As we all know, the imperial examination has an important position in ancient China, and the children of ordinary people who want to become officials can only pass the imperial examination in this way, which can stimulate the trend of loving reading in society, and can also allow social classes to change and flow, and can avoid too solidified classes.
The level of the imperial examination can be divided into the township examination, the meeting test and the palace examination, the last examination, the person who wrote the question may be the emperor himself, Qianlong once came out of an upper league, when all the candidates were meditating on the lower league, a candidate turned his head and left, and the result was that he was a high school champion.
Qianlong succeeded to the throne at the age of 25, he was emperor for 61 years, during these 61 years, he had supreme power, the reason why he took the initiative to abdicate was not that he lost control of power, but to show respect for the Kangxi Emperor, otherwise he would be the longest-reigning emperor in Chinese history.
The reason why he can be an emperor for such a long time is inseparable from the accumulation of his grandfather and father, relevant data show that when Qianlong succeeded to the throne, the gold and silver in the treasury exceeded hundreds of millions, so the Qianlong Dynasty was very rich from the beginning, and of course it was necessary to spend so much money, so during his reign, Qianlong went down to Jiangnan many times to play, and every time he went to a place, it would inevitably cause a big sensation in the local area, and the local officials hollowed out their hearts to please him, and he also liked to write poetry.
Writing poetry is a major hobby of the Qianlong Emperor, relevant statistics show that he wrote more than 100,000 poems in his lifetime, more than the "Quan Tang Poems" combined, but the quality, perhaps do not dare to compliment, if the quality is good enough, it has long been in the language textbook, and we have not studied the emperor's masterpiece in the language class, right? However, although Qianlong's achievements in poetry are very ordinary, he is still very high-level in couplets, and some of the couplets given often make it impossible for the great talents of the world to be able to couplet.
In the imperial examination, the Qing Dynasty also followed the system of the previous Han Dynasty, using the imperial examination method to select talents, and one year of the imperial examination, the chief examiners made difficulties when who would be the head of the imperial examination, why did it look like this?
Because the performance of these two people in the examination is too similar, it is difficult to distinguish between high and low, whether it is calligraphy or policy, the articles of the two people are very good, just when Qianlong did not know how to decide, He Yan gave him an idea: Since the couplet is the emperor's unique skill, it can be used in this way to determine the high and low, you can give an upper link, let the candidates give the lower link, see whose lower link makes you satisfied, let who will soon be able to become the champion?
He Yan was worthy of being a red man around Qianlong, and knowing Qianlong's thoughts, after he said so, Qianlong Mao Zedong suddenly opened up and decided to have this way to select the new branch leader.
On the day of the temple examination, Qianlong gave his own shanglian, which is "smoke lock pond willow", this shanglian looks very simple, but in fact it is very deep, because the head of these five words is "gold, wood, water, fire and earth", and the battle is neat and tidy, the artistic conception is beautiful, Qianlong used just five words to depict his good impression of the smoke and rain jiangnan.
The questions from the emperor will naturally not be very general, and must be carefully considered, and the candidates present themselves know this truth, and some candidates are shocked on the spot, but none of them can match. Just when Qianlong wanted to see how they coped, one of them immediately turned around and left, and just when the others were still thinking hard, Qianlong immediately called the person who left back and made him a new branch leader.
For this point, the other candidates and ministers all said that they could not understand, and Qianlong explained with a smile: This pair is absolute, and it cannot be put out at all, and this candidate dares to turn his head and leave, which shows that he also saw this, and his courage is also very outstanding, when the champion is impeccable, everyone suddenly realized after listening to this explanation.
Later, Qianlong also gave this upper link to Ji Xiaolan, but Ji Xiaolan did not give the following, some people said that in fact, Ji Xiaolan also gave the lower link, but because of Qianlong's face, he did not say it, what do you think? Does Ji Xiaolan have the ability to give this couplet's lower link? Or do you have any good links? Feel free to leave a message in the comment area.