(1) Aunt Zhao cursed Jia Tanchun for being cynical about the matter of twenty or thirty taels of silver.
Aunt Zhao's younger brother Zhao is Jia Tanchun's own uncle. When Zhao died, it happened that Wang Xifeng was ill and Jia Tanchun was the housekeeper. Aunt Zhao went to Jia Tanchun to burn the silver and bury it. As usual, Jia Tanchun gave Aunt Zhao twenty taels of silver. Aunt Zhao was very angry, because the attacking mother had just died, and she also got forty or fifty taels of silver. Aunt Zhao said to Jia Tanchun: Now that your uncle is dead, won't your wife refuse you if you give me twenty or thirty taels of silver? Obviously, the wife is a good wife, and it's all your vitriol!
Tanchun has not finished listening, and his face is white with anger. She cried and asked Aunt Zhao, who is my uncle? My uncle (Wang Ziteng) will be promoted to nine provinces next year, but where did he run out of an uncle? Huan-erh went out. Why did Zhao stand up again and go to school with him? Why not take out my uncle's money? Who doesn't know I'm an aunt? Jia Tanchun used several rhetorical questions in one breath, and every sentence stung my aunt Zhao's heart.
Jia Tanchun's words caused a lot of criticism, so many readers said that she was selfish, cool thin, buttering up Mrs. Wang and Wang Ziteng had no bottom line. Aunt Zhao is her own mother after all, and Zhao is her own uncle after all. Why do you say such things to the people closest to you? Isn't all she does is want to hug Mrs. Wang's thigh? However, reading the Red Chamber cannot be separated from the background of that era. Jia Tanchun is the daughter of an unmarried woman, and her status and status cannot be compared. Some things are beyond her control.
(2) Jia Tanchun is a cheerful, straightforward, intelligent, talented and ambitious girl.
Why is Jia Tanchun's personality cheerful and straightforward? It can be seen from her residence that her residence is called Zhai, which reminds people of the feeling of crisp autumn. Look at the layout of her room, giving people a feeling of being suddenly enlightened: Tanchun is always cheerful and spacious, and these three rooms are not separated. There is a large box of pear flower stones in the local area, which contains various celebrity calligraphy stickers and more than a dozen Fang Bao inkstones, and all kinds of pen holders and pens are inserted in the sea like trees. This shows that Jia Tanchun is not only good at poetry, but also very knowledgeable in calligraphy.
Search is ill, and Jia Tanchun is in charge of the housekeeper. In order to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, she put forward the contract responsibility system of Grand View Garden, which corrected the disadvantages accumulated for many years in time and improved the management enthusiasm of some personnel. Even the smug search praised Jia Tanchun, saying that there were only three girls left, all of whom were in her heart. The girl who even praised Wang Xifeng shows how smart and talented Jia Tanchun is.
Aunt Zhao and Jia Tanchun had an argument because she asked Zhao to burn the silver and bury it. Jia Tanchun cried and said, My wife loves me dearly, because menstruation often makes trouble and has been chilling for several times. But I can go out as a man, so I have to leave early and start another career. At that time, I had my own reasons ... In feudal society, women were virtuous but not talented, and many rules and regulations restricted the development of women, and Jia Tanchun just had men.
(2) Jia Tanchun's true nature.
Generally speaking, a person's hobbies can reflect a person's personality and taste from the side. For example, Jia Baoyu likes pollen and tends to be feminine; Jia Yingchun likes playing chess and is quiet and introverted. Shi Xiangyun likes drinking and eating meat, so his personality is straightforward and unrestrained ... Jia Tanchun likes calligraphy, so his personality is calm and atmospheric, and he is a temperament middleman.
There is another small detail in the book that can't be ignored. Jia Tanchun asked Jia Baoyu to bring her some wicker baskets, incense boxes dug with bamboo roots, and air stoves made of mud. These things are worthless, which Jia Tanchun described as "simple but not vulgar, true but not practical". It means simple, true, unpretentious, unpretentious.
If you don't have a childlike innocence and true temperament, you won't like these childish gadgets in others' eyes, which shows that Jia Tanchun's character is childlike. These details show that Jia Tanchun is not only a smart and talented girl from a rich family, but also a girl with true temperament.
To sum up: Aunt Zhao, Jia Tanchun's biological mother, is only an concubine in status and a vulgar woman in character. Her biological daughter, Jia Tanchun, has just the opposite personality, so the two girls often have friction, but all this does not hinder. Jia Tanchun is a cheerful, straightforward, intelligent, talented and ambitious girl, and also a girl with true temperament.