What questions can scholars ask?

The fifty-six chapters of the book depict different expressions of "fame and fortune" by various people in a realistic way. On the one hand, it truly reveals the process and reasons of human nature being corroded, thus profoundly criticizing and mocking the corruption of bureaucracy and the hypocrisy of imperial examinations at that time.

On the one hand, it enthusiastically praised the protection of human nature by a few characters in a self-centered way, thus embodying the author's ideal. The use of vernacular Chinese in the novel is becoming more and more skillful, and the characterization of characters is also quite in-depth and delicate, especially the satirical technique is superb, which makes the book a masterpiece of China's classical satirical literature.

Note: The appearance of The Scholars had a great influence on the history of China's novels and laid the foundation for China's classical satirical novels. A large number of condemnation novels, such as The Scholars, Flowers of Evil, What has been strange in the past 20 years, and Officialdom in Appearance, have formed a trend of criticizing feudal society and have been influencing the new literature since the May 4th Movement.

The Scholars has been translated into English, French, German, Russian, Japanese, Spanish and other languages, and has been widely circulated around the world, becoming a world-famous literary masterpiece. And published some foreign scholars' research monographs.

"Fan Jinzhong Residence" in The Scholars was selected as the ninth grade Chinese textbook of People's Education Press.

In April 2020, it was listed in the Reading Guidance Catalogue for Primary and Secondary School Students (2020 Edition) of the Basic Education Curriculum and Textbook Development Center of the Ministry of Education.