中国传统儒家伦理在评价官员时,往往把道德品质放在首位,忽视才能。纪昀在《阅微草堂笔记》中,对官员的德才问题提出了自己的观点,既不断指责无德的贪官,又经常讽刺无才的庸官,要求官员必须做到德才兼备。康熙非常重视官员的品德,导致任内出现了一大批虽然清廉但不做事的庸官;雍正为了提高官员的行政效率,转而重视才能,其结果是"雍正年间无清官";乾隆上台以后,既重视德,又重视才,对任用人员,要求德才兼备。《阅微草堂笔记》中的官员形象是纪昀对乾隆德才观的形象化阐述。

China''s traditional Confucian ethics often put morality in the first place, neglect-ing talent in evaluating officials. But in The Notes of Yuewei Cottage, Ji Yun proposed that corrupt officials be accused constantly, officials without talent be blamed and officials must possess both ability and moral integrity. Emperor Kangxi’s stress on official character produced many honest yet idle officials. In order to improve the administrative efficiency of officials, Emperor Yongzheng paid more attention to talent. As a result, "there were no honest officials in Yongzheng period". Emperor Qianlong attached importance to both moral-ity and talent, requiring officials to be good at both. The official images in The Notes of Yuewei Cottage are Ji Yun''s elaboration on Qian Long’s official concept.

清中叶纪昀晚年为追述平生见闻而创作的《阅微草堂笔记》是一部在中国小说发展史上具有特殊地位和影响的文言笔记小说集,研究者通常把它和蒲松龄的《聊斋志异》作对比研究,但在语言特色研究方面,《聊斋志异》的研究早已收获颇丰,而对《阅微草堂笔记》语言特色的研究却尚未出现系统性、专门性、建树性的成果,仅有一些零星的评价性说法。《阅微草堂笔记》的叙述语言简约、淡雅、冷幽默,人物语言质朴自然、娓娓可听等语言特色鲜明独到。

Yuwei Caotang Notes written by Ji Yun in the middle of the Qing dynasty to record the author’s life experi‐ence is a collection of classical Chinese notes and novels which holds a special status and impacts the development of the history of Chinese novel .Researchers often compare it with Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio by Pu Song‐ling for literary study .In contrast to many fruitful studies on the language characteristics of Strange Tales of a Lonely Studio conducted ,so far ,few systematic ,authoritative and meaningful studies has been made on Yuwei Caotang Notes .Through study ,we can find the language of Yuwei Caotang Notes is simple ,natural ,delicate and distinct and refreshing and full of dry humor .