Chapter 26 Various donation classes

Lowen In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, one could donate to become an official, and this group was called "donation class".The rich young master eats a lot of oil, and suddenly he is busy for a few days. He has a crystal top on his head, and sometimes a blue plume[2] on his head. In the Republic of China, the officials finally said that there were no donation classes, but the way of donation classes actually started to develop, and even "scholar literati" could get top titles through this.The first chapter of Kaizong Mingyi, of course, is to have money.As long as you have money, everything is easy to do.For example, if you want to donate to a scholar, you should buy a batch of antiques, get acquainted with some Qing customers, and hire a few workers to dig out the patterns and characters on the antiques, and print a book with glass plates, called "What Collection of Antiques?" record" or "what archaeological record".Li Fusun [3] made a book "Jinshi Xuelu", which was dedicated to the people who studied gold and stone [4]. And Guangzhi, even the young masters and merchants who collect and sell antiques are all taken in together, and this is called "Jinshijia".

There is no need for any new tricks to donate to be a "literateur".You only need to open a bookstore, recruit a few writers, hire some helpers, and publish a tabloid. You need to be able to say "today's weather is fine", write it out, print it, and hand it over to a newspaper vendor, and it won't take a year and a half. Load, guarantee success.However, antique patterns and rubbings of text cannot be used, and photos of movie stars and modern women should be used instead, because this is the art of the new era. There are still many "beauty-loving" characters in China, and "writers" or "artists" are just like this.

Donating officials can hope to scrape land, but donating scholars and literati will not lose money.Of course printed matter can be sold for cash, but in the future there will be foreign devils willing to pay high prices for antiques. This is also called "fame and fortune".But you must be able to "invest" first, so ordinary people can't do it, otherwise, a bachelor's degree is not worth much. But now it is still worth money, so there are still people who are busy making a dictionary of names, making a history of literature and art, publishing author theories, and compiling autobiographies.I think that if you write a historical work, you should divide the literati into the Roman school and the classical school, and then separate out a "donation class" to send them. Yes or no?August twenty-fourth.

[1] This article was originally published in "Shen Shen Free Talk" on August 26, 1933. 〔2〕Crystal top and blue feathers are both hat decorations used to distinguish official ranks in the Qing Dynasty.The five-rank official top hat is topped with a bright white crystal.Peacock feathers (above rank five) or blue feather feathers (below rank six) hang down from the back of the cap.Children from rich families can also get this kind of "top hat" by donating officials. [3] Li Fusun (1764-1843) was born in Jiaxing in the Qing Dynasty.He is the author of "Jinshi Xuelu", "Compilation of Tomb Inscriptions of the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties" and other books.

〔4〕金石Here, gold refers to bronze wares, and stone refers to stone steles, etc. In ancient times, characters were often cast or engraved on these things to record events, so such historical relics are called Jinshi. 〔5〕 "Crafting figurines" "Mencius King Hui of Liang": "Zhong Ni said: 'The one who started the figurines has no descendants!'" Later, it was called "making figurines" to do bad things at the beginning.Figurines, puppets or clay figurines used for burial in ancient times. 〔6〕One couch, in Shanghai dialect, means everything and everything.