Du Shiniang is the heroine of the Ming Dynasty Feng Menglong's book "Warning World Tongyan Du Shiniang's Angry Sinking Treasure Chest", a Ji of the Jiaofang Division, whose real surname is Du Mingwei, ranks tenth, and is known as the Tenth Niang in the courtyard. Although Du Shiniang is a Woman of the Qinglou, she is deeply oppressed but unyielding, and stubbornly struggles to get rid of adversity. Pin all his hopes on Li Jia, a rich prince in Shaoxing Province. However, no matter how hard she tried, she could not escape the shackles of tragic fate, and Li Jia betrayed his faith and sold it to Sun Fu. Under the ashes of all thoughts, Du Shiniang angrily scolded Sun Fu, rebuked Li Jia, and threw the treasures in the treasure chest that he had treasured for many years into the river, and finally jumped into the rolling waves.
The famous passage in the Ming Dynasty popular novelist Feng Menglong's compilation of vernacular novels "Cautionary Tales" - "Du Shiniang's Angry Sinking Treasure Chest" is one of the most outstanding short stories in the history of ancient Chinese literature, and its ideological content and artistic achievements are considered to be the peak of ancient Chinese short stories. According to experts' inferences, this novel is a blueprint adapted by Feng Menglong from the contemporary scholar Song Maocheng's "Biography of Negative Love", which belongs to the Ming Dynasty's pseudo-script.
Du Shiniang is very beautiful, the original text: elegant and beautiful, delicate all over the body, two curved eyebrows painted far away from the mountains, a pair of eyes bright autumn moist. The face is like a lotus calyx, clearly distinguished Zhuo Shi Wenjun; lips are like cherries, he subtracts the white family Fan Su. Du Shiniang fell into the dust at the age of 13 and became the flower queen of the Qinglou. The 19-year-old Du Shiniang has long learned to play with men, but unexpectedly met the scholar Li Jia, and Du Shiniang fell in love with Li Jia, who was handsome and handsome. Du Shiniang longed to leave the Qinglou, eager to get rid of a life without dignity and allowed to be played with. She pinned her hopes on Li Jia's body. However, when she used all her strategy and tried her best to leave the Qinglou with Li Jia and planned to live a normal life with her lover, she found that Li Jia had betrayed her faith and sold her to others. Du Shiniang was injured by Li Jia's betrayal. When Du Shiniang jumped into the billowing river with the treasure chest, you will definitely be able to feel her feeling that everything is gray.
What are Du Shiniang's treasure chests? The first layer, Cui Yu Ming Yu, Yao Yu Bao'er, is worth about hundreds of gold; the second layer, the jade pipe; the third layer, the ancient jade purple gold plaything, is worth about thousands of gold; the last layer, emerald, cat's eye, all kinds of treasures, can not determine how much its value. In layman's terms: there are pearls, jade, agate, night pearls, silver ingots, gold ingots, silver tickets, gemstones, jadeite, etc., the most of which is jadeite.
Agate was recorded as a "horse brain" in the early days, and was first seen in the book "Seven Sons of Ana Ying Di" translated by The Later Han An Shigao, which is one of the "Seven Treasures of Buddhism", which was regarded as a talisman to ward off evil spirits in ancient times, and at the same time symbolized friendly love. Its color is rich, common red, blue, green, purple, black, white, gray, yellow, etc., of which the most familiar is the southern red agate. Ancients like pearls, ancient poems, ancient texts can be found everywhere in the traces of pearls, China's earliest record of pearls can be traced back to 2200 BC, 4000 years ago the Xia Yu era pearls are designated tribute. The magnates of the feudal era regarded pearls as a symbol of power, money, and status, while the commoners regarded pearls as happiness, peace, and auspiciousness. For jadeite, our ancestors gave it many auspicious motifs. The ancients believed that gold and silver had a price and jade, and as a treasure in the hands of the chinese people, jade did not let go of the meaning of auspicious ruyi, even in the middle of the three yuan, fushou double complete, many children and many grandchildren and so on. As the king of gemstones, rubies are the birthstone of July, and red has always been the most beautiful messenger in people's minds, the most vivid and intense of which is the best "pigeon blood red" in rubies. Emerald gui is the king of emeralds, derived from ancient Persia, meaning green stone, it is translated as emerald in the Book of the West Chamber and is still used today, and the value of the best emerald even exceeds that of diamond. Opal, also known as "Oriental Cat's Eye", is a rare and valuable breed in jewelry, and its light phenomenon is as flexible as a cat's eye, and will change with the change of light. It is one of the types of chrysoberyl, and strictly speaking, "cat's eye" is not a gemstone name, but an optical phenomenon.
The history books record that "gold weighs a pound is worth ten thousand", that is to say, a pound of gold is exchanged for ten thousand five baht coins (copper coins), which clearly tells us that gold is very valuable, and one or two gold can be exchanged for several pairs of silver. Silver in ancient times is also very small, the middle of the Ming Dynasty 600-800 yuan, most of the ancient is self-sufficient, one or two silver can be a family of three a month of basic use. It can be seen that Du Shiniang's box of treasures is enough for her and Li Jia to live for several lifetimes. After Du Shiniang's death, Li Jia went mad and Sun Shao was scared to death. A few years later, the soul of the Ten Niangs appeared and gave the treasure chest to Yu Chun. It can be seen that she is a person who has the fruit of grace and revenge. It is no wonder that posterity called her "The Heroine of the Ages".
Li Jia, a fictional character in Du Shiniang's Angry Sinking Treasure Chest (Feng Menglong's Cautionary Tales, vol. 32). During the Ming Dynasty,000 years, the national treasury was empty, and in order to enrich the national treasury, the household department came up with the method of "nasu into prison", that is, to encourage officials and eunuchs and rich merchants to pay corresponding funds in exchange for the opportunity for their children to enter the state prison to study. Under such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a large part of Daming's "second-generation disciples" gathered in the capital. "During the day, the State ZiJian, at night, the Fence Courtyard", among the children of this group of officials and eunuchs, especially those who do not learn and have no skills, Li Jia is one of them. Du Shiniang's choice of Li Jia is quite puzzling, and Li Jia's family background is somewhat unworthy among her past benefactors. On the family lineage, Li Jia, as the son of Shaoxing's political envoy, is very difficult to see in the capital city, where the dragon and the crouching tiger are hidden; on the basis of talent learning, relying on "Nasu into prison" to be able to enroll in the Guozijian, how much real talent he has to learn does not ask himself. So why did Du Shiniang, who was accustomed to seeing strong winds and waves, choose Li Jia? It was Li Jia's honesty and kindness that impressed Du Shiniang, and this single-minded nerd was Du Shiniang's heart to book the "best destination" for herself.
Sun Fu, a salt merchant in Huaiyang, has a huge family capital, is born with a wind and current, and is accustomed to seeking pleasure in the Qinglou. Original text: But it is said that he has a teenager in Zhouzhou, surnamed Sun Mingfu, the character Shan zhao, Huizhou Xin'an people's clan. The family has a huge amount of money, and the ancestors of Yangzhou grow salt. Twenty years old, he is also a friend of Nan yongzhong. Born with a windy nature, used to buy laughter from the Qinglou, red and pink chasing joy, if you mock the wind and the moon, it is a light and thin head.
Jin Sunfu only used three moves to persuade Li Jia to sell Du Shiniang! Sun Fu's first trick: first crack down on the filthy Du Shiniang is born of a prostitute, it is inevitable that the water Yang Hua, at the same time with Li Jia rushed to the Li family in Jiangnan, perhaps Du Shiniang also has another close friend, not necessarily sincere with Li Jia. The second trick: Li Jia's father will not accept a fireworks woman into the Li family, and at the same time, Li Jia has abandoned his studies for two years, exhausted thousands of family assets, and will be scolded by his father when he returns home, and the future Li family property will not be handed over to Li Jia's hands. The third trick: Sun Fu gave Li Jia 1,000 taels of silver to take home, so that his father could see that his son was not addicted to wine as the legend said, and he also had financial management ability, and his father would be able to look up to Li Jia and alleviate Li Jia's trouble of returning home without a face, and what Li Jia needed to pay was to sell Du Shiniang to Sun Fu.
After some haggling between the brothel bustard and Du Shiniang, the ransom was set at three hundred taels. Du Shiniang asked Li Jia to raise three hundred taels of silver to redeem herself, and Li Jia went to the homes of relatives and friends to borrow money according to Du Shiniang's suggestion. Three days passed, and Li Jia returned empty-handed. Li Jia did not have the face to see Du Shiniang again, so he stayed at the home of his friend Liu Yuchun. Du Shiniang, who had waited for six days but had not heard from her at all, was in a hurry, so she had a plan, and she sent someone to find Li Jia and tell him that she had raised a ransom of one hundred and fifty taels, and he only needed to raise half of the remaining half and it was done. Li Jia told his friend Liu Yuchun about this, and Liu Yuchun said that he could help. Du Shiniang smoothly congliang, although there is the old bustard's deliberate embarrassment, but according to the prior arrangement, the treasure chest she has accumulated for many years has long been quietly transferred, and the depth of her heart is enough to be seen! From the series of incidents in which Du Shiniang redeemed herself from Liang, it is not difficult to see that Du Shiniang is the leader and controller of the incident, Li Jia is just an important chess piece she laid down, and Li Jia, who is played around, is actually the weak side.
After the success of Congliang, Du Shiniang was very excited, but Li Jia was very distressed, for Du Shiniang and his father fell out, and now he had to take Congliang's concubine home, Li Jia, who was once a "well-behaved man", was flustered in his heart, and his pocket was shy, and the two of them walked south with difficulty, thinking about it and crying. After Du Shiniang asked the reason, she took out fifty taels of silver from the treasure chest, claiming that this was the travel expenses made by the brothel sisters for the two, and Du Shiniang also proposed that the two could go to Suzhou and Hangzhou first, and then Li Jia would go home first to persuade his father, and then pick up The Tenth Niang after the matter was completed. Traveling to Guazhou, the snow fell in the sky and could not sail, so the two stopped on the shore to enjoy the scenery. Unexpectedly, Du Shiniang's beauty attracted the attention of the wealthy businessman Sun Fu. Sun Fu found an excuse to drink with Li Jia, and Li Jia, who was undefended, gave it all up. Sun Fu had evil thoughts, pretending to persuade Li Jia, "Not only do you not respect your father's order to study well, but you also want to take the Qinglou woman home as a concubine, I am really worried about you", this remark is poking At Li Jia's inner worries, Sun Fu saw this and continued to persuade him, "It is better that I buy this woman for a thousand taels, you take the money home to make a difference, just say that you have learned from your teaching, and it is also good to ease the relationship between father and son", Li Jia was very moved. After returning to the ship, under Du Shiniang's repeated questioning, Li Jia will tell Sun Fu the truth about what he has talked about, and the disheartened Du Shiniang opens the treasure chest in front of Sun Fu and Li Jia, the treasures in the box are innumerable, the value is immeasurable, and after crying that Li Jia is ruthless and Sun Fu is shameless, Du Shiniang holds the treasure chest and throws herself into the river and dies...
Everyone in the world says that Du Shiniang died for martyrdom, but in fact this is not the case, and a large part of Du Shiniang's death is discouraged after the plot is broken. Du Shiniang's feelings for Li Jia cannot be called pure love, which is mixed with too much calculation, weighing, consideration and exploitation. If it is said that at the beginning it was not said that it was the self-protection of a dusty woman, then after the fact, it was not said, causing Li Jia to think that he had reached the point of exhaustion, from the beginning of his single-mindedness to the final treachery, the "scumbag" Li Jia was forced out by Du Shiniang! Or the so-called love between the two of them is not pure at all, but each has its own needs and needs. Faced with this ending, Du Shiniang willfully chose to hold the treasure chest and sink the river.
Du Shiniang had long begun to plan her future, she was originally a Qinglou woman, because of her beauty, she was favored by wang and grandson, and accumulated a wealth of wealth. But she understands that this kind of life is not a long-term solution, she has to make plans for the future, and leaving is the best choice. The only way out is from Liang. She looked for the right person among the many princes and grandsons, and she took a fancy to Li Jia. Falling in love with a prostitute wholeheartedly is the first mistake Du Shiniang made. But all decent and reliable men will not linger in the fireworks place for more than a year, spend the family's money, and half kill the old father, but spend the moon with the beauty, without shame. Li Jia couldn't redeem the 300 taels of silver that she had redeemed, and after several days of delay, The Tenth Lady actually sent someone to find her, and also paid for 150 taels out of her own pocket, which was the second mistake she made. Li Jia is like a turtle, you force it, it retracts into the shell, you say good words to seduce it, it climbs out. On the way, Li Jia let Shi Niang sing as soon as he was happy, and when Sun Fu asked, Li Jia proudly declared that "that was the first prostitute Du Shi Niang in the capital", and did not have any protection for Shi Niang, and also used her limelight to show off himself. Sun Fu gave him a little favor, and he immediately sold the Tenth Lady. And Du Shiniang obviously saw the true face of the man, but she still had the luck to test and redeem, which was the third mistake. The three mistakes overlapped, du Shiniang was completely desperate, and hysterically asked: "There is jade in the concubine, and there is no pearl in the eyes of the hated lang!" Immediately, he sank the treasure chest in anger and buried his red face with cold water. She scolded Li Jia for having eyes and no pearls, so why wasn't she? It is too unwise to pay wrongly, to be consumed by the wrong love, and to lose your life. As soros, the world's investment guru, said: "Investment itself is risk-free, runaway investment is risky." What is out of control? Even if you know that you are going to plummet, you still have to buy. "Du Shiniang's biggest mistake is that she doesn't know how to stop losses in time and stay away from what has been consuming her as soon as possible." If the tenth lady can stop the loss in time and stay away from the scumbag as soon as possible, it may be a different life trend.
From the current thinking and vision, she has many possibilities to survive. If she really loves Li Jia, she can turn the tide, save love, give Li Jia a chance to correct her mistakes, and give herself a reason to live. Even when Li Jia was worried about chai rice oil and salt every day, she could appropriately use her savings to solve her urgent needs, so as not to let Li Jia be seduced by Sun Fu for a little silver. If she doesn't love Li Jia, she can still wave her hand and let him walk his Yangguan Road and walk his own canoe bridge. After all, she has beauty, capital, and savings. Or at the beginning, she did not trust Li Jia, and with her countless experiences of reading people, she should design a retreat in her plan to redeem herself. The worst option is to return to her old profession, after all, there is still a deep sisterhood. The best option is to take the treasure chest with you and wander the world. But literature is like that, always breaking the best things for people to see.
When Li Jia finally understood the depth of Du Shiniang's affection and regretted it very much, he asked Du Shiniang's forgiveness. Du Shiniang chose self-destruction, which was a very wayward choice. In those days, she had nowhere to go. She has beauty, she has wealth, but she doesn't have freedom. Although the money for the redemption was her own, she belonged to Li Jia after being redeemed by Li Jia, and after being sold to Sun Fu by Li Jia, she belonged to Sun Fu. She can only fight with her life. This kind of willfulness, for her, is actually a heart death. It is the discouragement of the new life in the future, the despair of the complete failure of one's own brilliant plan. Her feelings for Li Jia, she mixed with calculations, using trade-offs and considerations, there is no sustenance in her future life, and there is no need to live in her heart. When a person puts his sustenance on others, he will eventually become a burden for others and become his own tragedy. The cruelest thing in the world is not to give hope to a person, but to give her hope and then take that hope away.