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Volume 3: A blow of destiny, the king appears Chapter 121: Your era cannot tolerate you

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    Almost none of the ancient people made any money when they wrote books. Almost all of them became famous in later generations, especially those that became classics. What does this mean?  It means that your era cannot tolerate you, you, people who are too naive, and

    One of the Demon Guardians - Wu Jingzi

    Wu Jingzi (1701-1754), also known as Minxuan and Wenmu, was born in Quanjiao, Anhui and was a realist writer in the Qing Dynasty.  Quanjiao, his hometown in Anhui, moved to Nanjing, Jiangsu, so he called himself a guest in Qinhuai.

    ????????????????????????????? His grandfather Wu Dan was a supervisor, and his uncles Wu Sheng and Wu Bing were both Jinshi (Jinshi), and many famous officials and ministers came out of his family at that time.

    Wu Jingzi lost his mother at the age of thirteen and followed his father to Ganyu when he was fourteen.  He had a literary name when he was young, he could only read and recite, and he was admitted as a scholar at the age of twenty-three. In this year, his father Wu Lin died of illness, but there was no success in the imperial examination.

    Wu Jingzi's father, Wu Linqi, left a huge inheritance of more than 20,000 taels of silver. However, Jingzi had never been accustomed to managing life. He was a wealthy person, drinking and singing, living in poverty all day and night. He was open-minded by nature and worried about his friends' needs. There was a feud among the clan members over property disputes.  During the war, the brothers went into business, and the clan criticized him, treating him as a prodigal son, and the village spread him as a disciple.

    ??In the 11th year of Yongzheng (1733), he and Xuxian Ye moved to Qinhuaishui Pavilion in Jinling and lived in the west of Baibanqiao on the bank of Qinhuai River. The family was poor but still easy to make friends. People from all over the world recommended him as the leader of the alliance.

    In the first year of Qianlong (1736), Zhao Guolin, the governor of Anhui, Tang Shilin, the governor of Jiangning, and Zheng Jiang of Hexuetai strongly recommended him to take the imperial examination of Bo Xue Hong Ci. However, he refused due to increased thirst, while his cousin Wu Piao and his friend Cheng Tingzuo failed.  And return.

    In his later years, life was difficult and he had to rely on buying literature and giving money from friends.  There is no money in the bag, and there are thousands of thunders in the belly, so that rice can be exchanged for writing.  Every winter, when the temperature is bitterly cold, I and my friends go for a walk outside the city at night, singing and whistling, which is called Warm Foot.

    A close friend, Cheng Jinfang, described it in "The Biography of Mr. Wenmu": Leaving the south gate of the city, he walked around the battlements for dozens of miles, singing and whistling.  They responded to each other, caught the light, entered the west gate of the water, everyone laughed and dispersed, like this every night.  It is called warm feet, and I will make friends for the rest of my life, and I will never miss Minxuan.  When I arrived in Huaihe for a visit, I checked my coffin and found that there were no pens or inkstones.  Yu said: Can we leave this place that we rely on for a while?  Minxuan smiled and said: I have my own writing in my mind, so I don't have to worry about it.  Its lingering charm.  Enough to cover up for a while.  Suffocate his bow and pass on his knowledge, God is in Minxuan, if there is a different intention.  It can't be popularized and tested.  .

    In Zhenzhou, Wu Jingzi once took refuge with Yang Kai, an official and gentry who was dismissed from his post and returned to his hometown. Because of his poor life, he wrote the poem "Yu": In the morning, he asked Yang Zi when he would return the rice to his wife and children.  He expressed the hope that Yang Kai would support his life.

    In the 19th year of Qianlong (1754), Wu Jingzi was 54 years old.  I went to Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province to visit friends and drink heavily. While slightly drunk, I repeatedly recited the poem "A Long Journey to Huainan" by Zhang Hu of the Tang Dynasty. The main reason was to join Lu Jianzeng, the salt transport envoy to the Huaihe River. In 1754, I met Wang You who came south from Beijing.  He once drank heavily in the boat to kill the cold.  After returning home, he suffered from fever in his ears, phlegm and shortness of breath due to heavy drinking. He was unable to receive treatment and died immediately.

    At that time, only the youngest son Wu Kuo was standing by the bedside.  His good friends Jin Zhaoyan and Wang You helped arrange the funeral. At that time, Wu Jingzi was very poor and had only money for clothes. Lu Jian bought a coffin for him, and his coffin was buried at the foot of Qingliang Mountain in Jinling.

    Hu Shi, a writer of the Republic of China, once searched for Wu Jingzi's lost works but could not find them.  Hu Shi said in "The Biography of Wu Jingzi": The greatest literary giant in Anhui is not Fang Bao, Liu Dakui, or Yao Nai, but Wu Jingzi from Quanjiao.

    Wu Jingzi¡¯s Former Residence Memorial Hall, No. 8 Taoyedu, Nanjing, Wu Jingzi¡¯s "The Scholars", based on personal experience, exposes the ugly face of scholar-bureaucrats from many aspects, and Wang Mian in Qizi is the author¡¯s ideal scholar.

    The Scholars profoundly criticized the imperial examination system and feudal ethics, and was full of bitter criticism of Qing Dynasty society. It is a model of Chinese classical satirical novels.  This novel took him nearly 20 years and was not completed until he was 49 years old.

    Wu Jingzi also wrote "Wenmu Shanfang Collection".  Cheng Jinfang said in "The Biography of Mr. Wenmu" that there were several volumes of "Shi Shuo", but unfortunately they have been lost.

    Wang Youzeng wrote in "The Order of Poetry Collection of Mr. Wenmu Shanfang by Mr. Wu Zhengjun Minxuan": Since the beginning of the Republic of China, the emphasis has been on academic subjects, and the most prosperous ones were Quanjiao Wu.

    Hu Shi's "Chronology of Wu Jingzi" believes that Wu himself was not pretending to be ill, but that he had to give up the opportunity due to the worsening of diabetes (similar to diabetes).

    Hu Shi: "The Preface to the Reprint of Wenmu Shanfang Collection" said: I respect Mr. Wu the most. I often want to search for his posthumous works. I often fantasize that there may be another copy of his poems and essays preserved in the world.

    Cheng Jinfang wrote "Mr. Wenmu's Biography": (Mr.) wrote several volumes of "Wenmu Shanfang Collection" and "Shi Shuo"; he also imitated Tang Dynasty novels into fifty volumes of "The Scholars", which shows the attitude of scholars and their people.  Strive to write about it.

    The novel "The Scholars" (also known as the chapter novel) has a total of fifty-six chapters, about 400,000 words, and describes nearly two hundred characters.  Novel premise??, which actually describes the fame and life of scholars under the imperial examination system during the Kangxi and Qianlong periods.

    "The Scholars" was not published until more than ten years after the author's death, when Jin Zhaoyan was a professor at Yangzhou Fuxue, and people competed to write it.  This engraving has now been lost.  The earliest extant edition is the Wuxian Caotang edition engraved in the eighth year of Jiaqing (1803).

    There are currently 56 chapters in the current version, and some people believe that the last chapter is a forgery by later generations.

    Zhang Wenhu, a famous scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, was fond of reading "The Scholars". In the twelfth year of Tongzhi (1873), Zhang Wenhu began to comment on "The Scholars" under the name of Tianmu Mountain Woodcutter.

    Zhang Wenhu believes that Du Shenqing's words about women being disgusted with women in Chapter 30 of "The Scholars" are due to Xiao Jing's story; Chapter 36 of "The Scholars" describes the filial son Guo Li who went to Xichuan to find his father. Zhang Wenhu thinks that the prototype of Guo filial son is Li Baotai's "The Scholars"  The chapter 38 of Hu Xiaozi in "The Collected Works of Si Sheng - Hu Xiaozi's Search for Relatives" comes from "The Chao Ye Qian Zai" when Guo Xiaozi sneezes and scares the tiger.

    Zhang Wenhu also found out that Tang Zuo¡¯s prototype was Wu Jingzi¡¯s friend Yang Kai, Xun Mei¡¯s prototype was suspected to be named Lu, and Ping Buqing further specified that it was Lu Jianzeng.

    "The Scholars" is an outstanding realistic satirical novel in the history of Chinese literature.  The content written is based on the Ming Dynasty, but it is actually the Qing Dynasty, and 10% of the characters are real people.

    It truly depicts the ups and downs of intellectual life during the Kangxi and Qianlong periods, the ups and downs of circumstances, the gains and losses of fame, the ups and downs of official careers, the nobleness and despicability of sentiments, the advocacy and destruction of ideals, and the exploration and pursuit of a way out.

    Wu Jingzi affirms or denies the characters in the book based on his attitude towards fame and wealth. For example, Kuang Chaoren forged documents and took the exam under his own name, but was given the title of "Excellent" by Wenzhou Academic Affairs and was admitted to the Imperial College. Yan Gongsheng committed all kinds of evil, but was dismissed by his predecessor.  Zhou Xuetai recommended him as the best; while the author mercilessly criticized the ugly things, he also praised the positive characters. Wang Mian is the first-class character in the book, and he is upright and upright. Zhuang Shaoguang pursues to transform customs with etiquette and music, and transform people with virtue. Niu  Dad and Dad Bu are also praised by the author.

    Cheng Jinfang said in "Poems of Reminiscing about People": The scholars in the foreign history records describe He Gongyan; I feel sad for this person, but he actually writes it as a barnyard history!

    In "The Scholars", Wu Jingzi used simple, flexible and humorous local language to write about the decadence and darkness of the imperial examination system, the vulgarity of fake celebrities, and the despicability and meanness of corrupt officials.  Hu Shi described this book: The country hangs signs with Confucius and Mencius every day. In fact, people are not allowed to speak the words of Confucius and Mencius, nor are they allowed to practice the teachings of Confucius and Mencius. People are only required to read eight-legged essays and write test poems; the rest of the literature  You don¡¯t have to pay attention to the source of the behavior, but if you do, who will do it for you?
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