In the poem "Wei Feng·Meng", the "neighbor's daughter" and "neighbor's man" embody the large wealth gap between men and women.
In this poem, the "neighbor's daughter" is a poor rural girl. She lives a hard life, lacks the security of food, clothing, housing and transportation, and lives in poverty. In contrast, there is the "neighbor's man" who can come and go as he pleases, wears fine clothes, speaks eloquently, and has superior economic conditions and social status.
The poem describes that when the "neighbor's daughter" was eager to change her poverty, she saw the wealth and honor of the "neighbor's man" and developed an admiration for him. This reflects the wealth gap between men and women in society at that time. The social hierarchy and wealth distribution pattern at that time caused inequality between men and women.
"Wei Feng·Meng" is a poem in the "Book of Songs", the first collection of poetry in ancient China. This is a poem about an abandoned woman complaining about the tragedy of her marriage. The heroine of this poem recalled the sweetness of her love life and the pain of being abused and abandoned by her husband after marriage in an extremely sad tone. She expressed her regret and decisive attitude, and profoundly reflected the difficulties faced by women in ancient society on love and marriage issues. A situation of oppression and devastation. The poem is divided into six chapters, each chapter has ten lines.
The first chapter recounts her marriage determined by her first love; the second chapter describes her falling in love, breaking through the shackles of the matchmaker’s words and marrying a gangster; the third chapter describes her love for a group of young people. The beautiful and innocent girl used her own experience to advise them not to indulge in love, and pointed out the inequality between men and women; in Chapter 4, she expressed her resentment towards the gangster's betrayal. She pointed out that this was not the woman's fault, but the gangster's capriciousness.
Chapter 5 goes on to recount the hard work, abuse, and self-inflicted misfortune caused by her brothers’ ridicule after marriage; Chapter 6 describes the friendship between childhood and today’s deviance, and denounces the gangster’s hypocrisy and deception. He firmly stated that he and Meng were completely cut off emotionally. The whole poem uses realism creation methods, alternately using Fu, Bixing, and other expression techniques such as contrast, veracity, metonymy, and appeal. The tone is sonorous and natural, full of true feelings, and shows a high artistic achievement.