吴敬梓的《儒林外史》通篇写士,庶几可以堪称是一部封建末世关于“士”的百科全书。然而士人虽多,可论者寥寥,“处不失为真儒,进可以为王佐”的理想士人更是成为一种追忆,更多的还是假名士和八股士。这些假名士和八股士相互逢迎,互相唱和,丑态衍出,奏响了一曲关于“士”的末世悲歌。本文主要从明清士人形象分析、八股取士与市民的势利见识分析明清士人悲剧命运的根源。 Wu Jingzi’s “Scholars” throughout the writers, Shu few can be called a feudal end of the world about “Shi ” encyclopedia. However, although there are many scholars, few commentators, “Department is really Confucianism, into the king can be” ideal scholar is to become a kind of reminiscence, more or a pseudonym and eight. The fake celebrities and the eight warriors greet each other, singing each other, ugly state diffused, played a This article mainly analyzes the origin of the tragedy of the scholars in Ming and Qing dynasties from the image analysis of the scholars in Ming and Qing dynasties, the knowledge of snobbery and citizen’s snobbishness.