What is Zhou Jin's return visit?

Zhou Jin's reply is: Jinshi, the second time: Wang Xiaolian's village knows the same thing, and Teacher Zhou Meng won the first place the following year.

Zhou Jin's brother-in-law and others took pity on Zhou Jin, and pooled their money to donate a Guo Jianzi to him, so that he could be admitted directly. Later, he was admitted as a Guangdong Jinshi. Jin Fan, a scholar, was admitted because of his pity. Then I was recommended in the exam. Xiangshen Zhang came to make friends, give money and a house. This article embodies the abnormal psychology of literati who are eager to pursue their official career and conform to the trend of the times.

Fan went in to see his teacher. Because Jin Fan was going to Shandong to study Taoism, Zhou Jin told Jin Fan to pay attention to Xun Mei and let him go to Shandong to study. At that time, Xun Mei and Wang Hui were in the same examination room. They met the fortune teller Chen Li and made a divination for the future of Wang Hui. Xun Mei's mother died, and Xun Mei and Wang Hui wanted to wait for the entrance examination before going home to attend the funeral, so they wanted to hide their death, but they had to go home. After the funeral with Xun Mei, Wang Hui returned to the provincial capital alone. It embodies the hypocrisy and impetuousness of literati.

Zhou Jin's role evaluation

With his ingenious pen, the author describes the tragic and ridiculous place where scholars are fascinated by the imperial examination system. Because Zhou Jin was foreshadowed by all kinds of humiliation, which exposed his long-lost state of mind, his obsession and hopelessness for fame and fortune, playing the board seemed natural and unobtrusive.

In fact, Zhou Jin and later Jin Fan both want to die sadly and go crazy happily, all of which contain infinite significance.

The author reveals that the imperial examination system weakened the survival ability of intellectuals, and made them deeply poisoned by the concept that "everything is inferior, only reading is high" ("Poetry of a prodigy"). Zhongju is their only life goal, and stereotyped writing is their only life skill. If you don't do well in the exam, you won't have other earning power. Zhou Jin would rather play the board, because he knew that he could not stand on his own feet except for the imperial examination.

While mocking its ugliness, the author also expressed infinite sympathy for the characters. Because its original intention is not only to expose the filth of the imperial examination and officialdom figures, but also to criticize the social roots that form their various personalities, and extremely sharply point out the alienation effect of the imperial examination on human nature.