Why didn't Lv Xiucai get accepted by juren?

The imperial examination is different from today's civil service examination. The imperial examination is an examination for selecting officials for the country. At present, the civil service examination only employs the chief clerk and the following non-leadership positions, and can only be said to be officials at most. After Jin Fan was promoted, dignitaries from all walks of life immediately called on him, and the Jin Fan family turned the corner and became the local upper class. Therefore, the difficulty of getting promoted can be imagined. Lv Xiucai's personal characteristics: Lv Qinghou knows thousands of words at the age of three, recites Tang poetry at the age of five, is familiar with four books and five classics at the age of seven, and is proficient in poetry and songs at the age of eight. Not only that, Lv Xiucai can recite the laws of the dynasty and master English (which is useless for the exam). In his early years, his family was well-off, but his family died for unknown reasons. Only young Lv Qinghou kept studying and taking exams while running the inn left by his ancestors. In the end, due to poor management and heavy debts, the inn was sold to the children's shopkeeper and changed from the boss to a part-time worker. However, Lv Xiucai, who has nothing to do, is good at reciting poems. The closed-door Ming dynasty was proficient in foreign languages, and later engaged in the creation of popular novels in Ming and Qing dynasties. It can be seen that Lv Qinghou is not a bookworm who only reads blindly, but a talented, interesting and weak scholar, and he always shows the "stubbornness" of China traditional intellectuals on the issue of principle, which is normal in the circle of scholars, but in the Jianghu, he is inevitably out of place. Judging from the contents of the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty, the rural examinations and general examinations in the Ming Dynasty are divided into three periods: the first period-the test of four books and three meanings, each with more than 200 words, four classics and four meanings, each with more than 300 words; The second scene-on a sentence of more than 300 words and five sentences. Letter to the internal medicine department; The third scene-five strategies for trying historical events. Of the three games, the first one is the most important, especially in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. Due to the increase in the number of candidates and other reasons, marking usually only focuses on the first game, ignoring the second and third games. Therefore, most of the reader's energy is also focused on the content of the initial test. After Zhu in the Southern Song Dynasty, the status of the Four Books improved and surpassed the Five Classics. In the first exam, four books are required, so candidates are required, and only one of the five classics can be selected, which is "elective". Usually, The Book of History and The Book of Songs are chosen by the candidates themselves. Candidates should be familiar with one of the four books and five classics first, and then start writing articles in their teens. When Lv Xiucai was seven years old, he was not only familiar with the Four Books, but also with the Five Classics. Although familiarity does not mean specialization, it is already a standard prodigy. The judgment in the second scene is roughly a legal issue. Lv Xiucai can recite Daming Law. He made full preparations for the second game, which was not very important, and most candidates didn't put a lot of energy into it. So the first game must be kept in mind. This shows that although Lv Qinghou is young, he was born so smart, and the day after tomorrow he was so diligent and well prepared. Naturally, his expectation for the result is so great, and with the change of his family, it is normal for Lv Xiucai to feel more sad about his frustration than his peers. In a similar situation, Hong Xiuquan, who was only in his twenties at that time, had gradually embarked on the revolutionary road because of the unsatisfactory imperial examination. Judging from the passing rate of the imperial examination in Ming Dynasty, "the rural examination is the most difficult level in the whole imperial examination". Due to the different situation of rural examinations in different provinces, the admission ratio is different, which is generally around 10% in the early Ming Dynasty. Cheng and Hong are set at 5.9%; At the end of Jiajing, it dropped to 3.3%, and the actual admission rate was lower than this. Therefore, if you want to succeed once, you need not only strength, but also luck. There is only one purpose of the imperial examination, which is to supplement the official rank. However, due to the long-term social stability and the increasing number of scholars, the state must constantly adjust the admission ratio to a lower level, making the imperial examination more and more difficult. Lv Xiucai is only 25 years old, and the imperial examination is held once every three years, so he should not have participated in several provincial examinations. The reason why he didn't pass the exam is not necessarily because of his personal qualities. Judging from the age of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty, after all, the imperial examination was to select officials for the country, and after all, to select young people to serve the country. The selected middle-aged and elderly people have all gray hair, and even if they are knowledgeable, they can still make contributions to the country for several years. Therefore, the so-called "scholar under 50" only exaggerates the difficulty of imperial examinations, and "Fan Jinzhong's example" only satirizes some social phenomena. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a policy of encouraging "lifelong examination" and awarding honorary fame to the elderly who failed the scientific examination for many years, so Jin Fan's move was to satirize the previous dynasty. According to? Erh Lin concluded that the town of the Seven Chivalries in the play was in Yuncheng, Shanxi (of course, no matter who, where and what is in the play, it should be regarded as Yuncheng). According to statistics, the average age of Jinshi in Ming Dynasty was 3 1.93 years old, and the youngest was Xuande for five years, only 26.6 years old. Note that this is the average age of scholars, and these scholars are certainly younger. Lv Qinghou of Longmen Escort Agency was selected in his forties, and he is definitely an older candidate. Although Lv Qinghou is very self-abased about his poverty, he is very proud of being a child prodigy, and he often talks about it. As you can imagine, Lv Xiucai once fantasized that his future imperial examinations and official career were smooth sailing, so it may be nothing for ordinary people to be frustrated several times, but for this prodigy who had fallen into poverty, the blow was certainly not small.