What are the positive figures in The Scholars?

Positive examples: Du, Zhuang Shangzhi, Yu Yude, Chi Hengshan and Wang Mian.

Wang Mian (back 1)

(1) Major events:

Drop out of school, herd cattle, draw lotus flowers by the lake, refuse to go to work, point out the disadvantages of stereotyped writing, and hide from officials.

(2) Wang Mian's personality characteristics: He is sensible and filial, studious, and talented. He is aloof and disdainful, noble in style, cheerful and generous.

1. sensible and filial, diligent and studious.

2. Indifference and contempt for powerful people.

Du (back to 365438 +0-33)

(1) Overall evaluation: representatives of integrity, honesty and virtue. He despised the imperial examination, ignored fame and fortune, ignored ethics, and joined hands with his wife to travel and pursue morality and talent.

(2) Du's personality characteristics:

1. Reputation, proud of powerful people, paying attention to "the source of literature" and having a clear understanding of DPRK politics.

2. Respect women and oppose discrimination and destruction.

3. Emphasize traditional virtues.

4. Dare to challenge feudal authority and customs.

Zhuang Shangzhi (back to the 35 th) features: no intention of career, closed-door study, carefree.

Events: building and offering sacrifices to Taibo Temple, dissolving the imperial court, and refusing to meet secular villains and bureaucratic squires.

Yu Yide (back to 36-37), a sage and true Confucian, was the chief priest of Taibo Temple. Personality characteristics:

Dr. Yu, who is indifferent and serene all his life, is closer to Taoism in his attitude towards life. He doesn't admire people, is kind to others, goes with the flow and does things aboveboard. Neither keen on fame and fortune, nor excited by dissatisfaction with evil turbidity, but further adopt a detached attitude, dilute the mind and be natural and elegant. He will do what he does for other officials, and he will not refuse to flaunt lofty ideals. He will not be too enthusiastic and ecstatic, nor will he decorate himself with grandiose words.

Before the middle school entrance examination at the age of forty, he also lived a poor life as a rural teacher, and his wife was ill. His "library money can't buy a doctor, and he only eats rice porridge three times a day". He is satisfied, happy and in a good mood, so he is peaceful and happy, which means he likes to "eat a meal and drink a ladle of water in a simple alley" ... without changing his fun.

Chi Hengshan: Personality characteristics:

Emphasize that "rites and music are soldiers and peasants" and fantasize about saving people's hearts with ancient rites and music. His highest ideal is "courtesy, joy and military" in the history of Confucian classics.

Typical Corrupt Officials Extended Reading —— Tang Feng and Wang Hui

If a poor scholar is admitted to the Jinshi, he can enter the official career justifiably. Once those poor scholars become officials, they will soon become corrupt officials. Tang Feng and Wang Hui are two typical examples.

The book describes the Tang magistrate like this: "The next morning, a chicken thief was brought in. The county magistrate said angrily,' You slave have committed several crimes in my hands. You never change careers and are not afraid to fight. "What should you do today?" Because he took a brush, he wrote the words "chicken thief" on his face: he took a flail, tied the stolen chicken forward on his head and tail, and swung it out. Just out of the county gate, the chicken's ass smacked, and a bubble of thin excrement came out, dripping from the forehead to the nose, and the beard stuck together and dripping on the cangue. People on both sides laugh more. The second time, I called the teacher's father up, cursed the' bold dog slave', took the heavy responsibility of 30 boards, took a big cangue, piled all 50 kilograms of beef on the cangue, and tied my face and neck tightly, leaving only two eyes in front of the county gate. It was hot again. The beef was maggots the next day and died the third day. "

Wang Hui, the magistrate of Nanchang, is also a typical corrupt official. He never forgets the general principle of "three years to clear the magistrate, 100 thousand snowflakes and silver" As soon as he arrived, the yamen was full of applause, abacus and silver, and the leaders were beaten by him one by one. Everyone in the city knows how powerful the satrap is and is afraid to sleep. "

These officials rely on the imperial examination to stand tall, promote to a higher position and make a fortune, and use power for happiness; And greed and arrogance have become their characteristics. This further exposed the evil of the imperial examination system and reflected the corruption of the whole feudal official politics at that time.