Fan Jin Zhongju this story, we were studied as a text in junior high school, when the grade was still young, I still could not understand why Fan Jin suddenly went crazy after the middle lift, as I grew older and increased my social experience, I understood how high the status of readers, especially those who are very good at reading, have in this society.
In that feudal era, readers only had to take the road of meritorious fame if they wanted to embark on the road of fame, some people were nameless and never reached the unattainable high position and power in their lives, some people studied mediocrely and hard all their lives and never stepped out of that poor backcountry, but there were also people who won the championship in one fell swoop and shocked the world, and since then they have risen step by step, and some people have no longer suffered from poverty and hunger since then. And what is Fan Jinzhongju equivalent to? It is probably equivalent to winning the seventh place in the province in the college entrance examination. This is a result that many readers can hardly achieve in a lifetime.
It is such a huge gap between the exam and the absence of the exam, so that readers have hope for a lifetime, and some people have studied hard for decades and finally got admitted, thus ending the previous days of being insulted and white-eyed.
For 10 or 20 years, no one cared about reading hard, and once people soared
Fan Jinzhongju's story comes from the third episode of "The History of Rulin", set in the Ming Dynasty. Fan Jin's initial image was yellow and thin, with a white beard and wisps of clothes. A poor reader with a poor family and a long time without enough to eat, with a pale face and a thin body. Fan Jin will not cultivate the land and do not want to be a butcher, he will only bury his head in reading, does not have any ability to go out to make money, can not lift his shoulders and cannot carry it, he can only read hard through the cold window to make life hopeful.
Fan Jin took the college examination at the age of twenty and won the child examination, and then began a cycle of more than twenty years of hard reading, exams, hard reading, and exams, taking more than twenty exams, his heart was numb little by little, but he seemed to know nothing but to read, and he never thought of changing paths. He is not willing to give up a good career, but he does not have the capital to live. He bet his whole life on the imperial examination until he met a nobleman when he was fifty-three.
At the age of fifty-three, Fan Jin followed a group of young people to the examination room again. He thought like a fountain in the examination room, without adding a point, and soon handed the test paper to the judge, and the judge Zhou Jin saw that this person in his fifties who was still taking the examination felt pity, and no one else handed in the paper at that time, so he picked up Fan Jin's test paper and began to judge.
He read it from beginning to end, and felt that this article was shit and illuminous, written without logic, ridiculous, shook his head and put down Fan Jin's scroll.
After waiting for a while and still no one came to hand in the roll, Zhou Jin was bored, so he picked up Fan Jin's roll again and looked at it, this time he saw a trace of interest from the text, this article is like tea, the first taste of bitterness and sweetness, and like houttuynia smell is afraid to avoid, the first taste but joy can't stop. After reading Fan Jin's article this time, he only felt that he was a piece of dusty jade.
He picked up Fan Jin's scroll again and looked at it, and this time he found that this text was as elegant and unique as the posthumous snow lotus on the mountain, and the words were beautiful. Fan Jin, this talent is knowledgeable and has a unique vision, and is a talent!
He read this article three times before he realized the mystery in it, and almost threw away the jade as sand. Zhou Jin sighed that in the past few decades, Fan Jin was delayed by the confused examiner, and thought that he was also unlucky, as an old boy, he took the exam many times before coming out, and he cherished Fan Jinsheng.
So when our Fan Tongsheng was fifty-three years old, he met his own Bo Le, saved him from the quagmire, and since then he has been numb and full of hope for the future.
This time the show came home during the exam, and Fan Jin's father-in-law Hu Butcher carried the intestine and wine to celebrate, reminding Fan Jin that this "useless" person is now different from before, and it is necessary to pay attention to the proportions of the system and maintain the image of the show.
In June, Fan Jin wanted to take part in the township examination. Fan Jin was poor at home and had no travel expenses, so he asked his father-in-law, Butcher Hu, who had a slightly better attitude towards him a few days ago, to borrow money to catch up with the exam. But he was insulted by Butcher Hu, saying that his poor and sour spiky-billed monkey gills could pass the exam, and said that he was admitted to show talent because the examiner saw that he was still taking the exam at such an age. Fan Jin was scolded for a bloody squirt, but he was still unwilling in his heart, so he secretly went to participate in the rural examination.
On the day of the listing, Fan Jin's old wife was really hungry, her eyes were dizzy, and she quickly asked Fan to go to the market to sell the old hens in the family for some money to buy food. Fan Jin only went for two hours, and the people who reported the good news came one after another, and Fan Jin took the seventh place in the township examination this time. The villagers and neighbors came to congratulate and stood all over the house, but found that the protagonist who wanted to congratulate was not there, and some people hurried to the market to call the master of the people to come back.
Fan Jin was squatting on the side of the road to sell chickens, and the people looking for him arrived and urged him to hurry back, and he had already passed the exam. Fan Jin's repeated failures in the exams over the years had made him feel numb, and he felt that the man was coaxing him, and he couldn't believe it.
Until he was carried back home by the man, he saw the red list, which said that the seventh place in the rural examination Yayuan, suddenly a burst of ecstasy surged in his heart. He suddenly went crazy, laughed and shouted that I had been hit and ran outside the house.
Fan Jin ran on the dirt road while spreading hysteria, and he didn't notice the mud splashing on his clothes, just shouting that I was hit, I was hit. The villagers and neighbors panicked, and the crowd chased him to calm him down, and the group followed him to take him home while worrying about "don't fall, don't fall." A group of people chased after Fan Jin, afraid that the old man from the village would have something to do.
Finally, they took Fan Jin to his home, and the villagers busily asked Fan Jin's father-in-law, Butcher Hu, who was usually most afraid, to come forward and slap him to sober him up.
Butcher Hu was terrified, rubbed his hands on his clothes, and after hesitating for a while, he still gave Fan Jin a slap. Fan Jin finally came to his senses and sobered up. Butcher Hu hurriedly apologized and explained the situation, saying that he was afraid that he would continue to be crazy before he slapped him.
As soon as Fan Jin woke up, he looked at the smiles on the faces of everyone around him, and thought of their snarky faces before.
The closest to him was his father-in-law, who was now smiling and shushing him, and when he borrowed money to catch up with the exam, he told him that he was difficult to be a big man.
Standing next to her was an aunt in the village, who was now smiling, her small eyes narrowed into a slit, and she had listened to her talking and laughing with others, and she had read books for more than twenty years or was still the same poor sour.
Fan Jin looked at the people in front of him who were shushing him and giving gifts and caring, and felt as if they had changed their souls and did not really know them. No, it's not that they've changed, it's their identities. What are they calling themselves, lifting people sir! I won the exam!
Fan Jin studied hard for more than 20 years, like a rat crossing the street, he was ridiculed by the villagers, disgusted that his family was poor and useless, and now he was admitted to the exam, full of guests and friends, and all the people laughed and ran to compliment him, saying that he was a literary opera star under the fan, only to be high.
Second, the cause of madness
Fan Jin suddenly went crazy after hearing that he had won the exam. Let's think about it from another perspective, I have been unknown all my life, I have not passed more than twenty exams, and finally one day I met a noble man who saw that I had talent, so I worked hard to take another subject, and actually passed the exam, and since then, we all feel the same kind of ecstasy.
For example, in the early Qing Dynasty, only about 1,200 people were admitted to the township examination every year, and it became a lifter, and you must know that the number of talents who participated in the township examination exceeded 500,000. At the level that can now be said to be the college entrance examination in Henan Province. I believe that the scale of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty will not be much worse, and Fan Jin won the seventh place in the first rural examination, and it is common for people to be ecstatic.
After raising people in the exam, the faces of the neighbors were completely different, all of them were flattering, and there was nothing in the sky or on the ground that Fan Jin touted. In addition, the famous squire in the township also brought gold and silver jewelry to call Fan Jin a brother, and gave him a house, urging him to move quickly. There were still people waiting in line behind to deliver farm products to Fan Jin, send shops, and even devote themselves to servants, and for a while Fan Jin's house was beautiful and full of doors. After high school, he had money, fame, fortune, and power.
In the Ming Dynasty, there will be many preferential treatment for raising people in the exam. The state can help cover the cost of the journey to participate in the examination and to enter the prison and elect officials permanently. It can also exempt the family from conscription and taxes, and this privilege can include the family and its family slaves, which is why some people will come to sell themselves into slavery after Fan Jinzhongju.
In ancient times, in order not to let people report officials at will, to increase the burden on the county office, the person who reported the official had to be beaten first, but after raising people, you can dispense with this rule, and you don't have to kneel when you see the county official, it can be said that this status was already very beautiful at that time.
Perhaps Fan Jin has the ability, and the subsequent examination can also be a junior sergeant, then what awaits him will be to become an official, be promoted, enter Beijing as an official, and fulfill his lifelong dream. What is this now? It may be the promotion path of mayors, provincial governors until the central government.
So Fan Jin's madness after the move was really not because feudal ideology poisoned them too deeply or because Fan Jin's own psychological quality was too poor, but because the fame and fortune contained after the name of "lifting people" were real, and a pheasant turned into a phoenix sought after by everyone, and I was crazy for me!
brief summary
Throughout the past and present, Li Baiwen has brilliantly written flowers, and when the wine is in the mood, he can let Colix, who is favored by the emperor, take off his boots for himself, Zhuge Liang's intelligence is unparalleled and he rebuks Fang Xuan, and Liu Bei is a great talent. Lu Xun abandoned medicine and followed the text, awakened the numb and ignorant proletariat with a sober mind and realistic writing, and was invited by the chief of education, Cai Yuanpei, the chief of education, to serve as the head of the education section.
Readers are respected in both ancient and modern times, especially those who read particularly well have the confidence and qualifications to be loved and touted by others.
In the past, there was the title of "lifting people", and now there is the evaluation of "high-quality students", no matter what era the book is read well, it will indeed be treated differently. Nowadays, if you are a doctoral student in a prestigious university or a returnee college student, the attitude of the interviewer will be particularly respectful when you come to the large unit, not to mention the interview of the large unit, just say that in the face of your relatives and friends, say who is who studied where and returned, and also took a double degree, although we don't know that person but will boast so much: too productive! Not to mention the era in ancient times when feudal thought imprisoned people's thinking. So you can understand why Fan Jin went crazy after the middle move.
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