The article "Fan Jin Zhongju" has now been selected into the textbook, and its vivid image shows the persecution of people's ideas by the feudal imperial examination system at that time.
Fan Jin in the article is a 54-year-old old Xiucai who took the imperial examination 20 times in his lifetime. Finally, in the days of more than half a hundred years in his life, he passed the examination.
Because Fan Jin spent too much effort and years on the imperial examination, at the moment when he learned that he had lifted people in the examination, Fan Jin was overjoyed, and finally he was overwhelmed by excitement and went crazy.
Obviously, this article has impressed many people, but Fan Jin will be crazy, is it really simply because of the exam? Some people say it's actually because of his position.
Fan Jin's official position
In the follow-up to the "History of Ru Lin", after Fan Jin became a juren, he was admitted to the Jinshi, and was eventually appointed by the emperor as the "Shandong Xuedao".
This position sounds strange, in fact, it is equivalent to the current director of the Department of Education of Shandong Province! Therefore, fan jin went crazy after becoming a lifter, it seems that it is really normal. After all, the power and status of this position are so great that it is difficult for many people to reach.
It is reported that the official position of Shandong Xuedao was that of a Zhengsanpin magistrate, whose full name was "Ti Tuo Xuedao", who was in charge of the scientific and research affairs of the entire province, and was personally dispatched by the emperor, and was a person who was highly valued in the DPRK.
The evolution of the imperial examination
The imperial examination system originally began in the Sui Dynasty to select talents, which is very similar to our current college entrance examination.
In ancient times, for those who had no status, no power, and no class, if they wanted to break out of the world and enter the dynasty as officials, the imperial examination was the only way.
As long as you can pass the examination and then promote people step by step, you can enter the court and seek an official position. In this way, we can solve the problem of food and clothing for three meals a day, and second, we can also make great achievements in the DPRK and China and realize our lofty ambitions of making contributions to the motherland and the country.
The ancient class system was strict, and everything had a distinction between identities and a high or low threshold. Therefore, the children of poor families can only achieve class jump by reading and taking the road of examination.
The imperial examination has evolved continuously since the Sui Dynasty, and it is relatively a fair selection system. It enables the reader to let go of the literary talent, and those who are truly learned can also be seen by the public and appreciated by the rulers.
Of course, the imperial examination has not always been like this in the process of development, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there was a form of eight strands of literature with rigid thinking.
The increase in the difficulty of the imperial examination and the solidification of the form have made those cold disciples no longer able to fly up the branches through the road of the imperial examination.
However, no matter how the imperial examination changes, there are still a lot of people to take the exam, after all, they can become a small talent, which also symbolizes a certain status at that time.
The privilege of man
In our modern society, basically at the age of 22, we can complete the educational tasks of the university, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were a large number of people in their forties and fifties who went to take the imperial examination in the name of Xiucai, and Fan Jin was one of them.
Fan Jin lifted people from the Xiucai Examination and was so happy that he went crazy, and another reason was that lifting people had many more benefits than Xiucai.
Xiucai is just an identity, can not be an official, has no privileges. After Xiucai became a lifter, he had the qualifications to be an official. And ordinary people see local county officials must kneel, and people do not.
There is also the need for the people at the bottom to pay taxes to the court, which can also be exempted as a person.
After Fan Jin advanced from xiuren to a person-raising identity, the attitude of the neighbors towards him took a big turn of three hundred and sixty degrees.
Fan Jin was born poor and is a down-to-earth figure from the bottom of society, so he decided from an early age to change his fate through the imperial examination.
But even if Fan Jin studied very hard and participated in the imperial examination more than a dozen times, he could not become a lifter. Neighbors often pointed at Fan Jin and laughed at him in front of his face. Mocking him for not doing farm work, not doing serious things, a handful of old bones still want to turn over through the examination.
Prior to this, Fan Jin also married the daughter of the Hu butcher family because of his status as a Xiucai.
However, after the two got married, Fan Jin still put all his energy on the examination, did not do farm work, did not do business, and did not want to support the whole family. Fan Jin's wife complained a lot, after all, it was really difficult for one person to maintain the lives of two people.
After hu butchers knew about it, they often insulted Fan Jin, saying that he was not a tool, that he was a useless thing, and that he not only had to scold but also beat him. And Fan Jin has a cowardly personality and does not dare to resist every time.
Finally, Fan Jin hit the lifter and ran the whole street with a smile. The neighbors told the Hu butcher to wake up Fan Jin, but the Hu butcher did not dare at this time.
Because Fan Jin's identity has changed, he can't afford it. Fan Jin eventually became a high-ranking official in the court, although he came from the bottom, he lost himself after gaining power, and did not think about the people at the bottom at all.
Fan Jin began to work with those of the upper class to squeeze and exploit the people, and in this way he was successful in the DPRK and made many powerful people. Soon after, Fan Jin became a Shandong Xuedao, and his story ended here.