Zhen Xuezhong, the eldest son of Zhen Shouqiu, made outstanding achievements in river engineering and was promoted to the prefect. He sent his wife's distant brother Huang Ermazi to the capital to pick up the master. Zhen Gexue had a brother in Baoding, so Huang Ermazi went to visit him. As soon as I entered the door, I heard the crying of my family. Zhen Gexue went to call him, and his brother slowly woke up and said that he had had a dream.
So the envoy made a statement to Zhengexue. Later, Zhengexue came to his son's office and became a grand master. He explained what happened in his brother's dream and it was "The Appearance of Officialdom".
"The Appearance of Officialdom" is a novel written by Li Boyuan, a writer in the late Qing Dynasty. The novel was first serialized in "World Prosperity News" published by Chen.
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Creative background
Li Boyuan, the author of "The Appearance of Officialdom", was born in a scholarly family. He lost his father when he was young and was unable to study, so he had to He took refuge with his cousin Li Yiqing, who was an official in Chengyang, Shandong Province. When Li Boyuan was 26 years old, he took the exam and became the first scholar. The following year, he went to Jiangyin for the rural examination and according to his results, he should be on the gold list. However, the examiner used the excuse that Li Yiqing had "rebellion against the imperial law" and implicated his nephew. As a result, he failed. After that, Li Boyuan went to Shanghai to find another way out.
In order to further expose and satirize the officialdom, he found a unique way and published another "World Prosperity Newspaper", which serialized two novels "Gengzi Guobian Tanci" and "The Appearance of the Officialdom". Li Boyuan originally planned to write 120 chapters, but he passed away after writing more than 50 chapters. Especially his friend Ouyang Juyuan continued to write 60 chapters.
Appreciation of the work
The expression technique of "The Appearance of Officialdom" is realism. Most of the characters it writes about are real-life characters, with just their names changed. Hu Shi once discussed this situation in the preface to this book: "Generally speaking, we have to admit that in this book "The Appearance of Officialdom" Most of the materials can represent the actual situation of the officialdom at that time, such as Hua Zhongtang's name Rong Lu, Uncle Hei's name Li Lianying, and Zhou Zhongtang's allusion to Weng Tong.
As for Mao De. Once the behaviors of officials, district Fengren (harmonious and loyal people), Jia Xiaozhi (harmonious and fake filial son), Shi Xiaoren (harmonious and real villain), Diao Maipeng (harmonious and traitorous), and Shi Butong (harmonious and unreasonable) are revealed, All the writings made people at the time feel familiar, tacit understanding, and doubled their interest. Afterwards, many imitative works appeared in the world.
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