Former name Fan Kuan

Teacher: Zhou Jin; Father-in-law: Hu Butcher; Muke: cow cloth; A one-sided relationship: Yan Gongsheng; Candidates in the same batch: Wei Haogu; The squire he befriended: Zhang Jingzhai.

After Fan Jin failed to take the exam for decades, he passed the exam due to the promotion of the examiner Zhou Jin. He was overjoyed and entered a state of madness. After he recovered, his father-in-law, Hu Butu, changed from being dismissive of him to flattering him; the "celebrities" in the same county also started to fawn over him. After Fan Jin passed the imperial examination, it took three years because of Ding's mother's worries before he took the imperial examination in Beijing and won the imperial examination again. A few years later, he was appointed to study Taoism in Shandong.

Before passing the exam, he was ridiculed and scolded by his father-in-law and silently endured it;

He pursued fame all his life and was obsessed with scientific examinations. He did not pass the examination until he was fifty-four years old;

After winning the exam, he was so happy that he went crazy;

Because I was short of money, I went to Gaoyao County with Zhang Jingzhai to play in the autumn breeze.

Self-contempt, submissive, cowardly and humiliating, insensitive, self-losing, pitiful, and obsessed with scientific research.

Fan Jin, as a representative figure in the imperial examination era, suffered deeply from it. After gaining dominance, this kind of person became an accomplice in the poison of the imperial examination. When he criticized Mei Jiu, the image of a pseudo-Taoist priest he embodied was really vivid. superior. The significance of the imperial examination as a way to select talents has disappeared. Even if such people become officials, how can they govern a country well? Unfortunately, this has been how China has been for thousands of years.