During a nap in Guandi Temple, Yan tried his best to publicize the honesty and kindness of Tang's parents and their deep love for him, and admitted that he "never knew how cheap it was to touch people". Just then, Yan's page came and said, "The pig that was shut up this morning, that man came to beg, and the house was noisy!"
The Tang magistrate listened to Zhang Jingzhai's suggestion about sending beef to a Hui people, whipped the Hui people with Dalian flail, and piled 50 Jin of ground beef on the flail for public display. On the third day, Old Master Q was killed by flail, and all the Hui people refused to accept it and gathered at the entrance of the county government to make trouble.
Extended data:
Background of Confucian scholars' literary creation;
Under the background of the times, the capitalist relations of production sprouted in China in the three generations of Kangxi, Yong Zhengdi and Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, and the superficial prosperity of society could not conceal the decay of feudal society. While suppressing the armed uprising, the rulers used Daxing Literary Prison, adopted stereotyped examination, set up imperial examinations, advocated Neo-Confucianism, and imprisoned scholars with ruling thoughts.
Wu opposes stereotyped writing and the imperial examination system, and hates literati who are obsessed with art and keen on pursuing fame and fortune. He reflected these views in The Scholars and exposed the ugly things in a sarcastic way.
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.
In the title of the book, the word "Confucian scholars" comes from Historical Records and Biography of Confucian Scholars. It is "the scholars", which refers to the academic circles and so on. Biographies of national history are naturally "official history", and the author takes "foreign history" as the title, just to make a difference, as Cheng Jinfang, the author's best friend, revealed in "Poems of Huairen": "Foreign historical books are like scholars, so what to describe; I feel sad for the people of Sri Lanka. I actually passed on history. "
It is a biography of Confucian scholars outside the orthodox record. The author deliberately described the story in the book as "official history", but actually described the extensive social life of the Qing Dynasty, reflecting the bad luck of his contemporaries under the poison of the imperial examination system.