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The Argument for Kong Yiji's Characterization

Jingyi ChenNanchang Business College, Jiangxi Agricultural University, No.79 Youth Avenue, Nanhu New Town, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China Zhipeng QiCollege of Economics and Management, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, No.29. Thirteenth Street, Tianjin, China*

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

This paper discusses the external image and internal spirit of Kong Yiji from Lu Xun's works "Kong Yiji". Moreover, why he chose to leave at the end of the day to explore how the author used special literary techniques to create and highlight the characters. Kong Yiji was a victim of the imperial examination system in the Qing Dynasty. He spent his life in the Four Books and the Five Classics and was reduced to begging and refusing to take off his long gown, which symbolized his status as a scholar. Speaking of classical Chinese words, he emphasized several times that he was a scholar, even teased by others, but also pretentious, self-admiration. Feudal culture and feudal education poisoned Kong Yiji and made him develop the bad habits of despising labor and being indolence. Through the exploration and study of words, sentences and paragraphs in the text, from different positions and perspectives, from external to internal, the character characteristics and behavior of the characters before and after the comparison, in-depth analysis of a diversified and complex character image. Kong Yiji was not only an aristocratic and intellectual scholar but also a cowardly and helpless scholar who was poisoned by feudal society. His body not only shined with the light of honest and good human nature but also had a lazy, self-deceiving national bad nature.

Keywords: Kong Yiji; Characterization; Lu Xun
Published: May 17, 2023
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/3/2022845
Volume: CHR Vol.3
pp. 860-867
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