Kong Yiji died of poverty from time to time and was read to death.

Kong Yiji was a little intellectual who was deeply poisoned by the feudal system and feudal culture. He is familiar with history books, and he knows that there are four ways to write a fennel word in fennel beans. This is a proud scholar in rural areas where illiteracy is common, and he should be among the decent people. However, he is a poor man, and his life is worse than the short coat gang. He can only sit in a gown and order something to eat and drink. He can only stand in front of the counter like a jacket gang, asking for a plate of fennel beans and drinking inferior wine soaked in water. Those who open their mouths are laughed at by everyone.

Kong Yiji has never been admitted to a scholar in his life, and he can't put down the shelf of a scholar. His life is getting poorer and poorer, so he has to beg. Fortunately, he wrote a good hand, so he copied books for others and changed a bowl of rice. It's a pity that he was lazy and sat for less than a few days, and even people with books, paper tape pens and inkstones disappeared together. If so, several times, no one asked him to copy the book.

Reading makes him feel superior and disdainful to make a living. Without more than half of the scholars, he can't step into the ranks of scholars. Without his salary and other income, his survival becomes a problem, and it is inevitable to do some stealing occasionally. Once I went to Hejia to steal a book, I was hanged, I went to Ding Ju to steal it, my leg was broken, and I was finally cornered. Lu Xun wrote at the end of the article: About Kong Yiji's death,

It seems that Kong Yiji died of poverty. Analyzing his words and deeds, reading actually killed him.

1. Reading made him lose the ability to make a living. As a healthy man, Kong Yiji should have many means to make a living. The waiter in Xianfeng Hotel is twelve years old and doesn't know many words. He went out as an apprentice. There are short clothes gangs in the hotel, who support their families by working and drinking. He is more knowledgeable than them, and he can choose more occupations, but he is too lazy to make a humble living or copy books. This is a typical scholar's psychology of being too unsuccessful or too unsuccessful. He lost his status as a coolie, was not hired as a private school teacher and yamen, and was too lazy to copy books for dinner, so his survival became a problem.

Second, reading has lost the pursuit of life. After the failure of Kong Yiji's official career, there was no pursuit of life. Jin Fan is also a scholar. He is dazzled by poverty, but he insists on taking the imperial examination. From the age of twenty to fifty-four, he finally won the prize. Kong Yiji scholar didn't pass the exam, so he stopped mentioning it. He got a little money by copying books and went to the hotel to drink. When he really has no money, he steals it. When he was alive, he became a walking corpse, and everyone disliked and laughed at him.

Third, reading has lost its code of conduct. First, regardless of their own image, "a face of messy gray beard, gown is dirty and torn, as if it has not been mended or washed for more than ten years." This is not the image of a scholar, but clearly the appearance of a beggar. Second, the values are distorted. "Stealing books is not stealing, but stealing books and learning. Can you steal it? " When he was injured stealing a book, he said that "a gentleman is poor", which made everyone laugh. What is a gentleman? A gentleman is strong and unyielding, rich but not slutty, and poor but not moving. He is poor, stealing and pretending to be a gentleman. Is this not a joke?

Kong Yiji has a kind heart. When he saw the children enthusiastically giving them fennel beans, he saw the boy and advised him to study for future accounting. It was the book of feudal ethics that read him as a basket case and Ding as a demon. Kong Yiji, a little intellectual created by Lu Xun, is an indictment of feudal ethics and a cry for education to shape a sound personality, which has certain practical significance for today's teaching and educating people.