Zhao Ye is thirty-nine years old this year. His two sons, four grandchildren and two old couples, Qi Mei, are just plain clothes. Huang Gong won a Jinshi and became a magistrate of a county, but at the age of 30, his string was broken and his wife was gone. Today, there are no flowers.
The Scholars is a novel of Wu in Qing Dynasty. Written in the 14th year of Qianlong (1749) or earlier, it was handed down from generation to generation as a manuscript. It was first carved in the eighth year of Jiaqing (1803). The fifty-six chapters of the book depict different expressions of "fame and fortune" by various people in a realistic way. On the one hand, it truly reveals the process and causes of human nature erosion, thus profoundly criticizing and mocking the corruption of bureaucracy, the drawbacks of imperial examinations and the hypocrisy of ethics at that time; On the one hand, it enthusiastically praised the protection of human nature by a few characters in a self-centered way, thus embodying the author's ideal. The use of vernacular Chinese in the novel is becoming more and more skillful, and the characterization of characters is also quite in-depth and delicate, especially the superb satirical techniques, which makes this book a masterpiece of China's classical satirical literature.