Wang Yuhui is a typical figure in The Scholars, and his diverse personality contains profound ideological contradictions and spiritual dilemmas.

"Wearing a square scarf, an old sapphire bow, dark face, gray beard, about sixty years old." His life experience is more tragic than Jin Zhou and Jin Fan. After decades of hard work, Zhou Hefan and others were finally admitted, but they failed in the mid-term exam every year and were down and out all their lives.

Appreciation of scholars

The Scholars is a satirical novel, which criticizes and exposes the present social situation and the fate of Confucian scholars with pungent brushwork. The novel vividly depicts the decadent status quo of spiritual morality and cultural education of the intellectual class under the imperial examination system. It reveals the concept of fame and fortune, bureaucracy, interpersonal relationship and the whole social atmosphere through life.

The author starts with exposing the imperial examination system and the ugly souls of literati enslaved by this system, and then satirizes the fatuity and incompetence of feudal officials, the greed and meanness of landlords and gentry, the hypocrisy and meanness of arty celebrities, and the decay of the whole feudal ethical code system and the distortion of people's souls.