Kong Yiji's death was poisoned by the imperial examination system. He has never won a prize in his life. He is poor, but conceited. He always deceives himself by laughing at the short coat gang as a "scholar", but the short coat gang also laughs at him. As a "scholar", Kong Yiji dreamed of being a top scholar and an apprentice all his life. However, he just lived in his own dream, always thinking that he would achieve something if he won the lottery one day, and never thought about how to make a living now, which caused his tragedy. The original intention of this tragedy is that he is lazy, and the second is the persecution of the imperial examination system.

The whole article expresses that the imperial examination system has created a series of human and social tragedies. This reflects the strict hierarchy caused by the imperial examination system in the feudal period, and its consequences are the same as that of Kong Yiji being killed by Ding at a discount. Kong Yiji is a "clown" who fell from the ladder of the imperial examination system. In fact, their origins are similar, and they all died as scholars. They all studied hard for ten years, just to be the top scholar, and they were all rulers, which in turn oppressed these poor scholars who had studied with him before. This is a cruel fact under the feudal imperial examination system. Kong Yiji lives in a cruel and hierarchical society, but he is really pedantic and uneducated.

So not everyone in Kong Yiji should be insulted. Kong Yiji described the tragedy in an understated and casual style, which also showed that people were used to this society at that time, so they had no sympathy for it.