"Fan Jin Zhongju" this text we should have learned when we were reading, this text is from the Qing Dynasty novelist Wu Jingzi's "History of Ru Lin", and Fan Jin is a fictional character in the novel, whether there is Fan Jin in history or not is also lacking in record. So let's see how big an official Fan Jin is in the end? People are crazy?
If you really want to understand Fan Jin as a person, the first thing you should know is the life of the author Wu Jingzi, Wu Jingzi lived in the three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong, the society was very prosperous, Wu Jingzi's life was very bumpy, he was born in the family of Kejia, he was accustomed to bureaucratic gentry, and later the Qing Dynasty used force to suppress the uprising, Daxing literary prison, examination of the eight shares, and vigorously developed the imperial examination system to attract intellectuals, Wu Jingzi is precisely the person who opposes the corrupt examination system. So is this background related to Fan Jinzhongju? In fact, in the article "Fan Jin Zhongju", we can see his satire on the imperial examination system.
Then let's look at Fan Jin, Fan Jin is a weak and humble, and hypocritical person who seeks fame, when he entered the White Temple, he was despised and beaten by the villagers, Fan Jin consumed all his youth on the keju, it can be said that how deep the poison of the keju on the literati at that time was? Fan Jinke has not been in the middle for decades, and is not willing to engage in housework to support the family, more than 50 years old is still just a child, there is no rice in the family, only a chicken, the big winter is wearing a single coat, in Fan Jin finally completed his dream, decades of cold window hard reading, decades of expectations and decades of humiliation at this moment seems to be coming, he can not bear such a huge happiness, there is a brief phenomenon of madness.
Fan Jin's father-in-law was originally dismissive of Fan Jin, but after Fan Jin zhongju, he became flattered again, and those ordinary people in the past also looked down on Fan Jin, and after Zhongju also came to seduce him, Fan Jinzhong jinshi, and then selected the imperial history, and a few years later he hand-picked Shandong Xuedao, equivalent to the current director of the Department of Education, although Wu Jingzi did not explain the situation after Fan Jin held a high position, but according to Fan Jin's character, although he would not commit great adultery, he was flattered. The servile appearance must also go with the flow in the official arena.
Fan Jinzhong's pre-lift makes people feel pitiful, and after the middle lift, he is hypocritical and treacherous, in fact, it can be imagined that in his decades-long career of not lifting, he has long envisioned the scene after his mid-lift countless times in his heart, so he is so familiar with the official style of the Qing Dynasty. After Fan Jinzhong lifted, he repeatedly advanced, but Fan Jin's type of person was undoubtedly a martyr of the imperial examination system at that time, for Fan Jin, was this sad or lucky?