Chapter 11: Fan Jin and the Ancient Imperial Examination
Fan Jinzhong is selected from the Qing Dynasty writer Wu Jingzi's Confucianism and Foreign History. The ancients www.biquge.info the pen %fun %pavilion: everything is inferior, only reading is high. Throughout the ages, how many people have struggled on the road of the imperial examination, and some have repeatedly failed the examination, and their fate has been tragic. Some were lucky enough to pass the exam, but they were crazy with joy. In the ancient Chinese imperial examination system, how many people boiled their young heads white, empty and sad. After ten years of cold windows, no one asked, and he became famous all over the world in one fell swoop, and Fan Jin was a member of the ancient Chinese Mathematics Sect. It has passed the year of the Mandate of Heaven to be admitted to the show, and then after all the difficulties in the examination, but the joy and sorrow, and staged a farce that makes people laugh, today I will discuss it this time.
The protagonist is a middle-aged man named Fan Jin, who has participated in the imperial examination many times, but he has been defeated repeatedly, but he has been defeated again and again, and in the year of his dying destiny, he was unexpectedly admitted to the Jinshi, perhaps because of excessive excitement and crying and going crazy and becoming delirious. returned his father-in-law, Daddy Hu, and woke him up with a slap. And all kinds of people around him are also extremely ugly. Don't talk about others, let's talk about Fan Jin's father-in-law, Daddy Hu. When Fan Jin borrowed the entanglement of Daddy Hu to go to the township test, Daddy Hu loudly reprimanded and insulted, and said that he was a life-like and loyal and useless person, with a poor and sour monkey cheek, and also said that he wanted to eat swan meat as a toad, and he didn't pee to take care of himself, and Fan Jin who scolded was useless. But when he learned that Fan Jin had passed the examination, he praised Fan Jin again, and said that the virtuous son-in-law was talented and good-looking, which meant to please and flatter Fan Jin. Not only Daddy Hu, but also Fan Jin himself. When I went to the exam, I was scolded by Daddy Hu for not being a bullshit, but I was willing to be humiliated, but I also said that my father-in-law was teaching me that he looked indifferent to being insulted and slaughtered by others, but when he was in the exam, he was superior, and now Daddy Hu is groveling to Fan Jin. The seemingly absurd storyline of this article truly reflects the poison of the feudal imperial examination system on people's hearts. You see, in order to be an official and to pass the examination, Fan Jin has gone through many exams and received many scoldings, but the Xiucai who was admitted to the examination is still willing to give up on him, and the ghost knows how this person came to be! Hu Butcher is mainly to reflect the social atmosphere at that time, through his completely different actions before and after Fan Jin's middle lift, and also through Fan Jin's attitude towards him before and after the middle move, reflecting people's pursuit of fame and fortune. The characteristics of loving the rich show the hot and cold state of the world, in fact, through him, it also expresses the author's satire on this kind of people and his dissatisfaction with society. But I don't think you can completely blame Butcher Hu, first of all, Fan Jin is a scholar, he has no power to restrain the chicken, and the old mother is even more old and frail, as the father-in-law Hu Butcher must be indispensable to help Fan Jin. When he learned that Fan Jin was a talent in the examination, as a father-in-law, he was actually very happy. From the original text, it can be seen that Hu Butcher got a private school for him, whether it was for his daughter or for Fan Jin himself, a few taels of silver a year was enough to support the family. Later, I learned that Fan Jin was going to take the exam, not lending him money and humiliating him, in fact, I think it was also for his good, and no one believed that he could stand out on a broader stage before he was more than half a hundred years old. Humiliating him is also to make him give up his unrealistic illusions, and the work of a private school allows him to support his family, which is actually the solution to the most practical life problems.
In ancient China, the ranks of people were known as scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants. The gentry do not pay for food, and Fan Jin has the right to be a private school gentleman only if he is admitted to Xiucai. There is nothing wrong with butcher Hu, and it is the same in today's society. When you have a job as a civil servant, you don't want to, you have to go to get a doctorate, and if you don't take the next meal at home, I'm sure the whole family will oppose it. In the end, I think the author is satirizing the ancient scientific research system, not the Hu butcher, not the Zhang squire, and not all the people living in the hot water.