Wen | Flying Fish says history
For people who are beautiful, many ordinary-looking people will sneer and say very indignantly:
How can you look pretty and eat as a meal?
In fact, not to mention, as far as the current social situation is concerned, it is really possible to eat when you look beautiful.
For example, to the interview, looks is the first impression of the interviewer, if two people have the same ability, can only admit one, presumably the probability of people with outstanding looks being admitted is greater, and then for example, among the many actors who run the dragon set, the two acting skills are equal, the director will basically choose to look more beautiful, and even sometimes, even if the acting skills are not good, they can get the favor of the director if they look beautiful.
And these opportunities can be turned into jobs, so looking good can sometimes really make a person struggle for decades less.
However, such a person is not admirable, because eating by the face automatically dwarf three points.
The most admirable thing is that some people can obviously eat by the face, but they are still talented, but ugly-looking people, if they want to get ahead, they have to read more.
And this principle has been common since ancient times.
During the Qing Dynasty, there was a person who looked very ugly, and only had one eye, and the Jianghu people gave him the nickname: one-eyed ugly man, this person knew that people were ugly and had to read more, so he studied very hard from an early age, and being an official was naturally the ultimate goal of his hard work.
With his talent higher than ordinary people, this one-eyed ugly man cut through thorns and thorns all the way, through the township test, the courtyard test, the meeting test, and all the way to singing, and successfully entered the highest level of the palace examination interviewed by the emperor himself.
People who can enter the temple examination can basically be an official whose official position is not low, and if they can enter the top three, it is even more incredible, and they can directly become a superior person.
However, this one-eyed ugly man entered the temple test, but was deliberately put out of the couplet by the Qianlong Emperor who was judged by his appearance, and this ugly man's name was Liu Fenghuan, but he said: I want to be a tanhua, so is he on the couplet from Qianlong, and does Qianlong give him a tanhua?
Let's take a look.
Liu Fengxuan, a native of Guanquan Village, Chishan Town, Shangli County, Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, was born in the twenty-sixth year of Qianlong, he lost his mother at an early age, and he was talented, and it was precisely because of this that he had a long reputation since childhood, and the Jianghu people called Jiangxi Caizi.
When he was very young, he was actually not ugly, at least not the one-eyed appearance that the Qianlong Emperor saw later, so how was his eyes blind, this was because of an accident.
Liu Fenghuan is not only outstanding in literary style, but also prefers archery, in the eyes of people at that time, this is a typical literary and martial all-rounder, and there was a time when Liu Fenghuan and his fellow villagers competed in archery, just when he was ready to shoot, an arrow whizzed from the opposite side, and Liu Fenghuan, who had no time to dodge, was shot in the eye.
With the medical skills at that time, Liu Fengchen did not save his eyes, so he became a "one-eyed" person, and as he grew older, Liu Fenghuan's face became more and more vicious, if it was an ordinary person, perhaps he would have given up treatment in such a situation.
But Liu Fenghuan felt that life should not be like this, so he continued to study hard, painstakingly studying poetry, calligraphy and painting, after all, as long as people read more, they can also become people.
Liu Fenghuan suffered a catastrophe, but in his heart he did not have the slightest self-exile, and he studied hard every day, which made his achievements in calligraphy and articles more refined, and he was selected in the forty-fourth year of Qianlong.
Logically, already having the identity of a person, there is already an entrance ticket to become an official, although the local government also knows that Liu Fenghuan is a talent, but it is too ugly, so he has not been able to get the local government's reuse, but Liu Fenghuan is not discouraged, he is still insisting on studying.
Liu Fengchen knew that reading could change his destiny, and although he was not welcomed in the local area, he still had a broad stage when he jumped out of this circle, so he began to take higher-level examinations.
Just like this, Liu Fengchen sang all the way, all the way to the Qianlong Fifty-four Years of gongshi temple examination, this exam Liu Fengchen encountered problems, because he only had one eye, and the exam had too many things to write, which led to Liu Fengchen when the sun was about to set, and he could not finish the exam paper.
According to the rules of the examination, no matter whether the writing is good or not, the time must stop answering the questions, and the supervising examination minister must also withdraw his examination papers to end the examination, but The Rebbe Shangshu Changqing, who was present at the time, said that Liu Fengchen's calligraphy was exquisite and must be a great talent, so he was allowed to complete the final chapter, and let people light candles to illuminate him, so Liu Fenghuan completed the answer.
This time, Liu Fengchen did not live up to Changqing's trust in the GongshiDian examination, he successfully entered the list of the top ten volumes with his talent, and his examination papers were also presented to the Qianlong Emperor's imperial review, Qianlong listened to the examination papers of the temple examination officers, and was very appreciative of Liu Fenghuan's talent, so he passed on Liu Fenghuan for an interview.
As soon as Qianlong saw Liu Fenghuan, he almost didn't throw the test paper on the ground, thinking that if he really wanted to admit this one-eyed ugly man, this would be too hurtful, and if he didn't admit him, the hundred officials would inevitably laugh at me for judging people by their appearance, and simply let him make it difficult for him to come out of the couplet, so that he would retreat.
So Qianlong said to Liu Fenghuan:
If you really learn to excel, you will definitely hit you; if you learn to be mediocre, you will be ruthless.
Liu Fenghuan was not afraid and said directly:
Your Majesty is invited to write a question.
Qianlong opened his mouth and came to a very ironic upper link:
One-Eyed does not make the Dragon and Tiger list.
Liu Fengchen listened, this emperor lao'er is also based on appearance, but can not be disobedient, simply pat the horse's ass, so the next link:
Half moon is still shining.
This made Qianlong very hurt internally, because this lower link was really appropriate, so there was a second upper link:
Dong Qiming, West Chang Gung, Nan Ji Beidou, who is the star picking Han?
As soon as this was released, the group of ministers applauded, and all four directions of the southeast, south, and northwest were available, and it was also implied that in the imperial examination, only the person who was the first in literary style was the star picker.
As soon as Liu Fenghuan heard this Shanglian, he immediately understood Qianlong's meaning, but he did not dare to claim to be the first in Wencai, so he made a subordinate link that was neither arrogant nor too humble:
Spring Peony, Summer Peony, Autumn Chrysanthemum Winter Plum, Chenben Tanhualang.
When Qianlong heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, and felt that Liu Fenghuan was really a scholar and a rich man, and was a talent, so Zhu Pen was a little bit, and Liu Fenghuan was admitted as the third place tanhua of the first class.
In this way, Liu Fengchen successfully won the emperor's approval for his talent, and then Qianlong also made him the chief examiner of many places, allowing him to weigh and select scribes, and his reputation spread far and wide.
It can be seen that ugliness is not a stumbling block to success, and hard reading is the shortcut to success.
References: "Tanhualang Liu Fengyu", "Qing History Draft", etc.
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