Wu Jingzi

Wu Jingzi (1701-1754) was one of the greatest novelists in ancient China. He was born in a scholarly family with "e;the family''s voice is always beautiful"e;. He was intelligent and eager to learn when he was a child; he was uninhibited when he was a teenager, wasted his family wealth and "e;passed down in the countryside to become a negative teaching material for children"e;; he participated in the imperial examination many times, but failed and gradually understood the shortcomings and nature of the eight-legged scholars; he moved to Nanjing, refused to take examinations and impoverished, and devoted himself to the creation of The Scholars; He traveled and died in Yangzhou, fulfilling the prophecy that "e;people should die in Yangzhou"e;. This book is not profound, and the words are not tacky. It depicts Wu Jingzi''s image as a great novelist who is upright, humorous, sharp, optimistic, open-minded, eager to public and righteous, knowledgeable, and insightful with concise, refined, accurate and sophisticated writing. It describes the ill-fated life of an ancient intellectual.