Introduction to rolling water:
Guagua, an idiom in China, pinyin is gǔn guā liú shuǐ, which means to describe extremely skilled and fluent speech. Frost leaves are as red as February flowers.
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Chinese idiom, pinyin is gǔn guā làn shú, which means ripe as a melon falling from a vine. Describe the fluency and proficiency of reading or endorsement. The Scholar by Qing Wu Jingzi.
Introduction to scholars:
The Scholars is a novel of Wu in Qing Dynasty. It was written in the 14th year of Qianlong (1749) or earlier, and now it is handed down as a manuscript, which was first engraved in the 8th year of Jiaqing (1803).
The fifty-six chapters of the book depict different expressions of "fame and fortune" by various people in a realistic way. On the one hand, it truly reveals the process and causes of human nature erosion, thus profoundly criticizing and mocking the corruption of bureaucracy, the malpractice of imperial examination system and the hypocrisy of ethics at that time;
On the one hand, it enthusiastically praised the protection of human nature by a few characters in a self-centered way, thus embodying the author's ideal. The use of vernacular Chinese in the novel is becoming more and more skillful, and the characterization of characters is also quite in-depth and delicate, especially the satirical technique is superb, which makes the book a masterpiece of China's classical satirical literature.
Represented the peak of China's ancient satirical novels, and initiated the direct evaluation of real life with novels. After the manuscript of The Scholars was published, a manuscript was handed down from generation to generation and was highly praised by later generations. Lu Xun believes that the ideological content of the book is "upholding public interests and criticizing the disadvantages of the times", and Hu Shi believes that its artistic characteristics can be called "refinement".
In international sinology, this book has a great influence. It has been handed down in English, French, German, Russian, Japanese, Spanish and other languages for a long time and is praised by sinologists. Some people think that The Scholars is one of the masterpieces of world literature, comparable to the works of Boccaccio, Cervantes, Balzac or Dickens, and an outstanding contribution to world literature.