Chapter 2 Chapter 1 University - Chinese Dream

Orientals love to dream.Westerners also love to dream.But the dreams of Easterners and Westerners are completely different. Two thousand and five hundred years ago, when the Chinese nation was at war, in the State of Lu, a seventeen-year-old gifted boy who lost his father wiped away his tears after losing his mother, with the thought of "study is also in it". With the belief of seeking teachers from all over the world, he is not ashamed to be inferior, and finally "stands at thirty".This middle-aged gentleman, after repeated failures in his pursuit of an official position, began to travel around the world for fourteen years.When he suffered hardships and difficulties, and hit a wall everywhere and finally failed, he looked up to the sky and sighed, and suddenly saw a strange thing flying freely above his head among the blue sky and white clouds. He sighed to his disciple: "Bird, I know It can fly, but those that can fly are often shot down. Fish, I know it can swim, but those that can swim are still caught by people. Beasts, I know it can walk, but those that can walk often fall There is only one thing, people will not control it, it will come when it likes in the clouds, it will go when it likes to go in the wind, it will go to the sky if it likes, this is the dragon... If you want to do it, be a dragon."

In the sorrow and despair, the scholar-bureaucrat who "hoped for his son to become a dragon" left this legacy when he finally passed away, which has become an eternal national belief. This person who was ambitious all his life but never became an official was Confucius Kong Zhongni, one of the top ten thinkers in the world.Because of his lifelong pursuit of "being excellent in learning, he will be an official", and "loyal to the king and respecting the king", and with benevolence as his heart, he was honored as a great sage of the Chinese nation by later generations. Confucianism" and Mao Zedong's "criticism of Lin and Confucianism", but in the long history of more than two years and more than 500 years, after all, it is just a small wave.The great sage left behind "Only big is big, reading is the best" and inherited from his thoughts "Everything is inferior, only reading is high", and "Books have their own golden houses, and books have their own Yan Ruyu". And the classic "sacred teachings" are still admired by hundreds of millions of people in the country, and we can see everywhere the madness of studying ABC under the cold window in order to get a college diploma and the war-like rush for exams...

From the birth of Lu, a sage who traveled all over the world, to today, when the sons and grandsons of the dragons derived from the east of the world looked up, they found that this gleaming land was replaced by a Western land with a history of only two hundred and fifty years. The big country arrogantly left far behind. Who is that country?Which strange nation is agitated by a more "excellent" dream than "excellent in learning will lead to official career"? Yes, there is such a dream.This is a Westerner's dream.Its time is only two hundred and fifty years, which is twenty times shorter than the history of the great oriental country, and ten times later than the birth time of the oriental sage.

This dream started from the port of Plymouth in the English Channel. It took the "Mayflower" small sailboat, and after several months of turbulent waves, it arrived at a narrow strip of North America called "Jamestown" one morning in early winter, and began Put a Mizi flag there.Later, the Mizi flag was changed into the Stars and Stripes, so a new United States was born, which is abbreviated as USA in English.Since then, although the small sails of the "Mayflower" never set sail again, thousands of "Juneflower", "Julyflower" and countless sailing ships including the sunken Titanic All sailing ships and iron ships flocked to the narrow strip, and as more and more sailing ships and iron ships flooded in, the narrow strip gradually expanded, and then expanded, until today it can dominate the world...

This is the "American Dream" that has long been advocated by modern human governance experts and makes people in that country who want to speak loudly anywhere in the world extremely proud. "More and better, never ending..." The "American Dream" that initially represented this simple idea, later turned into such solemn sentences in the "Declaration of Independence": All men are created equal, life, liberty, pursuit Happiness is a "natural human right". IF WE CAN DREAM IT, WE CAN GO IT——On the aluminum alloy door of the Florida Space Center, Americans engraved this sentence, which translates into Chinese: As long as we can dream, we can achieve it.

I seem to understand the differences in behaviors and concepts between Easterners and Westerners, and I also seem to understand why these two worlds, after nearly a century of struggle, still show a certain incompatibility and incomprehension today. some reasons. Orientals regard the pursuit of sages and perfecting their own knowledge as the dream of life they want to realize; Westerners take the pursuit of unlimited personal freedom and happiness as their dream of life. The two dreams carry two completely different consciousnesses, different concepts, different beliefs, and even different cultural backgrounds and politics...

From this, I finally understood the above question without having to explain why when compared with young or young children, our Chinese children always win the championship in calculation and learning, while American children in practice and innovation Your child always wins first. Orientals are always proud of their long and glorious history; Westerners regard the realization of today's and tomorrow's happiness as their goal in life. In fact, the essence of the "dream" pursued by Westerners is a kind of spiritual tension. This tension has produced such a system: multi-party parliament, democratic state system, and advocating freedom-of course, they are all bourgeois.People under this mental tension gave birth to Lincoln-style politicians, Carnegie-style economists, and Bill Gates-style scientific industrialists. Suppressed AIDS spread and indiscriminate bombing of Yugoslavia's hegemony.

What did the Chinese people's dream of "studying well and becoming an official" bring about thousands of years of history?Of course there have been many, many advances and the appearance of countless great men, but at the same time, what brought us to this ancient nation is the rigidity of the system, the autocracy of the state system, the closed thinking, and many others... Coincidentally, when I was interviewing in Nanjing that day, my friends said that if you write questions about the Chinese college entrance examination, then you have to go to the "big examination room" in our Confucius Temple in Nanjing to take a look.When I arrived at the Confucius Temple, I looked up and saw four big golden characters flashing in the center of a large pavilion with four corners and flying eaves: Jiangnan Gongyuan.

China's "No. 1 Ancient Examination Site" is just around the corner!It is because there is no place to find when you break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to find it. After walking through dozens of modern schools and the examination rooms of the college entrance examination, I have been looking for what the examination rooms in ancient China were like?And I want to compare China, the world's largest exam country, with the longest history of exams, and find some connection from it.I always think that today's college entrance examination in China has reached such a feverish level, there must be some historical factors.What was the result?

In the largest surviving ancient Chinese "examination room", I found many similarities in history—— It is said that in 1368 AD, a peasant leader named Zhu Yuanzhang, holding the banner of uprising, swept across the banks of the Yellow River, overthrew the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, and rebuilt the Ming Dynasty with the Han landlord class as the main body.Zhu Yuanzhang can be regarded as a Ming emperor among the feudal emperors of all dynasties. In order to ensure the long-term stability of the Ming Dynasty, he put the selection of talents as the top priority. It cannot be made by a single tree, it must be made by gathering materials. The world is not governed by one person alone, and it must be governed by selecting talents. Therefore, it is better to recommend talents for the treasure of the country."

Before Zhu Yuanzhang, China's feudal society had gone through more than a thousand years. In the first five hundred years, the selection of officials in governing the country was mainly based on bottom-up selection and top-down rewards.Starting from the slave society of Yao, Shun, Yu, Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, election and "passing on sons" were almost the basic mode of social governance in ancient China.Of course, in this process, there are also some precedents for employing people selected through competition. There is such a record in "Zhou Li, Local Officials, Township Doctors": "Three years, there will be a big competition (examination), to test their virtues and moral skills and to promote talents (that is, to select those with both ability and political integrity)." The feudal dynasty of Qin and Han Established, this original method of selecting talents has been improved to a certain extent, but the basic form is still the same, but the ethos of respecting the virtuous and cultivating scholars has been emphasized, so this period of history has appeared such as "stealing amulets to save Zhao", "thousands of gold and bones". ", "Returning to Zhao", "Mao Sui recommends himself", "Hanging beam and stabbing stock" and many other classic stories, but the real use of examinations to select officials and scholars began in the Sui Dynasty in 607 AD.An imperial edict issued by Emperor Sui: "Those who are civil and military officials should be well-known for their filial piety, their virtues are solid, their integrity can be called righteous, their conduct is clean, their perseverance is strong and upright, their constitution is unyielding, they are academically sensitive, their literary talents are beautiful, their talents It is the first time that the word "imperial examination" was put forward, and this is also a glorious page worth recording in the feudal society of China.From then on, the imperial examinations, titles on the gold list, "Everything is inferior, but reading is high", "There is a golden house in the book, and there is beauty in the book" and other words that dazzled scholars all over the world have been extended to the 20th century.Although there are various problems in the system of recruiting talents through the imperial examination, after all, it provides a golden ladder for those ordinary children who have no official status and no salary to climb to the top on an equal footing. The examinations of the imperial examinations are extremely complicated, including township examinations, general examinations, and palace examinations, and the names are different in different dynasties.Taking the Ming Dynasty as an example, the local examinations were held by the northern and southern Zhili and the chief ministers, once every three years.In the Ming Dynasty, Guozijian in Nanjing was the first examination room for the rural examination. After the Ming capital was moved to Beijing, the examination room in Nanjing was renamed "Jiangnan Gongyuan".The general examination is a national-level examination hosted by the Ministry of Rites. Those who can enter this level of examination are commonly known as Juren.The imperial examination is the highest-level examination presided over by the emperor himself, and the number one scholar was born from this level of examination.The ranking in the palace examination is divided into first, second and third best.There are three people in the first class: the first is the number one scholar, the second is the second place, and the third is Tanhua.The rest are called Jinshi.There is a saying that "Lianzhong Sanyuan", that is, the first place in the township examination, the first place in the general examination, and the first place in the palace examination.In fact, there are too few people who have "Lianzhong Sanyuan". In the Ming Dynasty, there were only two champions, Huang Guan and Shang Ren. The "No. 1 Scholar" is the spire of the imperial examination pyramid, and also the highest state of scholars in the old days. From Sun Fuying, the first No. 1 scholar in the fifth year of Emperor Gaozu Wude of Tang Dynasty, to Liu Chunlin, the last No. 1 scholar in Guangxu thirty-one years of Qing Dynasty. During the long period of more than 1,280 years, China has successively produced about 1,400 civil and military champions whose names can be found. "Ten years of cold windows are known to no one, and once they become famous all over the world." In the era of imperial examinations, whoever won the number one scholar will not only become a top figure respected by all scholars in the world, but more importantly, the general number one scholar will be conferred by the emperor himself Moreover, once you become the number one scholar, no matter whether your family was impoverished or had some filthy reputation, the title of the emperor can immediately make your family ascend to heaven, and you will be rewarded after suffering.Judging from the old-style imperial examination procedures, it is not easy to obtain the title of No. 1 scholar. Although there were often sales positions in the old system, some frustrated literati made up many ungrateful and bad No. 1 scholars like "Chen Shimei" who were derogated by others. There are also good champions like Lu Meng who study hard and eventually become masters.In any case, the number one scholar, as the highest state that a scholar can obtain in the examination, has been deeply rooted in the national psychology as a kind of "examination culture". What about the students who are always praised as "the number one scholar"? Although I don't know if there are really fake champions since ancient times, but I knew from a young age that there were two champions in my hometown who were very remarkable.One is Weng Tonghe, who was admitted to the first prize in the sixth year of Xianfeng. He became the master of two emperors of the Qing Dynasty. He was the first to raise the banner of "opening the door" in China. The soul-stirring "Hundred-Day Reform Movement" launched more than a hundred years ago made this champion gentleman go down in history forever.Kang Youwei called Weng Tonghe "the first division of reform".The other is Zhang Jian, who was admitted to the No. 1 Scholar in the 20th year of Guangxu. I feel the strength and wisdom of the number one scholar, the mind and pursuit of the number one scholar in the people who save the country by industry and education.Perhaps it is precisely because of their characters of unwillingness to lag behind, not afraid of hardships, hard work, and courage to forge ahead, people have always given praise to the "champions" who have achieved the greatest success since ancient times. It is not an exaggeration for scholars all over the world to be proud of being the number one scholar. The problem is that the process of becoming the number one scholar is both shocking and frightening. The "Jiangnan Gongyuan" in Nanjing was first built in the fourth year of Qiandao in the Southern Song Dynasty (1168), and it was only used for county and prefectural students' examinations at first.After Zhu Yuanzhang established his capital in Nanjing, the township examination and general examination were gathered here.In the Qing Dynasty, Jiangnan Gongyuan developed faster. Especially during the Kangxi period, Jiangsu and Anhui were divided into two provinces, but the politics and military affairs of the two provinces were still integrated, and the rural examinations also followed the Ming system.Although I failed to see the magnificent original appearance of the ancient examination site "Jiangnan Gongyuan", when I saw this ancient examination site site and museum located in the southeast corner of Jinling, my heart was full of excitement.During the 267 years of the Qing Dynasty alone, fifty-eight champions were born in Jiangnan Gongyuanwei.Jiangnan talented Tang Bohu, painting geek Zheng Banqiao, author Wu Chengen, author Wu Jingzi, and the main founder of the Communist Party of China, Mr. Chen Duxiu, etc. have all sweated here and took the exam. , Some won the champion. Among the "imperial examination city" of Jiangnan Gongyuan, the most spectacular, largest, and most creepy is the "Haoshe".The so-called "House" is not only the place where the candidates take the exam, but also the place where the candidates eat and live during the exam.There are as many as 20,644 "Haoshe" townships in the big examination room of the Jiangnan Gongyuan!I walked into the rows of "houses" that looked like bird cages and looked at them carefully. I felt very scary. The outer walls of the houses were about eight feet high, the door was six feet high, and the width was just more than a person's body.The length of each row of halls varies from hundreds to dozens, and the distance between the front row and the back row is less than one meter. Therefore, the entire examination room is like a row of pigsty and birdcage buildings. lane".There are water tanks and lights at the entrance of Lane No. 1, which are used by candidates for walking at night and drinking during the day.The three sides of the house are airtight walls, and only the south-facing side is where the entrance and exit seem to see the light.There is an upturned wooden table and a stool in the room. Candidates turn down the table and make a bed when they sleep at night, and some simply lie on it.All the examinees can only leave the dormitory from the time they step in here until the exam is over, where they eat and drink.It is rumored that there was a talented and literary candidate who had no choice but to sit in the "dung number" at the end of the alley because he did not occupy a better seat. After a few days, he was so dazed by the dung bucket that he couldn't take the exam, and almost I lost my life.According to historical records, candidates were often bitten to death by snakes due to the messy management of the dormitories.Some candidates couldn't stand the pain of the house, stabbed themselves with candlesticks or hung themselves.As for the rules of the examination room, there are many famous and extremely strict rules, which are unheard of by our modern people: This is a fragment of a long poem written by Miao Xian, a scribe in the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, describing his experience in the rural examination. It is not easy to obtain "All the way".There are more than 20,000 candidates for each subject in the Jiangnan Rural Examination, but only a hundred or so can be admitted. The ratio is only 1,000:1, which is dozens of times harder than our current college entrance examination success rate.Most of the students who have been trapped in the field for a long time and have endured hardships can only lose their names in the end, with no hope of winning.But the imperial examination is after all the way for scholars to glorify their ancestors and change their destiny. At the same time, it is also an opportunity to prove their talents and academic strength, so it is not surprising that the people described in the picture have been taking the exam until they are 70 or 80 years old.It took Zheng Banqiao 16 years from being admitted as a scholar at the age of 23 to being selected as a scholar at the age of 40; it was much more difficult than our current doctoral examination.And many famous bachelors have not even been admitted as scholars and Jinshi. Of course, some people are not interested in stereotyped essays, but the difficult side of the old imperial examinations can also be reflected in it. When the wheel of history rolled into the twentieth century, the decadent rule of the Manchu Qing government had reached the end of its rope.One day, Emperor Guangxu received a memorial from Zhang Zhidong, governor of Huguang, and wrote: "If the imperial examination is not abolished, the school will not be able to flourish, scholars will never have real knowledge, and the country will never have talents to save the times. It will never be rich and strong, that is, it will never be able to compete with other countries..." The memorial later came into the hands of Cixi. On the 2nd of the month, the imperial edict was issued to the whole country: "... starting from the Bingwu Division (the 32nd year of Guangxu, 1906), all township and general examinations will be stopped; the provincial examinations and scientific examinations will also be suspended." This marked the end of China's 1,300-year-old imperial examination system. In 1903, Liu Chunlin, who won the first prize after the provincial examination of the Jiangnan Gongyuan, became the last champion in Chinese history. On the day when the imperial examination was abolished, modern schools such as Tsinghua University in Beijing, Beijing Normal University, and Fudan University, the "first school in the south of the Yangtze River" founded by Ma Xiangbo in Shanghai, had begun to be built.Especially after Cai Yuanpei, the founder of modern Chinese education, became the first head of education of the Republic of China led by Sun Yat-sen, Chinese education entered its first heyday. "If there is no university in a place, if people with knowledge are gathered together to study advanced technology and promote education at the same time, there will never be hope for the development of education." Cai Yuanpei's "inclusive" university education guidelines have almost become later. The school-running soul of modern Chinese universities represented by Peking University. "University students should take academic research as their bounden duty, and should not take university as a ladder for promotion and fortune." His thoughts and concepts have created the spirit of diligence and disdain for politics and material things that Chinese intellectuals have for a century. lofty.Under the foundation of these pioneers with new ideas, Chinese universities began to rise in a real sense, and prepared a hotbed for the birth of a large number of politicians, sociologists, and especially natural scientists in China in the 20th century.But in the first half century, the door of the university has always been open to the rich, and it is impossible or very few for the poor to step in. In 1949, Mao Zedong declared "The Chinese people have stood up" on the Tiananmen Gate Tower, announcing the birth of a new historical era.The working people became the masters of their own affairs, and ordinary people began to have the opportunity to go to college through fair competition. Of course, many people were directly sent to college because of their outstanding performance in work and labor. After graduation, they became successful in various fronts. This makes the university a real institution of higher learning for the people.However, due to the weak foundation of the country, the educational level of the majority of working people is very low. Generally, those who can go to elementary school and junior high school are very good.In the first ten years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, universities were still the elusive dream of the common people.Through more than ten years of socialist construction, people's living standards have improved and education has become popular, and a group of children of ordinary people born before and after liberation began to have the opportunity to enter the university.But at this time, a ten-year-long political and cultural "catastrophe" completely shattered the Chinese people's dream of going to university, and the university was suspended and closed. The most painful destruction, the negative impact it produced, caused countless school-age students including the author to lose their basic right to receive education, and for a long period of time, they were in the shadow of their future in life... This kind of pain, and the resulting sinking can only be felt by experiencing it personally. Later, our generation once had the possibility of going back to college, but there was another "Mr. Blank Scroll". The ten-year catastrophe and "Mr. Baijuan" have added another layer of frost to China, which was already backward. When will the Chinese people's long-broken dream come true? The sky is asking, the people are asking, and many young students are asking. In August 1977, Deng Xiaoping, who had just come back, volunteered to be in charge of education. In that hot summer, he had a big event in his heart that he had thought about but had no time to say. There are more than a dozen famous people and officials in the education field, among whom are Zhou Peiyuan, Su Buqing, Zhang Wenyou, Tong Dizhou, Yu Guangyuan, Wang Daheng and other experts who have devoted their lives to science and education.Although the "two whatevers" were still hanging over people's heads at that time, because Comrade Deng Xiaoping personally presided over the meeting, some people said that this meeting was a bit like a "fairy meeting", and everyone spoke freely, which is rare. On the afternoon of August 6, a professor who was invited by Deng Xiaoping was probably affected by the atmosphere of this meeting. He stood up excitedly and made a generous statement in front of Deng Xiaoping: Please the central leadership take firm measures as soon as possible to quickly change the current university enrollment method. Effectively guarantee the quality of new students.Because university enrollment is the first hurdle to ensure university education, its function is like the raw material inspection of a factory, unqualified raw materials cannot produce qualified products.But over the years, some of the college students we have recruited have only elementary school education, and we university professors can only make up for them the cultural courses of middle school or even elementary school. What has become of a university?Nothing, what educational achievements are you talking about?It is impossible to change this situation! "Professor Cha, tell me, keep talking." Sitting on the sofa, Deng Xiaoping took a deep puff of a cigarette, leaned out half of his body, and motioned for the old man he called "Professor Cha" to continue, "You all pay attention to his opinion, this suggestion is very important!" Professor Zha refreshed himself and continued his generous speech just now.At this time, people discovered that Deng Xiaoping was recording in his notebook from time to time.The participants couldn't restrain the excitement in their hearts, because they knew that a big event that everyone wanted to talk about and do but dared not break the shackles was about to be born. Sure enough, after Professor Cha finished his speech, Deng Xiaoping asked Minister Liu Xiyao, who was in charge of education, about the details, and made a decisive decision: OK, let's do it this way.The admissions meeting will be reopened, and the college entrance examination will resume immediately from this year! The college entrance examination resumes immediately!Resume the college entrance examination immediately!Professor Cha Quanxing of Hubei University was the happiest one, and people all over the country were as excited as him. This news should be said to be the first thing that aroused the greatest repercussions among the Chinese people after the "ten-year turmoil" ended in October 1976.Although the entire body of the country was still in a state of rigidity at that time, the blood vessels of the dormant body began to surge when the college entrance examination was resumed. Skill green... In 1977, two miracles appeared in the history of education in New China: 44 days of non-stop education work conferences; the first time college enrollment was held in winter. It seems that all the shackles of the resumption of the college entrance examination have been lifted, but at this time someone suddenly raised the question: Although China is a country with a large number of exams, candidates who have had a backlog of 10 years have rushed into the exam room, and no one has organized it?First of all, it needs a lot of money, and secondly, it needs a lot of paper to print the test papers. These two things are impossible to become a problem now, and they may even be a good opportunity for the test hosting department to make a lot of money!It was not possible at that time, and the whole country was poor.The issue was therefore referred to a Politburo meeting.As a result of the discussion, the central government decided not to increase the burden on the masses regarding the funding for taking the exam. Each examinee can only be charged 50 cents, and the rest will be borne by the state; if there is no paper for the printed exam papers, the fifth chapter of "Selected Works of Mao Zedong" will be printed first. Rolls of paper-printed exam papers! Since then, there has been the most powerful exam in the history of the world, with a total of more than 11.6 million people taking the exam. During the few months in the winter of 1977 and the summer of 1978, such a large army of examinations rushed into the examination room in the land of China, which in itself is worthy of a big book by historians. The university dream of the Chinese people has been fully and vividly displayed in this big exam.It's so exciting and so memorable. As far as school age is concerned, it should be said that I belong to this group of people, but I did not have the blessing to experience this magnificent exam—another kind of university that I had entered at that time (people in green uniforms) People's Liberation Army University), I regret to lose this opportunity.But today, there are many such friends and colleagues around me. They have fulfilled a historic university dream for our generation with their own experiences. This dream was so hard to make, and when it came true, it came out of nowhere, making people feel overwhelmed. "At that time, a classmate of mine was very excited to ride a bicycle and told me that the college entrance examination was going to resume. Although I had been looking forward to this day for a long time, I was stunned and burst into tears. I told my classmates repeatedly. To say a word: There is hope now! At that time, it was a bit like walking in the dark, surrounded by darkness, you couldn’t see anything, lost your way, and you didn’t know where to go. The news of the resumption of the college entrance examination , It was equivalent to a sudden fire in front. I had no other thoughts at the time, just thinking that I would jump there quickly.” The mood expressed by Chen Chuanmin, a screenwriter of China Children’s Theater and a student of the 78th class of Beijing Normal University, was exactly the feeling expressed by tens of millions of young people at that time. common feelings. The real situation of that feeling cannot be expressed in practical words, it can only be shock, dream, and tears... Xiao Zhenghua, a high school graduate of the 67th class and a candidate for the 77th class, is now a senior teacher in a middle school attached to a teacher's college in Anhui.What he told me about the resumption of the college entrance examination and the process of taking the college entrance examination that year was an "Arabian Nights": ...One morning in the fourth quarter of 1977, I heard the good news of the resumption of the college entrance examination on the radio, and immediately told it to my wife who was feeding the pigs, but she didn't have much reaction, let alone my ecstasy excitement.A rural woman is mainly concerned with practical life: her husband, her children, daily necessities... But I was a little caught off guard, because I was arrested by the commune to write a live meeting material and a short play.After I finished, I calculated that there were only eleven days left before the college entrance examination, and there were only eleven nights left for review. What was the exam?Science!Turning over the physics and flushing the chemistry, I just feel that "the fog is in the air", and I want to remember it but forget it.Change the course, take the liberal arts!Raking geography, digging history, and robbing mathematics; language and politics, relying on my own "boss oil"-relying on my housekeeping skills of often writing "four different images" for the commune.In short, everything is left to fate. The exam started, and I sat in the 27th seat of the fifth exam room of the County No. 2 Middle School.In every game, I made a big move, killing from the beginning to the end in one go, and then went back to the division to encircle and wipe out the "stubborn enemy".Although there are occasional pains of "fleeing away with bones and tiredness three times" and regrets of "heavy snow covered bows and knives", they have not changed my confidence and will in the slightest that "if you don't reach the Great Wall, you are not a hero".For the ease and smoothness of the next game, I will be the first to hand in the papers in each game, and I will never love to fight.A young candidate with a full lip and beard worried for me: "Hey, boss No. 27, can you still join the kindergarten class and play games?" It took eleven years to look forward to this opportunity. what year?If it were Li Bai, it would be strange not to say "wait once in a thousand years"! In order to catch up with this exam, I even reported my thoughts to my old father-in-law beforehand. "Very good, you can pass the exam?" The responsibility field has just been divided, and there are ten acres of dry and dry land. How can the wife and two children plant it?Turning the corner to ask the mother-in-law to look after the grandson.After the third test, I was walking out when someone called me from behind.Looking back, he was stunned.This person has a head full of poverty, and his mouth is wild and eloquent. He is wearing a smooth, yellow, old padded jacket with no jacket, no buttons, and a heartbroken waist. "Sharpen the scissors and grab the kitchen knife—" he yelled, breaking the clouds and breaking the fog, allowing me to grasp the root of my memory.Isn't this the old classmate who was troubled by the average score of 99.7 (percentage system) back then?Isn't this the Red Guards who shot Jiang Qing during the "Cultural Revolution"?Isn't this a political prisoner who was later sentenced to death?It turned out that as soon as he was rehabilitated and released, he rushed to take the exam without letting go of his saddle. "I can't take care of anything, so I have to wear this commemorative dress, the scenery of Dasha, the scenery of Dasha!" He explained with a hearty smile... On the first day of school, I was waiting for the train at the train station.A female high school classmate appeared in the casual field of vision, and she took a car to report to a certain university in Hefei with a big belly.I heard that later, at the opening ceremony, speaking as a representative of the "old three", the confident big belly made cowardice, cowardice, pretentiousness and hypocrisy nowhere to hide.Her eloquent speech was interrupted by warm applause from time to time. Think about those of us who were late college students. We were on campus, caring about our wives and children. Bits, all kinds of coincidences, the story is longer. Huang Beijia, my hometown, a famous children's literature writer, is now the full-time vice chairman of Jiangsu Writers Association. Before the resumption of the college entrance examination that year, she jumped into the queue to work on a small island in the middle of the Yangtze River. Before that, she had been "re-educated" in this Changqing Island for four years, and she was already planning to continue for another four years(?), Forty years(?).At that time, besides honestly "taking root", what other intentions did the educated youth have?No, and dare not have.But the yellow-haired girl Huang Beijia has it, because she had already written novels in 1973-she now admits that she wrote novels to "change her own destiny", but that was her idea hidden under the covers. In the summer of 1977, Huang Beijia was working on the island, and her father, who was a teacher in Yangzhou, wrote to her with an "insider message": the college entrance examination might be resumed!Really?Huang Beijia jumped up with joy, she knew that her only chance to realize the ideal hidden in her heart for many years had finally come.Everything was very sudden, but fortunately, the family of "Teacher's Home" made her get a lot of review materials very quickly.Before the test, the commune and the county conducted two rounds of screening. Many people were eliminated in the first test, and most of the girls were eliminated, so the boys were crazy.Huang Beijia is soft on the outside and strong on the inside. She vowed to fight for the reputation of female educated youths, and of course the most important thing is to "get back a city hukou" for herself.After the initial test, go to the county to fill in the volunteers.The ideal in Huang Beijia’s heart is Peking University—in fact, she didn’t know at the time whether she had the ability to take the exam. ".So she filled in the volunteer is Peking University Library Department.After completing the application, she returned to the village to wait for a major event that would determine whether she could formally take the exam.On this day, the production team held a meeting of all members. The meeting had only one content: let the members deliberate on whether Huang Beijia should be allowed to take the college entrance examination.This was actually a political review of Huang Beijia. At that time, Huang Beijia's life was in the hands of these poor and lower-middle peasants who could not read.Huang Beijia was extremely nervous because her family status was "landlord", and she knew that she might be stuck just because of this.Whether it can be passed is only resigned to fate. "I remember clearly that there was a membership meeting inside, and I was wandering outside the door alone, like an ant on a hot pot. I felt that the meeting was very long, in fact, it was only half an hour at most, but I was too nervous. At this time the captain came out from the inside, he smiled at me and said you go to take the test! With just such a sentence, my tears flowed out..." Huang Beijia said that she didn't bother to take the test too much, and the test went relatively smoothly .It's just that her father, who is taking part in the college entrance examination in Yangzhou, has a request for her: after the exam every day, write to him to tell him the questions he has answered so that he can estimate the score-although the old man is not with his daughter, he is more anxious than anyone else.Huang Beijia said that after finishing the exam every day, she was able to copy out the content of the exam verbatim and send it to her father that night.A few days later, the father called and told his daughter: Basically, there is no problem.After hearing her father's words, the daughter felt relieved and decided not to go to the field anymore. While waiting for the news of her admission to the university, she knit a sweater for her father.When the sweater was finished, an educated youth friend happily sent her the admission letter: Peking University.That's right. Huang Beijia opened the admission notice and read it for the first time. She was even more excited and trembling: she didn't expect that she would be admitted by the Chinese Department of Peking University!This is exactly the major she dreams of but is afraid of not being sure and dare not fill in the volunteer! "The college entrance examination was very interesting. Three of us in Jiangsu were admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University. One of my classmates liked law, so he was placed in the Chinese Department. After graduation, he was assigned to the Provincial Political and Legal Committee.了北大中文系，结果毕业后被分配到了外事办。我不高兴，因为我想当作家，所以拼命地写啊写，结果就一直到1984年写到了江苏省作协当专业作家。” 黄蓓佳说，她到北京走近自己“梦中情人”——北大的校园时心律加大了好多好多，因为以往梦中的北大仅是个概念，就像对皇帝头上的那顶皇冠的认识一样，可进了北大校园后，黄蓓佳发现这儿太大了。她当晚写信给父亲，说北大大极了，就像我们家的县城一样大！这位江南才女入学后就忍不住又动笔写了一篇感受上大学的作文，后来这篇文章被很多报刊转载了。当时没有稿费，到了1978年才有，她因此收到了后来转载她文章的《山西青年》寄来的七元钱稿费。“七元钱就非常了不起了，是我一生中第一笔稿费呀！我用它买了一个铅笔盒，一本字典。铅笔盒伴我度过了四年北大读书时光，小字典至今我还用着……”黄蓓佳说着从书房里拿出那本已经很旧很旧的小字典给我看，她坐在沙发上久久抚摸着它，就像一下子重新回到了当年走进北大的那段难忘日子。 我知道在我们今天的作家队伍中，有相当一部分人跟黄蓓佳走过的路非常相似。他们从小就有当作家的梦，而正是恢复了高考，才使他们真正有机会实现自己当作家的最终愿望。 那年与黄蓓佳在北大同班学习的陈建功就是其中之一。他现在是我的兄长兼上司，是国内外很著名的作家了，还是中国作协书记处书记。建功上大学之前当了十年挖煤工，过的苦日子比谁都多。1968年，刚高中毕业的建功还在北京城里“闹革命”，天一，突然有一个同学告诉他：京西煤矿来招工，我替你报了名，你去挖煤吧！建功就这样去了煤矿，这一挖就是十年。到矿上后，他喜欢动笔写些东西，又喜欢发表些自己的见解，所以矿工们很欣赏他，工农兵学员招生时，大伙推荐他，但一到党委那儿就没他的戏了。特别是有一天他从岩洞里挖煤出来，看到太阳刚刚出来，就猛然吟起里的一首诗：“呵，太阳出来了，可太阳不是我们的，我们要睡了。”然后伸伸懒腰。这事被“有心人”知道了，于是他便有了攻击“红太阳”的罪名。恢复高考的消息传到他那个矿上时，建功表现得并不特别，因为他当时并不太了解时势的变化，只知道自己和被打成“特嫌”的父亲一样是个“反革命嫌疑”，他因此抱定当个工人作家就是自己最好的理想了，而且当时文艺界都认为作家必须是从基层生活中才能培养出来的，学院那种地方不可能出作家。母亲知道了儿子的想法便不答应了，说什么也得让儿子“赶考”一次。建功说妈我现在连最大公约数、最小公倍数都不知是什么了，怎么个考法呀？他妈说你不会找两本书看看！ “这年秋天，我便开始了一边上班一边温习功课的生活。当时我们矿的知青中大约有一半人都在温习。”陈建功回忆说，“离校近十年，我的数学已经忘了很多，但经过温习有不少也渐渐看明白了，但对最大值最小值的公式我却始终搞不明白，也不肯背。当时和我在一个工棚里住的有个叫黄博文的，他数学挺好，我就发牢骚，我说这太复杂了，我背不下来。他说建功我教你一招，你呀不要按它的公式，你就用y，用导数来解。他也问我，作文怎么开头好呀？我也教他一招，我说你看题目沾不沾边，如果沾边你就可以写成一封信。1977年深秋的一个清晨，天还未亮，我们矿上用一辆大卡车，将我们这些参加高考的矿工拉去考试。那时天气已经很冷了，我看见寒星还在天上闪着，山路非常崎岖，卡车似乎开了近一个小时，才到了一个特别衰败破烂的院子，这是一所学校。我们都知道，决定我们命运的时刻到了。第一门是语文，作文题目是《我在这战斗的一年里》。一出考场，黄博文就紧紧地拥抱我，他说你给我出的主意太棒了，我果然是以给我爸妈写信的形式写的。最有趣的是，考数学时也有两道题是最大值和最小值，我也就稀里糊涂地用Y公式套用了一番，答案果然很快就出来了，我的数学后来居然得了95分……听说自己被北大中文系录取的时候，我正在洞里筛沙子，更确切地说，那位工友兴冲冲地跑来告诉我时，我正在仰面朝天，躺在沙子堆上晒太阳。我记得听他说完了，当时我似乎淡淡一笑。接着，我又翻了个身，我还想晒晒我的后背。那人说你怎么这样？我说着什么急，反正跑不了。直到我的后背也晒得差不多了，我才爬起来去领我的录取通知单。现在回想起来，有点儿后怕，那年我也只二十八岁，我的心就已如岩石般粗糙了。我的成绩平均在90分以上，总分在我们班是第四名第五名的样子。最为滑稽的是我的语文得分最低，只有80多分，其中作文失掉的分最多。大概因为我把作文写得比较花哨，写成了文章，而教师判题时却是按照作文规范要求的。听说北大要录取我时，还很疑惑，特地跑到招生办询问：这个人为什么语文分数最低，而别的分都很高？招生办的人好像说的是，这个人可能是个写文章的人，简历上说还发过作品……” 那年大考中，像陈建功这样进大学门前后有过奇特经历的，不止他一人。 郑晓江，1978年考入江西大学。现在他是南昌大学教授、校报主编，在生命社会学科方面是国内知名专家。他在给我寄来一堆他的代表作时，随信告诉了我他那年参加高考的一份难忘经历： ……我挤在一辆破旧的井冈山牌货车的边缘上，手紧紧地抓住车厢板，极力屏住呼吸，抵挡着阵阵刺鼻的臊味。 在铅山咸煳加高考后，我好不容易硬挤上一辆回武夷山垦殖场的车子，谁知它装了一只橡皮做的大氨水袋，车上人多，路又颠簸不平，不一会，氨水溢出，满车冲鼻刺目的气味。我透过盈眶的泪水木然地盯着路旁一排排往后飞奔的小树，心情沮丧到了极点。 年初，我和姐夫的妹妹郑红返回了阔别十年的南昌。我这个被戏称为“山里的猴子”的人，对这个变化不算太大的城市突然有了一些说不清的恋情。郑红和同学整日陪我在平整的马路上东逛西跑，晚上则去看《雷锋》、《地道战》、《地雷战》等老电影。这种生活与我在山中出门就攀坡、晚上早早上床睡觉的生活有天壤之别。郑红的母亲在饭桌上一边给我夹菜一边盯着我说：“你就一辈子呆在山里吗？”这话像箭一般直刺我的心脏，就是这一瞬间，我突然下决心：是应该从山里蹦出来，改变改变了！ 这时恢复高考的消息传来了。回到西坑分场后，我凭着几本《复习资料》和1977年全国各省的高考考题汇编，开始紧张的考前复习。白天我到茶场去工作，区分茶叶的等级，照看整个茶叶制作工艺的过程；晚上就着昏暗的灯光苦苦攻读。 摆在我面前的困难太多了，似乎难以克服。我在农村中学读书，物理课讲农业机械，化学课讲农药的使用，数学课教大家怎么拨算盘，而语文课的教材是一本《毛主席语录》。我的知识实在是少得可怜。况且高考必试科目的地理、历史我压根儿没学过。没办法，拼了。我便把各门课程的内容分写在小纸条上，吃饭时背，走路时默，上厕所也拿着一大叠纸条。三个月过去了，武夷山垦殖场参加高考的五六十名知青和总场中学应届毕业的八十余名学生同赴铅山县正式考试。 天气炎热异常，挥汗如雨，许多题目我简直不知如何下手。语文考卷竟然没有作文题，只有一道什么“改写”题。上面印了一大段文字，要求改写成另一篇文章。我的妈呀！我从未听说过什么叫“改写”，应该用原文里的话写？还是纯粹用自己的话写？连这一点我都搞不清楚。踌躇半天，只好提笔硬着头皮写吧。每考完一场，众多的考生便围着送他们来的老师激动地议沦着考试内容。人头攒动，教师侃侃而谈，我站在人群的最后面，踮着脚吃力堤於捉教师和那些趾高气扬的应届生说的一字一句。Oh my god!好像每一题的答案都与我写的不一样。越听越沮丧，越听浑身越乏力。 坐在这该死的氨水车——大家沿途这么诅咒着，总算回到武夷山垦殖场，再换乘手扶拖拉机，傍晚时分，我进了西坑分场。不愿惊动任何人，我轻手轻脚地回到房间取了内衣，来到平日我常去的溪流边，衣服也没脱，纵身一跃，扑嗵一声，全身没入水中。憋着气，直到肺部要炸开，再探头出水，猛地吐出满腔恶气，定睛遥望溪水对面的崇山峻岭，叹了一口气：这一辈子就呆在这儿吧！ 天蒙蒙亮，我又起床坐在溪水边发呆。山上的薄雾还未全散，一丝丝，一缕缕，或飘浮在山腰，或缠绕于翠竹绿树，不时传来几声犬吠，山里小镇的清晨十分静溢，人们还在睡梦中。吃过早饭，我一心一意去做茶叶了。 一个月以后，我们几个知青晚饭后照例坐在分场总机房前的木椅上聊天，高考的场景似乎已被遗忘了，我也极力去忘却它。 天渐渐暗了，阵阵凉风迎面袭来，我们仍天南海北地扯着，话务员在里面喊：“高书记，电话！”与我们在一起聊天的分场书记高得福起身进去，一会儿出来对我说：“你考中大学了。”大伙全都愣住了，我有些眩晕，到今天我仍无法用文字来表达当时复杂的心情。 第二天，我到场部打听消息。办公大楼前已贴出大红喜报，我的名字赫然列在红榜第一名。全垦殖场近八十人考文科，只有我一人考取。 一个多月的沮丧之情一扫而光。10月份，我出山赴学校报到，搭上一辆装毛竹的车子。坐在毛竹堆上，我用力抓住竹子，说：“现在的命金贵了。”以前我从未想到珍惜这条命，不知为何，人一有了稍好的前程，连带着对生命的态度都变了…… 郑晓江没有告诉我他走出大山时对生命的这种重新认识是不是后来成了他重点研究生命价值取向的一个原因，但可以肯定，那次高考成功使这个“山里的猴子”改变了一生的命运。 王学文，1978年考生，现为黑龙江农垦红兴隆管理局教育中心干部、高级老师。我们来看看他的《大学圆梦》—— 1977年初冬第一场雪后，村上小关校长告诉我：邓小平出山了，恢复高考，老三届都兴报名。 刚离开学校那会儿，魂牵梦绕的是想上大学。随着时光流逝，上大学已经成了一个遥远的梦。走出校门已十一年了，人生能有几个十一年？家庭出身不好，社会关系复杂，使我丧失了当兵、招工、推荐上大学的机会。随着娶妻生子、柴米油盐，我已经成了地地道道的农民，大学梦早已破灭。听关校长一说，头脑中的记忆鲜活起来。我抵不住大学梦的诱惑，扔下捆了一半的苞米秸子，借五毛钱报了名。但回家没敢和妻说，怕她不批准。 初试在公社举行。感谢我学生时代的老师，教给我的知识仍深深烙在我的脑海里。作文题目是《旧貌变新颜》、我提笔就写：“踏着松花江边初冬的第一场雪，我复员回到了阔别五年的家乡。”真是意到笔随，一气呵成。监考教师一个劲地看我的手，我莫名其妙。原来十个手指有八个缠着胶布。 通知我参加复试是在半个月后，关校长到我家告诉我，12月20日到呼兰县城参加统考，并说我那篇作文在全县三千考生中考了第一，已经印发给各学校。公社文教助理到处打听这个复员兵，说以前咋就没发现呢？ 妻对我说：“你有本事就去考呗，啥事扯过你的后腿？将来出息了别把俺娘俩蹬了就行。”其实她最心疼的是初考时生产队里扣了我九十个工分，足足相当于春天九个工。 妻把队里刚分的豆油和亚麻籽油装了两桶，我驮到离家十五里的火车站，卖了作考试费用。为了区别二者，我在两个桶上分别贴了标签。在小胡同里溜达，见人就问：要豆油和亚麻籽油吗？就像电影里地下工作者接头对暗号一样。一中年男子叫我到他家去，他把窝头切成片，分别放在两种油里炸，和他妻子反复品尝，一致认定我搞错了。夫妇俩对我的辩解不予采纳，还教育我中年人要诚实。我妥协了，将错就错，亚麻籽油当成了豆油卖。 那一桶豆油成交顺利，一个戴大口罩的男子让我给他送到家去。我乐颠颠地跟在他屁股后走了老远，一抬头却发现到了派出所门口。原来那老客是乔装打扮的治安员。结果豆油没收，理由是：粮油没完成统购计划前一律禁止交易。我心里直后悔，只怪自己粗心大意。 统考那天，我揣着妻给我烙的发面饼，早上5点动身，冒着冬下三十度的严寒，奔向六十里外的县城。等到考场时，人已经成了“白毛女”。考生中，有十六七岁的娃娃，也有比我还老相的孩子爸妈，有一个女的直扯衣襟也遮不住隆起的腹部。我掏出钢笔，写不出字，冻了。我一边随手把笔放在身后的炉筒上烘烤，一边慢慢审题。等要动笔时，发现坏了：钢笔烤成了弯弓，一写字直转。监考老师忍不住笑，把他的笔借了我。我向他笑笑，表示谢意。谁知一下子笑收不回来了：这监考老师就是那天买油的中年男人。我急忙低下头答我的试卷。 作文题目是《每当我唱起东方红》，我想不落俗套，就写成了一韵到底的散文诗。监考老师老在我身边瞅我的试卷，瞅得我心里直发毛。交卷离开考场时，听他背后说：“写跑题了，不让写诗歌嘛！”我心里这个后悔呀，谁叫你审题不严呢！后来我看了山西一个考生的范文也是用散文诗写的，觉得散文诗也可往散文这边靠，此是后话。 中午在跃进饭店吃饭。把冻硬的发面饼掰碎，泡上饭店免费的老汤，再兑点酱油、醋和辣椒末什么的，吃起来有滋有味的。望着泛着油花的汤盆和“为人民服务”的牌子，感到这家饭店确是为工农兵服务的。心想，等考完后一定写封表扬信。等下午考完试赶到饭店时，发现汤盆和牌子一并不见了。服务员抱怨说供不起了，考试的人太多了。看来做好事贵在坚持。当然，表扬信也没写成。 接下来要解决晚上的栖身问题。住旅店两块钱一宿，超出财务支出能力。我找到“四海”大车店，睡通炕，不要被子，一宿二毛钱，正合我意。我坐在炕上角落里行书。电压不足，灯火一明一暗，一会儿眼睛看字就重形，屋里充满了烟味、汗味和泡豆饼的酸味，拌和着车老板粗重的鼾声和守夜人低俗的小调，叫人有一种喘不过气来的感觉。炕很热，很舒服。不一会儿有活物在动。开始局部偷袭，后来全面进攻，重点集中在隐私处。不挠，又痒又疼；挠破了，火辣辣的，更痒更疼。划火柴一照，老臭们忙不迭地往墙缝里钻。听说臭虫喜欢对血型，莫非我的前任也是O型血？我换个地方，学车老板的样子，把衣服脱得精光，用绳子捆了吊在高处。刚有点睡意朦胧，起早赶路的将铁桶、马勺又磕得“梆梆”响。第二天照镜子，眼圈都是黑的。硬撑着考完第四科，不敢再住店，连夜落荒而逃。 文教助理送来通知书时，我正在马圈里起粪。助理很为我鸣不平，说比你分数低的都进了本科，你才走了个大专。我说邓公没忘了咱们，就够意思了。再说这学咋个上法，我还得和孩子他妈好好合计合计呢。 去学校报到的头天晚上，我和妻子相对而坐，恍如梦里一般，妻说了很多话，我一个劲地答应，记住了，又没记住。儿子睡了，梦里带着笑。女儿给我数白头发，女儿说：“爸，我也要等长出白头才能上大学吗？” 我把女儿紧紧地抱在怀里，说：不会的，永远不会的。 王秀文，1967届高中生，1977年考生，现为中央某部驻外高级经济师。 他知道我在写这部“高考报告”，所以电话告诉我说没有他的那段经历，那这部作品“将是残缺的”。如此危言耸听，我便如约去采访。 王秀文确实与众不同，因为他是有过“劣迹”的那一类人。 “文革”中他一度红过，还当过某市“兵团”司令呢！但很快又被另一“革命造反派”打倒，从此再不愿扛造反大旗，一心想搞点小“技术革新”。然而也许他的骨子里就有一种不安宁的骚动意识，1973年开始他的命运便急转直下，先是在“批林批孔”运动中被视为“孔老三”——他公然说“孔子的教育思想是中华民族文化与道德信仰的基石”。 1975年的“批邓反击右倾反案风”中他又被打成反革命分子，关押在牢里十个月，后因身体不好保外就医。粉碎“四人帮”后，他总算可以回家了。 1977年高考消息下来，王秀文兴奋不已，在家大叫大喊了几天，说这回自己总算有了出头之日。但到市招生办报名时，竟然没有人敢接待他，他急了，骂人家是小“四人帮”。可招生办的人说你才是小“四人帮”的爪牙。王秀文搞糊涂了，后来有人悄悄告诉他：你是内定为还没有搞清问题的“5·16”分子。王秀文一听傻眼了，追梦十余年的考大学看来与自己永远无缘了。于是他伤心地出走了很长时间。他到了新疆沙漠深处的一个戈壁滩农场，想与这儿的荒芜与严寒苦度一生。他学骑马，学放牧，也学喝烈性酒，甚至去追逐从内地逃过去的野女人，他变野了，连头发都不理。突然有一天农场来了一位浙江的生意人，收羊皮的浙江人带了一台小半导体，王秀文寂寞了很久，就借来听了一个上午，他听着听着，眼泪就掉了出来，然后就一下子不醒人事……生意人吓得赶紧将他送到附近医院，还好，人家说他过度激动。What's going on?醒来的王秀文说：我马上就要回老家参加考试，我可以考大学了！广播里说像我这样所谓有“政治问题”的人也可以参加高考，入学条件一律平等！浙江那个收羊皮的生意人很痛快地说：今晚我请客。这一夜、王秀文喝得酪配大醉…… 他回到老家，把家人吓了一大跳，因为人家都知道他在新疆“自杀”了。“死人”现在竟然复活，还要吵着考大学！1978年某市招生办都知道这事，也知道王秀文这位“野人”。 离参加高考仅有十来天时间，王秀文从一个老师手中借来一叠复习资料，把自己反锁在一间租来的小房里，他对家人和老师说：“你们这段时间谁也不要打扰我，只要在考试前一天来叫我就行。” 家人已经习惯他的“神经”了，以为他又犯病了，所以除了每天从窗口扔进点东西给他以外，并没有再多管他的事。老师们也偷偷地笑这个真真假假的“王疯子”是不是又疯了。他确实疯了，一连几天没有人见他从里面出来过，偶尔在夜深人静时，听到他在高声他说“疯话”。九天过去了，谁也没有把他考不考大学当回事，照；日各忙各的。就在大考的前一晚上，王秀文神出鬼没地从里面走了出来，他学着“范进中举”的样儿，摇摇晃晃地走到附近居民家，一边嘴喊着“哈哈，中了，中了”，一边做出一副醉样，惹得一帮小孩跟在他后面喊他“疯子”。“疯子”。而王秀文则越加得意地做着中举的范进样。有个小孩使坏，在他半闭着眼往前走时，用一木椅绊了一下，王秀文扑嗵一下，跌倒在地，孩子和路过的行人乐得哈哈大笑。这时有人过来取笑：王秀才，人家明天都要上考场了，你是不是真去当一回范进大人呀？ 王秀文大惊，连忙问：今天是多少号了？ 人家有板有眼地告诉了他。 “呜呼哀哉——我差点要误大事了！”王“疯子”一下变得不疯了，他赶紧返身，直奔自己的家…… 第二天，考场上人头攒动。这时已经出名的王“疯子”到了考场，负责看门的人一见“疯子”来了，大喝一声：你来干什么？走远一点！ 王秀文跺着脚：哎哟我的师傅，我哪有一点疯嘛！你不信看看我的准考证嘛！ 看门的看了看准考证，没错。但再瞅瞅王秀文，他疑心了，叫来招生办的人问：这“疯子”怎么也有准考证？ 招生办的人笑了：他是