I believe that most friends will not be unfamiliar with the story of "Fan Jinzhongju", which is from the Qing Dynasty novelist Wu Jingzi's "History of Ru lin wai", which is a fairly good satirical novel in ancient times. I think it may be because of this that we included such an article in our language textbooks that year.
But you know what? It is such a simple story that actually attacks the ancient "rigid" imperial examination system.
The "rigid" imperial examination system gave birth to "Fan Jin"
If you want to talk about the story in the "History of Ru Lin", you have to talk about Wu Jingzi first. Although this name is not enough to look at among those celebrities in history, in fact, Wu Jingzi's origin is not much different from those famous people.
If it were not for the fact that Wu Jingzi himself failed repeatedly in the imperial examination, the family road would not have gradually declined, so that When Wu Jingzi reached his old age, he had to rely on the help of his friends to maintain his life, and the "History of Ru Lin" became the only reliance that Wu Jingzi left in the world in this life.
If you want to talk about literary style, Wu Jingzi's literary style is actually not inferior to any literati during the Qing Dynasty. When Wu Jingzi was thirteen years old, due to the death of his mother, in order to avoid the contradictions in the family home, Wu Jingzi locked himself at home all day, and saw "novel words" from the "subset of history".
According to normal reasoning, with such a wide reading experience, Wu Jingzi is certainly not a problem in the scientific expedition. But even if the official government during the Qing Dynasty pursued the "Eight Strands of Literature" type of answer sheet, Wu Jingzi was not bad at writing. This can be seen from the fact that he was admitted to the title of "Xiu Cai" at the age of seventeen.
However, the fact that the "Eight Strands of Literature" is well written does not mean that Wu Jingzi can mix well in the official arena. Having experienced the three emperors of the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties in his lifetime, he had already seen through the fly camp dogs in the official field of the Qing Dynasty.
Coupled with the experience of losing his mother at an early age and losing his father in a young age, Wu Jingzi completely saw everything in the world. Even if the people in the family wanted to compete with him for the family property, he didn't care much, and after a few simple trials, he let the brothers, sisters, uncles and uncles fight for it. Wu Jingzi, who ended up with a "clean and clean", gradually became the prototype of his "Fan Jin".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="13" >why is "Fan Jin" attacking the imperial examination system? </h1>
Whether it is from the article "Fan Jin Zhongju" or from the entire "History of Ru Lin", the reason why Fan Jin can become a big official from a depressed poor acid is because he can "high school" in the imperial examination and be able to start. To say that Wu Jingzi wrote "Fan Jin" is to criticize the imperial examination system, may it seem far-fetched?
But in fact, it is precisely because "Fan Jin" embarked on the career path through the imperial examination that he truly showed Wu Jingzi's intention to attack the imperial examination system. Because when Wu Jingzi began to write the "History of Ru Linwai", it was exactly the period when capitalism was in its infancy in China.
Judging from the period of the Qing Dynasty, it was a good thing to move from a feudal society to a capitalist society. Following the development of the great era, it can not only avoid the subsequent modern wars, but also do a good job of implementing the wealth that the Qing Dynasty seems to be in place, and continue to become the first country in the world.
But it is also because of the imperial examination system that those whose ideas are gradually "awakened" under the influence of the times cannot cross the increasingly "rigid" imperial examination system and become people who change the world.
And it just so happens that Wu Jingzi is almost the original generation, a person with capitalist ideas. However, due to the inability to change the imperial examination system, Wu Jingzi not only did not even get a person's name, but even his career ended without beginning. In contrast, Fan Jin, who was still a "child student" at the age of fifty-four, but who "came to run when" immediately after being admitted to the "lifting person" was particularly backward.
This point is not only manifested in the personality of "Fan Jin", who is only a non-committal person, but also in those "squire Haojie" who turned his head and snubbed him from the beginning of Fan Jin's "middle lift".
For example, after Fan Jinzhongju, the "Zhang Xiang Squire" who was the first to run to Fan Jin's home and send silver and a house. This squire not only called himself "little brother" in words, but also used various reasons to close the relationship with Fan Jin, just to leave a good impression in front of Fan Jin's "old master".
Keep up with the times in order to always stand on top of the world
Exactly when the decline of the Qing Dynasty began, we are no longer clear. Although historically, the reason for the gradual abandonment of the Qing Dynasty by the times was the implementation of the national policy of "closing the country behind closed doors", in fact, what actually happened is really unclear.
Perhaps the Qianlong Emperor at that time, like Wu Jingzi, had a premonition that the times were about to change. After all, as an emperor, Qianlong could not have felt even the most basic changes in the country.
As for the thorough implementation of the national policy of closing the country off to the outside world, I am afraid that it must be related to the "Yinghuan Zhiluo" written by Xu Jishe. In this book, not only the person Washington is recorded, but also specifically written that after Washington occupied the land, not only did not "pass the throne from father to son, son to son" like the Central Plains Dynasty, but also created a "method of promotion". The Qianlong Emperor was probably frightened by Washington's method of "almost serving the public under the heavens" and feared that this kind of thinking would come to the Central Plains and would ruin their supreme power to love the Xinjue Luo family, so he made such a move.
How could Wu Jingzi, who had already entered the last years of the Qianlong period, not know the reason for this? Unfortunately, he was already old at that time, and he had refused to participate in the scientific expedition for so many years, and he had wasted more than ten years in order to write the "History of Ru Lin", and he was already unable to speak up. If you can't keep up with the times, you can't keep up with the times. Wu Jingzi thought that the only thing he could do was to write a "Fan Jin".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="32" > conclusion</h1>
The wheels of history are constantly advancing, and the rumbling sound is a thunderclap. In the midst of this thunder, no matter how brilliant a dynasty is, if it does not know how to seize the opportunity to seek progress, it is bound to lag behind other countries.
Perhaps the changes of those dynasties in China's ancient history cannot confirm the progress of the times, but the changes that must take place in the employment system really remind everyone that the times are changing and thinking is progressing. No matter how a nation develops, only by always keeping up with the pace of the times can it always stand tall among the nations of the world.
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