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In "The Scholars", Fan Jin was crazy after passing the imperial examination. Many people think that it is not necessary. However, why Fan Jin, who passed the imperial examination, was like this? After understanding his first half of his life, it is not difficult to understand.
From ancient times to the present, most people only know that Fan Jin was crazy because he was a Juren, but they don’t know how cheating Fan Jin was in his later life!
Behind the scientific examination, family status
Since the founding of the imperial examination in the Sui Dynasty , scholars can use the imperial examination path to contribute their own strength to the country.
However, since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, scholars have mostly focused on passing the imperial examinations to achieve the goal of soaring into the sky and becoming officials and making money.
Rich families hope that their descendants can continue their family glory through the imperial examination, while poor people hope that their descendants can change the background of their generations of poverty through the imperial examination.
Fan Jin, who was from a poor family, has been in the imperial examinations many times and has passed the imperial examinations. He has passed the juren for fifty years and has taken the extremely poor family to the road to wealth. It is already very lucky that Fan Jin's ending will be overwhelmed.
However, not all scholars can be like Fan Jin. Some people may not get a fame or fortune for the whole life. However, even if you fail the exam, the lives of poor and rich children are completely different.
Some wealthy families have a very large industry, and can cultivate several scholars at the same time, and spend a lot of money to hire famous teachers to teach the children of the family.
Under such a strong background, even if the children of rich families fail repeatedly, they can rely on the family industry and be rich all their lives and not worry about making a living. However, for the poor, they need to work in the fields all day to get a meager income.
In ancient times, male labor was very important to a family, and scholars were all men. However, scholars could not do farming in ancient times, and just focus on studying and taking exams. Scholars did not do the work at home.
Therefore, the poor not only need to use their meager income to maintain the family’s life problem, but also tighten their belts to support a scholar.
From the time a child enters school at the age of five, to adulthood at the age of eighteen to twenty, for more than ten years, the boys who study at home have to go to school and buy books and other learning tools. For the poor, this expense is really huge.
If a poor family passes the exam, or passes the exam a few times, then the life of a poor family will soon get better.
But if you still fail the exam after many times and you plan to continue taking the exam, then life for poor families will only become more and more difficult.
Fan Jin, who passed the imperial examination, came from a poor family. He started taking the imperial examination at the age of 20, passed the scholar in his thirties, and passed the imperial examination at the age of 54, from the age of 20 to the age of 54. Although he failed the examination more than 20 times, he was not discouraged and was always taking the imperial examination.
He is commendable, but before he passed the imperial examination, Fan Jin's family's life could be said to be extremely poor. However, after the election, earth-shaking changes took place. Even his career has risen sharply and risen sharply.
Poverty and poor, rich and rich in the house
Before passing the examination, Fan Jin failed many times, and his family had only two dilapidated houses and a few acres of thin land. As a scholar, Fan Jin was not engaged in farming, and his father passed away early. The family relied on his thin mother and virtuous and hardworking wife to manage the family.
At that time, the poor had no other way to make a living. Therefore, the family had no food or clothing all year round. Sometimes I am lucky enough to eat some meat, but I am a butcher and get help from my father-in-law.
In addition to eating meat, my father-in-law often helps Fan Jin's family with money, and often regrets not marrying her daughter to Fan Jin, who failed in many exams and failed in nothing.
Fan Jin failed many tests. In addition to the increasing difficulties at home, he was often ridiculed and ridiculed by others. Not many neighbors looked down on Fan Jin.
In addition, Fan Jin went to take the imperial examination and took over the father-in-law. His father-in-law kept him out and mocked him for not being a good life as a juren.
, who accepted his fate and was unwilling to accept it, decided to take the money from the bottom of the pot, and went home to take the exam with the only money left at home. If he still failed , he might really plan to give up at the age of 54.
Who would have thought that in this exam, the God of Destiny might think that he was working hard and pitiful. Fan Jin, who failed the first twenty times, actually won the coveted juren this time.
When this good news came to Fan Jin's house, he didn't care about the decency of a scholar and went crazy in ecstasy. Fortunately, his father-in-law, who had always despised him, slapped him in time, and Fan Jin woke up.
However, Fan Jin, who finally passed the exam, quickly faced another fatal blow. After learning that his son finally passed the exam, his old mother was overjoyed and died of excitement.
Although Fan Jin was sad, he thought his old mother died of relief and buried her mother with a lot of money. After three years, Ding You went to Beijing for an exam and passed the Jinshi who ranked better than the juren without any effort. From then on, he was appointed as an official position by the court, and after several years of operation, he finally achieved the fourth-rank Tongzheng. After passing the imperial examination, Fan Jin praised him, his neighbors praised him. His father-in-law, who had always despised him, and he was extremely obedient to him. The gentry and wealthy people in the nearby countryside often came to visit him and gave him money and slaves. Fan Jin could also receive the salary paid by the court for life, without having to pay taxes or go to military service.
got a big house. The decoration inside was not very luxurious, but compared to the dilapidated house before, it was different from the past, and Fan Jin's family's livelihood was finally no longer a problem.
read books for decades and later passed the Jinshi exam. Fan Jin's academic performance is beyond doubt. He can go from a poor family to a fourth-rank rank. In addition to his excellent academic performance, his humble attitude also played a great role.
Before he passed the imperial examination, he would greet his neighbors friendly. Facing the ridicule of his neighbors, he would not only not be angry but work harder. In the face of his father-in-law's contempt, he often smiled. After passing the imperial examination and becoming an official, Fan Jin treated his colleagues, superiors and subordinates politely. As wealthy and prosperous, Fan Jin did not forget his wife who had suffered for half her life. When he was an official there, he would always keep his wife by his side, never leave her, and even support her father-in-law to live his life.
Such a good academic, good character, and unkindness, the court trusted and appreciated him more, and eventually became the fourth rank of official position and became rich and lived in his lifetime. For Fan Jin's family, it is a huge joy to be crazy and love. It is a happy event, and it is reasonable to be happy, but it is a bit too much to go crazy because of this. But after understanding Fan Jin's past, you can understand Fan Jin's behavior.
Fan Jin, who had not passed the exam for more than 20 times, was like the re-students who had been re-educated for several years but had not been admitted to college. The pressure was extremely high, especially when I heard that others could easily get to the list, I felt even more uncomfortable.
The gossip of neighbors and the mockery of father-in-law, although he never cared about it, these always affect his mood. Seeing that because I failed the exam again and again, my family was barely in the family and my family had a hard time, and my guilty heart torture him day and night.
years old and finally passed the juren. From then on, whether their family will come to great prosperity and his career will become clearer. How could he be unhappy? Under the impact of great sorrow and joy, he went a little crazy. Fortunately, his father-in-law woke him up in time.
Compared with those who passed the imperial examination and ranked first in the first place in a young age, Fan Jin's first half of his life was very hard, but compared with those who had been studying for a long time and failed to finish his life, Fan Jin was lucky.
If the imperial examination was not the only way out for scholars in ancient times, Fan Jin could become a fourth-rank official, which proved that his ability was not bad. If his thoughts were not imprisoned, he would work at home, or do other things, maybe Fan Jin would have done something else. Sometimes hard work will succeed, but you must choose the right direction of your efforts. If you choose the wrong direction, hard work will only become more and more wrong.
