Kong Yiji's pitiful and ridiculous personality characteristics and tragic ending are not only a vivid portrayal of the tragic fate that the broad masses of lower-class intellectuals in old China thought that there was only one way out for the imperial examination, but also a concrete manifestation of the "cannibalism" essence of the imperial examination system under the exclusive authority of the feudal Confucianism in China.
The cursive prefix remains the same, and the following are four ways to write the word "fennel". ?
The first type: the word "Hui" itself; The second type: "parallel" plus "back"; The third type: there is a "si" in "Xi"; The fourth type: the left and right sides of the word "Hui" often seen in traditional Chinese characters all extend up and down to the upper and lower sides of the word "Kou".
Extended data:
As can be seen from the evolution of the glyph, Oracle Bone Inscriptions's "Hui" adds a short cross on the spiral pattern as a reference symbol, indicating that the cycle is repeated and repeated; The bronze inscription omits the reference symbols above and strengthens the image of spiral cycle; Basically, the inscriptions on bronze inscriptions continue, but the spiral level is added. The above is the origin of the ancient prose "Huan".
Xiao Zhuan rewrites the spiral into two concentric circles inside and outside, which is the orthography "Hui". As for the other two common words, they are all variants of "Hui".
Many people think that Kong Yiji's obsession with "four writing styles of Hui characters" is just his pedantic performance, which is dismissed as useless "learning", and even the hotel boy in the novel despises him. In fact, Kong Yiji's poverty was caused by that era and could not be attributed to the little "ink" in his stomach. Kong Yiji is really wrong!
Several times, children from the neighborhood surrounded Kong Yiji. When Kong Yiji saw the children, everyone gave him an fennel. After eating the beans, the child still lingered, with his eyes fixed on the plate.
The meaning is of course clear: the children still want to eat fennel beans. Next, Kong Yiji's performance was like this: Kong Yiji panicked, spread his five fingers to cover the plate, bent down and said, "Not much, I don't have much." Straighten up and have a look at the beans, shake your head and say, "no more, no more!" How much? Not much. " So this group of children got separated in laughter.
Kong Yiji's fate is tragic, tragic and silent. Nobody cares that he didn't come to the hotel for a year. It doesn't matter whether he will come or not. The only thing that matters is that the hotel shopkeeper only remembers that Kong Yiji's money for drinks has not been paid off. As for whether Kong Yiji is alive or dead, people simply don't care. When I was a child, when I was studying Kong Yiji in class, I only thought Kong Yiji was funny and pitiful, but actually I didn't understand the profound meaning of the teacher's "criticizing feudal society and imperial examination system".