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Eat it mixed with vinegar and salt.

Chapter 1730 It's a Holiday

The oranges and new wine were just available around the Mid-Autumn Festival.

This is also the time when crabs are at their fattest and most delicious.

Orange-stuffed crab combines these three elements together.

One dish allows you to taste the flavors of new wine, oranges, and crab.

After the banquet in the palace ended,

Zhao Yuan then led his officials to Jinming Pond in the west of the city.

Jinming Pond is already decorated with lanterns and colorful streamers.

A scene of auspicious celebration.

The Emperor led his officials to the Linshui Palace to continue the banquet.

Getting ready to enjoy the moon.

This time, however, there was no fancy fish or meat.

If someone still has an appetite,

Then they ate palace cakes.

At this time, the people eating in the palace were palace cakes.

In folk tradition, they are called small cakes or moon cakes.

These Mid-Autumn Festival special cakes are also known as "Lotus Leaf," "Golden Flower," and "Hibiscus," among other names.

The production method is very ingenious.

It is actually the same as the mooncake of later generations.

Su Dongpo praised it in a poem,

"Small cakes, like chewing the moon, filled with crispness and sweetness."

"酥" refers to flaky pastry, and "饴" is sugar.

The filling is basically the same as that of mooncakes in later generations.

People at that time not only paid attention to the taste when making mooncakes,

Furthermore, they designed various patterns related to the legend of the moon palace.

The pattern on the surface of the biscuit

First, draw it on paper.

Then stick it on the surface of the pancake.

Later, they used molds to press the paste directly onto the mooncakes.

The palace cakes were meticulously prepared by the imperial chefs.

Not only does it taste delicious,

The patterns on them are all very lifelike.

The patterns drawn by everyone were molded by skilled craftsmen and prepared by imperial chefs skilled in controlling the heat.

It is perfectly presented on the palace cake.

They drank Moon-Playing Soup.

Made from ingredients such as longan, lotus seeds, and lotus root starch.

It is prepared with great care.

It was getting dark.

All ten thousand lanterns in Jinming Pond were then lit up at once.

The Jinming Pond was illuminated.

As soon as the lights come on,

The singing and dancing began on the platform in the center of the pool.

The eastern bank of Jinming Pond was already teeming with people.

The main purpose of the people who came to Jinming Pond from outside the city was to watch the court dances.

Moon gazing is secondary.

Those who dislike crowds and want to admire the moon stay in the city.

Those without money should go to a restaurant.

The wealthy live in their own attics.

Drinking while gazing at the moon

Enjoy a moment of leisure.

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After the Mid-Autumn Festival,

Zhao Yuan then went to the Imperial Academy to begin teaching mathematics.

After Wang Anshi's reforms

The students of the Imperial Academy were divided into three classes: Upper Dormitory, Inner Dormitory, and Outer Dormitory.

Students in the outer dormitory are assessed monthly on their "performance" and "skills".

The term "conduct" primarily refers to the character of abiding by laws and regulations.

"Arts" refers to the results of monthly examinations set by the academic officials.

It can also be described as the results of internal school exams.

Each student's exam score is recorded as academic credit.

Including conduct, it is recorded monthly.

An inspection will be conducted at the end of the quarter.

Students who have accumulated a significant number of credits and have not committed any serious disciplinary violations are eligible for "quarterly evaluation".

By the end of the year, based on the students' quarterly selections,

Select the 100 students with the most accumulated credits.

It will be "reviewed" (annual assessment).

Compared to the monthly exams held by the school,

The imperial court would also send officials to the Imperial Academy once a year to set exam questions for the students studying outside the academy.

It is called the "public examination".

Those who rank first or second in the public examination and receive school approval

They can be promoted to the inner quarters.

Students in the inner dormitory also undergo monthly assessments in "performance" and "skills".

A "quarterly selection" is conducted each quarter.

However, only thirty people are "appointed" each year.

They are divided into two categories: "Excellent" and "Average".

The "public examination" is held every two years.

The grades are divided into three levels: "Excellent", "Average", and "No".

Those who receive an excellent grade in both the public examination and the school's assessment

They can then be promoted to "Superior Class".

Immediately release him from his official post and appoint him to an official position.

It is called "two-advantage brown release";

If the public examination score is one of the best and one of the best in the school's admission criteria...

They can then be promoted to "Upper Dormitory, Middle Class".

Continue your studies, and wait for the imperial examination.

No need for provincial or municipal examinations.

They can directly participate in the palace examination;

If the public examination score and the school's admission score are both equal, or one is excellent and the other is not,

They can then be promoted to "lower class of upper-class dormitory".

Continue learning,

When the imperial examinations are held,

They were exempted from the preliminary examination and were allowed to participate in the provincial examination.

If one is equal and the other is negative

Obviously, they wouldn't be able to get promoted to the upper dormitory.

Wang Anshi initially established the Three-Tier System with the intention of replacing the imperial examination with a higher education examination.

Taking into account multiple grades,

It is more reliable than selecting officials based on the results of a single imperial examination.

However, Wang Anshi's methods were not widely adopted.

The only difference was that the Three-Room System was implemented in the Imperial Academy.

When Zhao Ji came to power,

It was only after Emperor Huizong (Zhao Ji) truly popularized the Three-Division System throughout the country.

The imperial examination system was once replaced by the three-stage system.

However, in the third year of the Xuanhe era, the Three-Tier System was abolished throughout the country.

Reinstate the imperial examination system

Only the Imperial Academy can continue to use the three-stage system.

This is why scholars from all over the country flocked to Tokyo.

Many drawbacks also emerged during the implementation of the three-stage method.

Most of those admitted without examination were sons of officials.

Furthermore, cheating is also common in school exams.

However, some outstanding scholars did not enroll.

For the rulers,

Their goal is to leave no talented individuals undiscovered.

Chapter 1731 Imperial Academy

Although many virtuous men entered the court

They will also kick them out.

What you can't have is always the best.

The Great Liang Dynasty also adopted the imperial examination system of the Song Dynasty.