Scholars summarize the contents of each chapter.

1, Wang Mian was born in poverty and was good at drawing lotus flowers. Jing Guan Su Wei wanted to meet him, because he didn't want to make friends with officials and gentlemen, and he was afraid of being victimized, so he left Shandong. After the flood in Shandong, he returned to his hometown. The foster mother was sent to the end, and the Ming army rebelled at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang seized the world. In order to avoid his official career, he retired to Huiji Mountain.

2. The squire in Xue Jia Ji discussed holding a Dragon Lantern Festival during the Spring Festival. During the period, it was mentioned that teachers should be invited for children. Xia Zongjia recommended Zhou Jin, who is over 60 years old. At the banquet, Zhou Jin invited Mei Jiu, but as a scholar, Mei Jiu played a trick on Zhou Jin during the dinner, saying that she dreamed of a scholar, which was a good sign.

3. Zhou Jin's brother-in-law and others took pity on Zhou Jin, and pooled their money to donate a Guo Jianzi to him, so that he could take the exam directly. Later, he was admitted to Jinshi and became a scholar in Guangdong. Jin Fan, a scholar, was admitted because of his pity. Then I was recommended in the exam. Xiangshen Zhang came to make friends, give money and a house. This article embodies the abnormal psychology of literati who are eager to pursue their official career and conform to the trend of the times.

Jin Fan's mother suddenly got a mansion and furniture, and died of excessive excitement. Three years after Jin Fan's mourning, Zhang Jingzhai followed him to Tang Zhi County, Gaoyao County, because the court ordered that the slaughtered cattle and beef could not be eaten.

5. After the case of Hui people was handled by the Tang magistrate, two people came to accuse Yan, one accused Yan of robbing other people's pigs, and the other accused Yan of asking for other people's interests. The magistrate ordered the arrest. Yan escaped for fear of sin. His brother Yan Jiansheng sued for him, paid his own compensation and managed it himself.

6. Yan Jian is dead or alive. Zhao and his younger brother discussed how to dismiss their posts. Yan Jiansheng's eldest brother Yan Gong Sheng came back from the imperial examination, but regardless of his brother's life and death, instead of arranging a funeral, he went to the provincial capital to arrange a marriage for his son. Later, Zhao's son died of illness, and Wang De wrote to Yan, asking him to come back to discuss the issue of heirs. At this time, Yan got married in the provincial capital.

7. Fan went in to see his teacher. Because Jin Fan was going to Shandong to study Taoism, Zhou Jin told Jin Fan to pay attention to Xun Mei and let him go to Shandong to study. At that time, Xun Mei and Wang Hui were in the same examination room. They met the fortune teller Chen Li and made a divination for the future of Wang Hui.

8. After returning to the provincial capital, Wang Hui was ordered by the court to fill the vacancy of Nanchang magistrate, so he took office. After arriving in Nanchang, he deliberately refused to accept the letter, and he didn't officially take office until the satrap sent money. Later, King Ning rebelled and captured Nanchang, and Wang Hui surrendered.

9. On their way back to the provincial capital, Lou Gongzi met Zou San, the son of Zou Jifu, a servant who looks after the grave for his family, and said that he lived nearby. Lou's son then went into the house to visit. During the meeting, I learned that Yang Zhizhong was sent to prison for managing the accounts for others. Prince Lou decided to save people. At home, ask the servant Jin Jue to take money to the county to make it clear. It was taken at Loufu's house, and the magistrate released Yang Zhizhong.

10, Lou's son still couldn't find Yang Zhizhong for the second time, but he met Lu Bianxiu on his way back. Speaking of Yang Zhizhong, Lu Bianxiu doesn't agree. A few days later, Chen Li visited. At this time, Guo Gongsun lived in Loufu, and Chen Li proposed marriage for Lujia's daughter. Teacher mi wrote to let teacher Lou handle it as appropriate. According to the meaning of Lu's editing, Mi Gongsun was taken into the Lu family. On an auspicious day, I got married.

1 1. After marriage, Miss Lu is both talented and beautiful, while Mi Gongsun's literary knowledge is very general, but she is helpless. Zou Jifu came to Loufu, talked about Yang Zhizhong again, and decided to visit again. After meeting, we had a good talk.

12. Mr. Lou's son was about to visit when the new master Wei came. Seeing that there were many trivial matters, Yang Zhizhong suggested that the servant bring a letter to invite him. On the way, the servant learned that usufruct is an idle and unprofessional person. I wrote two letters before I came to Loufu. Take a knight.

13, Chi Gongsun met him. He started a class to help people study, and listened to his tips on further studies, which was very inspiring. The servant of the landlord's house was locked in an affair with the secret servant girl and ran away with the box that Wang Hui had left in the old man's house.

14, after bargaining, paid 92 taels of silver, and wrote a document to ask Bi Gongsun to redeem Shuanghong before getting back the stolen box. The messenger took most of the money. Guancheng and Shuanghong are far from home. After the matter was settled, Ma Chun went to Hangzhou. After arriving in Hangzhou, I played for several days until I met a "fairy" named Hong Hanxian in Dingjiamiao.

The immortal learned about Ma Chun's current predicament and was interested in giving alms. Ma Chun gave him a few pieces of black coal, which he took home to refine with fire and turned into silver. Fairy also asked the rich Hu Gongzi to pay 22,000 silver dollars to prepare materials for an alchemist, saying that after 49 days, she could cultivate a "silver mother" and then turn stones into gold. Later, the immortal "drove a crane to the west".

This article was written by Wu Zhi, a scholar in Qing Dynasty.

Extended data writing background:

The Scholars is a novel of Wu in Qing Dynasty. It was written in the 14th year of Qianlong (1749) or earlier, and it was handed down as a manuscript, which was first engraved in the 8th year of Jiaqing (1803). Fifty-six chapters in the book depict the different expressions of "fame and fortune" by various people in a realistic way, on the one hand, they truly reveal the process and reasons of human nature being corroded.

Thus, it deeply criticized and mocked the corruption of bureaucracy, the disadvantages of imperial examinations and the hypocrisy of ethics at that time. On the one hand, it enthusiastically praised the protection of human nature by a few characters in a self-centered way, thus embodying the author's ideal.

Wu, the author of The Scholars, was born in a noble family. Great-grandfather and great-grandfather are two generations of "versatile officials" (Biography of Mr. Wenmu by Cheng Jinfang). * * * has six scholars, including one second prize and one flower detective. And his father, Wu, was a tribute during the Kangxi period. In sixty-one (1722), Wu Kangxi was admitted as a scholar, and his father died in the same year.

Because he is not good at managing his livelihood, he lives like a prodigal son. In the seventh year of Yongzheng (1729), when he took part in the imperial examination, he was dismissed as a "variant" and was insulted. Later, he left his hometown angrily and made a living by selling articles and helping friends. In the first year of Qianlong (1736), Wu participated in the pre-test of Bo Ci.

Zhao, the governor of Anhui Province, officially recommended him to take the Tingkao in Beijing, but he "insisted on studying with illness" (Gu Yunzhi's Wu Chuan) and never took the imperial examination again. In his later years, he was often hungry and cold. This personal experience made him feel particularly deeply about the advantages and disadvantages of stereotyped writing and imperial examination.

The Scholars is a satirical novel, which criticizes and exposes the present social situation and the fate of Confucian scholars with pungent brushwork. The novel vividly depicts the decadent status quo of spiritual morality and cultural education of the intellectual class under the imperial examination system. It reveals the concept of fame and fortune, bureaucracy, interpersonal relationship and the whole social atmosphere through life.

The author starts with exposing the imperial examination system and the ugly souls of literati enslaved by this system, and then satirizes the fatuity and incompetence of feudal officials, the greed and meanness of landlords and gentry, the hypocrisy and meanness of arty celebrities, and the decay of the whole feudal ethical code system and the distortion of people's souls.

Wu's satire obviously dealt a powerful blow to feudal society and vented the complaints of most like-minded literati about the meanness of human nature and the darkness of society.

About the author:

Wu (1701-1754), a novelist in the Qing Dynasty, was born in Quanjiao, Anhui Province, and was later named "Wenmu Old Man". Students of Yongzheng. In his early years, he lived well, but his family business declined and moved to Jiangning. In the early years of Qianlong, he recommended learned words, excused his illness, and eventually became poor. Poetry and prose works, especially the novel The Scholars, have the highest achievements. There are "Wenmu Fangshan Collection" and "Wenmu Fang Shan Poetry Collection".