After entering his examination cubicle, Xiao Mo waited for the test to formally begin.
The Qi Kingdom's provincial examination was divided into three sessions.
The first session tested classical exegesis.
The Four Books section usually consisted of three questions.
Candidates were required to select and expound upon passages from the *Great Learning*, the *Doctrine of the Mean*, *The Analects*, and *Mencius*.
The Five Classics exegesis corresponded to the *Classic of Poetry*, the *Book of Documents*, the *Book of Rites*, the *I Ching*, and the *Spring and Autumn Annals*. One question was posed for each classic, and candidates could choose four out of the five to answer.
Indeed.
The history of the Qi Kingdom was actually quite similar to that of Huaxia on Blue Sea Star. It also had a Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period, as well as figures like Confucius and Laozi.
