The tragic fate of the character Kong Yiji in Lu Xun's works is not only the result of the forced social environment, but also the result of his pitiful and ridiculous personality traits: He "stands

Sun Fuyuan summarized what Lu Xun told him about his favorite "Kong Yiji": "The main intention of the author of "Kong Yiji" is to describe the indifference of general society to the poor." Therefore, we Reading "Kong Yiji" does not always mean placing it in China's specific social environment to explain its meaning. In the past, most people explained it from the perspective of the poison of the imperial examination system to the Chinese people. Kong Yiji represented a typical old intellectual who became a victim of feudal society. But as Lu Xun said, "Whoever enters the novel entirely, if the author is skillful and the work has been passed down for a long time, what the reader sees is the person in the book, which has nothing to do with the real person who once existed." Therefore, he insisted that if he wanted to understand "A Dream of Red Mansions", he should not pursue Cao Cao, but understand Jia Baoyu or the meaning of the novel from him. Because "life is limited, but art is more permanent." Similarly, we can read "Kong Yiji" beyond the specific social background of China when it was written, and it also has universal significance.

When we do not limit the interpretation of this novel to China's feudal society, it is "describing the indifference of general society to the poor." Such miserable people can be found all over the world. This cold society is the same all over the world, ancient and modern, today and tomorrow. On the surface, Lu Xun was writing about the society and Chinese people that took place in the late Qing Dynasty in China. In fact, he was also expressing an eternal problem in human beings and society. On the surface, Kong Yiji is a man who has been poisoned by the imperial examination system, "everything is inferior, only reading is good", but he is also a universal symbol that represents the conflict between individuals and society. In any country or society, how many people are like Kong Yiji, who are not accepted by society and are laughed at, bullied and insulted by the masses, but the reasons are different. Kong Yiji represents the conflict between ideals or fantasies and real society. His fault lies in his inability to distinguish the difference between ideals (or fantasies) and facts. Stealing books during the imperial examination era was not a shameful or even criminal act, but society changed after he fell into this old habit. Therefore, Xianheng Hotel, that small society, will always be a trap for Kong Yiji to bury him and kill him.

Today, from the East to the West, how many people live according to their own thoughts, ideals, fantasies or values, but they themselves do not understand or realize that they are living in a dream and the society in which they live There is simply no room for people like him. When we read "Kong Yiji" outside the framework of the imperial examination, we can feel the richness of the novel's meaning and its universal significance. The stranger Rosseau in Kong Yiji and Camus's "The Shaager" and the salesman in Miller's "Death of a Salesman" are also of universal significance. Representatives