Is Kong Yiji dead or not?

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1, "I haven't seen Kong Yiji for a long time since then. At the end of the year, the shopkeeper took off the powder board and said, "Kong Yiji still owes nineteen dollars!" On the Dragon Boat Festival the following year, he said, "Kong Yiji still owes nineteen dollars! "I didn't say anything until the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I didn't see him at the end of the year.

2. "I didn't see it until now-maybe Kong Yiji really died."

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.

Yan Cai is a famous novel by Lu Xun, a master of modern literature in China, and one of the classic short stories in the history of China literature in the 20th century. With extremely frugal pen and ink and typical details of life, the author created the image of Kong Yiji, a scholar who was cruelly abandoned at the bottom of society, lived in poverty and was finally swallowed up by powerful dark forces.

Kong Yiji's pitiful and ridiculous personality and tragic ending are not only vivid portrayal of the unfortunate fate of the broad masses of lower-class intellectuals in old China, but also the concrete expression of the "cannibalism" essence of the feudal traditional cultural atmosphere in China. It reveals the indifference of feudal society, the indifference and numbness of people, and the cruelty of society to the unfortunate, which reflects the decay and morbidity of feudal society from one side.

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 beans are not a rare thing, but in such an era of lack of materials, in the era of "if you are willing to spend a penny more, you can buy a dish of salted boiled bamboo shoots or fennel beans to make wine".

In an era when selling wine requires 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.