Keywords: Xing Xiuyan; Poverty alleviation; Unyielding backbone-pride and unyielding character
China Library Classification Number: I242 Document Identification Number: Part A Number:1005-5312 (2012) 24-00/kloc-0-02.
Xing Xiuyan is the niece of Mrs Xing, the wife of Jia She in A Dream of Red Mansions. She is not very good-looking, and her family is poor. However, she will never feel inferior because of her average appearance and poverty, nor will she feel uncomfortable because people around her do not attach importance to it or cherish it. She is smart and rational, showing peaceful and indifferent pride, moving people around her and winning a place for herself in the Grand View Garden.
First, the poor family and average appearance do not prevent them from being elegant and refined.
Xing Xiuyan went to Beijing with his parents to go to Mrs Xing, hoping to buy a house and land for his family. Lu Yu's Xue Baoqin and Li Wan's two sisters came to Jiafu together. At that time, Baoyu was commenting on Xiangling's Seven Rhymes in his dream. The woman came to report that many grandmothers and maids had been invited and told them to try to recognize their relatives. In their conversation, all three people except Xiuyan were involved, but Xing Xiuyan was not introduced, which shows that Xiuyan did not enter the eyes of these snobs at first. Then, Baoyu ran back to Hongyi Garden and told Aron about these relatives, praising them as super "exquisite", but not mentioning Xing Xiuyan. It can be seen that Baoyu, the escort of the Grand View Garden, did not notice the beauty and exquisiteness of Xing Xiuyan at first; Jia's aesthetics can be described as unique. She loves it very much, forcing Mrs. Wang to recognize her adopted daughter, and forcing the Li sisters to live in Li Wan's Daoxiang Village. For Xiuyan, she just politely asked to stay for a few days and "go shopping". This is just a polite remark, of course, because Jia doesn't like his eldest daughter-in-law, which also shows that in Jia's eyes. Mrs. Xing is a famous miser and an embarrassment. She doesn't really like her niece. She casually pushed Xiuyan to her daughter-in-law, Wang Xifeng, so that Xiuyan could save one or two for her parents from the example of twenty taels of silver a month. She never asks Xiuyan about her daily needs. In order to clear up his responsibilities, Wang Xifeng arranged Xiuyan's residence in the cowardly second mother's Spring Festival, leaving Xiuyan alone to deal with those grandma and girls who are peak sexually.
Visible, whether it's the supreme ruler of Jia Fu, or the general manager with real power, whether it's the closest aunt by blood, or the angel of God Ying who is good at protecting flowers, not to mention the servants of those forces, no one really attaches importance to and cares about Xing Xiuyan, which is entirely because of Xiuyan's outstanding appearance, unreliable family background and lack of economic resources. However, Xiuyan didn't complain and give up on herself. On the contrary, she accepted everything calmly. She dares to face up to her general and poverty, treats her with detachment and calmness, and shows her pride with her discerning eyes and carefree temperament. In Lu Xun's words, Xiuyan is a "real warrior" who dares to face up to his bleak life.
Secondly, the poet's temperament and intelligent heart show his quiet and indifferent quality.
Smoke is not beautiful, but it is very wise. At the invitation of Tan Chun and others, she also joined the ranks of "poets" in the Grand View Garden. The word "red" in her poem "Ode to Hongmei" is a seven-character poem. Poetry is stable against nature, obedient to nature, and turns allusions into facts. What makes people applaud is the last two sentences, "Does it look ordinary, and the depth comes from his ice and snow?" Xiuyan knows very well that her aunt doesn't like herself; I also know that Miaoyu, a poor friend and half a teacher, is not really kind to herself. Looking at Baoyu from top to bottom, you can know why Miaoyu gave him birthday stickers and why he gave him such beautiful plum blossoms. She knows Miaoyu's temperament, that Miaoyu will be willing to respond appropriately to her "wife", that Miaoyu hides a kind and enthusiastic heart under her arrogant and indifferent appearance, and that Miaoyu will help Baoyu's lost amulet. She also knows that Second Sister is an honest person and doesn't pay much attention to anything. She knows that none of Yingchun's maids are easy to talk to, but they are all sharp-tongued. In order to live in harmony with these people, Xiuyan herself has to pay for snacks for them. When Wang Xifeng had to deal with these people because Xiuyan lost her clothes, Xiuyan had come forward to plead for them. When she told Baochai that her clothes were in a pawnshop called Hengshu Store, Baochai said, "It's in a shop. If those guys know, they will say,' People didn't come, clothes came first'. " Xiuyan knew that it was the Xue family who opened the pawnshop. This shows that Xiuyan is an absolutely clever woman. No wonder later Baoyu said that she was "aloof as a wild crane", and Zhi Yanzhai summed it up as "a phoenix comes out of an old crow's nest", and Chen Qitai, a famous critic of A Dream of Red Mansions, also called Xing Xiuyan "the first-rate figure in the book".
Third, an open mind, touching pride and a happy marriage.
The most touching thing about Xiuyan is that she is clean, simple, generous and proud, so she won everyone's respect in the Grand View Garden and got an unexpected marriage. Wang Xifeng put her in the Spring Festival, thinking, "If Xing Xiuyan is unhappy in the future, even if Mrs. Xing knows, it has nothing to do with herself." She didn't think that "she is hard-hearted and smoky, but unlike Mrs. Xing and his parents, she is a gentle and painful person." Therefore, Feng feels sorry for his family. She loves him more than other sisters. " On a snowy day, the glass world is covered with snow, red berries are everywhere, and all the ladies are beautifully dressed. "A dozen pieces of red clothes are either orangutan felt or feather satin, reflecting the heavy snow." In particular, Shi Xiangyun and Xue Baoqin are wearing clothes given by Jia Mu. Only "Xing Xiuyan is still a homely old clothes, and there is no one to rely on in the snow." Xiuyan didn't stay at home because of her rags, nor did she stay in front of Daiyu. You see, we usually teach our children that material poverty is not poverty, but that dressing simply and generously, being clean and tidy is the expression of beauty. What we want is spiritual wealth, and what we want to show is the beauty of the soul. Isn't Xiuyan practicing this? This beautiful virtue is often the most touching to others. Pinger was also moved by her personality, so when xiren's mother was dying, Pinger took a dress for Xiuyan while looking for clothes for xiren. Another time, Xiuyan lost an old red coat, and the girl asked the woman. I didn't expect the woman to be angry, but she happened to be seen and wanted to punish her. Xiuyan pleaded for her generously. At this time,-Feng, "Look inside and outside Xiuyan, although there are a few fur coats, they are half new and not old." Most of his beds are very thin. As for the things on the table in the room, the old lady brought them, but some of them were untouched and clean. Feng loves him very much. Go back and ask Pinger to take a red crepe coat, a pearl fur coat, a sapphire Panjin embroidered cotton skirt and a Buddha-green silver mouse coat, and wrap them up and send them. "I didn't expect the cigarette to be accepted, because she felt that" just because I lost my clothes, he brought it, and I couldn't bear it "and" I gave the wind a purse ". Later, Pinger came and took the cigarette. Xiuyan is more elegant, so it is naturally inconvenient to live in the Spring Festival room. "things in the boudoir are always needed, or they are scarce and nobody cares, and he doesn't speak." Therefore, Xue Baochai, the "ambassador of harmony" in the Grand View Garden, has repeatedly understood and secretly helped.
Xiuyan is quiet, honest and generous. Aunt Xue, a child prodigy, realized that she was "elegant, steady and poor, and the daughter of Chai Jing's skirt cloth". She wants her to be a daughter-in-law, but she is afraid that Xue Pan, a foolish bully, will spoil her. So she told Baochai's cousin Xue Pan that she was a daughter-in-law through Jia Mu and Wang Xifeng. For this marriage, Xiuyan married Baochai first, because Baochai Yuanyuan can be a person and has always been concerned about helping her, but along the way, she and Xue Pan "are both happy" and even "unexpectedly achieved this marriage". It can be said that Xiuyan is quite satisfied with the marriage with Xue Pan and Baochai, and she is also very filial to Aunt Xue after marriage. Her marriage can also be said to be the ideal among the daughters of A Dream of Red Mansions. At least from the text, Xiuyan's marriage is still relatively happy.
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