Fanjin Zhongjiu is a long satirical novel of outstanding realism written by Wu Jingzi in the Qing Dynasty.
The original text is as follows:
(1) When Fan Jin came home from school, his mother and his wife were very happy. When Fan Jin was about to cook, he saw his father-in-law, Hu Tu Tu, coming in with a pair of large intestines and a bottle of wine in his hand. Fan Jin bowed to him and sat down. Hu butcher said: "Since I am unlucky, married a daughter with you this world treasure, over the years, I do not know how many tired me. Now, I don't know what kind of virtue I have accumulated, and I have brought you a good husband, so I brought a wine to congratulate you." Fan Jin Wei Wei Lian sound, told the housekeeper to the intestines boiled, hot wine, sitting under the thatched roof. His mother and daughter-in-law were cooking under the kitchen. Butcher Hu instructed his son-in-law, "Now that you have won a husband, you must establish a system in all things. For example, I am acting here, are some serious and honorable people, and is your eldest relative, how dare you pretend to be big in front of us? If you are one of the common people, such as the field workers and dung pickers, if you bow to them and sit on an equal footing with them, you will be breaking the rules of the school, and even I will lose face. You are a rotten loyal and useless person, so I have to teach you these words, lest you make people laugh." Fan Jin said, "Father-in-law is right to see and teach." Butcher Hu added: "In-laws' mother also came here to sit and eat. The old man is saddened by the daily small dishes and rice. My girl also eat some. Since entering your house, these ten years, I don't know lard can ever eat two or three times miles! Poor! Poor!" After saying that, both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law came to sit and eat the meal. They ate until the west of the sun, and Hu Tu Tu ate drunkenly. The mother and son thanked him profusely. The butcher was dressed in his clothes and went away with a shy belly.
(2) The next day, Fan Jin had to pay respect to his neighbors. Wei Hao Gu also asked a group of friends with the case, each other. Because it is the year of the countryside examination, do a few literary meetings. Unconsciously to the end of June, these people with the case about Fan into the countryside examination. Fan Jin because there is no disk fee, went to discuss with the father-in-law, was Hu butcher a mouth spit in the face, scolded a dog's blood, said: "Do not lose your time! You yourself only think in a husband, 'toad want to eat up swan meat' to! I heard people say, that is, in the male, is not your article, or the master saw you old, but not the intention, give up with you. But now I'm so obsessed with the idea of winning a lord! The ones who win are the 'stars of literature' in the sky! Don't you see the lords of Zhang's house in the city, all of whom have tens of thousands of dollars of wealth, and all of whom have big ears? Like you, you should piss on yourself! You want to eat swan's farts if you're not a man of the world! Get over it. Next year, we'll find you a place in our firm. We'll pay you a few taels of silver a year to support your old lady and your wife. You ask me to borrow money, I kill a pig a day still can't earn money to put silver, all put with you to throw in the water, call me a family of old people to get high in the northwest wind!" A clip seven clip eight, scolded the Fan Jin touch the door can not be. Quit the abbot back, from the heart: "Master said I have reached the fire, since ancient times, there is no field outside the lifts, such as not to go in to test him a test, how willing?" Because to a few fellow case discussion, hidden from the father-in-law, to the city township examination. Out of the field, even if home. The family was already hungry for two or three days. Hu butcher knew, and scolded again.
(3) to the day of the list, the family did not have breakfast rice, the mother instructed Fan Jin said: "I have an egg-laying hen, you quickly take to the market to sell, to buy a few liters of rice to cook porridge to eat, I am already starving two eyes are blind." Fan Jin panicked to hold the chicken, out of the door. Only to go less than two hours, only to hear a sound of the gong, three horses broke into the future. The three men got off their horses, tied them to the thatched roof, and shouted, "Please ask Master Fan to come out and congratulate him on his high school success!" The mother did not know what was the matter, scared to hide in the house; heard, dared to stick out his head, said: "Please sit down, my son just went out." Those who reported people: "So it is the old lady." Everyone clustered to be happy money. Are noisy, and a few horses, the second newspaper, the third newspaper arrived, crowded a room of people, thatched hut underground are full. Neighbors have come, crowded to see, the old lady can not help, only to central and a neighbor to find his son.
(4) The neighbor dashed to the set, a ground to find no; straight to the east end of the set, see Fan Jin holding a chicken, hand inserted a grass markers, step by step, pacing, looking around, looking for someone to buy there. Neighbors said: "Fan Sianggong, quickly go back! You congratulate the successful candidate, congratulation people crowded a house." Fan Jin said he was coaxing him, only pretended not to hear, lowered his head and walked forward. Seeing that he ignored, the neighbors came up and tried to take the chicken out of his hand. Fan Jin said, "What are you doing taking my chicken? You don't want to buy it." The neighbor said, "You won the lottery, and asked your family to send the newspaper." Fan Jin said: "Gao neighbor, you know I have no rice today, to buy this chicken to save life, why do you take this to mix me? I am not stubborn like you, you go back, don't make me sell chickens." When the neighbor saw that he didn't believe me, he snatched the chicken with his hand, threw it to the ground, and pulled it back. When the newspaper reporter saw him, he said, "Well, the new nobleman has returned." Just about to embrace him to talk, Fan Jin three or two steps into the house to see the center of the newspaper post has risen and hung up, written on it: "The report of your master Fan Tui into the high school in Guangdong countryside examination seventh Asian Yuan. The Beijing newspaper has even been in the yellow armor."
(5) Fan Jin do not look at it, read it again, and read a Qiming, himself put two hands clapped, laughed, said: "Yelp! Well! I hit!" Said, back a cross fall, teeth clenched, unconscious. The old lady panicked, panicked a few mouthfuls of boiling water over. He climbed up, clapped his hands and laughed, "Yes! Good! I've hit it!" Laughing, without saying, to the door to run, the newspaper and neighbors startled. Out of the door not much way, a kick in the pond, struggling to get up, hair are falling apart, two hands of yellow mud, dripping all over the water. The crowd could not pull him, patting and laughing, and went to the set. The people looked at each other with big eyes, and said: "So the new nobleman is crazy with joy." The old lady cried: "How could such a bitter thing happen! After winning the lottery, she got this disease! How long will it take to recover from this madness?" My wife Hu said, "I went out in the morning, but I got this disease! What can we do?" The neighbors advised, "Don't be alarmed, old lady. Let's send two men to follow Master Fan. We'll get some eggs, wine, and rice from everyone's homes, and we'll wait for the old men in the newspaper before we discuss the matter."
(6) At that moment the neighbors brought eggs, white wine, a bucket of rice, and two chickens. The woman cried and cried, and packed up all the things under the kitchen, and took them under the hayloft. Neighbors and move some tables and stools, please report to the record of the sitting to eat wine, discuss his crazy, how to do. One of them said, "I have an idea, I don't know if I can do it or not?" The crowd asked, "What idea?" The man said, "Is there anyone Master Fan is afraid of? He was so happy that he lost his mind when the phlegm came up. Now I just need this person he is afraid of to come and hit him in the mouth and say, 'The words in this newspaper are all coaxing you, you have not been hit. He was so scared that he let the phlegm out, and then he understood." The neighbors all clapped their hands and said, "This is a good idea, wonderful! There is nothing Master Fan is more afraid of than Father Hu on the meat case. Good! Let's find Mr. Hu. He doesn't know that he's selling meat in the marketplace." Another man said; "Selling meat on the market, he knows; he went to the east end of the market to welcome the pigs from the drum at five o'clock, and has not yet returned. Quickly welcome to find him."
(7) A man ran to meet him, and when he was halfway there, he met Hu Butcher, followed by a man who burned soup, carrying seven or eight pounds of meat and four or five thousand dollars, who was coming to congratulate him. When he entered the door and saw the old lady, the old lady cried and told him a lot. Hu butcher was surprised: "Is this not blessed?" The people outside asked Mr. Hu to speak. Butcher Hu handed over the meat and money to his daughter and walked out. The people discussed with him in this way and that. Butcher Hu said, "Even though he is my son-in-law, he has become a lord, and he is a star in the sky. The stars in the sky cannot be beaten! I have heard that the Jaegongs said: if you hit the star in the sky, the King of Hell will take it and beat it with a hundred iron rods, and send it to the eighteen layers of hell, and it will never be able to turn around. I dare not do such a thing!" A sour man in the neighborhood said, "Stop it! Father Hu, you kill pigs every day, white knife in, red knife out, the King of Hell also do not know that the judge's book recorded you thousands of iron bars; is to add this hundred sticks, but also what does it matter? I'm afraid that after the iron rod is finished, it will not be able to calculate this account. Or if you teach your son-in-law to get well, the King of Hell will recount your merits and bring you up to the seventeenth floor from the hell, which is also not known." The person who reported the record said, "Don't just tell jokes. Old man Hu, this matter must be like this, you can do nothing, the right to change a right to change." Butcher by the crowd of the Bureau but, only to pour two bowls of wine, drink, strengthen a gallant, the party these carefully put away, the usual vicious look out, roll a roll of the oil shaking sleeves, went up to the set. Five or six of the neighbors followed. The old lady rushed out and called out: "In-laws, you can only scare him a little, but do not hurt him!" Neighbors said: "This is natural, no need to command." They said, and kept going.
(8) came to the set, only to see Fan Jin is standing in front of a temple, scattered hair, full of sludge, shoes are running off a, still clapping, mouth called: "hit! Hit!" Hu butcher came to the front like a fierce god, said: "Damn beast! What have you won?" He struck him with his mouth. The crowd and neighbors couldn't help but laugh when they saw this. I don't want to Hu butcher although boldly hit a bit, in the end the heart is still afraid, that hand early trembling up, do not dare to hit to the second. Fan Jin because of this mouth horse, but also fainted, fainted on the ground. Neighbors came forward, wipe his chest, pounding the back of the heart, dance for half a day, gradually gasping over, bright eyes, not crazy. The people helped him up, and he sat on the bench of a surgeon in front of the temple. Hu Butcher stood on one side, not realizing that his hand was vaguely painful; when he looked at it, he tilted his palm back and could not bend it any more. In his heart, he said: "I am sure that the heavenly 'Wen Qu Xing' cannot be beaten, and now the Bodhisattva is taking care of it." Thinking about it, more pain hard, and hastily asked the bone-setter to ask for a poultice posting.
: "Fan Jin Zhongjiao" is one of the most wonderful chapters in Wu Jingzi's outstanding realist novel "The History of Confucianism" in the Qing Dynasty. The main character Fan Jin is a scholar, he has been living in poverty, and has been constantly taking the examination, more than twenty times, to the age of fifty-four before he won a talent. In this paper, he then participated in the countryside examination and won the lifer, the use of hyperbole in the text vividly depicts the image of his joy and madness, and profoundly exposed the ugly soul of this scholar, and at the same time, through the change of his fate reflects the coolness of the world.