Back In Time For Imperial Examination Chapter 20

The Cui family's cemetery was located in the mountains, not far from the farm, but the mountains were high and the roads were steep, making it inconvenient to get in and out. Now the farm was managed by the family that Mrs. Emma brought as a dowry, and Ryan Cui was too lazy to interact with them, so he stayed in a farmer's house near the ancestral tomb, writing and reading as he did at home, waiting for the stonemason to carve the stele and choose a good day to rebuild Mr. Chloe's tomb.

He didn't carry many books with him, but it took a lot of time to learn them: "Three", "Hundred", "Thousand" and the poems to encourage learning were often used, but they were not required for the imperial examination, so it was enough to just read them once and print them on the hard drive; but "Couplet" and "Rhyme Book" could not just be read hastily. Because these things were to be used, to be able to tell at a glance whether others used them right or wrong, and to rely on them to write his own poems and couplets.

If you can't remember the antithetical words and rhymes, when you have to write poetry or essays, it will be like a poor English student taking the Oxford Dictionary and the Grammar Encyclopedia to take a simultaneous interpretation test - even if you are allowed to open the test paper and flip through it randomly, you still won't be able to write a single word or a sentence that is acceptable.

Couplets at least have some fun in playing with words, but memorizing rhyme books is purely for sharpening the brain.

The pronunciation of people in Shuntian Prefecture in daily speech is also very different from that in the rhyme book. Some words with the same pronunciation are forcibly divided into two parts in terms of rhyme, which is quite inhumane to memorize.