The End Of The World Behind The Chaos

As a famous realistic satire in the list of great works in Chinese history,"The Scholars" waspraised as a "great" but obscure novel by Lu Xun. Since its publishment, the academiccommunity has never stopped research on it, but previous researchers mainly focused theirattention on the discussion of literary fiction and historical value, relatively, the researches for itseducation significance are fewer, especially there was even no special study which was focus oneducation world depicted in this novel. In this paper, I try to apply various theories of differentfields including education, psychology, sociology and other disciplines to make a detailedanalysis on this novel, besides, Broadening the study subjects, moving down the research viewand diversification of research theories are also in line with the current trend.Based on the above understanding, by quoting some typical characters in the novel, thepaper makes a comprehensive analysis on education world shown in the novel, analyze theimage of characters by different theories and other aspects, get conclusions that the authorcriticize the decadent feudal society and express sympathy for the twisted soul of scholar, andfinally combined with emerging issues in modern education the paper makes a introspection andrecommendations to modern world.The paper is divided into five parts.In introduction part I mainly put forward reasons for putting forward topics, Significance ofthe topic, literature review, research ideas, originality and shortness of the study and methods ofstudy.In the first part：on the first hand, by tracing back to social background of Kangxi periodwhen the novel was published and the economy at that time had reach the to its peak,but a lot ofrealistic satires appeared because of harsh culture control. On the other hand, the paper try to getthe reason why Jingzi Wu created this novel, through analysis of history we found Jingzi Wu waswell-born, but he was affected by a large number of progressive ideology at his age, especiallyhe had went through imperial examination failures, which eventually lead him to write this greatwork.In the second part, by describing those typical characters in the book, I had a deepvisit to educational world in the novel. I mainly describe eight characters who were selected into four distinct groups by pairwise, there are four groups in the paper. They areobsession imperial stale and pedantic scholar group represented by Jin Zhou and Jin Fan;underclass group represented by Chaoren Kuang and Pulang Niu; declined aristocracy group represented by Du brother and a unique group standing for literary women like MissLu and Qiongzhi Shen. By sorting these characters and behavior characteristics, it show s spirit worlds of them who are from different origins and different classes。In the third part, I make a detailed analysis to the mentioned character image and educationphenomenon by different theories of education and psychology as well as sociology, try to figureout the reason of traditional education failure caused by rigid system in feudal society from theviews of educational purposes、teaching forms and others, apply psychology theories of herdmentality, self-efficacy, motivation to analyze psychology of ancient scholars who spent theirwhole life to take imperial examination and to find out the key factor which lead them to theirdifferent destiny, clarify the intense social conflict and relationships of individual and differencesof the groups in novel based on social conflict theory, interaction theory and the relationships ofgroups.In the fourth parts, through description and analysis of above parts, I summarize thecritique of author to the feudal system behind the bustling prosperity, appreciate the liberal ideasexist in the dark era that Jingzi Wu live in. Finally, the paper propose the education crisishappened in Ming and Qing Dynasties as a warning signs of modern education and put varioussuggestions： avoiding educational concepts becoming rigid； focusing on innovation ofeducational methods； set teaching content and presentation reasonably； choosing properassessment of education.