What are the cultural characteristics of China ancient scholars reflected in The Scholars?

The personality of ancient literati in China has undergone a historical process of development and change, and the overall trend is gradual distortion and decline. The Scholars is about the Scholars. Driven by the imperial examination system, the souls of stereotyped writing and pseudonyms were corrupted, their personalities were distorted and degenerated into the ugliness of scholars. Although the author designed highly hidden, true Confucian and strange images to seek a way out for scholars and look forward to their ideal personality, these images are inevitably pale, helpless and illusory, showing the hopeless decline of feudalism in the last days.

Wu's novel The Scholars in Qing Dynasty

The Scholars is a model of China's ancient satirical literature. Wu, a novelist in Qing Dynasty, successfully portrayed the image of feudal literati living in the end of feudalism and imperial examination system, vividly described the corruption of imperial examination, ethics and cannibalism, making him one of the outstanding writers who criticized realism in the history of China literature. The Scholars not only directly influenced modern condemnation novels, but also profoundly inspired modern satirical literature.

The Scholars is a mirror of feudal society. Through the true and vivid description of the shameless behavior of feudal literati, bureaucratic gentry, street hooligans and other figures, the decay of the feudal system that was about to collapse at that time was deeply exposed, and the evil imperial examination system was strongly attacked, involving political system, ethics and social atmosphere, and the whole feudal system was objectively denied.

Denying and lashing the imperial examination system, condemning bureaucratic groups, exposing feudal ethics and sympathizing with the people, these contents make The Scholars a masterpiece with progressive democratic thoughts. Jin Fan, who was insane and mentally abnormal by the imperial examination system; He was a poor young man, but under the influence of the dark society, he gradually corroded and deteriorated, abandoned his wife and became an ungrateful villain. It is the earliest and most influential artistic mode in China's satirical literature to plunder other people's land, seize widows' property and cheat Yan who has had enough to eat.

The Scholars also describes some lower-class people, showing the author's deep sympathy and love for them, and praising their noble quality and extraordinary talent of justice and simplicity. Wang Mian, who despises fame, a sincere and kind actor package, and a simple small rural producer, Baba and Baba Niu, are the representatives of such figures.

The Scholars is a masterpiece of China's satirical literature. The author is good at using typical plots to profoundly expose social contradictions. The language is accurate, concise, vivid and ironic. The Scholars consists of many units, each of which is related and can exist independently. This special long structure has a great influence on later generations. The Scholars is the peak of China's classical satirical novels.

The Scholars is a model of China's ancient satirical literature. Wu's successful description of feudal literati and imperial examination system in the late feudal period, as well as his vivid description of imperial examination system, ethics and cannibalism made him one of the outstanding writers who criticized realism in the history of China literature. The Scholars not only directly influenced modern condemnation novels. But also has profound enlightenment to modern satirical literature.