"The Silence of Classics" tells the story of the reform of the imperial examination system in the Northern Song Dynasty. The New Party abolished Mo Yi and emphasized policy theory, and the old Confucian Li Wenjing led the people to strike out and denounced "If you don't test the memorization, how can you understand the scriptures?" New Party representative Lu Huiqing paid a night visit. The two sat in silence until dawn, but they missed each other. The old man sighed, "It turns out you can't memorize it all." The thousand-year-old standard for selecting scholars was quietly loosened in the flickering candlelight. A collision of old and new ideas reflects the pain and glimmer of civilization's transformation.
