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míng luò sūn shān
sòng zhāo yǒu hěn yōu de rén
jiào sūn shān
yǒu nián cān jiā kǎo shì
gōng míng dān shí shì zuì hòu
míng
huí dào jiā de lín xiàng
tīng de ér kǎo zěn
me yáng
sūn shān xiào zháo duì lín shuō
sūn shān kǎo le zuì hòu míng
ér de míng huán zài sūn shān de
hòu miàn
rén men yòng míng luò sūn shān lái
kǎo shì méi yǒu kǎo shàng huò zhě
xuǎn méi yǒu bèi
In the Song Dynasty (宋朝) there was a joker called Sun Shan (孙山).
One year he went to take the imperial examination, and came bottom of the list of successful candidates.
Back in his hometown, one of his neighbor asked him whether the neighbor's son had also passed.
Sun Shan said, with a smile:"Sun Shan was the last on the list. Your son came after Sun Shan."
The people used this idiom to indicate failing in an examination or competition.
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