There are four women in the Jia family: Yuan, Ying, Tan and Xi. Among them, only Yuan Chun is a junior, older than others, and was elected to the palace very early. What really lives together for a long time is to welcome the spring, explore the spring and cherish the spring. They are all concubines and live in the Grand View Garden of Guo Rongfu. Their living conditions are exactly the same, even their clothes and jewelry are sometimes the same. But their actual temperament and hobbies are completely different. Yingchun is the most supple one.
When Daiyu first entered Jiafu, she saw the Spring Festival, which was described in the book as "slightly plump skin, good figure, fresh plums on her cheeks, greasy goose fat on her nose, gentle and silent, and amiable". It can be seen that Yingchun is a slightly plump girl of medium height, with fair and delicate skin, thick and dignified facial features, and perhaps a little cute "baby fat" on her face. The imaginary Spring Festival is the kind of gentle and sexy beauty, just like Sean in Blue Life and Death. Her beauty is not as radiant as Baochai and Daiyu, nor as aggressive as Tanchun. But a kind of beauty that makes people feel comfortable and warm.
In the Grand View Garden, Spring Festival is silent and nameless. Her looks are not the most outstanding, and her talents are also very average. Whenever there is an opportunity to show her face, her performance is not satisfactory. Yuan Chun gave you a riddle to guess. Only she and Jia Huan, a bad boy with no education, missed it. When everyone was drinking, she was the only one who made a mistake. Some people think that she is not smart enough or doesn't work hard. In fact, she is not stupid, but different from Daiyu and others, she regards "showing her talents" and being outstanding as her purpose in life. She is a cold person with her own tastes and hobbies. Jia Fuchun is good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and Yingchun's specialty is Go. The book doesn't describe how wonderful her chess skills are, and she can kill others without scratching-this is not the style of Spring Festival. Go is just a pastime for her. People's hobbies and talents are varied, and Yingchun is not good at word games and on-the-spot verbal warfare. She is good at abstract thinking about games like Go, and she is also very interested in Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi's philosophy. She behaves more like a science student. If today, she would never do what liberal arts students often do, such as debate contests and speech contests, because she is not a pushy person, or she is in poor competitive condition. She is more likely to take notes quietly in the library or do research quietly in the laboratory. Her talent is hidden, she is not good at expressing herself in front of people, and she doesn't care about being unknown because of it.
But her beauty and cleverness are sometimes shown, such as in the association of Haitang. The association of Haitang is also a wonderful chapter in the story of the Red Chamber. During this period, Tso Gong showed his beauty and talent in all aspects, even the hills were not dewdrops in the Spring Festival. Originally, Yingchun was not good at writing poems, but the poetry club is an important collective activity in the Grand View Garden, and its symbolic significance has surpassed its practical significance. Li Wan, the president, thinks that all ladies must attend. Therefore, for the Spring Festival, we also arranged a work of "giving rhyme to the topic". Supposedly, this job is nothing important, and it can't show any literary talent, but when Zuo Zongtang wrote a verse for the Spring Festival, she described her elegance and calmness to the fullest.
Yingchun said, "In that case, wait for me to limit the rhyme." After that, she went to the bookshelf and pulled out a poem, which turned out to be a seven-character poem.
If you show it to everyone, you have to make a seven-character rule. Yingchun hid the poem and said to a little girl, "Just say something." The girl is standing by the door.
Then she said the word "door". Yingchun said with a smile, "It's the rhyme of the door,' thirteen yuan'. The first rhyme must be like this.
The word "door" said, asked for a rhyme box, pulled out a drawer of "thirteen yuan" and told the little girl to take four at hand. The girl holds the basin, the soul and the mark.
Four pieces of "faint" came ... The Spring Festival made the servant girl blow a "sweet dream". It turns out that this "sweet dream" is only three inches long, and as thick as rushes, it is easy to burn.
Therefore, it is limited to this ember, and the embers of incense will be punished if they are not finished.
Yingchun can't write poetry, but she is an excellent examiner. Limiting rhyme is only a trivial matter, but she is very serious and in place, showing the dignified and confident demeanor of a lady who knows books and manners, no less than other witty sisters. Who says Sister Yingchun is "wood"? Lenovo's scene is indispensable without Baochai and Daiyu, and it will be greatly reduced without Yingchun!
Unfortunately, such a glorious moment is only a flash in the pan in the life of Yingchun. In most cases, she is just gentle and silent. Maybe it has something to do with her life experience. She was born to Aunt Jia She, and her mother died young. Jia She is an irresponsible father who has no love for his children. Her stepmother Mrs. Xing is also a selfish cheapskate. She only knows how to love the Spring Festival, because she is greedy for money and flatters her husband. Once something goes wrong, I only know how to complain. Her brother Jia Lian and sister-in-law Feng are too busy fighting for fame and fortune to care about her joys and sorrows. Among many grandchildren, nothing can attract the attention of the old lady, so the old lady doesn't attach importance to her. Therefore, she thoroughly saw through her position in the family. They say that "crying children have milk to eat", but even if they cry to death, they may not really attract others' attention. Therefore, Yingchun is too lazy to show herself in front of people. She knew it was meaningless and futile. Even if it really attracts the attention of others, what's the point of winning this favor? Therefore, her habit is to always smile at people, never get angry, and never give others trouble. Of course, I hope others will not disturb her. Even for your own servants.
Yingchun's position in the Jia family is not prominent, but her wet nurse is one of the best in the Jia family. Maybe Yingchun is really filial, or maybe she is really weak. Anyway, she used the wet nurse to be lawless. Not only is it impolite to treat Yingchun at ordinary times, but he also does whatever he wants in Jiafu with the credit of nursing Yingchun. She knows the law and breaks the law, gathers people to gamble all night, spends a lot of money, and even steals Yingchun's jewelry to lose. After the incident, she was not afraid. She only asked her daughter-in-law to intercede for Yingchun, but it didn't look like intercession. It seems to be a negotiation, which means that Yingchun promised to bail her out first before she redeemed the jewelry. And Yingchun herself is impatient to take care of these things. Although it involves her own interests, she would rather suffer, and doing more is better than doing less. She dared not intercede for her wet nurse or trace the whereabouts of the jewels, preferring to admit that she had lost them. Fortunately, Jia Jia is an old man, knowing that Yingchun's cowardice can never subdue these unruly minions, so she insists on severely punishing the wet nurse and never gives her a chance to repent in order to achieve some results.
Yingchun thinks that the wet nurse is her elder and only speaks her own words, not her own. If this attitude can be understood as ignorance, then her indulgence to the maid is a typical "fool saint" Two pretty maid in Spring Festival: Siqi and Xiuju. Among them, Si Qi is also the man of the hour in the Grand View Garden. She is tall, strong and arrogant. Her master's position is not higher than that of other ladies, but her own vice-ladies' shelves are much more than those fine girls who serve books and pictures. Even if he is as arrogant as Qingwen, he is just beating and cursing yee Justin's servant girl's wife. Si Qi, on the other hand, dares to gang up and fight, playing other people's turf. Sister Liu, the chef in the small kitchen, said nothing and offended her. She immediately led a female soldier to kill her and smashed the small kitchen, which was very rich in underworld eldest sister. After all, a bowl of egg custard is only a small matter. Later, people made it again and gave it to her, but she did not hesitate to throw it on the ground. Later, they colluded with their family and plotted against Liu's mother and daughter in order to arrange for their aunt to work in the small kitchen. A young girl, narrow-minded, fierce and frightening. Later, I learned that it was her grandmother who accompanied Mrs. Xing and Wang Shanbao. It seems that it is really a family background! Wang Shanbao is selfish and cunning, and he is the first killer to kill Qingwen. Siqi has such a grandmother, and her genes are inevitably selfish and aggressive. Many people like Qi Qi only because of her brave and loyal performance in love. In fact, in such a relatively closed environment, it was difficult to distinguish between sincere love and the germination of lust. Judging from Siqi's character, she is a reckless person who dares to think and do. Regardless of the consequences, Yingchun spoiled her. Maybe she thinks something terrible has happened, and the young lady won't blame her. Plus, in Absolute Monarch, there is a bullying grandmother who supports her, so she is reckless. Later, she cheated on her cousin and was finally caught by Yuanyang, so she was scared to get sick, which shows that she is not completely brave. Her cousin was afraid of running away, which made her regret everything she had entrusted to her. But at that time, she was reluctant to get rid of love letters and embroidered spring bags at once, and was finally involved in copying the Grand View Garden. However, her performance at that time was really admirable, and she was a "big sister" who was "not afraid of shame"
The style is the same as that of the past. Maybe she thought Xifeng wouldn't do anything to her. When the marching orders came down, she realized that her master was slow-talking, soft-hearted and could not save her. So she begged grandpa to tell grandma that she expected someone to help her stay and sweep away her arrogance. In fact, if she really loves her cousin, isn't it right to be free and marry her now? It seems that she is no longer interested in going out to get married, and still wants to stay in the Grand View Garden and live the life of a deputy wife, even if she is a dowry aunt in the future. Gao let her finally commit suicide for her cousin, which really improved her realm out of kindness, but it also really reduced the realism of the characters.
Some people say that Siqi is so provocative and promising. If she can stay with Yingchun for a long time, maybe she can avoid Sun Shaozu's death. This idea is actually naive. Not to mention who fell into the hands of the demon Sun Shaozu, but it is despicable to say that Qi Qi is himself. Xiuyan once said: "My second sister is also an honest person and doesn't pay much attention to her own affairs. Although she said nothing, which is easier, her mother or the girl, and which is not sharp? " Although I was in that room, I dare not impress them. In another three to five days, I will pay for drinks and snacks for them. "The implication is that this chess game is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Combined with her usual overbearing and insufficient behavior, it seems that she is also responsible for bullying her master. Judging from her usual leading position among maids, it may be that she started this incident. If she is a clear stream in this muddy water, her strength is enough to turn the tide, reprimand these unruly servants and curb their bad style. Why did you attack Xiangyun later? It can be seen that this game of chess is also a cheap trick. " Raise a soldier for a thousand days and use it for a while. " If Siqi only covets material interests and can stand up and help Yingchun at a critical moment, she thinks that Yingchun has not spoiled her in vain. However, when Wang Zhu's daughter-in-law found that it was difficult to celebrate the Spring Festival, only Embroidered Orange confronted her, while Siqi was so scared that she was ill in bed because of an affair that she reluctantly came to help Embroidered Orange, but her performance was not as sharp as usual and did not play its due role. Look at Qingwen, she has lost weight. Even if she can't get out of bed, she's still mending her feathers, beating Zhui Er and scolding that woman. She's still alive. She is also a famous "fierce woman", and Sister Siqi is not too sick to move. How did she lose her prestige when she smashed the kitchen? It seems that she won't work hard as long as it doesn't involve her personal interests. It's disappointing that a cat who is used to feeding fresh fish can't bite a mouse at a critical moment! Such a person, can you count on her to help Spring Festival against Sun Shaozu?
Yingchun was deeply influenced by the Taoist thought of inaction. She usually looks timid and gentle, but it is wrong to really rely on her. Mrs. Xing's niece Xiuyan was afraid of causing trouble and arranged to live with Yingchun. Theoretically, they can take care of each other, but these two ladies live worse. Mrs. Xing is greedy for money and takes the opportunity to let Yingchun save one or two pieces of silver from her monthly money to Uncle Xing. Yingchun's maid's wife was unruly and unruly, so she made trouble one after another and asked the ladies for pocket money, but Yingchun couldn't help it. Xiuyan followed the Spring Festival, and no one took care of her, so she had to pawn her cotton-padded clothes. For Siqi, the servant girl who was punished for her crime, Yingchun could only let her be driven away and didn't dare to say a word. Although she was very grateful to Mrs. Wang for taking care of herself, she was wronged by her grandmother and dared not say a word. On the contrary, Tan Chun bravely stood up and defended Mrs. Wang.
Yingchun is an honest man, but "honesty is synonymous with uselessness"
. Yingchun's cowardly character has actually turned herself into a dispensable person. After the chrysanthemum party, Tanchun planned to form another poetry club. Unfortunately, Yingchun was ill. Baoyu said that the second sister didn't write much poetry anyway, and it didn't matter if she was missing it. She doesn't care about missing one. After Xifeng's miscarriage, she needs a young lady to help her keep house. In terms of age and seniority, Yingchun should be the first choice, but because she is "useless"
This arduous and important task was handed over to Tanchun. Princess Nan 'an came to celebrate Jia Mu's birthday, and Jia Mu only sent a more talented tanchun reception, but she didn't think of welcoming the spring at all. Cherish spring is despised, and you can also masturbate because you are young and miss Dongfu. But the older Yingchun can't say it. But any girl who is a little stingy will probably be angry or even jealous of Tanchun's sister. But Yingchun doesn't mind not showing her face. She is always happy, but she has a good relationship with Tanchun. When she sees the success of others, she is always happy for others, and when she sees the misfortune of others, she will only worry silently. She is glad that others are kind to her, but she won't please people with nice humorous words like Xifeng Daiyu, nor will she respond to others with decent behavior like Baochai. When others criticized her, she just listened honestly and didn't dare to talk back. If others bully her and don't respect her, she won't hold a grudge and wait for revenge. Anyway, whether you treat her well or not, you won't get any reward or punishment. She is so simple and tolerant that she is called "Ermu" by those rude little people. She may not know this ugly name, but she probably doesn't care and is not ashamed of her incompetence and indecision. She is not demanding of herself, because many men are not capable, let alone a weak woman? On the big tree in the Grand View Garden, she just wants to be an unknown idle flower.
In fact, it is the person who is most likely to get happiness and satisfaction at that time who is cheerful and knows how to live without restraint. If she enters the palace as a princess, even if the palace is lonely or even out of favor, she can still live her life in peace without depression. If she is forced to marry far away, although she misses her hometown, she will not be particularly sad. She is an ordinary flower, which can bloom quietly no matter where it is planted. Even if she is a widow or nun, she is not necessarily miserable, because her greatest requirement is not pleasure or love, but a quiet life. For men, such women are easy to feed and satisfy. In a word, as long as she can marry an ordinary or even mediocre person and be a wife, theoretically, she can't be unhappy. However, misfortune has come, and it is the greatest misfortune.
I have always thought that the most tragic fate in the official books of the Twelve Chai is the Spring Festival. Cao Gong is really cruel to Ying Chun. A Dream of Red Mansions depicts all kinds of characters, and there are few really pure good guys and bad guys. Even a bad guy like Jia Yucun has his smart side. Although Jia Zhen and Jia She have nothing to recommend, they are not completely heinous. Really bad to the bone, still have to say Sun Shaozu. His bad, no background, no reason, even no humanity, turned out to be a devil, just to achieve the tragic fate of Yingchun.
Indeed, the tragic fate of Yingchun is doomed in The Book of Dreams. She was humiliated and died by a Zhongshan wolf named Sun. The sequel also continued this idea, saying that she fell ill after quarreling with Sun Shaozu and died without timely treatment. But in my opinion, it doesn't seem that simple. Yingchun's sentence is the most terrible in the twelve female books. In the verdict, Sun Shaozu was unceremoniously described as an animal. Say he "
Look at the gorgeous quality and harmony of the Houmen, which is almost as obscene as the daughter of the government. "It seems that he and Yingchun are not simply emotionally incompatible, they often quarrel, and may also involve domestic violence and abnormal abuse.
"This bamboo slips is a stone man of Datong mansion, an ancestral official, and a protege of Rongning mansion that day. And a family friend. Today, there is only one Sun family in Beijing, and now they are attacking the post of commander. This man's name is Sun Shaozu,
Born with burly appearance, strong physique, skillful bow and horse, changeable friends, under 30 years old, rich, and now he is waiting to be promoted by the Ministry of War. Because he didn't have a house, Jia She saw that he was the grandson of a family friend, and his personality was commensurate with his possessions, so Mu Qing chose to be the son-in-law of Dong Chuang. "
From this passage, we can see that Sun Shaozu is physically aggressive, and his temperament may be rough. A good-looking, healthy, well-off family, good background and good future, at that time, he was nearly 30 years old and had no wife (nor a widower). There are only two possibilities: either impotence or sexual perversion. Sun Shaozu is obviously the latter. Perhaps there are quite a large family members who know his notoriety, so they refuse to give him their daughter. Only Jia She, a mercenary father, completely regarded his children as his private property. He used Sun Shaozu's five thousand two hundred pieces of silver, but he just gave him his daughter, which was actually a debt repayment. Mrs. Xing is a stepmother. She doesn't care about Ying Chun at all, and agrees unconditionally with all Jia She's decisions. Although neither Jia Zheng nor Jia Zheng was satisfied with the family style of the saying family, Jia She went her own way, and they couldn't help it. Poor Yingchun usually doesn't get special attention and love from her elders, and when it comes to deciding lifelong events, no one can help her, so she can only watch her jump into the fire pit.
After Yingchun got married, she found that her husband was a goat, an alcoholic and a gambler. It's completely hopeless. A little persuasion two or three times attracted his unreasonable abuse. With Ying Chun's character of reinventing the wheel, she wouldn't convince others if it wasn't unbearable, which shows that Sun Shaozu's behavior has reached the point of unbearable. Because my father-in-law didn't pay back the money, he began to discriminate and insult Yingchun, thinking that Yingchun was a plaything that Jia sold to him, and even threatened to beat her up and rushed to the servant's room to sleep. Maybe he did it later.
As a good girl, Yingchun has never been so angry before marriage, because she is gentle, docile and aloof, angry and disappointed with this absurd husband, but she will not be as angry as Qingwen Daiyu. As long as let her hide from Sun Shaozu and let him run amok, she can live a quiet and "don't do her own thing" life, even if she is out of favor and lonely, she won't care too much. Tolerance is great, but no desire is just. Yingchun has great tolerance and self-restraint, and has no desire or desire. Even ordinary girls may not have the desire for a happy family. All she wants is peace and quiet. If she marries a simple goat like Jia She and Jia Zhen, then she can persist in being a Woodenhead and make a living. However, according to the verdict, she died tragically less than a year after her marriage. What heinous torture made the gentlest and most patient girl among the twelve women wither so quickly?
Sun Shaozu may really be an inhuman beast. Even if Yingchun is so patient and evasive, he will not let her go. Although your servant girl's wife was raped by him, he still wants to find trouble with Yingchun. As for the details of his abuse of Yingchun, it seems that only the Yue Opera TV series has detailed descriptions, and there is also the plot of Sun Shaozu's drunken beating Yingchun. The tragedy of last year was not a simple arranged marriage tragedy in feudal society, but a domestic violence tragedy that lasted for thousands of years. A man with violent abnormal tendency will get abnormal satisfaction from beating and abusing women. The more resigned he is, the more he fears and avoids him, the more he can arouse his violent desire. In ancient times, many women were seriously injured by their husbands, or were abused by their husbands and aborted, resulting in two deaths. In fact, even in modern times, such things are not uncommon. Some husbands can tie their wives to a chair, shut their mouths and beat them with high heels for three or four hours until they die-is this hard to understand? But some people have this addiction, so perverted! Someone once said that if a better woman married Sun Shaozu, it might not be so miserable. I don't believe it. Xifeng, Tanchun, even Xia Jingui? Their fierce resistance will only lead to more cruel and inhuman treatment. When Xia Jingui was looking for it, he asked Xue Pan to beat him. Timid Xue Pan didn't dare to hit him, and Sun Shaozu, who was strong and agile, wouldn't be polite. There is no reason to get along with such animals. He doesn't even know the minimum morality, let alone "cherish affection and cherish jade". It's a miracle that delicate Yingchun can live with him for a year.
Among the few weak women in the Red Chamber, Yingchun is the one I sympathize with most. Youer's misfortune is related to her own bad behavior. Although Xiangling is also a misfit, the bad guys she has seen many times are not so heinous. She is the misfortune that she stepped into step by step. Yingchun only met bad people once in her life, but this time she ruined her life. Even she couldn't believe that she would be so unlucky, and she couldn't help shouting, "I don't believe my life is so bad!" "She met not a bad guy, but a devil, a devil who can't escape. It happened that when she met the devil, she was the most docile and naive girl, which was also considered as "severe frost". "
Spring Festival travel rush's tragedy is not a tragedy of the times, nor a tragedy of character, but a tragedy of pure women and society.