Kong Yiji was an intellectual in the late Qing Dynasty. He believes that everything is inferior, only the doctrine of high school, but he didn't even get into the scholar's exam, and he didn't have fame and fortune, so he lived a very poor life. Under the influence of the feudal education system, Kong Yiji has the lofty nature of a scholar. He has no financial resources and is unwilling to work to earn money. He can only cross the poverty line with the scholar's shelf.

As for Kong Yiji's famous saying that "stealing books is not stealing", we can see his pedantic side as a poor scholar. When everyone laughed at him for stealing books, Kong Yiji could only feebly answer the fallacy that "stealing books is not stealing" and how ridiculous it is for scholars not to steal. At this time, Kong Yiji's poverty and pedantry can be seen.

Step 2 be kind

Kong Yiji's character is double-sided and complicated. Although he is poor and pedantic, he also has a bright spot in human nature. Kong Yiji's kindness is reflected in two details: teaching children to read and giving them fennel beans. When the children were around him, he "gave them fennel beans to eat".

Fennel bean is not a rare thing, but in such an era of lack of materials, in the era of "if you are willing to spend an extra penny, you can buy a dish of salted boiled bamboo shoots or fennel bean to make wine", in the era of alcohol drowning, it is really precious to a poor man, but he has one person until there are few left.

A word "edge" can show generosity, and it really does not hesitate to share. Compared with those shopkeepers and gown customers, which of them has more money than Kong Yiji and who owns more than Kong Yiji, but who gave the beans to the children?

The most laughable thing is that when the children looked at the dishes again, he was not abusive or threatening, and even hummed a tune from the Analects of Confucius in a "panic". A kind-hearted and transparent old man jumped out of the paper.

3. Poor "scholar" class

He belongs neither to the poor nor to the upper landlord class, and there is a distance between him and the mainstream classes in these two societies. Kong Yiji, who lived in poverty, was no different from the lower class at that time, but he always wore a "gown" that he regarded as a status symbol.

Kong Yiji, written by Lu Xun, despises the laboring masses in his heart, and at the same time longs to blend into the world of the upper landlord class, intellectuals and the rich, which puts him in an awkward social position. Instead of being recognized by these two classes, he became their laughing stock.

Kong Yiji is poor and lazy, and his gown is "dirty and torn, as if it has not been mended or washed for more than ten years"; Being bullied and beaten repeatedly, he often has new scars and old wounds on his face, but he keeps on striving for self-improvement and talks about "What's wrong with him", so he is called "Kong Yiji".

By describing Kong Yiji's social status, portrait, dress, speech and title, Lu Xun showed us the contradiction between his social status and ideology. Kong Yiji is keen on fame and fortune, envies the upper class ideologically, despises the working people, and is always unwilling to take off his gown, which marks his literati status.

Theme of the work

Kong Yiji was a weak person who couldn't find his place in the society at that time. He used everyone's laughter to run through such a sad story, which set off and strengthened the tragic effect of the novel. This kind of guffaw is a numb laugh, which adds a suffocating sadness to Kong Yiji's tragedy.

On the one hand, it is tragic experience and pain, on the other hand, it is not sympathy and tears, but boring jokes and fun. It is even more sad to write sadness in a happy environment, which shows that Kong Yiji's tragedy is not a personal tragedy, but a social tragedy, and the anti-feudal significance of his works is far-reaching.

Feudal order is the foundation of feudal society. Under such a hierarchical feudal rule, the people's vitality, enthusiasm and sympathy were stifled and they became insensitive, selfish and indifferent. In the short coat gang's mind, Kong Yiji, who can't even get half a scholar, is of course a rotten product, only worth laughing at and teasing.

They didn't realize that they were at the bottom of the oppressed society like Kong Yiji under the feudal order, which was also very tragic, so they didn't sympathize with and help such an unfortunate person as Kong Yiji. On the contrary, they only know how to laugh in a tired and depressed life and seek a moment of happiness.

On the other hand, "in order to reveal the social cool thin to the people in trouble" is also one of the themes of this paper.