A candidate was looked down upon because of his ugly appearance, but he conquered the audience with two couplets.

During the Qianlong period, once after the imperial examination, the examiner handed the top ten papers to the emperor. Gan Long was first attracted by the beautiful handwriting of one of them, and after reading the article carefully, he was even more appreciative, so he called this talent Gong Kao, hoping to personally select a pillar talent for the country.

Liu is a gifted scholar. When he was playing with his friends as a child, he accidentally injured one eye and left a disability. Although brilliant, he is often looked down upon by people because of eye diseases. Qianlong is thinking about the true colors of words. This talented person with excellent calligraphy should have been handsome, but after seeing him, he turned out to be a cyclops, with a big gap in his heart.

Emperor Qianlong thought: If you want to use him, this Cyclops is really ugly and is laughed at by the world. If I don't use him, officials will laugh at me again. So I'm going to test him in class to see if this one-eyed student is really talented. If he is really a rare talent, he is a bad king because of his appearance.

Qianlong pondered for a moment and said, "I want to test you face to face. If you are really talented, you will definitely go to high school. " If you are mediocre, don't blame me for being heartless. Liu said, "I am instructed by the emperor to ask him a question." . Gan Long said, "All right, I'll make an upper part and you make a lower part." . The first part is: Cyclops is not on the Dragon and Tiger List. Hearing this, Liu thought that the emperor was also judging people by their appearances, and immediately said to him, "It will take another half month." Hearing this, the Gan Long said, "good! Big tone, but yes. Give you another entrance exam: Dong Qiming, Xi Chang Gung, Nanji Beidou, I am a groupie! Brilliant Liu immediately said to himself without thinking: "There are peonies in spring, peonies in summer, chrysanthemums in autumn and plum blossoms in winter. I am a flower-exploring lang!" "

As soon as this was said, Qianlong was overjoyed, and all the ministers present applauded. Because the "East, West, North and South" stars in Qianlong are ingenious and surprising, and the sky is extraordinary. Liu's response to the famous flowers in the four seasons of "Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter" is not only neat, harmonious and catchy, but also the pun of the last three words "Flower-exploring Lang", which makes people sincerely admire. At this time, Qianlong had no prejudice against judging people by their appearances, but recognized Liu's talent, so he laughed and said, "Good! I will help you. " So, with a stroke of a pen, Liu was admitted to the third place in Jiafu, which became a beautiful talk for later generations.

Because Liu was a native of Pingxiang in the west of Jiangxi, later Qianlong called Wei Liu "a genius in Jiangxi", but more people called him "a genius in Jiangxi". Liu's talent for couplets was the first at that time. It is said that when Jiaqing ascended the throne, Zun Qianlong was the emperor's father, and Liu was ordered to make couplets with the titles of Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong and Jiaqing. Liu wrote: "Shun Tian Kang Min, forever Gan Jianjia; Governing the country and cherishing things is exactly what Long Enqing celebrated in ten thousand years. " Titles of the Five Dynasties were regularly inserted into couplets, which was seamless. Absolutely, Liu's talent was more widely circulated.