Jin Fan Poole devoted his life to the imperial examination. Despite repeated setbacks, he still held deep hopes until he was 54 years old. Later, I planned to take the provincial exam, but I was ridiculed by butcher Hu.
Tell him to give up, but he would rather starve his family than take the exam again; When he arrived at middle school, he was ecstatic, which was the most concrete manifestation of Jin Fan's passion for fame.
2, cowardice and numbness
When he became a scholar, he insulted him in a domineering manner, saying that he was a "worldly treasure", "poor wretch", "corrupt scholar, honest and useless man" and only listened to what he said. He also said, "My father-in-law is a teacher".
He borrowed money from Butcher Hu, who cursed him with outrageous words and even called his mother an "immortal old woman". He is not angry at all, which fully shows Jin Fan's meekness, cowardice and numbness.
Step 3 be pedantic and incompetent
Jin Fan is so poor that he doesn't know what to do at home. He can't go out to sell chickens until his mother gives him the order. But he walked around the collection, looking for it for a long time, but he still couldn't sell the chicken, which proved that he was just immersed in reading and lacked the skills to make a living.
Neighbors told him that he had won the juren exam, he thought others had cheated him, he reluctantly asked others not to joke with him, and his frantic appearance all showed that Jin Fan was pedantic and incompetent.
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Writing background:
Wu, the author of The Scholars, was born in a noble family. Great-grandfather and great-grandfather are two generations of "versatile officials" (Biography of Mr. Wenmu by Cheng Jinfang). * * * has six scholars, including one second prize and one flower detective. And his father, Wu, was a tribute during the Kangxi period.
Wu Yu 1722 (Kangxi 61) was admitted as a scholar, and his father died in the same year. Because he is not good at managing his livelihood, he lives like a prodigal son. 1729 (the seventh year of Yongzheng), when he took the imperial examination, he was dismissed as a "great writer" and was insulted.
Later, he left his hometown angrily and made a living by selling articles and helping friends. 1736 (the first year of Qianlong), Wu participated in the pre-test of Bo Ci. Zhao, the governor of Anhui Province, officially recommended him to take the Tingkao in Beijing, but he kept his mouth shut (Gu Yun Chuan Wu Chuan).
From then on, I will no longer take the imperial examination. In his later years, he was often hungry and cold. This personal experience made Wu deeply feel the advantages and disadvantages of the eight-part essay examination and the imperial examination. On the background of the times, there were three emperors in Qing Dynasty: Kangxi, Yong Zhengdi and Qianlong.
The seeds of capitalist relations of production have appeared in China, and the superficial prosperity of society can't cover up the decay of feudal society. While suppressing the armed uprising, the rulers used Daxing Literary Prison, adopted stereotyped examination, set up imperial examinations, and advocated neo-Confucianism as the ruling ideology to imprison scholars.
Wu opposes stereotyped writing and the imperial examination system, and hates literati who are obsessed with art and keen on pursuing fame and fortune. He reflected these views in The Scholars and exposed the ugly things in a sarcastic way.
Hutu and Xiangshen Zhang:
Small traders and hawkers like butcher Hu are even more inferior. Before Jin Fan won the prize, Butcher Hu looked down on him. After winning the lottery, his attitude changed greatly. Because he is already a member of the ruling class, he has left the bottom of the society where butcher Hu lives.
On the one hand, butcher Hu changed his attitude because he was an oppressed peddler in feudal society, on the other hand, it was also an ideological reason. Jin Fan is the "satellite" in the sky.
He was blessed by the Bodhisattva. He is really in awe, so when he hits Jin Fan, he will feel a sharp pain in his hand. Butcher Hu is a representative of the ordinary citizen class, which profoundly reflects the sorrow of the people in feudal society.
In ancient China, feudal rulers not only ruled by feudal ideology and order, but also built a huge network of bureaucratic rulers, which, like a spider's web, centered on the emperor and extended outward layer by layer to every corner.
This network has the functions of automatically extending, attracting new members and constantly supplementing, which makes China's feudal rule for thousands of years continue in a closed network. Jin Fan floated out of this net when he was a poor boy.
However, when Fan Jin was selected, Xiangshen Zhang, a member of this website, immediately called for him. Because Jin Fan has obtained an ID card to introduce the ruling class and has been accepted as one of them. Xiangshen Zhang has retired at home and has nothing to do with Fan Jin.
However, with the introduction of "Tang Gong of Gaoyao County, your teacher, a protege of my ancestors, and you and I are like brothers", he naturally weaved Jin Fan into this net with kindness and initiative.
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