Ming Dynasty Zhejiang Chun'an There was a Jie Yuan named Shanglu . He was born in the 12th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1414). Ming Xuanzong The tenth year of Xuande (1435), the 21-year-old Shanglu passed the first place in the provincial examination.
When he was a child, his father, Mr. Shang, hired the local Hongru, Mr. Guo, , to his home, and also opened a library to collect some children from neighbors' children. Mr. Guo, , is full of , and is familiar with various classics. He is a famous scholar. His teaching requirements are particularly strict and precise. There are more than a dozen students who study with shang.
Mr. Shang's family respected Teacher Guo and took good care of his daily life and diet. Teacher Guo has been in a business for more than ten years, but Mr. Guo has been congenitally weak and sickly.
Every time a merchant, Mr. Shang or his wife personally invites a doctor and boils medicine. Mr. Guo devoted himself to teaching. Sometimes when the boiled medicine comes in, Mr. Guo drinks it directly without looking at it. He burns the medicine and blames the medicine for being too hot. The merchant took it out again, put the medicine for a while and then sent it to the study. Mr. Guo thought the medicine was too bitter. Such things happen every now and then. The merchants are always bothered. Over time, they simply asked Shanglu to take the soup and deliver the medicine.
One day, the old man suddenly looked kind and smiled and said to Shanglu : "In the past, I only saw your appearance and reading performance, and today I finally saw your inner world!" Since then, he has done his best and taught all his life what he has learned to Shanglu and them. A group of students have made rapid progress in their studies and almost all have become famous Confucian scholars far and wide.
shanglu At the age of seventeen, he took the examination of the prefecture and county college entrance examination, and directly passed the first scholar. After the Shang Dynasty, he could receive two kilograms of rice and one kilogram of meat from the government every day, and later it was changed to one liang of silver per month. You should know that the monthly salary of the magistrate at that time was only 3.5 taels.
Teacher Guo taught all his life writings to Shang Lu. Teacher Guo’s only regret was that he was not successful in the scientific examination, and he was weak and sickly, so he eventually gave up his ambition for scientific examinations. But every time he arrives at the provincial examination, Mr. Guo will set his own questions, teach during the day and answer at night, and write three articles for each scientific examination. This way, he will accumulate thirty imperial examination articles every two or three years, and ten consecutive provincial examinations and palace examinations. Now it is time for students to take the scientific exam, and they think that their lifelong ideals will be realized by moral students.
One day, Mr. Guo held a stack of paper and said to Shang Lu: "This is my lifelong scientific examination manuscript. Every provincial examination and palace examination, I make the paper by myself, and the answers are written here. Now I give it to you, I hope you will not let down your teacher's will. Once you open the test paper and encounter similar questions or test papers, as long as you memorize it, you will definitely be in high school." After Shang Lu received the teacher's order, he studied hard and was well aware of the essence of his master's articles.
When Shang Lu was sixteen years old, Teacher Guo was seriously ill and bedridden. Shang Lu and his son and his family took turns to ask the doctor to boil medicine. Shang Lu held the teacher's thin hand, silently shed tears, and refused to leave for a long time.
After Teacher Guo passed away, the Guo family paid for the coffin and burial, and sent a lot of silver to the teacher's family. Next to the tomb of the merchant’s house, Shang Lu was studying while guarding the tomb for half a year, which shows the deep affection between master and apprentice.
At this time, the teacher's wife was old and weak, and the merchant made proper arrangements for Teacher Guo's family , and sent the same salary as Teacher Guo during his birth every year. Before the Chinese New Year, he sent rice, oil, wine, meat, etc. until the teacher's wife passed away, and never stopped.
When Shanglu took the provincial examination, Mr. Shang and his wife dreamed of Teacher Guo at the same time. The husband sincerely expressed their gratitude to them, thanking the merchant for their care and compassion for the women and children of the Guo family. They specifically instructed: "I gave the son thirty imperial examination articles. Please be sure to urge Shanglu to read and understand it well. It will be of great use when entering the examination room!"
At first, Shanglu didn't care much, and he studied by himself while reading. He didn't think that he would definitely get the thirty articles given by the teacher in this subject.
Half a month before the exam, Mr. Shang and his wife met Teacher Guo in their dreams again, and said earnestly and seriously: "I have seen the man spend a lot of time reading and writing other articles these days. I am afraid he has not paid attention to the thirty articles I have written, and he has not understood them all. The exam is approaching, so you should teach him strictly and ask him to recite them all, and not miss one!"
Mr. Shang and his wife woke up the next morning and immediately came to Shang Lu, telling his son everything he said in his dream, and he must not let down his master's painstaking efforts. All thirty articles must be recited.
Shang Lu heard that Teacher Guo kept sending dreams, and agreed with it. He immediately read it at night and memorized all the articles in his heart. Unexpectedly, when I entered the examination room, I saw three test questions at the beginning of the paper, two of which were almost exactly the same as the two in the master's articles. Shang Lu was confident and wrote as if he was awesome. He worked a little to polish it and quickly completed two articles.
There is another article, which is a famous saying by Confucius Mencius. The teacher's articles are also covered by many, and the Shang Dynasty has a very clear idea. It is completed in one hour and written in one hour. It has received the true teachings of the master, and its foundation is not inferior to that of Teacher Guo.
Wait to the Zhejiang government to issue a notice, and a group of officials came to the merchants to congratulate the wedding, shouting that the merchants won the first place in the provincial examination in the current academic year and Jie Yuan.
The son said: The higher you look up, the stronger you drill. ——" Analects of Confucius·Zihan ". In ancient times, scholars must be strict with their teachers, and then they will be respected by their teachers. No noble or lowly, no long or little, the Tao exists and the teacher exists. "A teacher is to teach him to use things to describe all virtues." This is true!
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