The Scholars’ Character Analysis and Storyline

The analysis of characters and storylines in The Scholars are as follows:

1. Fan Jin

Character: Passionate about fame, cowardly and insensitive, pedantic and incompetent, hypocritical and treacherous .

Deeds: Zhou Jin passed the examination by virtue of his qualifications as a supervisor. In an instant, people who were not relatives came to recognize him as relatives, and people who were not friends came to recognize him as friends. Even the school where he taught The "immortality tablet" of "Mr. Zhou" was also enshrined.

Deeds: After Fan Jin failed to take the exam for decades, he passed the exam due to the promotion of the examiner Zhou Jin. He was so overjoyed that he entered a state of madness. He had been despised and humiliated for a long time, and the experience of failure more than twenty times made him very fragile. He could no longer bear any great joy or sorrow.

2. Du Shaoqing

Character image: Du Shaoqing is a character who lives in the last days but has awakened and is constantly reflecting. His appearance undoubtedly tells the story of the heavy and dark feudal black world. Mo blasted a gap. Although he did not clearly point out what kind of path the scholars should take, it clearly showed the unfeasibility of the path the scholars had taken before.

Du Shaoqing is unwilling to be an official, but he is not like Tao Yuanming's recluse, but actively participates in society; he is dissatisfied with the darkness of officialdom, but different from Ruan Jiji Kang's eccentricity and Du Fu's concern for the country and the people, he He also has a taste for life; he is more positive and optimistic than Jia Baoyu in supporting individual freedom and women's liberation.

Deeds: In the 32nd chapter, he said: "A scholar in school is not necessarily a slave." When Zang Liaozhai told him that after mending his lint, he could sit in court, cast lots, and beat people. He laughed and scolded: "You are a gangster, you are extremely shameless."

Governor Li recommended him to be an official in the capital, but he wrapped his head in a handkerchief and pretended to be sick. Someone wanted to go with him to Hui County, but he said: "The Wang family is a Jinshi who is in the ashes of the sect. I don't want him to be my teacher. What can I do to him?"

3. Zhou Jin

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Character image: A person with a bright head but no classics, superstitious classics, and an obsession with craftsmanship. Zhou Jin lived in poverty and had to endure the humiliation of scholars and the contempt of ordinary people, but he always believed in The imperial examination was his only life-saving straw.

Deeds: Zhou Jin passed the examination by virtue of his qualifications as a supervisor. In an instant, people who were not relatives came to recognize him as relatives, and people who were not friends came to recognize him as friends. Even the school where he taught The "immortality tablet" of "Mr. Zhou" was also enshrined.

A few years later, he won the Jinshi again, was promoted to the imperial censor, and was assigned to study Taoism in Guangdong. In Guangzhou, Zhou Jin discovered Fan Jin. In order to take care of this 54-year-old boy, he read Fan Jin's paper three times and found that it was a good article every word, so he promoted Fan Jin to a scholar.

4. Yan Zhihe

Character image: Yan Zhihe is a person who disowns his relatives, opportunists, oppresses the people, is violent and greedy, decisive and vicious, extremely shameless and selfish. With this negative example, his behavior and qualities concentrated all the characteristics of the exploiting class and described the life and moral corruption of the scholar class in China's feudal society. Among them, Yan Zhihe is a noteworthy figure.

Deeds: Yan Zhihe is Yan Jiansheng. The Yongzheng Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty stipulated that among the talented students, Lin students were selected into the Guozixue and were called Gongsheng students. Moreover, at that time, some people who were unable to enter the prefectural, prefecture, or county schools and wanted to take the examination could donate money to qualify as a prisoner to participate in the provincial examination, or directly donate money to prepare a prisoner. This situation was collectively referred to as donation or regular prison.

Yan Jiansheng just didn’t read too many books. He was also a supervisor who donated money. His most well-known plot was the two fingers that couldn’t be released before he died. , the nephews and the wet nurse could not guess what Yan Jiansheng was talking about.

Zhao made it clear that it turned out that there were two lamp grasses in the lamp. Yan Jiansheng was afraid that they would waste oil, which made it difficult for Yan Jiansheng to sleep. When Zhao picked out one, Yan Jiansheng swallowed it in one gulp. gas.

5. Yan Zhizhong

Character image: Yan Zhizhong was a Gongsheng student. He was called a Gongsheng student after he entered the Guozixue in the capital through examination and other methods. This kind of people have a relatively high social status. Yan Gongsheng also looks down on his younger brother Yan Jiansheng because he is a Gongsheng. Those who enter prison are generally required to be "dignified in study and conduct, and long in literature and science." However, the Yan Gongsheng described by the author is exactly the opposite. He is a complete beast of clothing.

Deeds: Yan Gongsheng's first appearance was in the fourth episode. Fan Jin was persuaded by Zhang Jingzhai to go to Tangzhi County to "fight the autumn breeze" during the mourning period. They just arrived in Gaoyao County and sat down to drink. After buying some tea, Yan Gongsheng came in to meet Shantou. When he learned that the two of them were going to visit Tangzhi County.

He began to say that he and Tang Zhixian were old acquaintances, and made up a story about his encounter with Tang Zhixian, and also praised Tang Zhixian's character, just to show his understanding of Tang Zhixian.