In the Water Margin, Pan Jinlian can be described as a tragic character, the young man was sold by the poor family to the rich family to make a yahuan, and then was paid by Wu Dalang to marry back home as a wife, after Wu Song killed the tiger and returned to her hometown, she was a young and beautiful, heartbroken woman inexplicably moved, dreaming - if you marry Wu Er how good it is! How could the slave family's life be so bitter...
To tell the truth, when watching the TV series, I couldn't help but feel pity for Jin Lian when I saw this paragraph, and only sighed - if Jin Lian was born in this era, her fate might change.
Wu Song is certainly not wrong, the eldest brother is like a father, Wu Song was brought up by Wu Dalang, although Wu Dalang is mediocre, but as the eldest brother is absolutely benevolent, by selling cooking cakes, a handful of and a handful of urine to raise Wu Song. Although the dragon gave birth to nine sons, the sons were different, but if the nutrition was not in place, how could Wu Song grow so tall and mighty, it can be seen that In order for his brothers to thrive, Da Lang would rather save money and give milk and eggs to Wu Song.
Just like our generation, especially in the countryside, there are two children in the family, generally brothers and sisters are short, probably blame them for not drinking milk, younger siblings are very tall, sometimes parents joke - the reason why your sister is short, is that she carried you back when she was a child.
Wu Song knows that it is not easy for Dalang, there is no brother who has him today, even if Jin Lian is beautiful, but he is also a sister-in-law, the eldest brother is like a father, the sister-in-law is like a mother, not to mention that it is the Song Dynasty, that is ancient, the ancient people are more traditional, a gentleman, a hero who fights tigers, a younger brother who was raised by his brother, it is impossible to do things that hurt nature and reason.
Jin Lian ate the embarrassment, from hope to full of disappointment, plus Jin Lian also has no culture, she only longs for "happiness", she knows that she has a good appearance, but she can't "look like a talented woman" - Jin Lian looks in the mirror, her mood is complicated - I look so good, I should be beautiful and heroic.
Later things, i guess everyone knows, Jin Lian fell in love with Ximen Qing, the richest man in the county, killed Wu Dalang, and was later learned by Wu Song about this life...
In the TV series, Jin Lian was silent, presumably her mood at that moment was complicated, since ancient beauty loves heroes, she did love Wu Song, she did not dare to think, such a person as DaLang, there is actually such a brother, she is very moved...
It's just that Jin Lian's original family gave Jin Lian a beautiful face, but she failed to give Jin Lian a noble soul, and the vacancy in Jin Lian's heart was not the tiger hero Wu Song, nor the playboy Ximen Official, but she as an ordinary woman, just like all the women in the world yearn for life.
Like women today, who wants to marry a man who has no house? Like all women, who doesn't like handsome men? Just like the young girls now, how many people don't like Korean flower beauties?
In every woman's heart, there is an idol, just like in every man's heart, there is a dream goddess. Jin Lian can be said to be the goddess in Da Lang's heart, he is such a mediocre man, he can marry such a beautiful daughter-in-law, it is already thankful, but in the eyes of a straight man of steel like Wu Song, Jin Lian is just a person.
But in Ximen Qing's eyes, Jin Lian was a phoenix that fell into the chicken nest, he didn't go to hell who went to hell, didn't he know that Wu Da had a younger brother named Wu Song? They all live in a county town, not to mention the "big horn" of the princess, Ximen Qing, as a businessman, must have considered the pros and cons, but he could not stop Jin Lian's "stick", and completely knocked him out of sleep at night...
This is destined to be a tragedy ...
But if I were Pan Jinlian, what could I do? What else could I do if I lived in that era, in that context, in that situation?
Looking at it today, even if Jin Lian's family is poor, she will not fall to the point of being a maid, just by virtue of her beauty, the suitors are not a lot.
Even if Jin Lian marries Da Lang and regrets it, she can also divorce her, the two do not have children, Jin Lian is not very old, she is completely unable to make the mistake of not going out of the second door, nor will she love Wu Song, let alone make Ximen Qing a concubine, she can freely choose her life and choose marriage freely.
But unfortunately, she did not live today, she can only live in that distant past, live in that specific era, if I am Pan Jinlian, if you are Pan Jinlian, if she is Pan Jinlian, it is inevitable that she can escape such an ending.