Why did Pu Songling fail the exam repeatedly?

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Pu Songling repeatedly failed the exam, and when he returned to his hometown Pujiazhuang in addition to teaching, he poured all his grief and anger into "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", and never interacted with officialdom.

One day, I suddenly received an invitation from the prime minister, which said, "Please eat half a lot." Pu Songling hated this kind of invitation, the common people couldn't even eat, and the officials only cared about eating, drinking and having fun. So, he said to the person who sent the invitation:

I am not in good health and cannot go, so please reply to the Prime Minister for your understanding. When his wife heard that her husband was not going to the banquet, she thought it was inappropriate, and said to Pu Songling: "This is not good, the first person is the prime minister, and he has not forgotten his old friends when he becomes an official; The second is that you and the prime minister used to study together in the same class, no matter what way it is said, you should go.

Pu Songling pondered for a long time, and finally decided to go to the banquet.

When I came to the prime minister's house, the banquet began, and I saw two handmaidens carrying a pot of fish soup to the table. The prime minister said: "Please bear with me, since the younger brother entered the official, he has been silently honest and honest, not involved in smoke and dust, this is not a banquet, but I want to ask my brother to try how to fish in the water, only by understanding this mystery, can you enter the world."

When Pu Songling heard this, he was very displeased, thinking that life should be muddy and unstained. So I thought of a way to pay tribute to the prime minister in the future.

A few days later, sure enough, Pu Songling used the same way to feast the prime minister. After the prime minister received the invitation to "please eat Banlu", he happily went. Seeing the dilapidated thatched house, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pity in my heart.

I think back then, when I studied with my classmates, my brother's knowledge far exceeded that of me several times, just because of his upright temperament, his dissatisfaction with the hot and cold world, and the lack of money to take examiners at all levels, he fell to such a point. wanted to get the silver two for help, but Pu Songling resolutely refused to accept it. only talked about the prime minister, but did not mention the matter of going to the banquet.

The prime minister felt hungry and looked outside the house from time to time to look at the sun, but until the sun turned west, there was no movement at the table. The prime minister was so hungry that he couldn't hold it back, and asked Pu Songling: "When will Brother Zun have a banquet?" Pu Songling replied casually

Three meals a day have been completed, and you have eaten half of Lu, why do you still have to set up a banquet "The prime minister suddenly realized, under Lu, it is obviously a "day" word, I asked him to eat it, but he asked me to eat it, this meaning is not the same, this head is eaten, isn't it the sun in the belly Isn't this clearly persuading me to be a Ming official with the sun in his arms Although the prime minister has been hungry for a day, he has understood the truth of being an official.

Because the examiner did not appreciate his style, his writing. It may also be that the examiner is mediocre, illiterate, or has received money from others.

is not suitable for the examination system of Baguwen, just look at his **: not suitable for being an official, not suitable for politics, not suitable for the power field, and it is natural to fall off the list.

There are so many people who take the exam every year, and only a few people pass the exam, and it is all based on people's feelings to judge the level by writing articles, unlike mathematics, which has fixed answers to judge, which is why the Manchu Qing perished in front of Western countries.

Pu SonglingThe reasons for failing the exam are as follows:

1. First of all, the officialdom is dark, and it is estimated that the imperial examination is biased towards the background and relationship, and does not really pay attention to the truth and learning.

2. Secondly, Pu Songling is a person with an uninhibited personality and does not pay attention to details. At that time, the exam was mainly for the eight-strand text.

Each article is composed of eight parts: breaking the topic, undertaking the topic, starting to speak, starting, starting shares, middle shares, back shares, and bundle shares. The format of the article is rigid, and even the word count is regulated. Pu Songling likes to write articles with feelings since he was a child, but he doesn't like to write articles according to the eight-strand text routine.

It is estimated that the requirements for him to participate in the first two county ** children's examinations are not too strict, and he easily achieved good results.

3. The third time he took the moral exam, the examiner Shi Yanzhang hated the eight shares, and liked Pu Songling's articles that did not exceed the number of words according to the eight-share routine, and rated him as the first. It is a pity that when Pu Songling took the exam later, he encountered rigid examiners who adhered to the eight-strand dogma. It is not surprising that he wrote the eight-strand essay that he was required to write into an essay with a sense of story and exceeded the prescribed number of words, and it was all typed into a separate volume by the examiner.

4. Finally, there are also problems in the direction of his own efforts. Although he was obsessed with the imperial examination, he did not spend much energy and time in this area. It is estimated that he is too knowledgeable and talented to take the exam, and he has not seriously summed up the lessons after so many defeats.

He devoted a lot of energy and time to collecting materials, writing ** stories, and also writing the "Nongsang Sutra" involving agriculture, the meteorological "Observation and Play", the medical "Medicine Chongshu" poem "Selected Seven Laws of Poetry" and so on. Except for ** stories, the level of other things written is average, and the impact is not very large.

In order to gain fame and achieve life, Pu Songling has been cold for ten years, just waiting for one year. Finally, the day of the exam came, he prepared all the preparation tools, entered the exam room with confidence, and was ready for the exam.

Soon, the results of the exam were announced. Who would have thought that Pu Songling would be famous in Sun Mountain. Of course, this is a heavy blow to him, is it possible that years of hard work have been in vain?

Do you just give up if you don't succeed? The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, but he felt helpless. In the end, he decided:

If I take the test again after three years, I don't believe that I can't do it! So, he immersed himself in hard study and prepared for the exam in three years' time.

However, the sky is unpredictable. Three years later, Pu Songling fell off the list again. He examined himself carefully and decided to take the exam again.

After taking the test several times for many years, Pu Songling repeatedly failed to try, so he gave up the idea of gaining fame, and he decided to find another way to find a way of life that suits him, after all, "there is no endless road"!

After this conviction, he began another life. He spent some money to buy some tables and chairs, and set up a tea shop in front of his house to provide tea to passers-by every day. He has his own unique principle of Xun Hall - he does not receive pay for drinking tea, but asks them to tell some legendary stories.

Pu Songling patiently listened to and recorded everyone's stories, and compiled them into a document when he returned home in the evening. After people knew Pu Songling's habit, they were willing to come to him for tea, and they were also happy to tell him some anecdotes they had heard. As time passed day by day, more and more people came to Pu Songling to drink tea, and Pu Songling collected more stories.

He collected and sorted out day after day, year after year, and after more than 20 years of unremitting efforts, he finally wrote the famous short story collection "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" based on the stories he heard.

Facts have proved that Pu Songling's original choice was wise, and his alternative path has achieved his beautiful life.