From "Kong Yiji" by Lu Xun.

The original text is as follows:

As soon as Kong Yiji arrived at the store, all the drinkers looked at him and smiled, and some shouted, "Kong Yiji, you have a new scar on your face." "He didn't answer. He said to the counter, "I'll warm up two bowls of wine and ask for a plate of fennel beans." Then he paid nine cents.

They shouted loudly and deliberately, "You must have stolen someone else's things again!" Kong Yiji opened his eyes wide and said, "How can you accuse someone of innocence out of thin air..." "What innocence? The day before yesterday, I saw you stealing a book from the He family and beating him while hanging." Kong Yiji blushed, veins popped out on his forehead, and argued, "Stealing a book cannot be considered stealing. ...Stealing books! ...Can the things of a scholar be considered stealing?"

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The creation process of "Kong Yiji"

"Kong Yiji" Written in the winter of 1918, it was based on "New Youth". Although it had opened the prelude to the New Culture Movement, the countercurrent of feudal restoration was still rampant. Although the imperial examination system was abolished in 1906, the social foundation for cultivating people like Kong Yiji still exists, and the teachings of Confucius and Mencius are still the core content of social education, so it is possible to produce a new "Kong Yiji".

To save the young generation, we cannot let them follow Kong Yiji’s old path. Lu Xun chose a corner of society - the Xianheng Hotel in Lu Town, to artistically show the life of such poor intellectuals in society more than 20 years ago, in order to inspire readers to compare Kong Yiji's life path and the current educational situation at that time, and think about that time Social education and school education, criticizing the feudal education system and the imperial examination system.

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