From the age of 19, he took the civil service examination and failed 40 times! A generation of literary heroes, finally known in the world with ghost novels

After his death, his fame was far and wide, his works were widely circulated, and his novels were widely distributed at home and abroad. But before he died, his family was surrounded by walls and he lived a miserable life. He took the civil service examination 40 times, repeatedly failed, until he gave up the scientific examination at the age of 60, and at the age of 72, he accidentally became a student; he devoted a lot of his thoughts to the creation of strange novels of demons and ghosts, and eventually became an influential fiction writer in the world.

Speaking of this, Xiaobian believes that this person must have been thought of in your heart: Pu Songling! He was a writer who "wrote ghosts and wrote demons of the highest class", and his talent was called by posterity as "reading books like the moon, and moving pens like the wind". His novel "Liaozhai Zhiyi" believes that you have seen it from film and television works. It was this novel, translated into more than two dozen languages, that spread to many countries.

A literary hero who is only eight buckets tall, has been looking at the "gold list" all his life, but he has repeatedly tried and failed. Pu Songling's life can be summed up in an Internet buzzword: "Brother is not in the exam, or on the way to the exam." It can be said that on the road of scientific expedition, Pu Songling slowly changed from a small strong who could not die to an old strong who could not die:

In the fifteenth year of Qing Shunzhi (1658), the 19-year-old Pu Songling took the child birth examination and was the first disciple of the county, government, and dao three examinations.

In the seventeenth year of Qing Shunzhi (1660), the 21-year-old Pu Songling took the township examination for the first time, and the result was luosun Mountain.

In the second year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1663), Pu Songling, 24, took the township examination again, and the result was still unsuccessful.

In the autumn of the eleventh year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1672), the 32-year-old Pu Songling failed the third township examination. Three years later (1675), Pu Songling, who was already the father of four children, took the township exam again and still did not pass.

During this period, in order to make a living, Pu Songling began to sit in the museum as a school master, and began to create his series of fox ghost novels, which were initially collected in the eighteenth year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1679) and named "Liaozhai Zhiyi". At the age of 40, Pu Song was 40 years old.

In the autumn of the twenty-sixth year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1687), Pu Songling, who was already 48 years old, took the township examination again and was deposed because of "yue". The so-called "cross-field" is a violation of the imperial examination. The examination papers answered by the candidates for the examination have a certain format: the paper surface has a horizontal and straight grid drawn by the red line, and the number of lines per page and the number of words per line are specified, such as beyond the line, the grid is written at will. If the person who crosses the line seriously crosses the line, it will be regarded as cheating, and either he will not be allowed to participate in the township test, or the head will fall to the ground, and the punishment will be very severe. Pu Songling's "overstretched" was deposed (not admitted), and the punishment he received was very light.

In the twenty-seventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1688), when the 51-year-old Pu Songling took the township examination again, he was again unsuccessful due to another foul.

In the autumn of the thirty-fifth year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1696), the 57-year-old Pu Songling led his disciples to the provincial capital to take the township examination, and as a result, the whole army was destroyed.

In the late spring of the forty-first year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1702), Pu Songling, who was 63 years old, went to Jinan and stayed for several months to prepare for the exam, but in the autumn of that year, he was once again frustrated by reality.

In October of the fiftieth year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1711), Pu Songling disregarded the 72-year-old age and made a final attempt for his ideals, and went to Qingzhou to pay tribute, and Huang Shulin, a scholar of Shandong Province, was touched by his spirit and was promoted to the age of Gongsheng (Bao Sheng).

From the age of 19 to the age of 19, he became a guarantor of the Guozijian at the age of 72, and Pu Songling's road to the imperial examination was bumpy enough. However, Pu Songling was able to persist for half a century. In today's eyes, Pu Songling is a talent, and his novels are highly sought after by many people. However, in his time, these ghost novels he wrote were regarded as crooked and unpopular things. For Pu Songling at that time, how much inner suffering he had to endure was beyond the comprehension of ordinary people. Do you like this Kind of Pu Songling?

Today, we have come to listen to Uncle Dong Hao talk about "Chatting with Zai Zhiyi", look at the world, look at the people's hearts, and undoubtedly, he has created a wealth of spiritual wealth for us.