The women around the hero: Niu Yueqing (wife), Yin (old lover), Tang Waner (lover), nanny (having sexual relations), A Can (having sexual relations) and Wang Ximian's daughter-in-law (ambiguous).
Men around the hero: good friend Meng (literature and history researcher), painter Wang Ximian (one of the four famous people), calligrapher Gong Jingyuan (one of the four famous people), orchestra Ruan (one of the four famous people), Zhao (student), Hong Jiang (student) and Zhou Min (student, also an important clue of this book).
Other important figures: Zhong Weixian, Li Hongjiang, Gou Dahai, etc. Huang Defu, secretary of the mayor, Huiming of Qingxu Temple.
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Characteristics of the main characters in Du Fei;
1, Zhuang butterfly
The name is taken from Zhuangzi's Inner Chapter: On the Same Thing, and Zhuang Zhoumeng is the story of Hu Die. He is a middle-aged man who once suffered from premature ejaculation and was childless all the year round. Later, he had sex with many women, and the ending was tragic.
2. Niu yueqing
A typical "wife and mother" traditional female image of China has struggled all her life to be a good "Mrs. Zhuang". She blamed herself for not having children for her husband, and felt guilty about her husband.
As a wife, Niu Yueqing envied Xue Jing's shadow and hated Tang Waner, but she didn't denounce Tang Waner and drive away Liu Yue who despised her. Her jealousy is only manifested in killing a pigeon that sent a love letter to Zhuang and Tang.
Niu Yueqing didn't realize that married women should be respected by their husbands. All she knows is that his wife must abide by the ethical standards of women handed down from generation to generation: marry a chicken and follow a dog.
So the status of husband and wife is very important in her mind. Since she is "Mrs. Zhuang", she should take this role as her biggest goal and career, and she lost herself in the process of fighting for this career. She never realized that a woman, as an independent individual, must control her own destiny.
3. Tang Waner
On the surface, she seems to be a modern new woman, who dares to pursue the so-called "love" in her mind and abandon the traditional family and marriage life. However, the new life she pursues all the way is just a process of constantly changing men and becoming their accessories.
Zhuang Zhidie is not a handsome object in Tang's mind, but Zhuang Zhidie is a celebrity and gives her a chance to satisfy vanity. I don't realize the necessity of women's independence and respect as individuals, but I just think that women are valuable only in front of men.
4. Liu Yue
She is the embodiment of feminization in China in the 1990s. Liu Yue, a nanny from the countryside, can be seen everywhere in urban life. Her love, marriage and even things in life have a profitable creed.
Liu Yue climbed from a nanny to the position of the mayor's daughter-in-law. Since then, she has not let people see the life of a nanny from the countryside. She is good at seizing any profitable opportunity around her and relying on men with her body in exchange for the material life she needs.
However, in the process of obtaining material life at all costs, she simply ignored moral laws and regulations, could not tell what the real life values were, and failed to realize her independent personality and individual dignity as a woman.
5.a can
She is dissatisfied with her ordinary husband and ordinary life. For Zhuang Zhidie, she felt: "With celebrities like you and me, my confidence in living has been reborn!"
She regards her persistence in Butterfly of Zhuang as the resurrection of self-confidence. In a can, we see a woman, as an independent individual, going to have sex with a man and looking for self-confident sadness.
6. Huiming
She knows men's hearts (love the new and hate the old, chop and change) and knows how to take the initiative to attack for her own life interests. On the surface, Huiming seems to have a sense of female independence.
However, this kind of "independence" is the independence in men's world, but it has not risen to human society. This is an unequal "independence", so what is reflected in her is not the real female independence consciousness.
7. Mother
The appearance of the old lady created a crazy imagination space. This explains that the old lady's "madness" is a normal "madness" after she is old, and this "madness" is a crazy state that can talk to the underworld.
From the perspective of materialism, the world exists objectively, but Jia Pingwa wrote a ghost world for readers in the abandoned capital. Mrs Niu is a figure who proves that there is still a ghost world in the world.
Jia Pingwa's accurate description of the old lady's behavior and psychology creates two worlds for readers: the world of people and the world of ghosts. The distinction between human beings and ghosts is a very important feature of China traditional culture.
8. Husband
I am a teacher, but because of the boss's frame-up, I failed to change from a private teacher to a public teacher. Repeated petitions failed, and later I bought waste products on Xijing Street. However, it is such a role abandoned by society, but it has many intelligent evaluations of urban society.
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