengyu, the examiner of the examination papers, was overjoyed when he saw it, and he was even amazed, and quickly showed it to Ouyang Xiu: "Well written, this must be a champion!" Ouyang Xiu looked at it, it was indeed good, but he suspected that it was written by his own disciple Zeng Gong (at that time, the examination papers were all to be pasted, and I didn't know who the examiner was), in case he was really a champion, everyone must not say that he was favoritism.
After hesitating repeatedly, he decided to put Su Shi's scroll back, and after later learning that it was Su Shi's scroll, Ouyang Xiu was quite remorseful. However, he later greatly praised Su Shi: "Reading ShiShu, I don't feel sweating, I am fast and fast!" The old man should avoid the road and let him go out of the way."
Mention Zeng Gong, let's talk about the four brothers of his family.
That year, their family went to the exam together with four brothers, in addition to Zeng Gong, there were also his younger brothers Zeng Bu, Zeng Mu, and cousin Zeng Fu. Fortunately, the four brothers of the Zeng family won the list together and were passed down as a good story by the people of the time.
Zeng Gong's only heirloom inkblot, "Bureau Post", has been auctioned for hundreds of millions of dollars
Later, Zeng Bu also paid homage to the chancellor, and Zeng Gong also occupied a place among the eight masters of the Tang and Song dynasties.
As mentioned earlier, Su Shi and Zhuangyuan lost their arms, who was the Champion of that year?
His name is Zhang Heng. Coincidentally, he was not alone, and he was also tested with his uncle Zhang Huan.
Uncle and nephew took the college entrance examination in the same year, it is very exciting to think about, and the result is even more exciting: Zhang Heng high school champion, although Zhang Huan also passed the exam, but the ranking is not as good as the nephew. This can make Zhang angry, and he feels that it is really a great shame. Although he passed the examination, he did not go to become an official, and re-studied for two years, Jiayou re-examined for four years, and only then did he give up.
Although Zhang Heng won the high school title, his subsequent achievements were not outstanding, so it can be seen that even if he is in the examination, he does not need to be too proud.
This Zhang Wei was a good friend of Su Shi in his early years, and later joined Wang Anshi's camp of changing the law, which was in opposition to Su Shi's political concepts, and Su Shi later had a bumpy career and was repeatedly degraded, and more than half of it was due to him.
Finally, let's talk about Lü Huiqing, he is a powerful leader in Wang Anshi's camp of changing the law, he is a descendant of Lü Mengzheng, and Lü Mengzheng is the male protagonist of the famous drama work "The Record of the Cold Kiln", and this Lü family is also quite legendary.