Jia Yucun, known as Hwa, Shifei, alias Yucun, was born with a round waist and a thick back. He was born with a round waist and thick back, broad face and square mouth, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, straight nose and square cheeks. The original Department of Huzhou people, born in the family of the eunuchs. But by the time he was born, his ancestor's roots had been exhausted, the population was in decline, and he was the only one left. He wanted to go to Beijing to seek fame, but the bag was empty, so he had to temporarily sent to Gusu City, Gourd Temple to settle down, and sell writing every day to make a living. Later, because of the help of Zhen Shiyin, he had the money to go on the road, passed the entrance examination, and became a governor. Soon because of corruption and favoritism was dismissed, to Lin Ruhai family as a tutor. In Jia Zheng's great help, he was reinstated, the beginning of the office, will be ignoring his conscience, completely disregarded their own had promised to "be sure" will be "looking back" the promise of the Yinglian, allowing the daughter of the teacher Zhen Shiyin fell into the fire. Jia Pian wanted to buy the ancient fan of Shi Duzi's family, Shi Duzi refused, Jia Yucun then blackmailed Shi Duzi for defaulting on the official silver, and took him to the court for questioning, copied the fan and gave it to Jia Pian. Jia Yucun was a typical representative of feudal bureaucracy. Later, he was tried and convicted for the crime of greed and solicitation of subordinates. He was released when he met the Emperor's amnesty and handed over his citizenship to the people.
Jia Yucun, anyone who has read "Dream of the Red Chamber" will be particularly impressed. Because Jia Yucun has a few points particularly prominent, it is well worth us to think carefully. Like Jia Zhen, Jia Pardon, these people, as soon as they appeared on the scene is not a good thing, Xue Pan, right? Jia Yucun is not. We have read the "Dream of the Red Chamber" people will notice, Cao Xueqin in the introduction of Jia Yucun, is rare to introduce his surname, first name, "the name Jia Hua, the word when the fly, alias Yucun," Jia Yucun is his number, and then it is to the number line, place of origin, and then his family origins, he is a family of officials and eunuchs, but by the time he was, it was long ago, the decline, and now the situation, and the family is in a very bad position, so it is not good. But by the time he was born, he had long since fallen, and now his situation, how is it now? Poor, living in the gourd temple, selling writing for a living, that is, to write a couplet, write a letter, who has a red and white wedding, need to write something, rely on this to make a living, the introduction is very detailed. Then we look again, this is the author of the introduction, more worthy of our attention is what? Cao Xueqin through Zhen Shiyin's maid Jiao Xing's eyes to write Jia Yucun this person his appearance and clothing, oops! Jia Yucun this person looks very beautiful, we see - "my scarf old clothes", wearing a scarf is broken, there may be holes, may also be mended, clothes are old, "although it is poor and embarrassed", that is, a look at that life is very poor and embarrassed, "Ran", "Ran", "Ran", "Ran", "Ran", "Ran", "Ran", "Ran", "Ran", "Ran", "Ran". "Ran", but, "born with a round waist and thick back, broad face and square ears", "moreover", plus, "sword eyebrow and starry eyes ", eyes shining, very god, "straight nose right cheeks", the bridge of the nose is very straight, cheeks bulging, you see this is the image of the traditional Chinese culture among the great man. Cao Xueqin is rarely written about the appearance of people, do not believe us to check, write so carefully. Jia Yucun had a very beautiful appearance on the stage, there are appearances in Beijing opera, this appearance is not finished. Because only introduced his basic situation, this is the file on the situation and Jia Yucun's image in the eyes of Jia Xing. Then, through his poem "Undeclared Wishes of Three Lives", a couplet, and a seven-syllable stanza, three poems in a row, he writes about his extraordinary ambitions and talent, poems come out of his mouth! And these two poems, a couplet, all show that he has extraordinary ambition, although a poor scholar, but high aspirations, with the traditional Chinese literati "the world's prosperity and demise, the responsibility of the horseman" this kind of temperament.
Next, he is not talking to Zhen Shiyin, Zhen Shiyin said like you are so talented should be to go to the examination, finished the future as an official, for the community to do something about it. This time Jia Yucun talked about, because the road is very far away, shy, the road fee, luggage, these are no money, the results of Zhen Shiyin on the spot to give him fifty silver and two sets of winter clothes, we know that fifty silver is a very large number of ah, I've just said is not it? Five or six hundred silver can buy a courtyard. Jia Yu-cun gave him such a generous gift, let's notice, what did Cao Xueqin write about it? Jia Yucun accepted the gift, but "slightly thanked a word, and do not mind, is still eating wine and laughing". Ouch, at first glance this Jia Yucun too heartless, equal to others now give you 100,000 on the spot, "a word of thanks", thank you ah, and then still eating wine and laughing, if we want, how should also be grateful ah, kneeling ah. No, why? This reflects that Jia Yucun body has the kind of Chinese literati backbone, Chinese literati is the importance of righteousness, not very important money, so Jia Yucun he turned out to be such a person.
And there is also - Jiao Xing, she is not at first glance this Jia Yucun, the impression is quite good, and then she turned back twice, a *** look three times, Jia Yucun misunderstanding, Jia Yucun because of their own very down and out, in that case, he has a sense of loneliness, loneliness, he especially need sympathy, you do not look at him very arrogant, in fact, he has a fragile side. A young scholar, he also needs love! He has been down and out here for a year or two, he can't leave, he sells literature for a living, and now there is such a good-looking girl who has looked at me three times in a row, so he thinks he is a "hero with huge eyes, a confidant in the dust", isn't it? In addition, he is not to accept this gift, Zhen Shiyin then proposed to him, said a few days, about four days, nineteen that day is the auspicious day of the zodiac, that day you go more appropriate, the results of the next morning early he left, and explained to the little monk to say hello to Zhen Shiyin, he said that the readers, not in the yellow road, the black road, you see he is not superstitious, it is not easy. In that social time of the readers are not superstitious is not easy, is not it, he said the readers are not in the Yellow Road and the Black Road, always to the matter for the sake of the matter for the sake of the matter, with our words now, is to the cause of the cause of the matter, the cause of the cause of the matter. As a result, of course, the examination won a bachelor's degree. The results did not go through a few years, Jia Yucun has been promoted to governor, governor is from the fourth grade, bureau level, and now we are the head of the province is the mayor of the region, prefecture-level city, which shows that he rose quite quickly, career is relatively smooth. After he became the governor, he happened to see on the road Jiaxing, inside the sedan chair flashed a glance, he immediately sent people to find, formal proposal, first received as a concubine, and then his wife died after the corrective. You see until here, Jia Yucun is a resounding positive image among the readers, is not it? Handsome, ambitious, talented, and really a test on the right, the importance of career, relationships. You say that such a man, women must like, men worth learning, is not it? So Jia Yucun, Cao Xueqin gave him a very good top and a pretty good middle at the beginning.
Let's see what Cao Xueqin wrote. He says that Jia Yucun, "though talented and superior," is very talented. "there are some shortcomings of greed and cruelty". "Not inevitable", how "not inevitable greed"? "Covetous" means corrupt, and "cool" means brutal and unkind to the people. "And", moreover. Note that this "and" is interesting because the first is the main one. Moreover, "he also insulted his superiors", he relied on his own talent, he just opened his mouth, that is, he wrote poems and couplets, once he took the examination, he was a scholar, he relied on his own talent, he did not respect his superiors, and sometimes he offended them with his words. "All the officials looked at him with sideways glances, and they were not satisfied with him. "After less than a year," less than a year. "Then his superiors found an opening", found a fault, in our words, found a fault, found a fault, what kind of fault? Was he accused of embezzlement? No. No. Why? Because at that time all officials are greedy, he did not do the official Well, he did the official is not inevitably greedy cool, you are also greedy I am also greedy, I sue you for what ah? Finally, his superiors found a fault, looking for a gap, "made into a book", what did he participate in? "Cunning in nature, tampering with rituals". The first offense, "born of cunning" this thing is empty. He tampered with etiquette, this is serious, because the feudal society that etiquette on the expression of the strict hierarchy, because the basic characteristics of the feudal system is a strict hierarchy. And so on. So, "the dragon's face angry, namely approved dismissal", eight words, the emperor to scold. Cao Xueqin really amazing, here in the total **** only one hundred words, the then officialdom from Jia Yucun to his boss, to his peers, all the way to the emperor, have been scolded. That is to say that the society at that time, that society at that time is what we have been until now is still fond of, Kang Qian Sheng Shi, Kang Qian Sheng Shi, Cao Xueqin early said, that is what Sheng Shi? It was the last days. Is not it? Corruption, as long as the official is corrupt, so he became an official he is not immune to corruption, "not immune to corruption," on the oppression of the people, you look at the "Dream of the Red Chamber" in the head of a few good officials? Therefore, is like Jia Yucun so good readers, in that corrupt soil, he also can not avoid being corrupted and deterioration. The most important reason why he was dismissed from his post and cited by his superior was that he violated the basic rules of being an official in feudal society, that is to say, he failed to learn the most important secret. In feudal society as an official, the most important thing is to listen to the words, listen to the words of the supervisor, the supervisor like you, you will be able to keep the official, you can be promoted; do not like you, you will step down, you will go away, and even go to jail. Therefore, the two words "not inevitably" are really spring and autumn brushwork, the force weighs a thousand pounds, I read the first and second time when I did not notice. Like this, is the use of words used very accurately, very weighty, very with the place to speak, "Dream of the Red Chamber" is full of.
We are now talking about Jia Yucun. Jia Yucun at this time he has not completely changed for the worse, that is to say, the process of Jia Yucun being corrupted is not over, it is not over yet. He was dismissed, after which he sent his family back to his hometown, he traveled the world, and then to Yangzhou, he went to Lin Daiyu's house, as a teacher, became Lin Daiyu's enlightenment teacher, a chance, and then talk about it, and heard about it, Lin Ruhai wrote a letter of recommendation, and Jia Yucun escorted Lin Daiyu to the capital, and at the same time brought Lin Ruhai's letter of introduction to the government of the People's Republic of China. Lin Ruhai at that time is a salt inspector, salt inspector is a four-grade official, bureau level, Jia Zheng is the Ministry of Public Works, Ministry of Public Works is the management of construction management of water conservancy, the Ministry of Public Works is the deputy director, are also four-grade official, the results of the two of them bailed out. Look at this place to write, Cao Xueqin write really good, "gently seek a deputy candidate", very easy. According to his past by the governor dismissed as a civilian, but also not re-examine the review, this person in the end how, is not it? Official reinstatement. So Cao Xueqin in this place with "gently" two words, that society at that time, the court appointed officials that system of corruption, portrayed in the wood.
Jia Yucun's first case was the murder of Feng Yuan after he took office in Yingtianfu. Cao Xueqin writes the psychological activities of the characters very carefully, the ink is extremely brief, he will be through a few details of the human nature of Jia Yucun's metamorphosis process, his psychological activities, very vividly expressed. When Jia Yucun heard that the Feng family servants said that the lawsuit for a year, but no one to do the Lord, he could not help but be furious, picked up the sign to be issued to take the sign to catch the murderer, the results of a door next to a wink, um a moment, Jia Yucun immediately announced that the withdrawal of the court, we see, Cao Xueqin wrote:
"Yucun heart is very suspicious, only to stop the hand, instantly withdrawn from the court.
"Yucun was very suspicious, but had to stop his hands, and immediately retired from the hall, to the secret room, where all the attendants had retired, leaving only the door to serve."
We know that the door is a most ordinary yamen, an errand boy, the status of him is the lowest, how this door to make a wink, humming a bit later, he will immediately, can only stop the hand ah? This shows that Jia Yucun did accept the lessons learned. When he was a governor last time, he suffered a loss because he didn't serve his superiors well, and listening to his superiors is the most important thing in the official world. This door myself although the status is very low, but since he dared in the hall above the governor hall, give me a wink, this person must be origin, he either has a hard background, or he must have very important information, he is afraid that I am the newly appointed governor to suffer. So Jia Yucun he is to accept the lesson of the last time, not only can not offend the superiors, the officialdom inside some of the various colors, maybe when it is useful. Sure enough, this door took out the talisman, the following of course is this gourd case. By this time, Jia Yucun this human nature of the metamorphosis, from a very good good man to a bad man's metamorphosis, is completely completed.
Jia Yucun this person his life is very typical of some of the readers of a complete experience, this experience, that is, the hard reading, rushed to the examination, high school, as an official, dismissal, re-emergence, high, and finally the yoke to carry, was convicted, that is, a reader, do the official, and finally convicted, belonging to this type of a complete process, embodied in the body of Jia Yucun. This process can be roughly divided into two stages, the turning point is Jia Yucun for the official, that is, he won the bachelor's degree after the official that period, at this time an originally very good, outstanding talent, ambition, quite a backbone, could have been completely for the community, for the people to do some good things for such a great man, in the dirty officialdom in the gradual corrosion, and finally became a scourge of the community, became A favoritism to the law, the human nature is dead, the big bad guy will revenge.
From the description of Jia Yucun, we may be able to see a bit of the author's penetrating heart, and a bit of lamentation.