There is such a person, known as the "nail household of the college entrance examination", who was admitted to the China University of Political Science and Law and did not go to school, and re-studied for twelve years only to be admitted to Tsinghua, he is Tang Shangjun. There is also such a person in the "History of Ru Lin", who rushed to take the exam for twenty years, and did not win the lift until he was in his fifties, and he almost went crazy because of ecstasy. This person is Fan Jin.
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It is said that Fan Jin had a show talent before he was in the middle of the lift. With the name of Xiucai, the abbot Hu Butcher took some large intestines and a bottle of wine to congratulate him, and before the congratulations, he did not forget to damage him, saying that you are a "treasure of the world", I don't know what kind of mold fell, how did you marry your daughter to you? I don't know how much I have been involved for so many years, but now I have finally won a fairness, and I count you as a success.
After taking a break, I began to teach Fan Jin again, you are now a person with an identity, and you must have rules. This rule is that in the future you have to be polite to your father and me, like those who grow crops and pick dung outside, if you fight with them, you will lose your integrity. Fan Jin nodded and quickly agreed.
Later, Fan Jin wanted to participate in the township examination again, so he borrowed travel expenses from his father-in-law to take the township examination, but he was severely criticized, and he could not touch the door when he was scolded. Because the father-in-law looked down on Fan Jin, he thought that he was a toad who wanted to eat swan meat. However, Fan Jin was not reconciled, so he decided to go to the exam without his father-in-law. On the day of the list, because there was no grain at home, Fan Jin could only take the hen to the market to sell. As a result, within a few hours, three people came and rode three horses to beat gongs and drums into Fan's house. Say yes!
Fan Jin did not believe it after he returned, and after seeing the good news with his own eyes, he was a little crazy when he was overjoyed, so the brother-in-law Hu Butcher slapped him, and he woke up. After Fan Jin woke up, he also chanted in his mouth: "Oh! Good! I've won!" He has reached a state of madness in the pursuit of fame and fortune for decades, and now that he is really in high school, he will be too excited himself, leading to such a state. However, after Fan Jinzhongju, Zhang Jingzhai, who had once been a zhixian county, came to visit, gave money and a house, and the people who had laughed at him also held him up to the sky.
02
Most people know the book "Ru Lin Wai Shi", that is, this "Fan Jin Zhongju" in the primary school Language Textbook. When we were young, when we read such stories, we only knew to laugh at him for being stupid, not without sarcasm, not without irony. It was not until later, after years of social ups and downs, that I read the whole book and found that the helplessness, sadness and sadness of the characters in the book were not reality.
There is a saying in "Cai Gen Tan": "Human feelings are repeated, and the world is rugged." "Perhaps, every adult has experienced that when you are in a low valley, the surrounding is full of indifference and cruelty. Even if you are too poor to eat, no one is willing to give up three points of love; you are forced to desperate, no one will give you a way. But when you are in a high place, you are surrounded by kindness and kindness. People who have no intersection may be close to you; people who were once strangers may make friends with you. When we were young, we did not understand the complexity of human feelings and the coldness of the world, but now we understand that it is only human nature, and we do not have to be more truthful, let alone care. Seeing is an ability, and looking down is greater wisdom.
03
Guo Degang wrote a personal biography, and the name of the book is "Just Lived.". In this book, Mr. Guo Degang seems to look at the human condition of this world very indifferently, and also puts the truth of that almost cruel fact in front of people, in this book, there is a sentence that I remember very clearly, he said, if you are a poor person, even if you stand at the crossroads and ask for a steel hook, you may not be able to reach a piece of flesh of your relatives, but if you are a rich person, the deep mountains and old forests may have your relatives.
In this era, it is often said that talking about money hurts feelings. It's a joke, but it reflects the real reality. Guo Degang's words seem to be very cold and ruthless, but it is precisely this sentence that reveals the two words of human feelings, never a one-way temperature word, only when you are strong enough, you will find that you have a group of friends and relatives around you, when you are down, those so-called relatives and friends will also disperse, what is true, what is false, sometimes confused a little better.
When we were young, we always thought that everyone, rich or poor, should be respected. It was not until adulthood that worldly respect was mostly exchanged for status and wealth. When you don't have any money, don't bother anyone or walk in circles that don't belong to you. Even if people are poor, their hearts cannot be poor. Even if others look down on you, you have to look down on yourself.
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The story of "Fan Jin Zhongju" profoundly exposes the poison of the feudal examination system to intellectuals in a satirical way, and also vividly portrays the world of feudal society and exposes ugly things. There is not only this one story in "The History of Ru Lin", but also more people who are not farces, but also a thought-provoking reality. At the beginning, when we read "The History of Ru Lin", we read the officialdom, the imperial examination, and the stories of the talents. Later, we found out that we were only reading people and things under our eyes.
The book "The History of Ru Lin" represents the peak of ancient Chinese satirical novels. Later generations spoke highly of it, with Lu Xun believing that the book's ideological content "upholds public conscience and accuses the shortcomings of the times", and Hu Shi believes that its artistic characteristics can be called "Seiko refining". In the international sinology community, the book is even more influential, and has long been handed down in English, French, German, Russian, Japanese, Spanish and other languages, and has been praised by the sinology community, and some believe that the "History of Rulin" is enough to rank among the masterpieces of world literature, and even comparable to the works of Boccaccio, Cervantes, Balzac or Dickens. If you want to understand the history of that era, want to see the world of that era, watch the corruption of feudal social officials, the shortcomings of the imperial examination, and the hypocrisy of etiquette, you may wish to open this book and experience the variety of life.