Chapter 493

"Zhuangyuan Lane?" Long Kangrong said: "Has a Zhuangyuan come out here?"

Su Xinghui said: "Right, in the late Ming Dynasty, a Zhuangyuan came out here, named Hou Chongguo."

Su Xinghui's words made Qu Ziqing and others interested. Qu Ziqing said: "Really a Zhuangyuan came out? That's amazing."

The Zhuangyuan in the feudal era is different from the college entrance examination Zhuangyuan now. Every year, there are several college entrance examination Zhuangyuans in each province, while in ancient times, there was generally only one every three years, and it was truly the only one in the country. According to statistics, in the more than 1,000 years since the imperial examination, only more than 500 Zhuangyuans have been produced.

This number can show how difficult it is to produce a Zhuangyuan, which also determines that every Zhuangyuan in the feudal era is a real cow.

Some people may think that Zhuangyuan is nothing more than that, they are just writing eight-legged essays, but is it so simple to stand out from hundreds of thousands of scholars in the country?

Zhuangyuan has to go through many years of cold windows, township examinations, provincial examinations, and palace examinations to finally win the championship. His memory, poetry, rhetoric, policy theory, and calligraphy must be the best of the best, and even have a handsome appearance, because the final championship needs to be appointed by the emperor. In history, there have been many examples of being hooked by the emperor because of ugly appearance.

Imagine, how can a person who can stand out in such a harsh and fierce competition be a mediocre person? Perhaps some Zhuangyuans did not have high achievements later, but this cannot deny their excellence. The moment they won the championship, they proved their outstandingness.

In fact, a person winning the championship will be the glory of everyone in a county or even a prefecture in ancient times. The status of Zhuangyuan is so high that it is difficult for ordinary people to imagine.

Qu Ziqing and others are intellectuals, and they also have research on these. Of course, they know how difficult it is for a place to produce a Zhuangyuan. Therefore, Qu Ziqing said that Zhuangyuan Lane is amazing, and Long Kangrong and Yi Mingda also nodded in agreement.

Long Kangrong said: "Is this Zhuangyuan Lane still preserved to this day? This is really not easy." ===== CHAPTER 495 =====