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Like most poets in the Tang Dynasty , Han Yu also had a dream of becoming an official in the court. At the age of 20, Han Yu went to Beijing to take the Jinshi examination, but he failed one after another.

Han Yu failed the imperial examination three times. Does this mean that his talents are not outstanding enough? In fact, not so.

• First of all, the number of people admitted to the Jinshi examination in the Tang Dynasty was very small, which can be said to be “thousands of troops cross the single-plank bridge”.
• In addition, whether the style of poetry and prose is suitable for the test, and whether it suits the appetite of the chief and deputy examiners is also very important.
• More realistically, to take part in the imperial examination, not only does the examinee need to have excellent strength, but he also needs to have a strong enough “background”.

Therefore, in order to be a Jinshi in the Tang Dynasty examination, it is necessary to gather many factors such as “time”, “geographical advantage”, “human harmony” and so on.

“Chang’an rice is expensive, and it’s not easy to live in a big place.” Taking the imperial examination in Chang’an is also a lot of money. Han Yu was in Chang’an once, and he didn’t even have the money to continue the imperial examination. In his poem “Going Out”, he wrote that “ there are millions of families in Chang’an, and there is nothing to go out.”

In the huge city of Chang’an , there is no shelter for Han Yu .

have to meet noble

With the help of Ma Sui, the king of Beiping, a family friend of the Han family, he had the opportunity to refer to him for the fourth time. Fortunately, Han Yu met Bole Lu Zhi for the fourth time. Han Yu’s innovative ancient prose features left a deep impression on him, and he was rated as the thirteenth by Lu Zhi. Finally Jinshi and the first . He was just twenty-five years old this year — even though he wasted four years in repeated trials and failures, Han Yu was already considered a winner in life in the Tang Dynasty when there were “Fifty Young Scholars”.

Han Yu was very grateful for Lu Zhi’s kindness, so he wrote the “ Ma Shuo “.

“Maxima often exists, but bole does not often exist”

Without Lu Zhi, it would be a question of whether Han Yu and Han Yu would have the financial strength to pass the exam for the fifth time. As the saying goes, “Good things come in pairs.” In the year Han Yu passed the Jinshi examination, he met Meng Jiao , who was underappreciated in talent. After that, the two men forged each other. This first meeting became the starting point of the “ Han-Meng School of Poetry “ in the Mid-Tang Dynasty .

Han Yu, who finally passed the Jinshi examination, thought that he could smoothly enter the imperial court as an official, assist Chao Gang, and reach the pinnacle of life, but unexpectedly, he ran into another obstacle head-on-the examination of Bo Xuehong CI. This time, Han Yu missed three more times. Compared with the test god Bai Juyi , Han Yu was really in tears.

critical hit

During the years-long exam tug-of-war, Han Yu’s elder sister-in-law Mrs. Zheng died of illness, which was a great blow to Han Yu. He wrote an article “Worship for Mrs. Zheng” to mourn, in which he wrote about how his elder sister-in-law took good care of him :

“When you think about cold, you need clothes; when you think about hunger, you eat food.”

Measles, water and fire, no disasters and body

Lao Minmin, save this foolish mediocrity

Look at Yu Youzi and teach him earnestly”

It means that my eldest sister-in-law Tianhan adds clothes to me, cooks for me when I am hungry, keeps me from diseases and disasters, protects me from hardships and sorrows, and treats me like a son. Inculcate.

“The son wants to support but the relative does not wait for him”, what a pity and sorrow for Han Yu!

Five months after Han Yu’s elder sister-in-law’s funeral, he returned to Chang’an. He was wasted until he was 27 years old, and he still hadn’t obtained an official position. He had a family to support, so Han Yu had to give up the chance to enter the Central Committee and went to Xuanwu. Jiedu sent Dong Jin to work as a secretary.

Get what you want

Three years later, Dong Jin passed away, and Han Yu came to Chang’an again, took the fourth examination of Bo Xuehong Ci, and finally passed the exam this time, becoming a doctor of the four gates of the Imperial College.

After a bumpy journey, he was admitted to fame, and his career as an official was also full of hardships…